Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Better ways to put across the official facts and figures : LETTERS

A. B. Atkinson
Friday 30 December 1994 00:02 GMT
Comments

Sir: You are quite right to highlight the issue of the standard of government statistics, and I would strongly support measures to improve their quality and coverage.

An example of how this can be achieved is provided by the recently developed series on Households Below Average Income, which has considerably improved our knowledge about the situation of people living on low incomes. This was brought about in part because the Analytical Services Division of the Department of Social Security initiated consultations with academic and other researchers. This provides a model which could be followed in other developments.

Yours sincerely, A. B. ATKINSON Oxford 19 December

Join our commenting forum

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies

Comments

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in