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Vol. 14, No. 3, April 1997


Contents


GENERAL TOPICS

Forthcoming ASSIG Conference 3 June 1997

Charging for information: practical realities and wider implications

Special Focus: Statistics and Public Information

Statistical information

General Household Survey under threat
Chris Skinner, University of Southampton

Will the real jobless stand up and be counted?
Helga Pile, The Low Pay Unit

Statistical applications

Turning official statistics into vital statistics: developing new indicators
Sanjiv Lingayah, New Economics Foundation

Qualitative analysis using computers
Mike Fisher, National Institute for Social Work

Statistics for the social sciences: Lancaster's Centre for Applied Statistics
Brian Francis, Lancaster University

Government information and statistics

Sources of government information in the British Library
Richard H.A. Cheffins, BL Social Policy Information Service

Government statistics? The answer's at NSLIS!
John Birch, National Statistics Information and Library Service

Public information

Waiting times information for patients: a cautionary tale from the marketplace
Bob Gann, The Help for Health Trust

Information and the citizen: report on the Coalition for Public Information conference
Elspeth Hyams, The Institute of Information Scientists

CCTA: Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
Melanie Moughton, CCTA

Notes and News

ASSIG visit to NSLIS
Angela Upton, ASSIG Committee

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