“If they’re not capturing all the forms of work, then they’re not getting the full picture.”
“They rely very heavily on the official statistics and anything else they can gather to help them form a full picture of economic conditions, and so datathat is not very timely or very detailed can mean they are flying a little more blind than they’d like to be,” she said. “If they’re not capturing all the forms of work, then they’re not getting the full picture.”