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Quarterly estimates of hours worked before and after revision

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The title of the graph is "Impact of revisions to the volume of hours worked in the business sector by quarter."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 126 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 50 and ends at 120 with ticks every 20 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "2007 = 100."
The units of the horizontal axis are quarters by year ranging from (quarters) first quarter 1981 to (quarters) second quarter 2012.
The title of series 1 is "Before revision."
The minimum value is 63.491 occurring in fourth quarter 1982.
The maximum value is 101.347 occurring in fourth quarter 2007.
The title of series 2 is "After revision."
The minimum value is 63.422 occurring in first quarter 1983.
The maximum value is 101.341 occurring in third quarter 2008.

Impact of revisions to the volume of hours worked in the business sector by quarter, 2007 = 100
  Before revision After revision
first quarter 1981 69.117 69.360
second quarter 1981 69.636 69.776
third quarter 1981 69.495 69.606
fourth quarter 1981 68.707 68.588
first quarter 1982 67.650 67.624
second quarter 1982 65.583 65.626
third quarter 1982 63.946 64.009
fourth quarter 1982 63.491 63.453
first quarter 1983 63.566 63.422
second quarter 1983 64.848 64.935
third quarter 1983 65.907 66.009
fourth quarter 1983 65.930 66.025
first quarter 1984 66.215 66.214
second quarter 1984 67.030 67.102
third quarter 1984 67.853 67.923
fourth quarter 1984 68.427 68.644
first quarter 1985 69.214 69.209
second quarter 1985 69.465 69.811
third quarter 1985 70.585 70.735
fourth quarter 1985 71.647 71.920
first quarter 1986 72.530 72.641
second quarter 1986 72.560 72.811
third quarter 1986 72.410 72.631
fourth quarter 1986 73.276 73.396
first quarter 1987 73.819 74.128
second quarter 1987 75.088 75.224
third quarter 1987 75.967 76.191
fourth quarter 1987 76.872 77.006
first quarter 1988 77.201 77.534
second quarter 1988 78.336 78.477
third quarter 1988 78.185 78.466
fourth quarter 1988 78.656 78.823
first quarter 1989 79.165 79.307
second quarter 1989 79.676 79.626
third quarter 1989 80.200 80.428
fourth quarter 1989 79.840 79.978
first quarter 1990 80.277 80.352
second quarter 1990 80.021 79.988
third quarter 1990 79.700 79.794
fourth quarter 1990 78.523 78.490
first quarter 1991 76.811 76.707
second quarter 1991 76.479 76.466
third quarter 1991 76.407 76.322
fourth quarter 1991 75.929 75.914
first quarter 1992 75.479 75.328
second quarter 1992 75.145 74.950
third quarter 1992 74.828 74.476
fourth quarter 1992 74.956 74.817
first quarter 1993 75.312 75.191
second quarter 1993 75.704 75.432
third quarter 1993 75.935 75.504
fourth quarter 1993 76.591 76.363
first quarter 1994 76.733 76.423
second quarter 1994 77.944 77.586
third quarter 1994 79.140 78.894
fourth quarter 1994 79.828 79.734
first quarter 1995 79.868 79.650
second quarter 1995 79.722 79.462
third quarter 1995 80.075 79.847
fourth quarter 1995 80.485 80.011
first quarter 1996 81.650 80.996
second quarter 1996 82.060 81.468
third quarter 1996 82.746 82.312
fourth quarter 1996 82.519 82.390
first quarter 1997 82.346 82.789
second quarter 1997 83.266 83.379
third quarter 1997 85.068 84.685
fourth quarter 1997 85.167 85.448
first quarter 1998 85.199 85.141
second quarter 1998 85.810 85.662
third quarter 1998 86.746 86.321
fourth quarter 1998 87.002 87.026
first quarter 1999 87.408 87.455
second quarter 1999 88.346 88.518
third quarter 1999 88.933 88.641
fourth quarter 1999 89.793 90.038
first quarter 2000 90.064 90.213
second quarter 2000 90.277 90.633
third quarter 2000 90.900 90.672
fourth quarter 2000 91.611 91.630
first quarter 2001 91.608 91.668
second quarter 2001 91.310 91.128
third quarter 2001 90.802 90.488
fourth quarter 2001 90.275 89.769
first quarter 2002 90.980 90.983
second quarter 2002 91.914 91.861
third quarter 2002 92.376 92.379
fourth quarter 2002 92.624 92.752
first quarter 2003 93.263 93.145
second quarter 2003 92.350 91.880
third quarter 2003 93.343 93.505
fourth quarter 2003 93.997 94.170
first quarter 2004 95.425 95.263
second quarter 2004 95.951 95.933
third quarter 2004 96.303 96.371
fourth quarter 2004 96.425 96.592
first quarter 2005 96.449 96.343
second quarter 2005 96.684 96.791
third quarter 2005 96.660 96.997
fourth quarter 2005 96.416 96.945
first quarter 2006 97.023 97.277
second quarter 2006 98.062 98.118
third quarter 2006 98.179 98.481
fourth quarter 2006 98.323 98.312
first quarter 2007 98.582 98.696
second quarter 2007 99.575 99.856
third quarter 2007 100.496 100.436
fourth quarter 2007 101.347 101.012
first quarter 2008 101.160 101.126
second quarter 2008 100.892 101.254
third quarter 2008 100.656 101.341
fourth quarter 2008 99.342 99.832
first quarter 2009 96.850 96.699
second quarter 2009 95.467 95.347
third quarter 2009 95.734 95.920
fourth quarter 2009 96.050 96.253
first quarter 2010 96.884 96.698
second quarter 2010 98.085 98.076
third quarter 2010 97.872 97.782
fourth quarter 2010 98.601 98.605
first quarter 2011 98.962 98.648
second quarter 2011 99.480 99.016
third quarter 2011 100.163 99.931
fourth quarter 2011 99.916 99.669
first quarter 2012 100.367 99.753
second quarter 2012 101.281 100.837
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