The Household Survey is used to calculate the various employment and unemployment indexes and rates.
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The biggest issue with the Household Survey is the seasonal adjustment (SA) process itself.
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During the 8 months prior to QE2, total employment (BLS Household Survey) increased by 420, 000.
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The latest national household survey, due out in August, is expected to show little improvement.
The household survey contacts about 60, 000 individual households to find out how many Americans are working.
The household survey showed that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.8 percent in December.
The household survey showed that the unemployment rate declined from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent in August.
Meanwhile, the household survey used to calculate the unemployment rate claims more than 2.6 million additional workers.
The private sector (aka the household survey) showed gains of 222K jobs, which again was above the estimates.
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The private sector (aka the household survey) showed gains of 268K jobs, which again was above the estimates.
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This stability reflects roughly proportional rises in the labor force and employment, as measured by the household survey.
However, household survey data reveal even further inequities based on the geographic location and household wealth of students.
Those tend to get captured under the household survey, which shows even higher employment growth over the past year.
The household survey showed that the unemployment rate was 7.9 percent in January, up from 7.8 percent in December.
The household survey determines the jobless rate, so the huge one-month leap accounts for the September decline to 7.8%.
Because of its small size, the household survey tends to be highly volatile.
The unemployment number comes from a household survey, where people report on whether they are working or looking for work.
The Obama Administration, and its party controlled media allies, totally ignored the Household Survey as too unreliable in those months.
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The reported, supposed, spurt of 873, 000 new jobs in the September Household Survey is anomalous and dubious for several reasons.
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Other indicators of economic well-being support the notion that the household survey paints a more accurate picture of the labor market.
The poverty numbers are derived from a household survey, known as Casen, conducted by the government every two or three years.
The BLS draws its teen unemployment numbers from the same data pool that supplies the adult unemployment number, the so-called household survey.
This view is based on the household survey, he said, which showed employment of private sector wage and salary workers rose 319, 000.
The household survey is a survey, mostly by phone, of about 60, 000 households, whose members answer several questions to determine their employment status.
The impact of economic policies shows up fastest in the employment numbers (household survey) that the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes every month.
In a single month, the U.S. economy moved 559, 000 jobs further away from full employment (all jobs numbers based upon the BLS Household Survey).
The household survey showed that the unemployment rate declined from 7.9 percent in October to 7.7 percent in November, the lowest since December 2008.
The sample is about one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees in the U.S., and, as such, it is much less volatile than the Household Survey.
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All of this seems to be in direct conflict with a SA increase of 873, 000 jobs in September (Household Survey), the largest increase since 1983.
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