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Handbook of Methods Current Employment Statistics - State and Metro Area More Info

Current Employment Statistics - State and Metro Area: More Info

The Current Employment Statistics-State and Area (CES-SA) website contains information for survey participants and provides general information about the purpose of the survey, frequently asked questions, report forms, technical notes, notices, interactive charts, tables and maps.

CES-SA estimates and publications are available through the following links:

• Monthly Labor Review
• Recent changes in the State and Metropolitan Area CES survey
• Hurricane Katrina’s effects on industry employment and wages
• Impact of business births and deaths in the payroll survey
• All-employee hours and earnings for States and metropolitan areas
• Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the 2010 OMB metropolitan area delineations
• The Economics Daily
• Database query tool
• News releases
• Latest numbers
• Statistical research papers
• Outlier detection and treatment in the Current Employment Statistics survey
• Concurrent seasonal adjustment of state and metro payroll employment series
• Construction and assessment of generalized variance functions for an establishment survey
• Bayesian nonparametric joint model for point estimates and variances
• Historical reconstruction of employment time series for Metropolitan Areas in the Current Employment Statistics program
• Other
• Jeffrey Groen, “Sources of error in survey and administrative data: the importance of reporting procedures,” Journal of Official Statistics, no. 28, (June 2012), pp. 173–98.

Additional information is available on the CES-SA website:

• Benchmarking
• Seasonal adjustment
• Technical notes
• Additional resources

Contact us:

Email: Use the online form to submit an inquiry by email.

CES-SA Data Line: (202) 691-6559 (Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Eastern time).

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services or the information voice phone at: (202) 691-5200. 

Write us at:

Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics State and Area program
2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Suite 4840
Washington, DC 20212-0001