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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Introduction,that illustrate the misuse of statistics over the last hundred years with “drastic” examples. They are entitled: Censuses in the Soviet Union and Afterwards; Population Statistics and the Final Solution under National Socialism; and Greece‘s Reckoning with an honourable Statistician. The following f

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Censuses in the Soviet Union and Afterwards,of abuse of power illustrates the fate of . leading statisticians, who were doomed by the results of the 1937 census in the Soviet Union. It describes the fate of . and ., two of Stalin’s leading statisticians. Both met with terrible misfortune in the totalitarian system of the USSR. They were arres

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,Greece’s Reckoning with an Honourable Statistician,established in July 2010. The Greek judiciary put him on trial for exposing the extent of the Greek financial crisis. The judges convicted him, but the reasoning was poor. The conclusion that should be drawn from his story is not to undermine official statistics. After all, reliable official statist

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Digitalization and a Pandemic,lopment is reinforced by the increasing importance of digitalisation and its influence on official statistics and politics. It is particularly evident in the ethical issues and conflicts that arise in connection with the methods used to collect and disseminate statistical data on the Corona pandemic

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,Ireland’s Miraculous Economic Growth, This was due to a variety of factors in the Irish economy: (a) the term ‘tax inversion’ describes a strategy of moving a company’s headquarters to another country; (b) patents of multinational companies are transferred to Ireland so that royalties are accounted for as Irish exports. Profits can als