"One Market Under God, and Heaven Help Us All"

Michael Yates mikey+ at pitt.edu
Thu Jul 27 11:20:37 PDT 2000


Have you ever tried to use the British stats site? What a hassle!!

michael yates

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Peter van Heusden wrote:
>
> >P.S. Don't you want to move to South Africa? Getting figures on things
> >here is just too damn tough!
>
> For all the many faults of the U.S., we've got more data more freely
> available and in a more timely fashion than any other country I know
> of. When I was doing my State of the USA Atlas, the British
> editor/packager couldn't believe how easy it was for me to get even
> unpublished figures from Census and BLS - and how easy it was to talk
> to the stat-gatherers about the strengths and limitations of their
> data.
>
> Doug



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