Looking at that hole in the reports, my concern isn't the numbers but the fact that either the systems that are supposed to generate the reports or the people responsible for generating and releasing the reports are incapable of generating the expected reports.

Neither of those situations leaves me with a warm fuzzy snuggly feeling.

So which is it? With the pseudoresponse on NWN, the answer appears to be... option number three: the people responsible for generating and releasing the reports are unwilling to release the reports.

If the numbers aren't adequately or truthfully explaining what is really going on, then there must be numbers that do, right?

Fine. Release those in addition to the existing numbers so that a better picture of what's going on is described. (THEN spin them.)

-ls/cm