Eurostats - True or False?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2012
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Are there really more Porsche Cayenne owners in Greece than taxpayers earning over 50,000 euros? Can there really be 30,000 chauffeur driven cars for the exclusive use of Italian politicians? Would it really be cheaper to send everyone by taxi than train in Greece and is youth unemployment in Spain really 50%? Ruth Alexander and Wesley Stephenson take a very close look at some widely reported Eurostats to see whether they stand up to scrutiny for out this week's More or Less. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.5 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:18.0 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | This is more or less the program which finds light at the end of every statistical tunnel. |
| 0:42.0 | We make an addition of the program for BBC Radio 4, but this |
| 0:45.3 | episode was broadcast on the World Service. |
| 0:48.6 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. We're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm Ruth Alexander standing in for Tim Harford, who's currently trying to provide a one-man |
| 1:00.6 | fiscal stimulus to the Portuguese beach economy. |
| 1:07.0 | This week's programme is dedicated to Euro-stat's, those surprising statistics that have emerged from the Eurozone crisis. |
| 1:15.0 | Which ones are true facts and which ones are slippery untruths. |
| 1:20.0 | Here's an early clue. |
| 1:21.0 | One Eurostat is so wrong we made this German laugh. |
| 1:25.7 | This story is so ridiculous. |
| 1:28.8 | Wesley Stevenson has been gathering some of the more startling statistical claims. |
| 1:33.2 | Yes, let's kick things off with those Greeks. |
| 1:36.0 | A number of stories that fit the narrative of Greece being a basket case have been circulating, |
| 1:40.9 | including this one. |
| 1:42.0 | There are more Porsche KNs registered in Greece |
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