And when the NSS does produce figures comparable to the census, they closely match it (for example, the NSS and census figures for the child sex ratio in 2001 and 2011 are almost identical).
Kevin Daly, one of the Goldman Sachs economists who first questioned the 2009 figures, does believe the 2010 figures will be revised up further, to bring them more into line with the strong company survey data and other indicators that he favours over the ONS version of events.
China does not produce figures for retail car sales, preferring to believe the rosier picture offered by wholesale figures of cars sold to dealerships.
The DVLA does not keep figures on the number of road-legal quads, but the main UK suppliers say that since 2005 they have gone from selling a few hundred each year to thousands.
Conversions to Christianity have become common (though a cautious Catholic church does not give precise figures).
According to official government homelessness figures Croydon does not have any rough sleepers.
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They claim that official export data released by China sometimes does not match corresponding figures coming from its trading partners.
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The Department for Employment and Learning does not keep those figures but said about 1, 500 people have claimed a return-to-work credit in the past year.
An additional fifty to eighty thousand are kept in restrictive segregation units, many of them in isolation, too, although the government does not release these figures.
This describes the relationship between the economy and the environment, but it does not adjust economic figures to take account of the degradation of environmental assets.
For "commercial reasons" Royal Mail says it does not release sales figures, and it is hard to know exact numbers, or what age group is buying them.
However, the report unfortunately does not publish the actual figures that its claim is based on.
Although he was wrong, this does not make the official figures any less shocking.
Yet as we can see from the consumption figures, it does seem to work as a method of achieving the desired goal.
Since he manages only his own account, Middleton does not produce audited performance figures but claims to have tripled his money since July 2007.
UNESCO, which is nearing the completion of an effort to preserve the Buddha niches in Bamiyan and wall paintings, does not favor rebuilding the figures.
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And while there's been lots of talk of a mass migration to the more fashionable Twitter, Nielsen's figures show Facebook does not have much to fear on that front.
It also does annual revisions of those figures to account for the creation of new businesses a development that is hard to measure during turning points in the economy as companies are shutting down or starting up.
Amazon does not report unit sales figures.
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In truth, that should not have been too difficult: as well as consolidated figures, Eurex says it does already send data that tie margins to specific traders on a daily basis.
Wall Street pays close attention to this metric as an indicator of growth potential, because strong figures suggest that a retailer does not depend on new store openings for revenue and earnings increases.
When the housing market really does start a true recovery, those figures mean the pace of building will have to pick up quickly, though that potential springboard remains far out on the horizon.
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He does not, as some similar political figures do, deny that the Holocaust took place, but he can create a similar degree of offence by describing it as "a detail" of the last war.
Although the law enforcement agency does not offer public analysis of its figures, the high check rate occurs amid debate in Washington over new gun control measures mainly in response to December's school shooting in Connecticut.
Still, the company does business with many major retailers, which figures to fetch plenty of senders using UPS this Christmas season.
"I'm absolutely certain the administrator will go through the numbers and show everybody the figures, and I hope he does, " he said.
Even if there remains some dispute over the exact figures used, what the study does highlight is the importance of developing an integrated paradigm of production and recycling for algal fuel production, as I stressed before in the context of rare metals such as are required to maintain the electronics and solar power industries.
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Although it insists that it does not live quarter to quarter, senior figures from its previous incarnation as a partnership, when it naturally championed the long-term interests of its employees (the partners), argue that it would have been much more wary in those days of any deals that made a quick buck at the risk of alienating customers.
Neither of these figures bears much relation to reality and nor does the budget itself.
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