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July 2005

Evaluating BLS labor force, employment, and occupation projections for 2000

H.O. Stekler, Rupin Thomas

In 1989, BLS first projected estimates for the year 2000 of the labor force, employment, and occupations; in most cases, the accuracy of BLS projections were comparable to estimates from naïve extrapolated models.

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