Interpreting Official Statistics (Paperback)

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Legacy of Rayner Ruth Levitas 2. The Struggle for Independent Statistics on Poverty Peter Townsend 3. Fiddling while Britain Burns: The 'Measurement of Unemployment' Ruth Levitas 4. Social Class: Official, Sociological and Marxist Theo Nichols 5. Health for All? Will Guy 6. Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance in British Manufacturing at the end of the Twentieth Century Theo Nichols 7. Figuring out Working Women Jackie West 8. Counting Ethnicity: Social Groups and Official Categories Steve Fenton 9. Disabled by Numbers Paul Abberley 10. The Case of the Missing Crimes Robert Reiner