Introduction / Ruth Levitas and Will Guy -- 1. The Legacy of Rayner / Ruth Levitas -- 2. The Struggle for Independent Statistics on Poverty / Peter Townsend -- 3. Fiddling While Britain Burns? The 'Measurement' of Unemployment / Ruth Levitas -- 4. Social Class: Official, Sociological and Marxist / Theo Nichols -- 5. Health for All? / Will Guy -- 6. Problems in Monitoring Safety in British Manufacturing at the End of the Twentieth Century / Theo Nichols -- 7. Figuring Out Working Women / Jackie West -- 8. Counting Ethnicity: Social Groups and Official Categories / Steve Fenton -- 9. Disabled by Numbers / Paul Abberley -- 10. The Case of the Missing Crimes / Robert Reiner.