Rural Data, People, and Policy: Information Systems for the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780367301729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Lis M. Maurer; Nancy Strang; James A. Christenson

Opis

This volume paints a critical view of the state of rural data systems in America with a collection of contributions leading scholars in the social sciences arena. It places an important wake-up call social scientists engaged in rural research, alerting them to the problems of existing data systems.

Spis treści

Foreword -- The Politics of Data -- Rural Data Needs: The Comparative Advantage of University Research -- The Politics of Information -- Rural Data Needs in Rapidly Changing Times -- Data for Rural Information Systems -- Multiple-Level Data Sets -- Longitudinal Data Sets for Rural Poverty Research -- Rural Family Studies: Multiple Wave, Multiple Indicator Data -- Sampling Frames for Rural Household Surveys -- Qualitative Insights to Enhance National Information Systems -- Technologies for Rural Information Systems -- Surveys and Rural Data Needs -- New Social Science Research Technologies -- Geographic Information Systems and Rural Data -- Epilogue

O autorze

James A Christenson, Richard C. Maurer, Nacy L. Strang