Sentences with phrase «in economic statistics»

In fact, a healthy mother - infant breastfeeding dyad is not counted in economic statistics of product and services (unlike black market drug dealing and prostitution, say).

Not exact matches

Statistics Canada provides high - quality economic data, but it takes longer than its peers in other countries.

In the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on FridaIn the U.K., economic growth slowed to a one - year low of 0.3 percent from 0.7 percent in the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Fridain the last three months of 2016, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.

With that in mind, Cramer's game plan focused on some key Federal Reserve speakers, important economic statistics, and next week's most monumental earnings reports.

Statistics Canada recently released this report on the underground economy in Canada — essentially an attempt to gauge the extent of «market - based economic activities, whether legal or illegal, that escape measurement because of their hidden, illegal or informal nature.»

In Italy, however, despite facing the same problem of a declining population — in 2014, only 509,000 live births were recorded, the lowest number since the unification of Italy in 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source of reluctancIn Italy, however, despite facing the same problem of a declining population — in 2014, only 509,000 live births were recorded, the lowest number since the unification of Italy in 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source of reluctancin 2014, only 509,000 live births were recorded, the lowest number since the unification of Italy in 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source of reluctancin 1861, according to the country's statistics agency, ISTAT — the broader economic backdrop is the source of reluctance.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

The release last week by Statistics Canada of their monthly January jobs report — which showed that Canada lost nearly 90,000 jobs in the first month of 2018 — will make for excellent fodder amongst critics of the federal government's approach to economic development.

Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed the consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February from a year ago, versus expectations of a 3.0 percent rise, while annual industrial production (IP) growth in January and February combined at 9.9 percent was the lowest since October 2012 - the starting point of China's nascent economic recovery.

Almost 340,000 individuals participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey and General Social Survey from 2009 to 2013, which permitted Statistics Canada to perform community - level measures of life satisfaction for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and 58 economic regions across the country.

The proliferation of data and advances in economic modelling and computing power prompted some economists to wonder if they really needed to wait on statistics agencies to calculate headline figures such as GDP and employment.

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

Most forecasters update their forecasts on a quarterly basis, following the release of the Canadian economic accounts by Statistics Canada (first quarter results published in May, second quarterly results in August, third quarter results in November and fourth quarter and preliminary estimate for year as a whole in February of the following year).

Statistics Canada confirmed this week that Canada has landed in a technical recession, two straight quarters of an economic dry spell.

At the same time, Mr. Cowen said, he now expects subtler improvements in the country's economic well - being that will not necessarily be reflected in statistics like gross domestic product, but will be significant nonetheless.

Statistics Canada has reported that economic growth has declined for four months in a row (January to April).

How the economy is shifting Statistics Canada's composite leading index measuring the economic outlook rose 0.9 per cent in May, which Credit Suisse likened this morning to the «Energizer Bunny.»

The uncertain state of the eurozone economy may become clearer on Wednesday when the European Union statistics office releases an estimate of its economic growth in the first quarter.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

Statistics Canada reported today that economic growth dropped to a bare 0.1 % in January.

«Since Canadian productivity performance is often compared to the productivity performance in the United States, the methodology behind the estimates for Canada should be comparable to the largest extent possible to that used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),» wrote (pdf) Wulong Gu, of StatsCan's Economic Analysis Division.

In «Revisions to Economic Statistics and Their...

In the early 1960s, Canadian economic historian Marvin McInnis started digging through the Dominion Bureau of Statistics archives, looking for city - level information on rental prices.

Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.

Another key difficulty in forecasting personal income tax revenues is that the taxable base is much broader than its underlying economic tax base, as measured by Statistics Canada.

In - year estimates of economic growth produced by Statistics Canada are based on partial survey data and related indicators.

«B.C. was the second - best province in Canada just six years ago for youth economic engagement, but now Statistics Canada says that one in 10 B.C. youth between the ages of 15 and 19 are not working or in school,» said New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby.

If you're a startup venture in Ontario or another Canadian province, you can use industry databases such as those offered by Statistics Canada, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis or Hoovers to help you quantify your market.

Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the RAND Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics, among others.

In order to create positive «optics,» the United States government consistently massages, manipulates and even totally misrepresents a wide variety of financial, economic and monetary statistics (such as GDP, unemployment, inflation, money supply, interest rates, retail sales and many others).

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

No compendium of social statistics is needed to see the vast disparities in economic advantage which separate the inner - city black poor from the rest of the nation.

According to statistics supplied by the Economic Policy Institute, a 25 - year - old male worker in 1953 or 1963 could expect to more than double his income over a period of ten years.

Their departments in the major universities of North America and Europe have failed, for the most part, to elucidate the concrete social situation behind the economic and political statistics.

Much of their economic activity never registers in official statistics.

Judged by the standard GNP statistics, the US per capita income had increased in real value by 25 per cent since 1976; but, using the ISEW, they found that over the same period the economic wellbeing of Americans had actually declined by 10 per cent.

Both politics and personality would be reinvested with a wholeness they have lost in countless ways: in Marx's economic determinism, in Nietzsche's nihilism, and in Dahl's socioeconomic statistics.

Measuring this market for modesty is tricky; the overall U.S. women - and - girls apparel market amounted to about $ 179 billion in 2015, according to Commerce Department statistics, and the modest fashion niche so far is just that — a niche so small it's not measured by government or commercial economic analysts, at least in America.

Statistical Tables: Economic and Social Statistics on the Countries and Territories of the World with Particular Reference to Children's Wellbeing, calculated births in industrialised nations as percentage of world births, figures for 2003.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

Available data from the Institute of Statistics, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) in March 2017 revealed that only 10 percent of graduates find jobs after their national service and it can take up to 10 years for a large number of graduates to secure employment.

He says statistics don't bode well for the economic future of the state, despite the dozens of economic development program promoted by the Cuomo administration in recent years.

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However — as is also the case with statistics reflecting wealth and economic growth — there is a pronounced disparity in the age profile between upstate and downstate areas.

In his speech, Astorino painted the opposite picture, saying the state remains dead last in the nation in many key economic statisticIn his speech, Astorino painted the opposite picture, saying the state remains dead last in the nation in many key economic statisticin the nation in many key economic statisticin many key economic statistics.

Since the state's economic recovery began in late 2009, we have added more than 500,000 private sector jobs,» said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics.

In the third quarter, the bureau will release 46 data ranging from socio - economic survey, social statistics, road transport, rail transportation data, and solid minerals and mining sector survey.

Because for most families in Britain today, such a declaration, on the back of a handful of economic statistics, will only confirm just how out of touch this government is.»

The number of jobs in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island jumped 6.4 percent from the end of 2013 through the middle of 2015, according to the statistics the NYC Economic Development Corporation is set to release today.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.