The growing popularity of online crime maps is encouraging homeowners to turn a blind eye, raising concerns that the maps are distorting official crime statistics.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Foreign student numbers should be removed from officialstatistics on net migration.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
How do you get economic policy right if the officialstatistics are wonky?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Definition of 'statistic'
statistic
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countable noun [usually plural]
Statistics are facts which are obtained from analysing information expressed in numbers, for example information about the number of times that something happens.