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Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) conducts two surveys: the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey and the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS, which the Census Bureau ...
The Current Population Survey (CPS) [1] is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Employment Situation. [2]
Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1] [2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data reflects the actual unemployment rate, the seasonally adjusted data removes time from the equation. [3]
And beyond that, there is a unique, and likely temporary, issue with something called the Current Employment Statistics Net Birth-Death Model that has thrown off labor market data of late. This ...
The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a record high of 168.7 million civilians in September 2024. [1] In February 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there were 164.6 million civilians in the labor force. [2]
July’s unemployment rate, the most recent figure available, was 4.3%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That’s up from 3.5% a year ago.
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...
Key employment statistics and ratios for December 2018 Number of persons in U.S. labor force and number employed. The gap is the number unemployed, which peaked at 15.4 million in October 2009 and fell to 7.4 million by November 2016. [22] The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has defined the basic employment concepts as follows: [23]