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Hello and welcome to More or Less, the programme which uses numbers to shed light on the mysteries

of everyday life, from the absurd to the serious.

This week, the headlines suggest the job market is booming, but what's going on under

the surface?

Is it really true that a white Easter is more likely that a white Christmas?

The Nicene Council correspondent explains, and 41 pupils from a state school in East London

have secured offers to study at Oxford or Cambridge, but what does this outstanding achievement

tell us about the education system today?

And first, on Monday, the Home Office published a report called the Economic Cost of Domestic

Abuse.

It made all the headlines.

Here's the BBC News Channel's Carrie Gracie discussing the findings of the report with

Sandra Hawley, Chief Executive of the Charity Refuge.

New research into the social and economic costs of domestic abuse cost the public, that's

you me, the taxpayer, £66 billion every year.

What?

£66 billion every year.

How does it have to be a standard amount of money?

How does that be social?

Now, £66 billion is a huge number, but is it accurate or even real?

Our loyal listeners weren't convinced.

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