Titlebook: Official Statistics—A Plaything of Politics?; On the Interaction o Reimund Mink Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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Censuses in the Soviet Union and Afterwards,enerally use different methods for data collection and presentation than independent statistical offices in modern democracies..Control and propaganda with the help of statistical data is the focus in totalitarian states. Those responsible in government and administration want to know the truth and

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,Greece’s Reckoning with an Honourable Statistician, Greece. Particularly serious was the discrepancy between the obligation of government agencies to provide reliable financial statistical data and the observed practice of manipulating data prior to their dissemination and publication. These problems in Greek fiscal statistics have existed for a lon

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Digitalization and a Pandemic,ppear to be outside the political realm and thus immune to any infection by political interests..However,?it is important to make political decisions in a knowledge-based and democratic way. The question of how this can be achieved under the influence of “populist” tendencies is becoming increasingl

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Globalisation and Official Statistics,n cross-border interactions and the growing openness of national economies pose major challenges for ‘national’ statistics. This is particularly evident in the difficulties in recording value chains to produce goods and services across many countries. Often, parts of the production no longer take pl

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,Ireland’s Miraculous Economic Growth,s the one in Dublin dared to present completely “absurd” figures on Ireland’s economic development to the public. This situation could only be explained by the fact that the statistics were not sufficiently prepared for the challenge of digitalisation and globalisation and still do not offer satisfa

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Happiness and Happiness Researchers, connection between prosperity and personal satisfaction. Both the adequate measurement of human welfare and that of an economy have long been the focus of discussion. Happiness researchers have noted a seldom-seen contradiction. Most people want more money and do a great deal to achieve this goal.

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National Egoism or International Cooperation,tional egoism will get us nowhere when it comes to the most pressing issues of our time—demographic development, migration, and climate change. International cooperation is needed—both in policy and in statistical work. High population growth in many regions of the world, unequal distribution of inc

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Worldview Statistics,eriences. In addition, current developments—for example, digitalisation, globalisation and climate change—are increasingly calling into question traditional concepts and procedures of statistical work and their interaction with politics. However, it would be necessary to find ways to improve these c

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