&gt; The unemployment numbers in the US comes to mind as such an example.<p>The unemployment numbers in the US are reported as such (ie: only reporting the number of people looking for jobs vs people employed) because they&#x27;ve been consistently reported like that since the late 1800s.<p>The &quot;real&quot; unemployment numbers are still taken from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cps&#x2F;</a><p>Every statistic you want is there.