Week 51, 2012: Charts of the Week

Summary: As we did at the end of 2011, we've taken a look back at the most popular Charts of the Week of 2012.

What does the chart show? The chart shows the top twenty most popular Charts of the Week of 2012, scored according to a complicated formula which takes into account popularity on social media sites, popularity on the ERC website, and popularity in the ERC office.

Why is the chart interesting? 2012 has been the first full year of Charts of the Week, so there are plenty to choose from when considering your favourite.  Our (possibly unscientific) Popularity Index seems to favour recent charts over older ones, with almost all of the top twenty coming from the second half of the year (the oldest chart included is from Week 17).  We suspect this is caused by the "popularity in the ERC office" portion of the index, with anything pre-Olympics seeming like a distant memory.  That said, the winner was very popular both on social media and our website, and deserves its place at number one.

These are the top twenty:

20th	19th
Week 23, At Risk of Poverty Rates	Week 40, Labour Productivity
18th	17th
Week 45, Housing Affordability	Week 42, Employment Rate
16th	15th
Week 26, Public Sector Net Debt	Week 43, Average Pensioner Income
14th	13th
Week 39, Credit Availability	Week 34, UK Budget Surplus/Deficit
12th	11th
Week 17, History of UK Recessions	Week 41, The Cost of Borrowing
10th	9th
Week 32, Olympic Medals	Week 28, Public Sector Debt Forecasts
8th	7th
Week 37, Government Spending on R&D	Week 35, Workless Households
6th	5th
Week 29, Crime and the Economy	Week 49, Average Household Finances
4th
Week 44, Relative GDP Recovery
3rd
Week 48, Clash of the Titans
2nd
Week 47, Government Finances
1st
Week 50, Regional Education Levels