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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: America by the numbers
    sub title: quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics
  name:
    name part: Didier, Emmanuel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sen, Priya Vari
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (408 pages).
  abstract: How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers , Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool: representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies. Didier shows that their methods were not just simple enumeration; these new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy even as the New Deal shaped the evolution of statistical surveys. Didier explains how statisticians had to become detectives and anthropologists, searching for elements that would help them portray America as a whole. Representative surveys were one of the most effective instruments for their task. He examines pre-Depression survey techniques; the invention of the random sampling method and the development of the Master Sample; and the application of random sampling by employment experts to develop the "Trial Census of Unemployment,".
  note: Emmanuel Didier, translated by ; Priya Vari Sen ; forward by Theodore M. Porter.
  subject:
    topic: New Deal, 1933-1939
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 1918-1945
  subject:
    topic: Depressions
    temporal: 1929
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural surveys
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 1919-1933
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Bureau of Agricultural Economics
    topic: Officials and employees
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Bureau of Labor Statistics
    topic: Officials and employees
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Bureau of the Census
    topic: Officials and employees
  subject:
    topic: Statisticians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: E806 .D5725 2020eb
  classification: 973.917
  identifier: 9780262357401
  identifier: 0262357402
  identifier: 9780262538374
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 191211
    record change date: 20221121162733.3
    record identifier: in00004602929
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng