From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcomparative figures/datacomparative figures/datacomparative figures etc are similar to other figures, so that you can make a comparison Comparative figures for last year clearly show how sales have declined. → comparative
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comparative figures/data• The comparative figures for 1991 were 25 and 19 respectively.• Whichever option societies take, comparative figures for the new disclosures will be required.• Inspection of the comparative figures is both instructive and startling.• The most reliable of these comparative data measure voting in national elections.• The comparative figures one year later of 14% and 10.9% are still worrying.• Comparative figures Prior year comparative figures have been restated to conform to the current year's presentation where appropriate.• I do not want the comparative figures to be distorted.• Significance levels for comparative data were determined by the Wilcoxon signed rank test. 