UK job vacancy statistics changing
From ScotStat News 31 Aug 2012: “In late autumn 2012, there will be fundamental changes in Jobcentre Plus handling of employer vacancies and services in support of job search. “This means that existing...
View ArticleRoyal Statistical Society considers cuts to statistics
At its conference earlier in September, the UK’s Royal Statistical Society (RSS) considered whether the government cutbacks had undermined the UK evidence base. The three presentations, two from the UK...
View ArticleWhy measure the take up of welfare benefits?
A critical submission on cutting government research and publication of the take up of welfare benefits has been sent from Adrian Sinclair, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of...
View ArticleRadical Statistics Issue 107 – Editorial
This issue of Radical Statistics comes out of the February 2012 Radical Statistics Conference, which was held at the British Library in London. The conference focused on the Mis-Measurement of Health...
View ArticleOsborne’s Autumn statement
Well, many of you will have seen the budget and Balls’ response which began with a good deal of stuttering, widely reported by no explanation. If anyone has a hypothesis about why Balls began his...
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Hutton & Stewart on the autumn statement and welfare hits + Addendum
Both Will Hutton and Heather Stewart made swipes at Osborne’s approach to welfare in general and the benefit cuts in particular. Hutton’s attack centered around the notion of a social contract. He...
View ArticleBen Goldacre interview: Bad Pharma
View a useful Guardian podcast interview with Ben Goldacre on the theme of his recent book Bad Pharma about the practises involved in the Pharmaceutical industry. (with thanks to Paul Marchant for the...
View ArticleRadstats 2013 Conference: Inequality and Statistics
Registrations are now being accepted for the 2013 Radical Statistics conference – Inequality and Statistics – taking place on Saturday 23 February, 2013 in York. Please see /conference/york2013/ for...
View ArticlePress Release: World Class Conference in York This Weekend
20 February, 2013 This Saturday, a hundred experts will come to York to discuss and debate issues of inequality and poverty in the world today – and yesterday. For over a century, York has been at the...
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Please act *now* if you want to save small area population data!!
Please act *now* if you want to save small area population data!! Dear colleagues Image from Photologue_np on flickr Understandably, only a few of us can invest much time in following the plans for...
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2013 UK Budget: A contextual appraisal
Contributed by L Brownstein Osborne’s latest budget was both a non-event yet contained some peculiar features. In discussing it I have avoided technicalities, particularly mathematical (= algebraic)...
View ArticleLatest news from AllTrials campaign
Dear AllTrials supporters [N.B. Radstats is an organisational sponsor] The AllTrials campaign has put together a more detailed statement about the registration and reporting of all clinical trials....
View ArticleEditorial, Radical Statistics issue 109
This issue of Radical Statistics begins with three pieces which provide an overview of the value of the UK census and the damage that its potential cancellation will wreak. These articles highlight the...
View ArticleTime to show your love for the Census
Be sure to read the recent Radical Statistics articles about the implications of the loss of the population census by Danny Dorling and Paul Norman, then answer this consultation! The Office for...
View ArticleThe AllTrials campaign calls for all past and present clinical trials to be...
Radical Statistics is a supporter of the AllTrials campaign. This paper is reprinted from http://www.alltrials.net/all-trials/ under licence: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Download this as a PDF here (310Kb)...
View ArticleLooking ahead: Radstats Conference 2014
Here’s a sneak preview of the Radstats 2014 conference programme, themed “Is Britain Pulling Apart?” all to be confirmed by the organisers. Join us in Manchester for the weekend of 8th March!
View ArticleIs the UK too complacent on drinking water safety?
On 7 November, Water Minister Dan Rogerson argued in response to a written question from Chris Ruane, Labour MP for the Vale of Clwyd, that water filtering within households is unnecessary, as...
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Is Britain Pulling Apart? Today!
Radical Statistics is gathering in Manchester today to take a fresh look at inequality in Britain for the 2014 conference, Is Britain Pulling Apart? Look on twitter for #Radstats to follow along....
View ArticleReduced Statistics Redux
In 2012 ‘Reduced Statistics’, a working group from Radical Statistics, took a detailed look at cuts to official statistics under the coalition since 2010, and what they might mean in local government,...
View ArticleRadstats Critical Essay Competition
CALLING EVERYONE to enter the Radical Statistics Critical Essay Competition! GET your essay published & WIN a book token Submit an original essay that addresses a current social research/policy...
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