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Other studies have consistently shown rising rates of prevalence with each successive generation, and it is argued that, if older statistics were faulty, they erred on the side of underestimating the spread of mental illness.
And, while calculating the size of the financial sector is extremely difficult due to its opaqueness and complexity, official US statistics indicate that financial firms accounted for roughly one-third of American corporate profits in 2006.
Their behaviors are what matters, and they cannot be adequately perceived from the distant perspective of economic models and statistics, but only on the ground – where an economy is built, where it breaks, and where it must be fixed.
Economic statistics would record this as highly productive – until, of course, the company runs out of stock.
Mexico is consumed by its failed drug war, which has cost more than 25,000 lives and, according to just published US government statistics, has deterred Colombian cocaine traffickers, but has fostered dramatic increases in Mexican production of heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines.
To add insult to injury, since May the central bank has defaulted on its obligation to publish inflation and other statistics.
Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.
But more accurate government statistics imply that the real incomes of those at the middle of the income distribution have increased about 50% since 1980.
In Russia, Poland, and Hungary, which have the most comparable statistics, crime roughly doubled from 1988 to 1993.
But these statistics don’t tell the real story.
More than 40 governments worldwide have committed to opening up their electronic data – including weather records, crime statistics, transport information, and much more – to businesses, consumers, and the general public.
In fact, statistics on past stock market performance mislead because of what statisticians call “selection bias,” which occurs when the sample from which a statistic is derived is not representative of all the data.
The Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, convened in 2008 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reflected the public’s hunger for more accurate statistics and metrics that matter.
But those compromises are like statistics or skimpy swimsuits: what they show is less important than what they hide.
Reliable statistics are not yet available, but poverty in Europe’s south is increasing for the first time in decades.
One way to reconcile the changes in the job market with our lived experience and statistics like these is to note that much of what we are producing is very different from what we have made in the past.
The result is an ever-growing discrepancy between what people would be willing to pay for a given service and growth as measured in national statistics.
But if these stunning economic statistics make you think that so much capitalist development must also have brought more democracy to China, think again.
There are no comparable statistics or verdicts for the ECB, but I would be surprised if the results were any different.
People relate much more readily to a friend dying of cancer than they do to statistics about strangers suffering from the consequences of testing.
Race and RepublicanismRace has always been a provocative subject when the needs of science and statistics intersect with politics.
Now that debate is once again heating up in France, as the planned introduction of “ethnic statistics” has caused a fierce dispute that touches the very heart of French republicanism.
Existing public statistics, it is believed, do not provide enough relevant information to analyze the possibility of discrimination in employment or housing.
After all, without appropriate statistics, it is difficult to prove discrimination.
Supporters of gathering statistics on race and religion also look to the experiences of the United States, Britain, or the Netherlands, where census takers are free to inquire about ethnic origins and a citizen’s sense of belonging.
In Britain, the concern about social promotion of minorities led to the introduction in 1991 of statistics that indicate ethnic status.
Statistics are not only a reflection of reality: they help to shape it.
In view of the risk of inciting fresh antagonism, gathering racial, religious, and ethnic statistics may not be worth it.
Official statistics suggest that overall labor-force participation declined between 2011 and 2015, with fewer than two million new jobs created annually.
Current government statistics that rely on quarterly surveys do not provide a complete picture of what is happening nationwide.
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