Even as we end the seasonally strong home buying period, the statistics are positive.
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National-level statistics from the period reported a roughly 7.5% annual increase in emissions, to 7.69 billion tonnes in 2010.
That works out to an average federal income tax bite of 17%--the lowest rate paid by the richest 400 during the 15-year period covered by the IRS statistics.
Unemployment in Scotland fell by 19, 000 to 204, 000 over the latest three-month period, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.
Least reassuring of all, the government continues to bang on about Heathrow's lack of capacity, apparently unaware that air-traffic projections made during the longest period of sustained economic growth since British statistics have been comprehensively collected might need to be updated.
Year-over-year job growth rose just 0.3% in July, down from about 0.6% growth in the year-earlier period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From the latest National Referral Mechanism statistics available for Scotland, in the period April 2009 until 10 February 2012, two hundred and twenty eight (228) referrals were made and of those one hundred and twenty six (126) actual cases were confirmed as victims of trafficking.
Recorded crime in the Dyfed-Powys Police force area fell by 3% over the same period, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
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The statistics bureau said growth in the July to September period of 2003 was 9.6%, not 9.1% as originally thought.
So why had Insidedivorce.com issued statements suggesting that "the statistics make grim reading for anyone believing Christmas is a period of harmony and goodwill"?
The bad weather does not bode well for Chinese inflation, as important agricultural products like cabbage and rape leaf prices have risen 16.1% and 18.2%, respectively, in the May 21 to May 30 period because of the drought, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The statistics bureau reported that electricity production for the two-month period increased 7.1% over the same period last year.
The most dangerous line of firefighting work, according to the agency's statistics, involves helicopters, where accidents killed 22 firefighters during the period.
Over the same period, industrial value-added was growing at a cracking 9%, said the statistics.
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Statistics showed the force had 982 incident calls compared with 643 for the same period in 2011-12.
The same Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 3.25 million new jobs have been created during the same period.
Sales during the important Christmas period in December fell by 10.7% from the same period last year, compared with November's 7.8% drop, the National Statistics Institute said.
California Democrat Barbara Boxer cited statistics showing that many more Americans died in gun violence in an 11-year period than died in the 11 years of the Vietnam War --- 395, 000 versus 58, 000.
The statistics were collected from over 61, 000 Mplayit Facebook users over a two-week period beginning at the start of February.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of layoff actions fell 29% from the same three-month period last year, and dropped 56% from the last quarter of 2012 when there were 2, 123 mass layoffs in the private sector.
Since 1990, clothing prices in the U.S. have risen just 10% compared with an 82% jump in food prices during the same period, according to Jessica Tenvose, an economist with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiles the Consumer Price Index.
Our job-growth metric, derived from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Moody's Economy.com estimates, analyzes the growth over a five-year period.
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