Can we fix the social capital gap?
Social capital cannot be ‘built’ and ‘deployed’ top-down to deliver specific policy objectives. Social capital is built by local communities and drawn down by them when addressing issues that matter locally.
Category: Statistics
Modelling and predicting recorded property crime trends in England and Wales – a retrospective
In 1999 the Home Office published, for the first time ever, 3-year ahead projections of property crime in England and Wales. The projections received a mixed response, with some agreeing that crime was set to rise while questioning the scale of any increase, to others who doubted the value of this type of econometric modelling.