失敗 raises 失業 count

By JANE PADGHAM
Updated: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2001

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THERE were plenty of red 直面するs at 国家の 統計（学）, the 政府's number-crunching office, today after statisticians 認める that 失業 人物／姿／数字s for March 解放（する）d a fortnight ago were wrong.

The claimant count is now said to have dropped by 13,000 to 983,700 during the month, rather than the 5,500 以前 発表するd. The 人物／姿／数字 for February was also adjusted, to a 9,600 落ちる.

国家の 統計（学） 非難するd a '一時的な admi nistrative distortion' for the error, believed to have been the misnaming of a computer とじ込み／提出する.

A 広報担当者 said: 'It was やめる a small error, so we think it is probably a human, rather than a computer, error. We are 調査／捜査するing the exact 原因（となる）.' The office said it had '十分な 信用／信任' in the 正確 of the 訂正するd data and was taking 活動／戦闘 to 妨げる any 再発 of the problem.

In the past there have been errors in the 計算／見積り of 収入s-growth data, which resulted in the 改正 of 人物／姿／数字s for several months.