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To be fair, 42% decrease in one bucket may not match 37% increase in another bucket in absolute numbers.

are they exclusionary terms?

What do you mean?

Are the buckets mutually exclusive?

Ok, so, are they? What of it?

then they don't need to add up to exact percent numbers

There are many reasons they wouldn't need to add up. Mutually exclusive is just one extreme.