Essays Tagged: "Office for National Statistics"

Assess the Advantages and Disadvantages of Official Statistics

e government and its departments, and surveys. For example, government departments such as the Home Office and Education and Skills request; process and then publish information from organisations suc ... l services and hospitals. An example of a source of surveys that produce official statistics is The Office for National Statistics, which is a government agency and is responsible for compiling and an ...

(4 pages) 28744 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

What accounts for the growth in part-time employment in recent years? Who benefits the most- employers or employees?

the growth of part-time employment.The definition of part-time depends a great deal to its use. The office of national statistics defines the part-time "an employee expected to work no more than 30 ho ...

(7 pages) 117 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The UK houseing Market

ar by year. There were 144,600 divorces last year, according to a study of population trends by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The consequence is, that one person of those couples has to fi ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.6 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Research Project: Tobacco, History and Health Issues

ly concentrated in these groups. In 2001, a new socio-economic classification was introduced by the Office for National Statistics making comparisons with earlier years more problematic. However, as i ... sure to SecondhandSmoke or Environmental Tobacco Smoke - ETS). U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, Office, Washington, DC, 1992.Winters, TH, Franza, JR, "Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke", New Englan ...

(9 pages) 118 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Dredsner Kleinwort Wasserstein: Culture, Gender & Stress.

effect at DKW as "According to the suit women are denied top jobs at Dresdner's London and New York offices, and are paid less."The causes of a glass ceiling effect are numerous. To begin with, the th ... ale dominated some women have attained top jobs. Take for example Sallie Krawcheck, chief financial officer at Citigroup who is "arguably the most powerful woman in American finance." (The Guardian, 1 ...

(20 pages) 50 0 4.0 May/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Psychological (motivational) Factors Impacting Lei

, 1999).· One such recreational leisure pursuit is angling. From interviews performed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS, 1996), an average of 3% of interviewees had participated in ang ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Literature Review Of Young People And Drugs

dom, knew where to obtain drugs in their local area (Cited in Drugs Link January/February 1992).The Office for National Statistics (1998. Cited in Goddard and Higgins 1999) focussed on smoking, drinki ...

(5 pages) 43 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Debate: Negative group on the topic that Pay inequality is neither inequitable nor inefficient.

neither inequitable nor inefficient."Pay majorly impacts on employee attitudes and behaviours. Therefore pay can be a powerful tool from an employer's point of view as it allows them to further their ... two dimensions of pay inequality; horizontal inequality refers to the 'differences in rates of pay for the same or similar jobs at the same level in the organisational hierarchy' for example the gend ...

(8 pages) 21 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management