11. The official criminal statistics present a picture of crime as being predominantly a working-class phenomenon. 12. The official statistics only include those accepted as homeless by local authority, and they are mainly households with children. 13. The only place where official statistics have been released for industrial accidents is Shenzhen. 14. Therefore, the degree to which official statistics underestimate the actual level of crime depends on the particular category of crime. 15. To answer these questions people invariably turn to the official criminal statistics which are collected and published by the Home Office. 16. Yet it is instantly available, unlike official statistics that are always out of date. 17. It is even more sickening when official statistics show that one in four of all those suffering from poverty wages in Europe live and work in Britain. 18. The use of official statistics, for example, has a long history in many of the social sciences. 19. Undoubtedly British official statistics would have advanced more rapidly, particularly in the use of sampling techniques, if Bowley had had more to do with them. 20. According to official statistics, the gypsy population is five hundred thousand but the real figure is over a million. |