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Governments stop statistics. Banks change rates and overwrite the page. Agencies post a report and take it down. We rebuild these records from archived web pages, with a date and a source on every row.

SuspensionDelayMethodology changeRemovalResumption201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026United States2017-10 · United States · suspension · Puerto Rico labor force and unemployment estimates (LAUS, seasonally adjusted); in parallel, U.S. Virgin Islan2020-05 · United States · methodology change · Current Employment Statistics (CES) nonfarm payroll employment: establishment survey birth-death model (nation2020-07 · United States · resumption · Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) labor force and unemployment estimates for Puerto Rico2022-10 · United States · suspension · Puerto Rico labour force and unemployment estimates (LAUS), seasonally adjusted; the not seasonally adjusted S2022-11 · United States · suspension · Employment Situation news release, Supplemental Data section (CPS COVID-19 pandemic measures: telework because2023-03 · United States · delay · Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2022 estimates2023-11 · United States · methodology change · Consumer Price Index, health insurance index (retained-earnings method)2025-01 · United States · removal · Federal datasets and web pages taken offline (data.cdc.gov portal; YRBS gender columns and documentation)2025-02 · United States · suspension · Consumer Price Index sub-national energy indexes (electricity, utility piped gas, energy services, fuels and u2025-04 · United States · methodology change · Consumer Price Index: price collection sample2025-08 · United States · methodology change · Consumer Price Index, wireless telephone services index2025-08 · United States · suspension · Producer Price Index, selected detailed indexes (discontinued)2025-10 · United States · delay · Consumer Price Index, reference month 2025-092025-10 · United States · suspension · State Employment and Unemployment (LAUS state unemployment rates and state CES payroll jobs), September 2025 d2025-10 · United States · suspension · Producer Price Index (PPI), September 2025 data2025-11 · United States · delay · Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), September 20252025-11 · United States · delay · Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses (Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses), annual 2022025-12 · United States · delay · State Employment and Unemployment (LAUS state unemployment rates and state CES payroll jobs), November 2025 da2025-12 · United States · delay · Producer Price Index (PPI), November 2025 data (October 2025 data published with it)2025-12 · United States · delay · Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024 data2026-01 · United States · delay · Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers, Fourth Quarter 2025 (quarterly CPS earnings estimates)South Africa2016-02 · South Africa · delay · Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), Q4 2015 (unemployment and labour force)2019-10 · South Africa · methodology change · Victims of crime statistics (P0341): Victims of Crime Survey (VOCS) redesigned into the Governance, Public Saf2020-04 · South Africa · delay · Gross domestic product: quarterly release (Q1 2020) and the benchmarked and rebased national accounts estimate2021-04 · South Africa · delay · Population Census 2022 (originally Census 2021)2021-11 · South Africa · suspension · Insolvencies of individuals and partnerships (insolvency component of P0043 Statistics of liquidations and ins2022-02 · South Africa · delay · Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS, P0211), Q4 20212025-11 · South Africa · methodology change · Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS): informal/formal sector and informal employment estimates, labour underut2026-07 · South Africa · resumption · Statistics of insolvencies (P0043.2), previously the insolvency part of Statistics of liquidations and insolveChina2015-01 · China · methodology change · Urban and rural per capita disposable income (integrated urban-rural household survey)2018-11 · China · suspension · Guangdong provincial manufacturing PMI (compiled by the Guangdong Department of Industry and Information Techn2023-08 · China · suspension · Urban surveyed unemployment rate by age group (16 to 24 youth rate)2024-01 · China · resumption · Unemployment rate, ages 16 to 24 excluding students (new definition); 25 to 29 added2026-03 · China · methodology change · Online retail sales, renamed online retail sales of goods and services (coverage expanded); physical-goods onl2026-03 · China · methodology change · Infrastructure investment (fixed asset investment component)Greece2017-08 · Greece · suspension · Quarterly National Accounts flash estimate of GDP (t+45)2021-04 · Greece · delay · Labour Force Survey, monthly (employment and unemployment), January 20212021-12 · Greece · delay · Census of Merchant Ships and Crews (reference date 20 September 2020), biennial2025-07 · Greece · delay · Labour Force Survey (monthly estimates), reference month 2025-06 (publication SJO02, 'Labour force (Monthly da2026-04 · Greece · delay · External trade in goods (Commercial Transactions of Greece), February 2026India2015-01 · India · methodology change · National Accounts Statistics / GDP: new series, base year 2011-12 (replacing base 2004-05)2017-05 · India · methodology change · All-India Index of Industrial Production (IIP)2019-11 · India · delay · Household Consumer Expenditure Survey 2017-18 (all-India results)2020-03 · India · delay · Census of India 2021 (decennial population census): Phase I Houselisting and Housing Census fieldwork, schedul2025-05 · India · methodology change · Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS): Quarterly Bulletin (CWS, urban only up to the quarter ending 2024-12) andSri Lanka2015-07 · Sri Lanka · methodology change · National Accounts / GDP estimates (base year changed from 2002 to 2010, SNA 2008 adopted)2017-01 · Sri Lanka · methodology change · Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI), rebased from 2006/07=100 to 2013=1002020-06 · Sri Lanka · delay · National Accounts Estimates of Sri Lanka: quarterly GDP (production approach, constant 2010 prices), reference2023-02 · Sri Lanka · methodology change · Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) and CCPI headline inflationArgentina2016-01 · Argentina · suspension · CPI and other main indicators2016-09 · Argentina · resumption · Incidencia de la pobreza y de la indigencia en 31 aglomerados urbanos (EPH poverty and indigence rates; semian2017-10 · Argentina · resumption · Synthetic Indicator of Public Services (ISSP), monthlyBrazil2020-03 · Brazil · delay · 2020 Population Census (Censo Demográfico)2021-04 · Brazil · delay · Population Census (Demographic Census, 2021 round; carried out as the 2022 Census)2023-09 · Brazil · delay · 2022 Population Census: results by age and sexRussia2022-04 · Russia · suspension · Foreign trade statistics (imports and exports by country and commodity)2023-04 · Russia · suspension · Production of crude oil including gas condensate (oil-gas-water mix, dehydrated crude, unstable gas condensate2024-08 · Russia · suspension · Monthly production of diesel fuel, straight-run gasoline, heating fuel oil (mazut), liquefied propane and butaNigeria2023-08 · Nigeria · methodology change · Nigeria Labour Force Survey (NLFS): unemployment rate and related labour force indicators (first new-methodolo2025-02 · Nigeria · methodology change · Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report: headline, food and core indices (rebased, 2024=100)Pakistan2019-09 · Pakistan · methodology change · Consumer Price Index (CPI) monthly press release: headline National CPI on base 2015-16=100 (Urban CPI 35 citi2025-11 · Pakistan · resumption · Labour Force Survey (LFS), annual report, 2024-25 round (previous round 2020-21)Bolivia2023-07 · Bolivia · resumption · Reservas Internacionales Netas (RIN), net international reserves balance (weekly until 2023-02; four-monthly fJapan2018-03 · Japan · methodology change · Family Income and Expenditure Survey (household spending): year-on-year changes and contributions, after the 2Mexico2017-08 · Mexico · methodology change · National Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH), New Series (from the 2016 round)Poland2021-06 · Poland · methodology change · Labour Force Survey (BAEL): employment, unemployment and economic activity (Statistical Bulletin tables 15-17)Venezuela2016-03 · Venezuela · suspension · National CPI (INPC) and GDPZimbabwe2019-08 · Zimbabwe · suspension · Consumer Price Index: year-on-year (annual) inflation rate (the month-on-month rate continued)

Each dot is a dated change to an official statistic: suspended, delayed, redefined, removed or resumed. 68 events in 17 countries, 2015 to 2026, from the first release of the statistics tracker. Hover for details.

Datasets

Why it matters

Bonds

US October 2025 CPI was never published. Treasury set the index for inflation-protected bonds with its fallback rule, for the first time since TIPS began in 1997.

Contracts

Price escalation clauses cite producer price indexes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics discontinued about 350 of them in August 2025.

Forecasts

China suspended its youth unemployment rate in August 2023, after it reached 21.3%, then brought it back in January 2024 with students excluded.

How we build it

  1. Pull

    Every archived capture of the source sites: statistics offices, bank rate pages, government portals.

  2. Read

    Language models read each version and flag what changed between captures.

  3. Check

    Two independent model reviewers code each change and a third settles disagreements. Each event is confirmed against an outside source.

  4. Deliver

    Point-in-time files in which every row links to the archived page it came from.

Validation

17 of 22

known events recovered, from a list fixed before the pipeline ran

47

further events found, each confirmed by an outside source

87%

agreement between two independent model reviewers on 100 cases

7 of 7

first 2022 deposit rate rises dated as in news reports

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