The Statistical Gaze
Helen McCarthy: The British Census, 29 June 2017
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The Story of Britain through Its Census, since 1801
by Roger Hutchinson.
Little, Brown, 352 pp., £20, February 2017,978 1 4087 0701 2 Show More
by Roger Hutchinson.
Little, Brown, 352 pp., £20, February 2017,
“... About 15 years ago
, when I was renting my first flat in London, a man from the Office for National Statistics paid me a call. A letter had arrived a week earlier informing me that my postcode had been randomly selected for the annual General Household Survey and that I could expect a visit. My interrogator was in his mid-fifties, tall, well-spoken, and wearing a long dark overcoat which he didn’t take off ... ”