Sentence examples for statistical revisions from inspiring English sources

Statistical revisions always seem to bring good news, so some are sceptical.

Then statistical revisions suggested the country might not have had a double dip, let alone a triple one.

Weak productivity, he argues, is the consequence of Britain adapting to weak demand, not evidence of sapped supply.The debate may eventually be resolved by statistical revisions.

Although recent statistical revisions have ensured that America's personal saving rate is now positive rather than negative, it is still barely over 1% of disposable income.

Statistical revisions and some grim new figures have revealed a weaker-than-assumed recovery that has all but ground to a halt.

Using the most recent statistical revisions and Mr Kemp's research, The Economist has compiled a 27-year run of Scottish fiscal-balance figures to which a forecast for the next two years has been added (see chart).

Popular attention focused on the economically irrelevant statistical revision that abolished the "double dip recession".

Yet another statistical revision this week smashed a totemic government claim that most of the new jobs created since 1997 have gone to Britons: fewer than half have done.

In Mexico State, a statistical revision a year into Mr Peña's governorship in 2007 saw the murder rate fall by a startling 59%.

The numbers listed in Mr Peña's informe are indeed the official figures, but they make no mention of a statistical revision in 2007 which saw the murder rate halve overnight.

That makes it tempting to offer sneak peeks of the most flattering ones, as Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, did recently when she told El País, a Spanish newspaper, that a forthcoming statistical revision would raise economic growth in 2012 from 0.9% to a less weak 1.5%.