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India gets a brief mention on page 207 of Tim Harford’s new book where he mentions how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government quietly stopped publishing unemployment data in 2019. Thankfully, the other controversies regarding the government’s official statistics — the gross domestic product back calculation brouhaha or the junking of the 2017-18 Consumer Spending Survey data — are not discussed.
How to Make the World Add Up is both a defence of statistics as well as a guide on how to understand them, what to look out for, and the things that can go wrong in both designing as well
