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Thank you for downloading more or less from BBC Radio 4. Here's Tim Harford.

Hello and welcome to more or less, the program which eagerly climbs a mountain of

dodgy numbers for the reward of breathtaking views of statistical beauty.

This week, further adventures in the audio presentation of data.

Gr. We'll also be covering Chief Executive Pay, the body count in Gaza, marriage and divorce.

But first, this headline from the Sunday Times.

Revealed half a million problem families. This takes me back to 2012. The government had decided to establish the Troubled Families

Program in response to the riots that plagued English cities in 2011.

David Cameron had declared that 120,000 problem families needed attention from their local authorities.

Let me be clear what I mean by this phrase.

Officials might call them families with multiple disadvantages.

Some in the press might call them neighbours from hell.

Whatever you call them.

I think we've all known for years that a relatively small number of families are the source

of a large proportion of problems in our society.

Now the way the Prime Minister puts it these really... portion of problems in our society.

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