Question pretext
Finally, we have a few questions about the recent results at your firm. All information that you give in this survey is completely confidential. If necessary, these may be answered by the accounting department.
Literal question
Please tell us the following for last month, and one year ago for the same month:
Average number of employees in the month
One year ago
Interviewer instructions
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