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This century has seen steadily increasing involvement by government in social policy and, since the Second World War, the emergence of the Welfare State. Expenditure of money and manpower on the social services has risen rapidly. By 1974, Social Security, Health and Personal Social Services, Education and Housing made up about half of total public expenditure in the United Kingdom. The social services, which are very labour intensive, also take up a high proportion of the country’s manpower, particularly highly qualified manpower. At the time of the 1971 Census of Population they absorbed some two million people.
This chapter is based in part on a talk given by the author at a joint conference of the Market Research Society and the American Marketing Association at Oxford in June 1974. The author was in the Central Statistical Office until April 1976 and the chapter is reproduced with the kind permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
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M. Shepherd, B. Cooper, A. C. Brown and G. Kalton, Psychiatric Illness in General Practice (Oxford University Press, 1966). The publications listed below cover the main sources of the statistics quoted in this chapter. A comprehensive list of references may be found in the Central Statistical Office publication, Social Trends. Central Statistical Office, Social Trends (London: H.M.S.O., Nov-Dec annually). Central Statistical Office, Annual Abstract of Statistics (London: H.M.S.O., Nov annually). Department of Employment, Family Expenditure Survey Reports (London: H.M.S.O., July annually). Department of Employment, New Earnings Survey Reports (London: H.M.S.O., annually as a complete report — also in six separate parts, as each part is completed). Department of Employment, British Labour Statistics (London: H.M.S.O., summer annually); historical abstract also available (from 1886–1969). Department of Education and Science, Statistics of Education, several vols (London: H.M.S.O., annually). Department of Health and Social Security, Social Security Statistics (London: H.M.S.O., annually). Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (previously the General Register Office) and the General Register Offices of Scotland and Northern Ireland, Census of Population (1951, 1961, 1966, 1971 — various vols). Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, General Household Survey Reports 1971 and 1972 (London: H.M.S.O., annually). Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth, Initial Report on the Standing Reference, Report No. 1 (London: H.M.S.O., July 1975).
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© 1977 Helmuth Heisler, John Carrier, Bleddyn Davies, Neil Fraser, Howard Jones, Peter Kaim-Caudle, Ian Kendall, Thomas McPherson, Della Adam Nevitt, Muriel Nissel, Barbara Rodgers, J. D. Stewart, George F. Thomason
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Nissel, M. (1977). Government, Data and Social Change. In: Heisler, H. (eds) Foundations of Social Administration. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86159-0_5
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