51.   Official statistics in China are notoriously incomplete, and economists often despair at trying to make sense of the abundance of contradictory economic signs here.

52.   Official statistics are unavailable.

53.   Official statistics on child-abuse deaths vastly understate the problem, according to a North Carolina study.

54.   Official statistics show that both lending and investment have jumped, but there is no way to sort out how that money is being spent, and how soundly.

55.   Official GDP statistics are due to be released tomorrow.

56.   On other occasions, official statistics are evidently provided for entertainment purposes - a necessary diversion since the game halls closed.

57.   Official statistics are expected next week.

58.   Only the state Department of Revenue keeps even a hint of official statistics on custody, and it accounts for only parents who pay child support through the agency.

59.   Sacks were not an official statistic when his father played, but it is safe to say that Archie took a beating in New Orleans.

60.   Should we smugly assume that the official statistics understate economic progress, that the New Economy is speeding us to a new age of economic bliss?