2017考研英语阅读理解题材解析之英国人口普查

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Official statistics

官方统计

Con census

反对人口普查

Britain's decennial population count has beensaved. Now make it work better

英国十年一度的人口普查被保留，如今需改良运作状态

WHEN

the

first

results

of

the

2011

census

were

published,

almost

two

years

ago,

the

moststriking discovery was straightforward. Britain's population, it turned out, was around500,000

bigger than statisticians had thought. For all that Britons are relentlessly surveyed,only a full count

could reveal the size of the country, yet alone that of individual cities, townsand neighbourhoods.

约两年前，当

2011

年人口普查的数据发布时，最令人吃惊的发现是十分显而易见的。

结果显示英 国人口比统计学家预计的竟多了约

500

，

000

人。鉴于所有的英国人都被调查过

了，除了个别一些 城市、城镇和居民区，只有一次完整的计数能揭示这个国家真正的规模。

Given that finding, the proposal made in 2010 by an austerity-minded coalition government

toscrap Britain's decennial census seemed odd. It now looks as though the census will surviveafter

all. On March 27th the Office for National Statistics (ONS) concluded that a full populationcount

is

still

necessary,

though

many

people

will

in

future

be

asked

to

fill

in

the

census

all

likelihood,

the

government

will

follow

its

recommendations.

Academics,

marketresearchers

and

social historians breathed a sigh of relief.

鉴于此发现，这一联合政府于

2010

年提出的要取 消英国十年一度人口普查的提议看起

来有些古怪。

如今看来人口 普查是要被保留下来了。

3

月

27

日，

国家统计局

(ONS)

得出的结

论是尽管未来很多人将被要求在线填写人口普查调查表，

进行一次完整的人口调查仍是必要

的。不出意外的话，

政府将会遵循它的提议。

学者、市场调研员和社会历史学家终于松了口

气。

Scrapping the census in favour of rolling surveys of a portion of the population was always

asilly

idea.

A

full

count

can

provide

information

at

the

level

of

a

single

street,

which

even

verylarge

surveys

could

never

do.

The

census

also

supplies

detailed

data

about

poorly

understoodgroups

of

people,

such

as

some

ethnic

minorities.

Each

year

billions

of

pounds

of

governmentspending

are

allocated

according

to

estimates

derived

from

the

census.

Its

data

determinewhere

new

schools

and

hospitals

are

built,

where

planning

permission

for

housing

is

grantedand where money is spent on transport.

取消人口普查，

转而赞成对部分人口进行滚动调查的想法是愚蠢的。< /p>

一次完整的计数可

以提供小至一条街的信息，

这是连许多大规模调查都无法媲美的。

人口普查也可为我们提供

那些外界知之甚少的群体的详细数据，

如一些少数族群。

政 府依据人口普查得出的估算来决

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