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BLS Handbook of Methods

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  • Handbook Contents
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Employment and Unemployment Statistics
    • Chapter 1. Labor force data derived from the Current Population Survey
    • Chapter 2. Employment, hours, and earnings from the establishment survey
    • Chapter 3. Occupational employment statistics
    • Chapter 4. Measurement of unemployment in States and local areas
    • Chapter 5. Employment and wages covered by unemployment insurance
    • Chapter 6. Mass layoff statistics
    • Chapter 7. National longitudinal surveys
  • Compensation and Working Conditions
    • Chapter 8. National compensation measures
  • Occupational Safety and Health
    • Chapter 9. Occupational safety and health statistics
  • Productivity and Technology
    • Chapter 10. Productivity measures: Business sector and major subsectors
    • Chapter 11. Industry productivity measures
    • Chapter 12. Foreign labor statistics
  • Economic Growth and Employment Projections
    • Chapter 13. Economic growth and employment projections
  • Prices and Living Conditions
    • Chapter 14. Producer prices
    • Chapter 15. International price indexes
    • Chapter 16. Consumer expenditures and income
    • Chapter 17. Consumer price index
In This Chapter

In Chapter 1.
Labor force data derived from the Current Population Survey

Background
Description of the Survey
Concepts
Recent changes to the Survey
Changes introduced in 2003
Sampling
Collection methods
Estimation methods
Seasonal adjustment
Presentations and uses
Limitations of the data
Technical references

 

Last Modified Date: April 17, 2003

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