Statistics
According to the Work and Pensions Committee the organisation caused directly or indirectly 700,000 people to return to work between the months of April 2005 and January 2006.
According to figures within the Guardian newspaper online the total number of claimants during May 2012 was 1,590,708.
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Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“and Olaf, too
preponderatingly because
unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me: more blond than you.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)