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Japan Delays Feb Wages Data Release To Fix Sampling Mismatch
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has delayed Tuesday's release of February wages data at least for a few days to fix an error found in the statistical revision of the most recent and historical data, a ministry official said. "We found a mismatch between the indexes and their year-on-year changes when we tried to smooth out the gap in data between the new sample of surveyed firms and the previous one," he said. "We are still looking into what caused it - whether it was a human error or a computer program glitch." The ministry has not set the new release date for preliminary February and revised January ... (full story)