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Produire des statistiques : pour quoi faire ? L'échec de la statistique des faillites en France au XIXème siècle

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  • Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur

    (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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Some statistics are developed within a consistent intellectual, political and administrative project, as was the case of criminal statistics which appeared and developed with criminology during the 19th century, particularly in France and Belgium. We examine the official statistics of civil and commercial justice, and particularly those of bankruptcy, which were created by the same administration as the criminal statistics in the same period (in the 1830s). We show that the statistics were well done, but that they were unable to attract users in spite of an early use by the justice administration as a management device. Neither members of Parliament nor social scientists used them, probably because they weren't developed in order to answer adequate questions that would have been embedded in a clear and developing scientific framework. This led to a decline of these statistics, in spite of the fact the data they contained provide interesting insights on 19th century's society and economy.

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  • Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, 2008. "Produire des statistiques : pour quoi faire ? L'échec de la statistique des faillites en France au XIXème siècle," PSE Working Papers halshs-00586702, HAL.
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    1. Jérôme Sgard, 2010. "Les Comptes Généraux de la Justice : une description statistique des institutions judiciaires de la France au XIX° siècle," Working Papers hal-01064422, HAL.

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