It’s a cruel irony that when policy makers most need high quality data - in the midst of an economic crisis - they are least likely to have it.
New things happen to people [covid] and you have to collect data on them from scratch, developing new systems and standards.
Government measures to react to the crisis affect national accounts and labour market status, close markets for goods, confusing income, employment, unemployment, welfare and price data.
It's like a terrible fog descending just as the captain of the Titannic reaches the iceberg field.
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