11 juin 2014
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
De Bel-Air Françoise, « Population Figures and Data: a Political Issue », Presses de l’Ifpo, ID : 10.4000/books.ifpo.5020
The Department of Statistics (DoS) was created within the Ministry of the Interior in 1949. The DoS is thus one of the first governmental agencies created after the establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The ‘General Statistics Act’ No. 24 of 1950 and its amendment of 2003 entrust it with the organization of a census every ten years and require that it collects, verifies, analyzes and publishes statistical data on the economy, society and demography in Jordan, to be used by policym...