Unfortunately all govt. bodies have been tampering with the economic indicators due to political pressure.

Small tweaks to macro-economic calculations, can turn into a huge divergence very fast. A one degree error in a compass read seems small...but after a thousand miles, your destination is history.

Tis reaching (or reached) a stage where mostly everyone is blind as to where the economy actually is.

Mega private companies now hire stat firms to run such studies in-house, ignoring gov data[1]

[1] https://rsmus.com/insights/economics/the-rise-of-private-lab...