Interpreting Official StatisticsWill Guy, Ruth Levitas Interpreting Official Statistics examines the official statistics produced about the current state of British society. It documents some of the ways in which information has been suppressed, manipulated and misinterpreted since 1979. This invaluable guide is designed to help students know what figures are available, and to discover when and how politicians are misusing statistics. Data sets covered include: * Households below average income * Administrative and survey methods of unemployment and crime * Population census data on ethnicity * Data sources on women and work * Data on the relationship between class and health, and safety at work * New data sources on disability * Labour Force Survey. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
1 THE LEGACY OF RAYNER | 7 |
2 THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENT STATISTICS ON POVERTY | 26 |
3 FIDDLING WHILE BRITAIN BURNS? | 44 |
OFFICIAL SOCIOLOGICAL AND MARXIST | 64 |
5 HEALTH FOR ALL? | 87 |
6 PROBLEMS IN MONITORING SAFETY IN BRITISH MANUFACTURING AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 111 |
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analysis argued benefit Bill McLennan Black Report Britain British Census cent changes chapter claimant count classification crime statistics criminal definition differentials disabled adults economic activity economically inactive Employment Department Employment Gazette estimates ethnic group question ethnic minority ethnic origin European Sociological Review example figures gender Government Statistical Services government’s Hakim Health Divide health inequalities HMSO Home Office Households Below Average increased individual injuries interviews Jean Corston Joseph Rowntree Foundation Labour Force Survey labour market London low income major Marxist measure of unemployment Minister mortality Moser occupations offences official crime official statistics OPCS Organisation overall part-time police political population Poulantzas poverty problems produced proportion recorded crime Registrar-General’s relations responses Royal Statistical Society segregation social class social statistics Social Trends Sociology sources statisticians Table Townsend unemployed University of Bristol White women workers