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December 2002

Is the ECI sensitive to the method of aggregation? an update

Michael K. Lettau, Mark A. Loewenstein, Steven P. Paben

A previous Monthly Labor Review article by the first two authors indicated that the ECI is relatively insensitive to the choice of aggregation formula used in its construction; data from 1995 to 2002 show that this is still the case.

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