To collect data in order to compare official and mass perception of economic statistics. Variables Month of century, party support, index of basic weekly rates of wages, cost of living index, percentage of insured workers unemployed each month, vacancies, exports and imports, houses completed, bank rate, month of Parliament, party governing, year, Conservative/Labour support. From the following sources: <i>Gallup Poll Index</i>, <i>British Labour Statistics 1868 - 1962</i>, D Butler and A Sloman, <i>British Political Facts 1900 - 1975</i> (London: Macmillan, 1975).