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Here are the facts. As you state, the BBC staff interviews 3,000 individuals each day (once a day). Nielsen Radio-Television Index, on the other hand, uses Audimeters (automatic electronic recorders) installed in typical homes throughout the U.S. to obtain an accurate record of radio and TV listening from about 2,200 receivers used by some 1,600 families-amounting to more than 5,000 individuals...
...total annual expenditure for Nielsen Radio-TV Index services is about $2,600,000 -which compares with [the BBC] figure of approximately...
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that the cost of living index had risen another 0.5% in the month ending Sept. 15, it added a comforting note. The price of food, said BLS, went down 0.2%. But consumers, who have noticed no discernible drop in food prices, had reason to wonder: How accurate is the index? Last week, stocky, rumpled Ewan Clague, commissioner of Labor Statistics confessed that consumers have a point. The BLS index is out of plumb, and he has started to true...
There is a clause in the contract authorizing immediate opening of wage talks when the cost of living index reaches 165. That index, as figured by the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, stood at 163.6 on October 15, as compared with 163.2 on September 15 and 160 when the contract was signed...
...Industrial production in September pushed the Federal Reserve Board's index up five points to a peacetime peak of 213, highest since June...