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When the numbers don't add up

Episode 1558 Published 1 week, 1 day ago
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Statistics are a vitally important tool to plan and inform government policy - but when they're wrong or misleading, trust is at risk

A former government statistician is sounding alarms about our ditching of the five-yearly census, saying we risk losing a rich seam of information

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