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Social Science in Numbers
- 10
 Fields in which UK social science ranks second in the world in the numbers of high quality research papers published (the US ranks first)- 35
- Average age of a full-time social science academic in UK universities
- 2000
- Social scientists working on research in UK central government
- 2700
- Social science PhDs gained in UK universities in 2001-02
- 6000
- Respondents in the British Household Panel Survey, a study of the incomes, work, family circumstances and political views of UK homes
- 18,000
- Respondents in the National Child Development Study (NCDS) - one of the world's longest standing and most successful surveys, charting the factors affecting people's lives from birth to middle-age
- 19,000
- Babies tracked in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which will investigate child health and development
- 25,000
- Full-time social science academics in UK universities
- 330,000
- Undergraduates studying social science subjects in UK universities in 2000-01
- 4.25 million
- 11 to 19 year olds taking social science subjects at school at any one time
- 204 million
- The planned expenditure of the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK's leading funder of the social sciences
- 2.8 billion
- Total funds supporting social scientists in the UK
- 22.5 billion
- Money raised from the UK government's 2000 auction of the radio bandwidths to be used by third-generation (3G) mobile phones. The auction rules were developed using game theory by Professor Ken Binmore and researchers at the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution at University College London
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