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Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Employee Benefits in the United States for March 2020
This page provides further information on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for the March 2020 Employee Benefits in the United States news release.
Collection mode
Data for Employee Benefits in the United States are collected by BLS field economists contacting establishment respondents. Respondents may provide information through personal visits, phone, email, electronic file transmission, fax, and mail. Field economists discontinued personal visits in mid-March and relied on the other data collection methods.
Response rates
The response rate for collected benefits data was 95.9 percent for the March 2020 release.
Measures of reliability
To help users evaluate the reliability of estimates for Employee Benefits in the United States, standard errors are available for the news release (HTML) (PDF) (XLSX). All published estimates and standard errors are also available through the query tool and Excel dataset (XLSX).
Changes to methods
There were no changes to estimation methods for the March 2020 Employee Benefits in the United States news release. Benchmarking by industry was conducted using March 2020 (third closing) data from the Current Employment Statistics.
Last Modified Date: September 24, 2020
