🔗 The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics | Brian Whitaker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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In effect, this gives the Egyptian state a monopoly on statistics, and for 30 years (at least) Capmas has been headed not by professional statisticians but by a succession of major-generals from the military.