12-02-2009, 09:23 AM
Lux Interior wrote:
What about the difference in record keeping?
There are many ways to record these figures. I am reminded that Margaret Thatcher came to power here in the UK on the back of an advertising campaign highlighting the high unemployment at the time. (Famous advert showing a long line of people, supposedly unemployed, which turned out to be a long line of Saatchi and Saatchi employees). Within a couple of years the unemployment rate had doubled despite the fact that the Conservative government changed the way that the figures were recorded. In fact during their eighteen years the recording methods were changed seventeen times and each change resulted in a lower figure.
Paul