Measuring national progress, NBS data, and scepticism
Recent reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have become a focal point of criticism and scepticism, especially by the political opposition and perpetual doubters of any positive report about our country. In its Q2 labour survey report, the NBS says the unemployment rate fell from 5.3 per cent in Q1 to 4.3 per cent in Q2. Compared to …