Examples from
Metadata User Study
• Why are there so many numbers for
employment and unemployment?  Does it matter
which I use?
• The table lists mean and median income –
which number is right?
• I’ll use the seasonally unadjusted number,
because I just want one number, not a set for
each season of the year.
• The “E” means it’s an estimate – they don’t know
the real number.
• Can I compare a seasonally adjusted number to
an unadjusted number?