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Social Trends (2005) 7 kappaletta
Social Trends (38th Edition) (2008) 3 kappaletta
Social Trends, 1998 (1998) 3 kappaletta
Travel Trends (1996) 2 kappaletta
Social Trends (36th Edition) (2006) 2 kappaletta
Social Trends (35th edition) (2005) 2 kappaletta
Health Statistics Quarterly (2010) 1 kappale
Family Spending 2010 (2011) 1 kappale
Regional Trends 1997 (1997) 1 kappale
Focus on London (2003) 1 kappale
Sport and Leisure (2004) 1 kappale
General Household Survey (2003) 1 kappale
Regional Trends 1999 (1999) 1 kappale
Regional Trends 2001 (2001) 1 kappale

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The ethnic minority poulation of Britain has grown since the end of World War II when people from the Commonwealth countries came to Britain to work. There are more than three million people in Great Britain belonging to an ethnic minority group - just under six per cent of the total population.
 
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LarkinPubs | Mar 1, 2023 |
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
In April 1852, Charles Dickens published an article called
‘Drooping Buds’, which appeared in his magazine ‘Household
Works’.
Its subject is child mortality, and in the article he works hard to
make the facts and statistics meaningful to the reader. He starts by
using statistics to drive home the high loss of life. For every one
hundred children born, only sixty five remain after eight years.
“Of this great city of London – which, until a few weeks ago,
contained no hospital wherein to treat and study the diseases of
children – more than a third of the population perishes in infancy
and childhood. Twenty-four in a hundred die, during the first two
years of life, and during the next eight years, eleven die out of the
remaining seventy six.”
“Think of it again. Of all the coffins that are made in London, one
in every three is made for a small child: a child that has not yet two
figures to its age.”
Charles Dickens also spoke out against an over-reliance on
statistics. It is no surprise that Dickens was so vehemently
opposed to this science; countless English legislators relied upon it
to generate the data which they could then use to delay the costly
social reforms that Dickens advocated in his literature.
15 years before Dickens published his article the General Register
Office for England and Wales was established on 1 July 1837 at
Somerset House. It was given responsibility for the administration
of civil registration, for the analysis and publication of statistics on
births and deaths, and for the conduct of the population census in
England and Wales. The modern era for statistics started when the
Central Statistical Office (CSO) was established on 27 January
1941 to meet Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s requirement for
the central co-ordination of official statistics in order to service the
war effort. And in April 1996, the Central Statistical Office
(established in 1941) and the Office for Population Censuses and
Surveys (established in 1970) were merged to form the new Office
for National Statistics (ONS) as an Executive Agency.
The 2011 edition is the 147th to be published, the first edition being
published in 1854 as the ‘Statistical Abstract of the United
Kingdom’ and then changed to the ‘Annual Abstract of Statistics’ in
1948.
It is collated and published by the Office for National Statistics
(ONS), which is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority,
a non-ministerial department which reports directly to Parliament
and distributed through Dandy Booksellers Ltd, and costs £55.
“Annual Abstract of Statistics contains statistics on the UK's
economy, industry, society and demography presented in easy to
read tables and backed up with explanatory notes and definitions.
It covers, among others, the following areas:
Area, Parliamentary elections, Defence, Population and vital
statistics, Education, Labour market, Expenditure and wealth,
Health, Crime and justice, Lifestyles, Environment, Housing,
Transport and communications, Government finance, Agriculture,
fisheries and food, Production, Banking and insurance, Service
industry.” Dandy Booksellers
The 2011 edition runs to 534 pages and starts with a useful ‘Units
of measurement’ table and then an introduction which briefly talks
about ‘identification codes’, ‘definitions and classifications’,
‘symbols and conventions used’ and then in more detail gives an
outline of the ‘Standard Industrial Classification’. There is also
information about the ONS web site and the main contact point for
feedback and enquiries.
The volume is then arranged into 24 chapters each dealing with a
main topic area (listed in the Dandy Booksellers blurb above), and
each chapter includes background and explanatory notes which
are used in conjunction with the main data tables. At the bottom of
each table the original source of the data is given, and these
sources cover a wide spectrum of bodies from the devolved
National Assemblies to the UK Film Council.
Some of the definitions and trends are very interesting for
example, in Chapter 4 ‘Labour Market’, “a discouraged worker” is
defined as “A sub-group of the economically inactive population
who said although they would like a job their main reason for not
seeking work was because they believed there were no jobs
available”
In Chapter 24, ‘Agriculture’, table 24.6 ‘Estimated household food
consumption’, the weekly consumption of eggs has stayed at 2
grammes per person since 1997!
The ‘Annual Abstract of Statistics’ is a major source of official
statistical data on the UK and the centerpiece of any libraries’
statistics collection but will budget restrictions and the fact that the
data is freely available online stop authorities and other buyers
paying £55 for a hardcopy? I personally hope not but that’s
another can of worms!
Alan Wylie
Librarian
Islington Library & Heritage Services
… (lisätietoja)
 
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