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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, and tables and maps.

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

• Monthly Labor Review
• Estimating state and local employment in recent disasters – from Hurricane Harvey to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the NAICS 2022 redefinitions
• Benchmarking the Current Employment Statistics survey: the past, present, and future
• Diffusion indexes of state and metropolitan area employment changes
• 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

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