"Michael Biggs, Has Protest Increased Since the 1970s? How a Survey Question Can Construct a Spurious Trend, British Journal of Sociology"																
Year	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Work stoppages over terms of employment in the UK, thousands"	"Additional stoppages enumerated in annual reports, in Britain, thousands"	"Additional stoppages enumerated in annual reports, in Britain, thousands"	"Population of Britain aged 15 and over, thousands"	Figure II	Figure II	Figure II	Figure III	Figure III	Figure III
Year	" Workers involved, beginning in year"	"Workers directly involved, beginning in year"	"Workers involved in strikes deemed official, beginning in year"	" Workers involved, in progress in year"	" Northern Ireland: Workers involved, in progress in year"	Working days lost in year	Northern Ireland: Working days lost in year	Workers involved	Working days lost	"Population of Britain aged 15 and over, thousands"	Workers directly involved in strikes in Britain over employment	Plus additional stoppages	Divided by population 15+	Days lost by workers directly involved in strikes in Britain over employment	Plus additional stoppages	Divided by population 15+
A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	J	K	M	O	P	Q	S	T	U
1946	526	405	.	529	.	2158	.	.	.	36877	391	391	0.0106	1939	1939	0.0526
1947	620	489	.	623	.	2433	.	.	.	37079	472	472	0.0127	2186	2186	0.059
1948	424	324	.	426	.	1944	.	.	.	37282	313	313	0.0084	1747	1747	0.0469
1949	433	313	.	434	.	1807	.	.	.	37487	302	302	0.0081	1624	1624	0.0433
1950	302	269	.	303	.	1389	.	.	.	37693	260	260	0.0069	1248	1248	0.0331
1951	379	336	.	379	.	1694	.	.	.	37900	324	324	0.0086	1522	1522	0.0402
1952	415	303	.	416	.	1792	.	.	.	38043	292	292	0.0077	1610	1610	0.0423
1953	1370	1329	.	1374	.	2184	.	.	.	38187	1282	1282	0.0336	1963	1963	0.0514
1954	448	402	.	450	.	2457	.	.	.	38332	388	388	0.0101	2208	2208	0.0576
1955	659	599	.	671	3	3781	7	.	.	38477	596	596	0.0155	3430	3430	0.0892
1956	507	464	.	507.8	32	2083	44	.	.	38623	435	435	0.0113	1866	1866	0.0483
1957	1356	1275	.	1359	64.3	8412	565	.	.	38769	1215	1215	0.0313	7378	7378	0.1903
1958	523	456	.	524.1	11.1	3462	258	.	.	38916	446	446	0.0115	2794	2794	0.0718
1959	645	522	.	645.8	20.5	5270	92	.	.	39064	505	505	0.0129	4191	4191	0.1073
1960	814	698	14	818.8	19	3024	156	.	.	39212	682	682	0.0174	2459	2459	0.0627
1961	771	673	80	778.5	49.1	3046	39	.	.	39360	631	631	0.0160	2625	2625	0.0667
1962	4420	4297	3809	4422.7	72.6	5798	121	.	.	39557	4226	4226	0.1068	5519	5519	0.1395
1963	590	455	80	592.5	12.5	1755	28	.	.	39755	445	445	0.0112	1332	1332	0.0335
1964	872	700	161	883	20.7	2277	34	.	.	39954	684	684	0.0171	1801	1801	0.0451
1965	868	673	94	876.4	22.6	2925	140	.	.	40154	656	656	0.0163	2159	2159	0.0538
1966	530	414	50	543.9	17	2398	111	.	.	40355	401	401	0.0099	1786	1786	0.0443
1967	731	551	36	733.7	23.2	2787	59	.	.	40557	534	534	0.0132	2056	2056	0.0507
1968	2255	2073	1565	2257.6	55.3	4690	92	.	.	40760	2022	2022	0.0496	4227	4227	0.1037
1969	1654	1426	283	1665	27.7	6846	122	850	850	40964	1402	2252	0.0550	5797	6647	0.1623
1970	1793	1460	296	1800.7	38.3	10980	114	372	372	41170	1429	1801	0.0437	8848	9220	0.224
1971	1171	863	376	1178.2	18.2	13551	229	2960	2960	41376	850	3810	0.0921	9818	12778	0.3088
1972	1722	1448	635	1734.4	15.6	23909	306	395	735	41520	1435	1830	0.0441	19847	20582	0.4957
1973	1513	1103	396	1527.6	21.7	7197	76	2270	2270	41692	1087	3357	0.0805	5191	7461	0.179
1974	1622	1161	467	1626.4	30.6	14750	267	330	330	41839	1139	1469	0.0351	10367	10697	0.2557
1975	789	570	80	808.9	28	6012	245	6	6	42012	550	556	0.0132	4166	4172	0.0993
1976	666	444	46	668	12.2	3284	45	0	0	42238	436	436	0.0103	2159	2159	0.0511
1977	1155	785	205	1165.8	24.4	10142	146	0	0	42497	769	769	0.0181	6794	6794	0.1599
1978	1001	725	123	1041.5	15.2	9405	264	1.2	6	42762	714	716	0.0167	6621	6627	0.155
1979	4583	4120	3648	4607.8	120.8	29474	730	0	0	43067	4012	4012	0.0932	25840	25840	0.6
1980	830	702	404	833.7	10.8	11964	49	4	28	43388	693	697	0.0161	10078	10106	0.2329
1981	1499	1326	.	1512.5	43.6	4266	69	131	141	43626	1288	1419	0.0325	3713	3854	0.0883
1982	2101	1974	.	2102.9	46.4	5313	97	58	58	43797	1930	1988	0.0454	4901	4959	0.1132
1983	573	502	.	573.8	14	3754	79	7.5	15	44014	490	497	0.0113	3220	3235	0.0735
1984	1391	1272.3	.	1464.3	20.4	27135	52	.	.	44275	1255	1255	0.0283	24772	24772	0.5595
1985	620.9	588.6	.	791	15	6402	40	.	.	44513	577	577	0.0130	6031	6031	0.1355
1986	519.8	507.3	.	720	12	1920	30	.	.	44728	499	499	0.0112	1845	1845	0.0412
1987	883.5	845.1	.	887	28	3546	115	.	.	44893	818	818	0.0182	3282	3282	0.0731
1988	759.3	704	.	790	36	3702	54	.	.	44994	672	672	0.0149	3382	3382	0.0752
1989	726.6	670.6	.	727	18	4128	36	.	.	45088	654	654	0.0145	3777	3777	0.0838
1990	281.5	248.6	.	298	10	1903	18	.	.	45157	240	240	0.0053	1665	1665	0.0369
1991	170.9	167.3	.	176	16	761	17	.	.	45215	152	152	0.0034	728	728	0.0161
1992	142.3	139.7	.	148	3	528	8	.	.	45210	137	137	0.0030	510	510	0.0113
1993	382.7	381.1	.	385	16	649	16	.	.	45228	365	365	0.0081	630	630	0.0139
1994	86.9	82.5	.	107	3.7	278	5	.	.	45319	80	80	0.0018	259	259	0.0057
1995	169.3	165.8	.	174	4.4	415	5	.	.	45474	162	162	0.0036	402	402	0.0088
1996	338.9	332.1	.	364.3	4.388	1303.3	20.202	.	.	45609	328	328	0.0072	1257	1257	0.0276
1997	128.6	123.6	.	130	5.967	234.7	13.797	.	.	45735	118	118	0.0026	212	212	0.0046
1998	90.4	87.1	.	92.7	2.509	282.4	3.811	.	.	45891	85	85	0.0018	268	268	0.0058
1999	139.9	130.3	.	140.9	7.3	242	6.1	.	.	46102	124	124	0.0027	220	220	0.0048
2000	180.7	179.5	.	183.2	6.8	498.8	20.8	.	.	46376	173	173	0.0037	475	475	0.0102
2001	165	163.7	.	179.9	0.5	525	0.8	.	.	46688	163	163	0.0035	520	520	0.0111
2002	918.2	903.4	.	942.9	19.3	1323	22.5	.	.	46972	885	885	0.0188	1280	1280	0.0272
2003	122.5	118.2	.	150.6	27	499	67.1	.	.	47283	97	97	0.0021	417	417	0.0088
2004	272.3	271.9	.	292.7	19.3	905	67.3	.	.	47626	254	254	0.0053	836	836	0.0176
2005	91.9	91.7	.	92.6	12.4	157	10.6	.	.	48068	79	79	0.0017	146	146	0.003
2006	710.8	687.8	.	713.3	7.6	755	20.8	.	.	48463	680	680	0.0140	710	710	0.0147
2007	740.4	739.6	.	744.8	17.5	1041	32.1	.	.	48861	722	722	0.0148	1008	1008	0.0206
2008	509.1	507.4	.	511.2	1.7	759	3.1	.	.	49228	506	506	0.0103	753	753	0.0153
2009	208.5	207.9	.	208.5	2.5	455	2.3	.	.	49565	205	205	0.0041	451	451	0.0091
2010	131.6	131.6	.	132.5	1	365	2.7	.	.	49949	131	131	0.0026	362	362	0.0073
2011	1526.9	1508.7	.	1529.6	39.7	1390	36.6	.	.	50335	1470	1470	0.0292	1337	1337	0.0266
2012	236.8	235	.	236.8	1	248.8	0.9	.	.	51118	234	234	0.0046	246	246	0.0048