30th July 2010, 06:18 PM
No I guess? Absolutely, agree it will be skewed, nature of it, and certainly not priority number one for a business, even for mega RAOs wherever they are based. And another problem being how you interpret all those "trends" in relation to the reality of living: what price index, those goalposts are (conveniently?) moving again. But reckon it's got to be a slightly better measure of business confidence than simplistic job loss/gain with no further comment. Appreciate a bit more "so this is where we go from here" and "how we interpret this" thoughts from IFA about the job losses. And if it shows up that the big beasts feel confident, then that's not so bad, there's clearly a surfeit in the offing, if they don't, then...well. Can not this information, even at the sketchiest level (and clearly stripped of confidential information), be provided from all whether registered or not, with some investigation by market research people perhaps brought in by the IFA for this purpose? Or could they do that inhouse if confidentiality is the problem? Or is it to hand already?