Originally posted on LinkedIn.

From Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics — this diagram stopped me in my tracks.

A flowchart showing the life cycle of statistics — from field/people through data collection, processing, and publication to policy-making, with central government, state government, civil society, and people connected through formal (solid) and informal (dashed) lines Figure 1.3 from the book — the life cycle of statistics, showing how formal and informal channels connect every stakeholder from the field to policy-making.