The motive for providing less financial insight, they suspect, is to avoid issuing embarrassing numbers in the middle of a recession, numbers that can drive down a company's stock price.
Still, business travelers remain below pre-recession numbers.
Since 2008, technology employment in New York has grown roughly 40percentt, with financial and legal services coming in below pre-recession numbers.
In press conferences and interviews, automotive executives recounted how their companies had escaped the recession of 2008, announcing sales that had improved on last year's numbers; sales that had improved on their pre-recession numbers; and, in some cases, sales that had battered all-time best numbers.
Office vacancy rates are below pre-recession numbers.
Since the recession, the number of builders producing fewer than 30 units a year has declined by half, while the number of medium-sized builders has shrunk by almost two thirds.
In a recession, the number of discouraged workers goes up, Mr. Levitan said.
Despite the recession, a number of major buildings were constructed worldwide in 2010.
At the low point in the early 1980s recession, the number did not go below 83 percent.
In June 2009, the official end of the recession, that number was down to 59.4.
By 2014, after the Great Recession, the number had fallen, but only slightly, to ninety-one per cent.
