The State Statistical Bureau has forecast 8.7% average yearly GDP growth for the rest of the decade, with 8%-to-9% inflation.

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Approvals fell 1.5% in December from November, the statistical bureau said.

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Ireland's unemployment rate remained stable compared with a year ago, at 14.2%, according to the report from the European Union's Eurostat statistical bureau.

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Zhang Xinmin, an agricultural official with the State Statistical Bureau, argues that dependence on foreign suppliers would impose a burden on the Chinese government and the world market.

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The CDC regularly collects and distributes reports on deaths and injuries for different areas of the country, areas identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or MSAs.

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Among all of the Census Bureau's 366 metropolitan statistical areas collections of cities or counties that are economically tied to an urban core with at least 50, 000 people personal income declined in 223 areas in 2009.

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During the current budget year, the Census Bureau, under orders from Congress, has scattered a unit called Statistical Compendia Branch.

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To determine this list, we looked at the 25 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas, as ranked by 2000 population by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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The Census Bureau thinks the only way to improve the numbers is to make more use of statistical sampling methods.

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