21st January 2009, 03:40 PM
Have to say I thought the questions were just right for surveying what has happened and allowed the results to be made available quickly.
Asking business owners if they think archaeological bussinesses will fail is in fact a good question. Nobody will say there business will fail and a question like this tells us that it is on people aggenda.
What was needed by managers is an overall figure on the down turn - quick. The IFA have delivered this.
As to what the figures actually mean that is something very different again.
As to tracking what people who have lost their job are doing in a meaningful way will be difficult if not impossible and would have taken too much time.
Lets us discuss what the figures actually mean and if the government increade in expenditure on infra structure will reverse these job losses.
Peter
Asking business owners if they think archaeological bussinesses will fail is in fact a good question. Nobody will say there business will fail and a question like this tells us that it is on people aggenda.
What was needed by managers is an overall figure on the down turn - quick. The IFA have delivered this.
As to what the figures actually mean that is something very different again.
As to tracking what people who have lost their job are doing in a meaningful way will be difficult if not impossible and would have taken too much time.
Lets us discuss what the figures actually mean and if the government increade in expenditure on infra structure will reverse these job losses.
Peter