Angela Dale

Angela Dale is a British social scientist and statistician whose research has involved the secondary analysis of government survey data, and the study of women in the workforce. Formerly Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit of City, University of London, and Professor of Quantitative Research and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester, she is now a professor emerita at Manchester.

Selected publications

Dale is an author of the books;

Doing Secondary Analysis: A Practical Guide
Analyzing Census Microdata

She is an editor of

The 1991 Census User's Guide
Analysing Social and Political Change: A Casebook of Methods
The Gender Dimension of Social Change: The Contribution of Dynamic Research to the Study of Women's Life Courses
Understanding Social Research: Thinking Creatively about Method

She has also published highly cited journal papers on women in the workforce including

Recognition

Dale is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was named to the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year Honours "for services to social science". In 2006, Dale won the West Medal of the Royal Statistical Society, given "for outstanding contributions to the development or communication of official statistics".