What constitutes proof to you? A link to some page I found on google which shows the stat being used for something?

It is amazing how painfully immune to logic you are.

If you would simply look at the statement I have made countless times that you cannot use a cumulative statistic to make a year-to-year comparison, we would all be done a long time ago.

Responding to that statement by saying, "well a bunch of economists track it for SOMETHING, so you're wrong!" makes no sense whatsoever.

I refuse to try and talk about logic to someone who has demonstrated an utter lack of any understanding of it. Here is an intruduction to logic:

http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/

Read it and then we can talk.