Retail federation data indicated that, as did media interviews of shoppers.
According to data gathered by the National Federation of High School Associations, more kids are playing high school sports than ever, and more people are watching them play than ever.
The reductions in small business employment during the fourth quarter of 2008 and in 2009 were the largest ever recorded in the history of the National Federation of Independent Business data series.
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According to the National Federation of Independent Business, the data source of the study, there are 5.8 million small businesses across the country.
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After peaking at 335, 000 high school participants in the 1976-77 school year, according to National Federation of High School Sports Association data, wrestling fell to a bottom of 217, 257 participants in 1994-95.
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Sales Data so Far is Encouraging : A National Retail Federation survey quoted by The Wall Street Journal cited an 8.7% YOY jump in online and store traffic, to 212 million shoppers during the period between Thanksgiving and Sunday.
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On the opposite extreme , Denmark and Liechtenstein are the most expensive places to hire people, according to the London-based Federation of European Employers, which produces data on median international wages to help companies decide how much to pay their foreign workers.
The incentive seems to be there: While hard data isn't available, surveys conducted by the National Retail Federation over the past two years show that more than a third of holiday gift recipients end up returning their goods.
Gayle Fallon, head of the Houston Federation of Teachers, says the Arnolds are misguided in their relentless pursuit of data.
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The United Federation of Teachers opposed New York City's recent release of teacher rankings, saying the data were part of a pilot project and contained unreliable information.
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