The politics of data collection: Gathering, analysing and using data about the subsidised cultural sector in England
The politics of data collection: Gathering, analysing and using data about the subsidised cultural sector in England
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数据收集的政治：收集、分析和使用有关英格兰受补贴文化部门的数据
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2002
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S. Selwood
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S. Selwood
摘要 收集有关该部门影响的“证据”已成为英国受补贴文化部门管理的中心议题。它与政府对该行业控制的扩大以及重视文化的“影响力”而不是其内在价值的倾向密切相关。文化趋势的这一章探讨了推动数据收集的因素，以及这种追求实际上有多么有价值。虽然没有质疑公共部门内部问责制的重要性，但本章指出，有关文化部门运作的许多数据都被批评为方法论上存在缺陷，而且这些数据更多地说明了政策意图，而不是实际影响。在更准确、客观地进行数据收集和分析，以及更有建设性地使用收集到的证据之前，可以说文化部门的许多数据收集都是虚假的。
Abstract The gathering of ‘evidence’ about the impact of the sector has assumed centre stage in the management of the subsidised cultural sector in England. It is closely associated with an extension of government control over the sector, and the tendency to value culture for its ‘impact’ rather than its intrinsic value. This chapter of Cultural Trends considers what has been driving data collection, and how valuable its pursuit has actually been. While not disputing the importance of accountability within the public sector, the chapter observes that much of the data produced about the workings of thecultural sector have been criticised as methodologically flawed and that these say more about policy intentions than about actual impact. Until the collection and analysis of data is carried out more accurately and objectively, and until the evidence gathered is used more constructively, it could beargued that much data gathering in the cultural sector has been a spurious exercise.