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As numbers and statistics come to the fore, can we boost national numeracy?
Is it just about the number of dead? Or is it something deeper: making sure we live in a society we don’t feel ashamed of?
Unmeasured markets often respond first when times become tough and are a safety net when governments fail
Feeble performance has shaped economic fortunes and even uneasy national mood
Statistics on population, employment and public services would put pressure on governments
Chancellor to consult on when to abolish inflation measure between 2025 and 2030
There are problems in using gross domestic product as the metric of economic success
Statistics office changes price tracking, making life harder for ECB rate-setters
Commons committee accuses regulator of failing to ‘serve the public good’
Confluence of factors means devaluations may now work in reverse
The idea of the mean has a strange power over the way we think
Private firms such as hedge funds are benefiting most from mining ‘alternative’ stats
Hot and cold estimates of output gap pose questions for monetary and fiscal policy
There are gaps in the way we gather statistics that have far-reaching effects
Beijing statisticians ‘do not have capacity’ to correct inflated local figures
Gilts and rail fares are pegged to index that gives misleadingly high rate for UK price rises
Mistakes in wage data fed into calculation of GDP and assessment of Abe’s policies
Too often the ONS is slow and has to be prodded into improvements
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