In the news this week: What’s
wrong with the British Steel Industry?
Get the facts on its contribution to UK manufacturing,
employment and trends in production.
Guardian
Newspaper launch campaign against
Internet abuse and harassment
They have also released some initial analysis
of comments posted and blocked on their website. This reveals more abusive comments were blocked about
articles written by women. As a result the site is leading a discussion on what
can improve social relations on the Internet.
Here are some other useful sources measuring the extent and
nature of online abuse.
In 2015 the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development
issued a report calling for a world-wide wake
up call against cyberviolence targeting women and girls.
In England/ Wales Official figures on negative online
experiences are gathered by the Office
for National Statistics and published as a supplementary table they record
online harassment by gender. In 2014 Demos published an
interesting report on the extent and nature of misogyny on Twitter
In Australia
a recent Norton survey found that 47& of women responding had suffered
online abuse. In the USA
a 2014 survey found that 73% of those responding had witnessed online
harassment
Reports on cyberstalking and Cyberbullying
in the USA can be retrieved from this special feature on the NCRJC website.
and WAM has some
resources concerning harassment, women and twitter.
Which graduates earn
the most? Do family, class and Gender matter?
New from
IFS an analysis of 260,000 student tax and loan records which examines
variations in earnings over a 10 year period after graduation . It considers
whether gender, socioeconomic class, institution and subject studied effect
income. A key conclusion is that
p.55 Graduates from higher income households earn more (up
to around 60%
more for males and 45% for females) than their peers from
lower income households.
There were
also shocking large variations by
institution
‘For instance, more than 10% of male graduates from LSE,
Oxford and Cambridge were earning in excess of £100,000 a year ten years after
graduation in 2012/13, with LSE graduates earning the most. LSE was the only
institution with more than 10% of its female graduates earning in excess of
£100,000 a year ten years on . Whereas the median male graduate earnings were
nearer £45,000
New EU referendum
reports this week
This week IFS launch
an interactive tool to allow voters to explore the EU budget which
countries pay in the most? Who gets the most?
The Electoral Commission designated the two lead campaigners
at the EU Referendum – designating ‘The In Campaign Ltd’ to be the lead
campaigner for the “Remain” outcome, and ‘Vote Leave Ltd’ for the “Leave”
outcome. Its
decision , with associated papers can be downloaded from the website.
LSE
launches EU referendum videos on its YouTube channel. The 10-week video
series (starting 13th April) will feature daily expert comment from the School’s academics on
a wide range of issues relating to the EU referendum on 23 June.
See the links to the latest
papers, speech transcripts and reports on our blog
Million pound homes –
get the facts!
According to some data releases from the Office for National
Statistics. 13,679 was the number of properties sold for £1million or more in
England and Wales, in the year ending September 2015. In 1996 it was 270 . Get
the full data set House
price statistics for all areas from 1995-2015 and Test your knowledge in the
million pound properties quiz!
A
report by the LSE and Santander has predicted that by 2030 1 in 4 London
homes will be valued at £1milion or more.
In terms of affordability . In 2015
Shelter published a report that from 1969-2014, house prices for first time
buyers had increased by 48 times, whereas incomes had risen 29 times. the London
Data store has information on house
price ratios to salary in London Boroughs.
Recently the Centre for London also issued a report on Housing
and inequality in the capital which shows rising housing costs (both in the
rented and mortgage sector) causing
greater wealth disparity.and a move to the suburbs for poorer people.
Shelter has
also issued a tube map of affordability of rented housing in London stating
that of 270 stations only 15 are in affordable renting areas.
Use
the BBC tracker tool to find out where you can afford to live
Fairness for
Children: a league table of inequality in child well-being in rich countries
The latest report card
from UNICEF examines the condition of children in the EU and wealthy OECD nations. It focuses
on the gap between rich and poor in four areas: income, education, health and
life satisfaction
Key policy concerns
include:
Protect the incomes of households with the poorest
children.
• Improve the educational achievements of disadvantaged learners.
• Promote and support healthy lifestyles for all children.
• Take subjective well-being seriously.
• Place equity at the heart of child well-being agendas.
• Improve the educational achievements of disadvantaged learners.
• Promote and support healthy lifestyles for all children.
• Take subjective well-being seriously.
• Place equity at the heart of child well-being agendas.
See the UK ranking. UNICEF concluded that the gap between
rich and poor had narrowed .
Denmark was ranked first in the report's findings. Britain
1. There were concerns in gaps about educational performance, and health eating
where the uK was rated lowly.
Another key report published this week relating to Child wellbeing was CentreForum Commission on children and young people’s mental health. It revealed the problems young people face when trying to access mental health care.
Hansard Society Audit
of Political Engagement released.
The 13th
annual edition of this key publication
has just been published. It is based on is based on an opinion poll
conducted by Ipsos MORI between 11 and 29 December 2015 with a representative
quota sample of adults aged 18+ across Great Britain measuring factors
associated with interest in and engagement in politics amongst voters. Topics
covered include interest in EU and certainty to vote in the referendum,
perception of parliament and levels of participation.
Data USA
A great new site which
visualizes American government Data. It is developed by Deloitte, Datawheel,
and Cesar Hidalgo, Professor at the MIT Media Lab with the aim of making
statistical data visible and accessible.
View maps or profiles
by location,
occupation and industry and education . The site also has visual stories created by users. See for
instance this one on the skills
required for an economics degree. Which also has data on gender, racial
composition of award holders, geographic concentration in the USA and pay!
Trussell Trust Food Bank data visualization.
The Trussell
Trust has worked with data scientists, business model specialists
and academics from the University of Hull and the commercial sector to create
the UK’s first ever dynamic visualisation tool for crises leading to foodbank
use, mapping 18 months of foodbank data against deprivation indices from the
2011 census and other open data. See the
mapping hunger report
How to choose a world
Leader
This week the United
Nations held its first public debates to select a new secretary general. This
press release explains the process. Further
detail is on the UN website . UN webTV has recordings.
There is also a twitter feed where
you can see questions submitted.
1 for 7 Billion
is a global campaign supported by organisations and individuals from all
corners of the globe committed to getting the best UN Secretary-General. see
its discussion of the process and its 10 urgent reforms.
Finally find a remedy
for your hayfever!
Digital archive of
Druggist and Chemist
A fascinating digital journal archive
project completed by the Wellcome Library and available on the Internet
Archive. The Chemist and Druggist is
weekly journal of the pharmacy trade, the online issues cover over 150 years
from the 1850s. As well as constituting
a fascinating resource on the history of
medicine and pharmacy; Social historians can browse original advertisements for
patent medicines, medical products and more.
See
this example from May 1889 which features on the front page an
advertisement for Royal embrocation- I was not sure if this was for the horse
or the rider to rub in! Read more about
the digitisation
project on their blog.
