Are statistical data facts?

In an article dated 02.11.2018 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the article “The Federal Statistical Office creates the facts for Swiss democracy. Then it makes a mistake” how statistical data were officially changed:
“The statistics on the expulsion of foreign criminals showed that the state had allegedly expelled only 54 percent of them – the figure suggested that the others had been classified as hardship traps and had therefore not been expelled from the country. The topic is explosive, so far the effect of the expulsion initiative could not be quantified. After the first indignation, the BfS recalculated: 69 percent. Then it deleted the statistics completely from the website.”
Are data complex so that they need to be reduced in complexity in order to be comprehensible? Are statistical data facts or are they interpretations? What interpretations do you agree on or are the interpretations fake news?
“Of course statistics are highly political,” says Ulrich (the director). Because what is measured and how is political, who is asked and what questions are asked. “There is no truth, one can only agree on what one wants to measure. How high is poverty? Education? The gross domestic product? You make politics with indicators because you have agreed on them. “But in the end, everyone looks for their own truth in the statistics, that has always been the case,” says Ulrich.
“The withdrawal of BfS’s deportation figures shows that it is always necessary to agree again on what the facts are and how they are created. But the Fake News calls have sown one doubt: that there is such a thing as facts, that there is anything at all that has been agreed upon in this country.”