our listeners about how you gather your data? Is your data all surveys, for example? Yes, it is. So what we do is we go to over 3,300 firms at a time. We release data eight times a year, although we've moved towards weekly data releases of late and we go to these thousands of firms and we ask them, how's your business doing? What are you seeing? How much you paying for capital? How often are you accessing it? What are you doing with your workforces? You're firing people, you're hiring people. What are the prices you're paying? What are the input costs that you're paying? The prices you're selling at? All different kinds of questions and then we put together a composite picture of a sub-sector and then from those sub-sectors, we put together a composite picture of the sector, so manufacturing, services, retail, property, commodities, agriculture, etc. And then from that, we put together a comprehensive national picture of the entire macro economy. So basically, we build up from many, (10/57)
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