prudent to check to see if the figures took the inflationary
trends into account to tell you the actual value a figure in
one year might represent would actually be less than figures
which counted more value in lesser numbers of dollars in the
previous decade. 

Thus you would be wise to consult a table of Price Indices--
such as the file "price10.txt" released in 1993, before your
evaluation of such figures is complete. 

The same is true of population figures, which are going up a
certain amount every year, in a very similar manner to those
price index figures, only not quite as fast, in most cases. 

What Started This Report 

Very recently, there was a report issued on education, which
stated something on the order of people in the United States
are receiving 10% more of a certain level of education, than
they were a decade before.