to explain trends in production and shipping, to follow and predict unemployment rates
Explanation:
An economist to describe the actual state of the economy tend to measure the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the data from the; past and present and then give their future predictions.
They use various statistical measures of data that help them in predicting the probability of the rise or fall in production or any other aspect like the job loss or the FDI and many aspects of the economy.
