[wdmmg-discuss] Annotating data

[Simon Rogers]

Hi all - to interject with something interesting but unrelated to anything:
the Tories promised to publish COINS if they're elected

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On 11 March 2010 15:51, Dave Boyce <dave at iconomical.com> wrote:

>
> On 9 Mar 2010, at 20:03, Alistair Turnbull wrote:
>
> > Lisa raised a good question earlier on the phone, which deserves a wider
> audience.
> >
> > The CRA includes money given to the BBC by central government. She thinks
> (and hopes to confirm) this is additional to the BBC's licence fee revenue
> (which is not included in the CRA),
>
> Yes it is - P36 S180300 - and it looks comparable to media reports of the
> BBC's license fee revenue. It's non-identifiable (ie, UK-wide) spending, so
> we're not going to get any regional classification.
>
> > and that it is intended to cover the BBC World Service only. As a result,
> there is no regionally classified spending, and the total spending is far
> smaller than the figures in the BBC's own reports of its revenue. These
> facts are quite surprising at first, and really ought to be recorded in a
> structured way alongside the data itself.
>
>
> As far as the world service spend goes, the BBC link has two years of data:
> one agrees 100% with the CRA, and there could well be a simple typo for the
> other one. There's a discrepancy, but it's probably not significant or
> systemic enough to justify us doing additional work for.
>
>        - Dave
>
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