Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics
More or Less: behind the statistics
Wednesday, 22 June 2022 - 29 minutes
Do rail workers really earn £13,000 a year more than nurses? As rail strikes severely hit services we look at some of the claims being made around pay – and explain how you can measure average pay in different ways.
Plus we investigate claims that Chancellor Rishi Sunak wasted £11bn by paying too much interest on Britain’s national debt.
Is pollution from tyres really 2000 times worse than pollution from exhausts?
And we look at sex and statistics in America.
Produced in partnership with the Open University.
Credits:
Presenter: Tim Harford
Series Producer: Charlotte McDonald
Reporters: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Sound Engineer: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon
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