Offensive teenagers
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics more than 1 in 12 teenage males commits an offense that comes to police notice.
Tag: data
What explains tariff levels?
It's not economic policy (or even necessity) as much as the political economy that drives trade policies. "The relationship between the overall tariff policy (...
Airstrip One lands
Of course, the name of this madness is pure NewSpeak: "The new rules, known as the Intercept Modernisation Programme, will not only force communications compan...
Let’s look at the data
This is a very fine summary of the case that nothing very unusual is happening to the global climate and of the evidence—direct data, not proxies—...
Century trends in Victorian temperatures
There are a dozen or so rural Victorian weather stations, of the 255 listed as reporting maximum temperature data to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, tha...
The ABS explains “trend estimates”
I've argued several times that the broadcast media has misrepresented quarterly unemployment by focusing on (the scarier of either) the raw or seasonally-adjust...
Market and PPP measures of GDP
In comments on the previous post, Ian Castles AO, the former Australian Statistician, notes that the World Bank and IMF create confusion in their reports by m...