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Absolutely cite any hard numbers you use. It's good practice and not nearly common enough, which means it should be encouraged. Given how quickly statistics become outdated, I would definitely cite...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T03:40:59Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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lea
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2019-12-08T03:40:59Z (over 4 years ago)
Absolutely cite any hard numbers you use. It's good practice and not nearly common enough, which means it should be encouraged. Given how quickly statistics become outdated, I would definitely cite at least the year of the study/article/whatnot. On Wikipedia some editors would include the date of publication and also _date accessed_, which is relevant to web sources. I don't think that's mandatory, though. Use it if you have reason to believe the source is likely to be edited, e.g. a blog post.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2014-08-12T06:50:40Z (over 9 years ago)
Original score: 3