The UK Statistics Authority - the official statistics gatherer - doesn't record seasonally when divorce happens.
Then they finally include your employees in the official statistics in February of 2012.
Are BMW counting deliveries to dealers, as the official statistics do, or are they counting true sales?
Many, however, said the economy is performing better than the official statistics show.
So you have been hiring employees for nearly 2 years but none of them are showing up in the official statistics.
Which, as we can see from the official statistics, we have done.
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Yet, if the official statistics are to be believed, the crime rate for the 21 most serious offences has actually fallen by 17%.
Capital malinvestment and the misallocation of factors of production no longer can be covered over as the official statistics catch up with reality.
Already Pollack had recorded the official statistics and written separate game stories sent by Western Union to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press and United Press.
All tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics were considered in the official statistics to have been bought in the third quarter of 2012, when the games took place.
Now, all three problems tend to indicate that the hollowing-out of British manufacturing in the decades before the 2007-8 crash is perhaps more serious than the official statistics would tend to indicate.
This form of small-scale distributed generation does not even make the official statistics by bureaus like the Energy Information Administration, yet it is quickly growing in capacity to become a serious part of the mix.
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With inflation running at about 25% according to private indicators (the government has intervened the official statistics office), Argentine demand for dollars has soared as savers look to at least maintain the value of their holdings.
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Another thing we supposedly knew about this recovery was that it has been relatively weak: if the official statistics are right, our national output has only risen by 2% since the last three months of 2009.
"The official statistics in India rely on the National Crime Records Bureau, basically what are police reports of suicide, " says Prof Prabhat Jha, one of the study's co-authors and the director of the Center for Global Health Research in Toronto.
It is quite possible that the economy is stronger than the official statistics suggest: in fact, we already know that construction and industrial output were stronger in June than the ONS expected when they came up with their first estimate for the change in GDP in the second quarter.
The statistics watchdog has not previously commented directly on the use of official statistics by the media, limiting its scrutiny to the behaviour of the government and national politicians.
The drop to third place has gone unnoticed because of the way official statistics are tracked, Roeder said.
Scotland's exports grew slightly last summer following a strong performance from the food and drink sector, according to the latest official statistics.
According to the official payroll statistics job growth has been stuck in neutral for going on two years now, average about 150K jobs per month.
The findings follow the latest official statistics, which showed 164 Scottish building firms were forced into bankruptcy last year - a rise of 122% on the number of construction companies going bust five years ago.
Ministers were well aware that the latest official statistics on England's house-building were due for release yesterday morning and their contents but, rather than contrive to coincide with the most recent data, the prime minister and his deputy invited the cameras to watch them plod through the mud of a housing development precisely 24 hours earlier.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee said responsibility for immigration statistics should be handed to the Official for National Statistics (ONS).
For there are two well known problems with the way that the Census counts household income (and there are many of these sorts of traps in official US statistics: the pit that is the official poverty measure deserves a book all to itself).
Something dramatic is going on with the official money supply statistics, but its significance is hard to interpret.
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Complaints about hospital and community health services were up by 15% last year, according to the latest official NHS statistics.
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He said details of the total number of requests for remarks would be published later in the year as official statistics.
Today, the head of the official watchdog on government statistics, Sir Michael Scholar of the UKSA, has written to the Mr Grayling's boss, Iain Duncan Smith at the Department of Work and Pensions questioning the interpretation and release of the new "research".
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