Sources of Non‐official UK Statistics (5th edition)

The publication history of this title is indicative of the growing tendency of reference publishers to reduce the interval between editions. There was a gap of five years between the publication of the first edition in 1985 and the appearance of the second in 1990. A pause of seven years followed before the third edition was produced in 1997. Just three years later, the fourth edition, reviewed in this publication (RR 2000/285), was available. Now, only two years on, we have a fifth edition. Increasing publication frequency is, of course, a largely welcome trend, not least because it should...