Interpreting Official Statistics (Paperback, New)

This work 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. It also looks at what can actually be learnt from avaliable data about poverty, unemployment, crime and health, and the social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity amd disability. This guide is designed to help students know what figures are available, and to discover when and how politicians are misusing statistics. It provides a detailed analysis of key data sets such as households below average income, administrative and survey measures of unemployment and crime, population consensus data on ethnicity, different sources of data on women and work, the relationship between class and health, safety at work and new data sources on disability. The importance of the Labour Force Survey is reflected in discussions of its different uses.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1996
First published:	1996
Editors:	Will Guy • Ruth Levitas
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-10836-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-415-10836-5
Barcode:	9780415108362

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