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A statistical update

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:09 authored by Alan Buckingham
It is more than six years since Charles Murray first intervened in the British underclass debate. Many of his claims and predictions were dismissed at the time either on the basis of a lack of quality evidence or his lack of familiarity with British society. In this appendix I shall update Murray’s data using official statistics, outline recent developments in the debate over the underclass in Britain, and draw on my own analysis of the National Child Development Study to help us adjudicate between some of the competing claims.

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  • Published

Publisher

The IEA Health and Welfare Unit

Issue

33

Page range

166 - 180

Pages

14.0

Book title

Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate

Place of publication

London

ISBN

0255363915

Series

Choice in Welfare

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Ruth Lister

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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