Not included in the ONS figures are the factory jobs that have replaced service jobs.
Yet, Neil Bentley, CBI deputy director general, said there was some good news in the ONS figures.
Sales in restaurants and bars dropped by 7% last year, leading to the end of its eight year inclusion in the ONS basket.
In October, Welsh Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan described the situation as "regrettable" that the case for tickbox had not been made earlier in the ONS discussions in Wales about its work.
Another consequence of avoiding the last-minute check-in fees is the fact that there is hardly any room in the overhead for the little carry-ons that passengers without suitcases normally put in the overheads (and what I thought they were made for in the first place).
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.
"This method was not suitable as mortgage interest payments are directly influenced by official interest rates, which would make the new index less suitable for use as an inflation target measure, were the government to decide to do so at some point in the future, " the ONS said.
Industrial production declined by 1.2% last month from the same month in 2011, the ONS said.
"For most economic statistics, any direct effects of the Olympics will be mainly seen in the August estimates, " the ONS said.
Although the latest fall in unemployment was due to a reduction in youth unemployment, the ONS said that the jobless rate among 16 to 24-year-olds was still 963, 000.
That is the lowest rate of increase since the ONS began reporting the figure in its current format 12 years ago.
The 49, 000 fall in number of jobless, to 2.51 million, was almost entirely due to a fall in youth unemployment, the ONS said.
In January 2001, the ONS began recruitment drive for nearly 4, 000 census takers and team leaders to undertake the door-to-door required for the project.
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However, the latest ONS figures also showed that in the three months to January, output from the services sector was down 0.2% compared with the previous quarter, which benefited from the boost the London Olympics gave to the economy.
But the commentary, in the hours since the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released its first estimate of the UK's economic performance for the third quarter of 2012, has been hedged about by leylandii-sized caveats.
People in the UK are living in good health for longer, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports.
This is remarkable because Twitter has been in the money-making game for only three years, primarily selling "sponsored tweets" to advertisers whose come-ons pop up in the message streams of the service's 200 million-plus active users.
At the same time, the ONS also issued statistics showing that people in the UK are now living in good health for longer.
Andre Rebello, of the Coroners' Society of England and Wales, said the society was "well aware of the ONS problem in codifying deaths".
But in weighing this decision, the ONS also had to weigh the interests of the millions of people who hold investments and pensions that are linked to the RPI.
In fact, ONS does not attempt to characterise the economy as in or out of recession.
In other words, according to the ONS, the fall was not yet statistically significant.
The ONS said output in the construction sector was higher than it had previously estimated.
This figure includes 315, 000 unemployed young people in full-time education, the ONS said.
According to the ONS data, in 2010 there were more helium deaths than cannabis, ecstasy, mephedrone and GHB related deaths put together.
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Average earnings (including bonuses) rose by 1.5% in the year to November, the ONS said, down from a previous figure of 1.8%.
If fully retired and student households were removed, the number of households in the UK that were workless was 2.92 million, the ONS said.
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