Do Official Statistics Provide an Adequate Basis for the Debate about the UK Economy?
Cuthbert, J.R.: Invited talk given at Royal Statistical Society Conference, Edinburgh, 11 September 2009. This is the slightly expanded, (by inclusion of fuller references, etc), version of the talk. The talk uses three illustrative examples to argue that official statistics has failed badly. download this paper Do Official Statistics Provide an Adequate Basis for Debate about Scottish Independence: or, indeed, about the process of devolution. Cuthbert, M.: Invited talk given at Royal Statistical Society Conference, Edinburgh, 11 September 2009. This is the full version of the paper on which the talk was based. download this paper Correspondence with Scotland Office about Calman tax proposals. Cuthbert, J.R., Cuthbert, M.: October 2009. After submitting our open letter to Calman, we had a meeting with Scotland Office officials. The Scotland Office subsequently emailed the Canadian Professor Boadway, for his advice on two issues. This is our reply, which is essentially self explanatory,