His is an unauthorised biography, the flip side of Richard Schickel's cautious official survey.
Some 80% of hidden income, not reflected in the official survey, belongs to the top 20% of households.
More than one in 10 patients rated hospital food as poor, according to an official survey of more than 60, 000 NHS patients in England published last December.
The survey is a compendium of official survey from around the world and is used by Barclays investment managers as top-down input data for their international asset allocation strategy.
Of 800 county-level party chiefs questioned in an official survey published in May, a surprising 40% said meeting environmental protection goals should be a critical determinant of their careers.
Among other issues, university staff were caught pressuring students to dishonestly answer an official funding council survey of student satisfaction.
The official said the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and documented the scope of the problem.
The hazard of unemployment is not an official statistic but it is calculated using the Labour Force Survey, which is where much of our official data on unemployment comes from.
Just 15% of the schools in the survey had an official policy about whether to do so, and more than two-thirds of those schools said they won't use the technique.
"When the government comes to looking at who runs franchises in the future, they'll be looking at the numbers of official complaints and passenger satisfaction survey results, rather than how many people have contacted London Midland via Twitter, " he added.
Most official estimates are based on a survey that is almost 20 years old.
The survey comes just days after official figures showed the UK's unemployment rate had risen to the highest level for 16 years.
The official opposition did not rate much better in the survey of online openness.
An administration official told CNN the sample size of the annual government survey will be expanded to more than 22, 000 teenagers as the more specific questions about smoking habits are added.
The government's Labour Force Survey suggests that in 1996-97, the last year for which there are official figures, there were 914, 000 foreigners in Britain.
The UK ministers said there were a lack of convincing arguments for Scotland leaving the UK, but the official campaign for independence, Yes Scotland, said the debate had moved on significantly since the survey was carried out.
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