statisticalization

English

Etymology

statistical +‎ -ization

Noun

statisticalization (uncountable)

  1. A making statistical; application of statistics to something.
    • 2000, William Walters, Unemployment and Government, page 49:
      […] a major development in the statisticalization of unemployment, and a new type of representation of the labour market.
    • 2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109:
      Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them […]
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