Given the fact that accessibility is better than the past, this figure shows other contributors have an impact on these figures.
This, in turn, may well have an impact on attendance figures throughout the league, both live and on TV.
And the company has inevitably said that programming changes put in place in recent weeks by programming chief Keith Pringle have yet to make an impact on the figures.
Dawson, however, steadfastly rejected the assertion that moving the Open to pay-TV would have a significant impact on participation figures.
Despite the snow and unusually cold weather in the first three months of the year, the ONS denied that the weather had had much impact on the figures.
A BBC spokesperson said: "Whenever big changes are made you would expect an impact on audience figures during the transition period.
Events abroad have a deep impact on these figures - in 2011, "based on telephone calls from boats in distress and reports from survivors and family members" UNHCR estimates that 1,500 individuals travelling from Libya to Europe died on the way.
Sarah Onyango, a senior adviser for service delivery at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, said continued increases in contraceptive use could have an impact on population figures, but the trend requires more detailed analysis.
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NPI undertook the study after the government refused to bring forward the publication of official data which would have shown the impact on poverty figures of the major welfare reforms introduced in 2013, and enabled the coalition's record to be properly scrutinised before the election.
