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Labour Market Trends is a monthly guide to the state of the labour market and contains statistics and analysis of the latest trends in employment, unemployment, earnings, hours, labour disputes…
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Monthly Digest of Statistics provides the latest monthly and quarterly statistics for UK businesses, economy and society. An important reference work, it is an indispensable source of statistics covering 20…
Financial Statistics provides data on a wide variety of financial topics including financial accounts for sectors of the economy, government income and expenditure, public sector borrowing, banking statistics, monetary aggregates…
The key annual publication for national accounts statistics and the essential data source for anyone concerned with macro-economic policies and studies.
Travel Trends presents the main annual results from the International Passenger Survey (IPS), which collects information from a random sample of passengers as they enter or leave the UK by…
Focus on Families provides an up-to-date and comprehensive description of families at the start of the 21st century. It presents a wealth of information on families, how they have changed…
Focus On Health explores topics such as mortality, mental health, sexual health, eating and physical exercise and smoking, as well as public health issues. Combining data from the 2001 Census…
Taking advantage of the new information from the 2001 Census, as well as drawing on a range of other sources, this report provides a comprehensive statistical picture of how information…
Drawing on the latest information from the 2001 Census, as well as a range of other sources, this report provides a comprehensive statistical picture of ethnicity and religion in the…
Focus On Social Inequalities is a readable introduction to the subject, presenting information on education; and social participation. The focus is on the UK, but the report also features international…
Updated annually, and compiled from more than 100 sources, this statistical encyclopaedia includes over 10,000 series of data, covering key aspects of the UK’s economic, social and industrial life. The…
Family Spending provides analysis of household expenditure broken down by age and income, household composition, socio-economic characteristics and geography. These figures are based on information collected in the period April…
An established reference source, Social Trends draws together the most up-to-date social and economic data from a wide range of government departments and other organizations. Data is presented clearly in…
This annual publication draws together the UK’s key population and vital statistics into a single source, summarizing population, births, mortality and migration data for the UK. It includes breakdowns by…
The Blue Book provides detailed estimates of national product, income and expenditure for the UK. It covers value added by industry, full accounts by sector and capital formation. It also…
Updated annually, Travel Trends presents detailed analyses on visits overseas residents made to the UK and on visits UK residents made abroad. It also presents information on the long-term trends…
This annual publication draws together the United Kingdom’s key population and vital statistics into a single source, summarizing population, births, mortality and migration data for the UK. It includes breakdowns…
Regional Trends features articles highlighting the wealth of regional information available in the UK. It includes research into data sources and statistical tools to aid understanding of the differences and…
The Pink Book provides detailed estimates of the UK Balance of Payments for the last 11 years, including estimates for the current account, the capital account, the financial account and…
Economic Trends is an easy to use monthly publication which presents a comprehensive and up-to-date range of key economic indicators.
A monetary compendium of the UK’s key financial and monetary statistics, this book contains data on public sector finance, including central government revenue and expenditure, money supply and credit, banks…
Presents a monetary compendium of the UK’s key financial and monetary statistics. This monthly contains data on public sector finance, including central government revenue and expenditure, money supply and credit…
The definitive background to all aspects of data published in the monthly Financial Statistics. It also includes general background on the national accounting framework, sectors and financial instruments used in…
Produced and compiled by the National Cancer Intelligence Centre at the Office for National Statistics in collaboration with experts from the cancer registries and other researchers.
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Labour Market Review stands back from the monthly labour market figures produced by ONS and describes some longer term trends. It sets out an invaluable summary of core facts, presented…
This handbook provides a comprehensive set of notes on the content and methodology of each reference table contained in Financial Statistics. It also includes general background on the national accounting…
This teaching guide complements Reading Films and explores the social and media context of film texts.
Reading Films introduces films and television programmes as media texts that use specific techniques and presentational devices to produce meaning.
This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong’s cinematic and…
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Reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual…
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In this work, Edward Buscombe explores the ways in which ‘Unforgiven’, sticking surprisingly close to the original script by David Webb Peoples, moves between the requirements of the traditional Western…
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One of the more positive international trends as of late has been the transformation of several countries from authoritarian-based dictatorships and single party systems into multi-party democracies characterized by peaceful…
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Opposing the orthodoxies of establishment postcolonialism, Beyond Postcolonial Theory posits acts of resistance and subversion by people of color as central to the unfolding dialogue with Western hegemony.