But the revised data show that the housing slowdown has taken its toll on consumers.
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This is a graph of how much the revised data pushed up the 12 month moving average.
Revised data unveiled in July proves the downturn started during the final months of Bill Clinton's term, the Bush administration says.
Government statisticians also revised data for the previous year and found that at year-end there were 266, 000 more jobs than had previously been thought.
We also saw revised data released today showing that real GDP grew in the second quarter of 2012 by 1.3 percent at an annual rate.
Revised data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy contracted by 0.5% during the quarter, less than the 0.7% it announced last month.
The revised data meant Japan's economic growth in the April to June period was 2.6% higher than a year earlier, rather than 1.9% as had been thought.
Revised data showed a 0.6% decrease in output between July and September - the worst since 1990 and bigger than the 0.5% fall first estimated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This survey suffers from the same seasonal adjustment issues as the Household Survey except that BLS reports the current number (141, 000 SA for September) and the revised data from the immediate past two months.
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And last week's revised GDP data revealed that, at crucial times in our recent economic history, the facts that policy makers had in front of them were completely wrong.
Especially when the 'facts' provided by statisticians are themselves up for debate, as we discovered, once again, last week in newly revised GDP data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The release is the ONS's earliest estimate of gross domestic product and the figure is often revised as data for the full three months is not yet available for every sector of the economy.
Last week, the ONS sharply revised its GDP data for the UK, saying the economy shrank by 2.4% in the first quarter of 2009, compared with its earlier estimate of a contraction of 1.9%.
Since then, construction data was revised downward which should prompt GDP to be revised to -0.3%.
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It may not be a coincidence that Cisco recently revised its global mobile data growth assumptions sharply downwards.
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Real wage growth moderated to 10.2 percent year over year (consensus was 11.2 percent), while the initial June data was revised down to 10.2 percent from 12.9 percent.
The IBGE also revised its third quarter GDP data to show a 0.1% contraction from the previous quarter.
After today, the data will be revised twice, and in past months, the two reports have differed by about 35, 000.
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U.K. retail sales increased more than expected in July and figures for June were adjusted to show robust trade, adding to expectations that official data will be revised to show the country isn't as deeply in recession as estimated.
The first-quarter figure is an initial estimate based on incomplete data and will be revised either up or down in the coming months.
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That data measures both government and private hiring, and the ADP report looks to match, as closely as possible, with the final government data, which is revised three times.
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And as we see all the time, some of the numbers we depend on most and cite most in the press and in the government -- GDP statistics, unemployment statistics -- are constantly being revised when new information and new data comes in.
Note: This post was revised slightly on January 11 to reflect updated data from Berkery Noyes.
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No candidate will have their grades revised downwards when we add the missing result data.
Licences that meet the revised standards would be rich repositories of sensitive data.
And although many sections of the draft regulations were finalized as proposed, a significant number of data capture and definitional provisions were revised and clarified.
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