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Preface

1

Introduction - Danny Dorling and Ludi Simpson

Collecting statistics

2

The census - Ian Diamond

3

Government household surveys - Charlie Owen

4

Confidentiality of official statistics: an excuse for secrecy? - Angela Dale

5

Research and development: the UK statistical picture - Ian Miles

6

Working with government - disseminating official statistics- Mike Blakemore

Models and Theory

7

Eugenics and the rise of mathematical statistics in Britain - Donald MacKenzie

8

Science, Statistics and three 'Psychologies' - Daniel Wright

9

Using Statistics in Everyday Life: from Barefoot statisticians to critical citizenship - Jeff Evans and Ivan Rappaport

10

Resources for lay statisticians and critical citizens - Ivan Rappaport and Jeff Evans

11

Qualitative data and the subjectivity of 'objective' facts - Ian Parker

12

Untouched by Statistics: representing and misrepresenting other cultures - David Sibley

13

Models are stories are not real life - Jane Elliott

Classifying People

14

Missing subjects? searching for gender in official statistics - Diane Perrons

15

Paying politics with pensions: legitimating privatisation - Jay Ginn

16

Ethnic statistics: better than nothing or worse than nothing? - Waqar Ahmad

17

The religious question: representing reality or compounding confusion? - Joanna Southworth

18

Measuring eating habits: some problems with the national food survey - Mary Shaw

19

Measuring international migration: The tools aren't up to the job - Anne Singleton

Counting
Poverty

20

Poverty and disabled children - David Gordon & Pauline Heslop

21

Where are the deprived? measuring deprivation in cities and regions - Peter Lee

22

Only some homeless count in the homeless count: the limitation of official homelessness statistics - Rebekah Widdowfield

23

The use and abuse of statistics on homeless people - Walid Abdul-Hamid

24

Is crime and fear of crime more likely to be experienced by the 'poor'? - Christina Pantazis & David Gordon

Valuing
Health

25

The racialisation of ethnic inequalities in health - James Nazroo

26

What do official health statistics measure? - Alison Macfarlane and Jenny Head

27

Making Sense of Health Inequality Statistics - Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane

28

Poverty and health - Anthony Staines

29

Statistics and the Privatisation of NHS and Social Services - Alison Macfarlane and Allyson Pollock

30

Industrial industry statistics - Theo Nichols

Assessing Education

31

What's worth comparing in education? - Ian Plewis

32

Performance indicators in education - Harvey Goldstein

33

Can trends in reading standards be measured? - Pauline Davis

34

Inspecting the inspection system - Nicola Brimblecombe

35

Special statistics for special education - Cecilio Mar Molinero

Measuring Employment

36

Problems of measuring participation in the labour market - Anne Green

37

The politics of reform of unemployment and employment statistics - Ray Thomas

38

Unemployment and permanent sickness in Mid-Glamorgan - Roy Davies

39

Voodoo economics: 'art' and 'science' in employment forecasting - Jamie Peck

40

Working with historical statistics on poverty and economic distress - Humphrey Southall

Economics
and
Politics

41

Measuring the UK economy - Alan Freeman

42

Household projections: a sheep in wolf's clothing - Richard Bate

43

The presentation of military statistics - Paul Dunne

44

Counting Computers - or why we are not well informed about the information society - James Cornford

45

Votes that count and votes that don't: the British electoral system and the British electorate - Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie and David Rossiter

46

Illuminating social statistics - Graham Upton

47

Statistics and 'the truth' - Stephen Simpson and Danny Dorling