Such a bias treats statistics as truth, as opposed to just a mathematical method for describing reality.
This quarterly release in particular demonstrates the danger of looking to aggregate macroeconomic statistics as a guide for how an economy performs.
As a result, many people point to small-business statistics as a gauge of the impact of private companies, since many small businesses are private.
The government said it are particularly pleased with the statistics as breastfeeding has been proven to have significant health benefits for both mother and child.
Mr Allen said the study was based on flawed statistics as it included a tightly drawn boundary for Nottingham compared to other cities where suburbs and parkland were included.
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The second quarter represented one of the worst periods for bank earnings since 1991, according to the FDIC, which issued its statistics as part of a second-quarter banking report.
The Treasury just employ non Civil Servants to do the jobs and they do not show on the statistics as Civil Servants, and as most are agency staff they cost more!!
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Family gifts that finance the living expenses of a college student who otherwise appears in the statistics as a low income household are also not counted, again exaggerating income inequality, or at least differences in standard of living.
In a recent interview with the Times newspaper, Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and a leading authority on the U.S. economy, singled out the unemployment statistics as a key yardstick of the severity of the crisis.
It is far more powerful than other statistics such as increasing survival rates or declining incidence rates.
But this is a problematic way of analysing statistics, as several offences could be committed by one person.
Tuesday evening, some students wanted Mr. Weiner to continue with a statistics lecture as usual to take their minds off Ms. Lu's fate.
On Tuesday evening, some students wanted Mr. Weiner to continue on with the statistics lecture as usual to take their minds off Ms. Lu's fate.
When parked, owners can view a lifetime of information about the motorcycle and have access to compelling statistics such as how much gas money they have saved.
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Contrast that with this startling statistic from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: as of 2010, the average time an American worker stays at a job is less than four and a half years.
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Overcapacity in the economy and commodity-price inflation seem to be the guiding forces behind Friday's consumer price report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as CPI gained 0.5% almost exclusively due to higher energy prices.
In 1995, a review body submitted a ten-year action plan to the Management and Coordination Agency, which has overall responsibility for Japanese statistics (as well as, bizarrely, for traffic safety and the welfare of the elderly).
Since there are hundreds of bacon enthusiast websites and blogs online, and statistics such as between June 2008 and June 2009 there were more Web searches for "bacon" than "Barack Obama, " that would be a good bet, yes.
At the present moment, the ace of the Detroit Tigers leads all pitchers in Major League Baseball in the commonly accepted and easily understood statistics such as Wins (23), Strikeouts (238), Innings Pitched (226.1), and Walks Plus Hits Per Innings Pitched (.915).
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It is statistics such as these that are leading to louder and louder calls for a radical rethink of the underlying philosophy of biofuel use, and for a slowing or outright moratorium on biofuel production -- at least until ways can be found of ensuring that that production does not end up increasing the environmental damage it is seeking to obviate.
"We note that DWP issued these as a research report, not as official statistics, " Sir Michael writes, adding that the department's website refers to the research as "publication of ad-hoc statistics".
Some wounded, some people have received injuries, but there's no statistics on that as yet.
The guide also includes helpful phrases, key statistics (such as trip length, average spend) and general information (including preferred meal times).
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
As shocking as statistics like these may be, domestic violence remains a perennial national concern because unfortunately, breaking free from an abusive relationship can be tremendously difficult.
It grew at an annualised rate of 2.4% in the second quarter of this year, according to the Office of National Statistics, twice as fast as previously thought.
They publish detailed information on the number of warrant applications approved and refused, as well as statistics on the effectiveness of the operations in terms of arrests, prosecutions, convictions and cost.
It came as statistics published on Wednesday showed the service failed to meet the target of responding to 65% of the most urgent calls within eight minutes for the fourth successive month.
The study was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, which as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly uses telephone surveys as a source of information about public health trends.
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