On a month-to-month or quarter-to-quarter basis the surveys are not good at telling us what the ONS will come up with - even if they do tell us which direction the wind is blowing.
By showing how the problem varies across different occupations, age groups and regions, the ONS has told us a lot of interesting things that we didn't know.
It turns out that it was revised away by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the day after the Budget, when all of us were thinking about other things.