Abstracts - parallell sessions, by name.

Marja Alastalo: Comparability at the expense of sensitivity to national features? Standardization of social statistics in the EU (Session 2C, Co-production of statistics and general perspectives)

Ellen Balka: Health System Indicators as Boundary Objects: Statistics and the State in Canadian Healthcare (Session 2A, Administration and Performance indicators)

Ellen Balka: How do we define for whom the bell curves? Measuring ethnicity in Canada (Session 1B, Recognition - Redstribution)

Susanne Bauer: Biostatistics and Biopolitics: Modelling Population Health via Risk Assessment (Session 1B, Health Statistics)

Johanne Yttri Dahl: How to convince with (non-) statistics. (Session 2B: Crime and Statistics)

Jan Groven Grande: “The Society of Disease”: Medical science as co-construction of nature and society - Three accounts of epidemic disease from the 19th century (Session 1A, Health Statistics)

Helene Oppen Gundhus: ‘GIS in practice’ – Domestication of statistic at a police station (Session 2B: Crime and Statistics)

Christine Hanke: The statistical object in the digital age: Scientific classifications under disturbance (Session 2C, Co-production of Statistics and general perspectives)

Jon Hovland: Statistics and their relation to formalizing processes in social systems (Session 2A, Administration and Performance indicators)

Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent, Roland Bal, Christopher Pollitt, Stephen Harrison & George Dowswell: Mediating and Translating Materialities of Governance - Performance Indicators as ‘Investments in New Forms’ of Governance? (Session 2A, Administration and Performance indicators)

Nadji Aïssa Khefif: Statistics and the Baroque House (Session 2C, Co-production of Statistics and general perspectives)

Christoffer Kullenberg: Sociology in the making; The co-production of statistical sociology and society in context of a withdrawing modern episteme. (Session 2C, Co-production of Statistics and general perspectives)

Julie Laplante: The role of statistics in defining the efficacy of medicines: the trial of an herbal remedy in South Africa. (Session 1A, Health Statistics)

Julia Mensink: Poverty measures as boundary objects between science and state: A business approach to users and producers of poverty statistics. (Session 1B, Recognition - Redistribution)

Heidi Mork Lomell: Declining Crime Rates – Good News or Bad News? (Session 2B: Crime and Statistics)

Torunn Pettersen: What kind of Sámi figures? A discussion on status and future prospects for contemporary Sámi statistics (Session 1B, Recognition - Redistribution)

Asuncion Lera St. Clair: Ideas in Action: 'Human Development' and 'Capability' as Boundary Objects (Session 1B, Recognition - Redistribution)

Ann R Sætnan: In defence of Numbers (Session 2B: Crime and Statistics)

Karin Thoresson: Quantitative basis for decision-making – boundary objects in the arena of Swedish road and railroad planning? (Session 2A, Administration and Performance indicators)

Sigrunn Tvedten & Svein Hammer: Technologies of governing and processes of self-governing - The use of statistics in the quality assessment of Norwegian schools (Session 2A, Administration and Performance indicators)

Annick de Vries: Uncertainty: how do experts and policy makers deal with it? (Session 1 A, Co-production of Statistics and general perspectives) Stans van Egmond & Ragna Zeiss: What ecological networks and market based health programs have in common (Session 1A, Health Statistics)

Chris A. Williams: Governance or government? Two faces of criminal justice statistics in nineteenth century England and Wales (Session 2B: Crime and Statistics)

"Therefore ask not for whom the bell [curves], it [curves] for thee."

Identity Categories in Census Data

Health Statistics

Criminal Justice Statistics

Statistics in the Evalution of Municipal Services

Evaluating and Interpreting the Algorithms

Interested in the project? Contact Ann R. Sætnan for more info:
- Phone: +47 735 91786
- Email: Ann.R.Saetnan@
svt.ntnu.no

Department of Sociology and Political Science
NTNU, 7491 Trondheim
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Phone: +47 735 91716
Email: jonh@svt.ntnu.no

Updated: 25. Feb 2007
Editor: Jon Hovland