The Data Revolution: Finding the Missing Millions


 
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English

Author:

Stuart E, et al.

Publisher:

Overseas Development Institute

Pages:

52

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This report sets out the evidence that, even when people are counted, the counting is frequently not good enough. What is assumed to be an empirical fact – a statistic – is too often the result not of direct observation but of inference, assumptions or extrapolation, or political negotiation. In sub-Saharan Africa, some 133,000 women may have died from childbirth-related causes in 2013, or twice as many. We cannot be sure. [from introduction]

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