Corrections to Current Population Survey estimates for April 2025

Due to minor errors to weights associated with the introduction of a redesigned Current Population Survey (CPS) sample, some April 2025 estimates will be corrected on June 6, 2025. Major labor force measures, such as the unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, and employment–population ratio were unaffected. While corrections will be made to many estimates, the impact is negligible.

In April 2025, the CPS began to phase in a redesigned sample that is based on information from the 2020 Census. During the introduction of this new sample in April, a derived geographic variable used in the weighting process was miscoded, treating micropolitan areas like metropolitan areas, which led to misapplied noninterview weights for some cases.

See the list of series affected by this correction (XLSX), including the impact of the correction. CPS will provide corrected April 2025 data in our Labor Force Statistics (LN) database along with the initial publication of May data on June 6, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Several products that are updated with the publication of May 2025 data will also include corrected April data, including the interactive charts related to the Employment Situation news release, the statistical significance summary table, online monthly tables A-1 through A-12, and the labor force status flows by sex, recent months table. Telework tables for April 2025 (XLSX) will also be updated with the publication of May data on June 6. The April 2025 Employment Situation news release will not be updated to reflect the corrected household survey estimates.

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