Official statistics tracker

A dated record of official statistics that were suspended, delayed, redefined, removed or resumed, rebuilt from archived versions of statistics office websites.

Coverage: 40 official sources in 30 countries
Period: 2015 to 2026, rebuilt from web archives
Event types: Suspension, delay, methodology change, removal, resumption
Evidence: An archived office page and an independent source for every event
Delivery: CSV and Parquet files

First release: 68 events in 17 countries. Suspensions 17, delays 22, methodology changes 21, resumptions 7, removals 1.

Sample events

Month	Country	Office	Type	What happened	Evidence
2017-08	Greece	ELSTAT	suspension	Flash estimate of quarterly GDP suspended. The Q2 and Q3 2017 flashes were never published.	Office page · Outside source
2016-02	South Africa	Stats SA	delay	Q4 2015 labour force survey moved to the day after the national Budget speech.	Office page · Outside source
2017-05	India	MOSPI	methodology change	Industrial production index moved to base year 2011-12, with a new item basket and weights.	Office page · Outside source
2018-11	China	Guangdong Dept. of Industry and IT	suspension	Provincial manufacturing PMI stopped at the national statistics bureau's request. Last reading: September 2018.	Office page · Outside source
2021-11	South Africa	Stats SA	suspension	Insolvency statistics stop after a cyber attack on the justice department's systems.	Office page · Outside source
2023-08	China	NBS	suspension	Youth unemployment rate (ages 16 to 24) suspended after the June reading of 21.3%.	Office page · Outside source
2023-09	Brazil	IBGE	delay	2022 Census results by age and sex postponed, with no new date.	Office page · Outside source
2024-08	Russia	Rosstat	suspension	Monthly production data for diesel fuel and gasoline suspended.	Office page · Outside source
2025-08	United States	BLS	suspension	About 350 detailed producer price indexes discontinued.	Office page
2025-11	United States	BLS	delay	September 2025 job openings release cancelled by the shutdown. The data came out 35 days late, with October's.	Office page · Outside source
2026-03	China	NBS	methodology change	Online retail sales renamed and widened to cover services.	Office page
2026-07	South Africa	Stats SA	resumption	Insolvency statistics resume as a standalone monthly release, back-filled to January 2023.	Office page · Outside source

Fields

event_id: Stable identifier
country, office: Who published the series
series: The statistic, as the office names it
event_type: One of the five types
event_month: When the change took effect
first_seen: Date of the first archive capture that shows it
office_evidence: Archived office page
outside_source: Independent confirmation
summary: What changed, in one paragraph

Used for

Sovereign and emerging-market credit: data quality as a country signal
Inflation-linked bonds and index-linked contracts: knowing when a reference series breaks
Macro research: clean breaks and redefinitions before running a model

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