A quote from Sir Humphrey Appleby (Yes, Minister)that adorns the cover of the folder where I keep some stats I am forced to compile:
"If we do not send all the statistics, government figures will be a nonsense. They will be incomplete. Of course, government figures ara a nonsense anyway, but at least we can ensure they are a complete nonsense."
RtS (and of course these days whenever two or more figures are gathered together they have to be put into a bloody Excel spreadheet)