The phrase "collect figures" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you refer to amassing information or numerical data. For example, "The research team is busy collecting figures to support their hypothesis."
The number is a guess: Germany does not collect figures like this.
"We don't collect figures for how much money goes towards paying private school fees for four-year-olds.
Milton Keynes now has some of the "vibrancy" of multicultural London.On December 11th the latest batch of data from the 2011 census of England and Wales was published (Scotland and Northern Ireland collect figures separately).
Thomas Falus, who is president of Cushman & Wakefield's new ventures group, said the company decided last year to sell its database to a company formerly known as RELocate, and later as RealtyIQ, because the growing availability of third-party information made it unnecessary for it to continue to collect figures internally.
"We haven't been hearing any disaster stories, but it's hard to collect figures in great detail," said Lisa Maclean, executive director of the International Network of Street Papers, which is host to a conference on the future of these publications this month in Norway.
Failure to build mosques is not trouble-free, either: at one point thousands of Muslims were closing roads in Marseille and north-eastern Paris to hold Friday prayers in the open.The government has long refused to collect figures on ethnic origin, maintaining that all the country's inhabitants are French.
The DfT started collecting figures in 2005.
Nobody even collects figures for mould as a risk factor – separate from damp and leaks.
Young's staff were also collecting figures on the impact of detention on children.
It collects figures on the number of working days lost to strikes, but it does not count the strike ballot results or the turnout in those ballots.
The authority has started collecting figures for Northern Ireland and when these are included too, the total numbers of credit unions and members rise to 595 and 1.6 million.
