“Rise of the high-flying wives who leave hubby in the home” wrote the Daily Mail.

In the midst of an election campaign it’s inevitable that various long-term statistics will be coming out of the woodwork.

Remember Left Foot Forward’s bold extrapolation of the political polls which I had a bit of fun with on this

There is still room for improvement in the statistical sophistication of Home Office press releases, but very few are as bad as the notorious “knife crime” release issued on 11 December

Now that a General Election has been called, can we expect the Office for National Statistics to bombard  us with useful summaries to help us make up our minds? Alas, no.

You might have thought after the knife crime fiasco that No 10 Downing Street would have realised the danger of “mix and match” statistics.

With an election imminent, Labour has made a pitch for the football supporters’ vote.

Why are poorer people unhealthier? A commonsense response would be because they behave more unhealthily.

The Independent’s Michael Savage put in a Freedom of Information request on the results of compulsory drugs testing (CDT) in the British Army during 2000 to 2009.

Three months into 2010, we still have no data on the number of children who died as a result of pandemic flu in 2009.