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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)

CES Registry Receipts by Release

BLS tracks collection rates for the CES sample on a monthly basis for each release of estimates. Collection rates are defined as the percent of reports received for a monthly estimate compared to the total number of actively-reporting sample units on the sample registry.
Much of the month-to-month variation in the first preliminary collection rates is a function of the number of collection days in the individual months. The overall upward trend over time is attributable to replacing decentralized mail collection with automated techniques.

For more information on registry receipts, see www.bls.gov/opub/hom/ces/data.htm#data-collection.

Registry Receipts, by Month and by Release
First preliminary release

Year

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual Average

1981

34.9 37.0 41.9 48.3 41.0 33.5 43.9 40.6 35.5 42.5 35.6 40.4 39.6

1982

36.2 38.2 42.6 49.9 46.5 44.1 46.1 45.7 51.8 47.9 41.2 45.3 44.6

1983

41.8 31.4 45.7 53.1 46.0 49.9 48.7 45.9 48.6 50.1 39.0 40.5 45.0

1984

41.0 52.7 52.9 48.8 41.8 46.4 45.1 46.7 46.2 46.0 49.1 45.0 46.8

1985

34.3 48.0 51.7 48.5 54.1 45.2 45.9 49.4 48.9 45.8 47.2 48.6 47.3

1986

48.0 48.4 49.7 46.7 50.4 45.6 43.9 46.2 45.4 51.9 46.9 51.9 47.9

1987

37.9 45.7 48.8 55.2 50.6 43.9 55.3 50.6 46.3 53.8 46.4 52.3 48.9

1988

44.3 45.5 47.4 55.2 49.3 55.3 50.4 49.5 55.5 52.7 42.8 44.5 49.4

1989

41.3 54.8 57.0 52.7 47.4 52.4 53.7 47.9 56.3 53.7 55.6 42.7 51.3

1990

43.5 56.3 56.9 54.3 47.1 53.9 52.1 55.7 55.8 51.7 54.8 44.6 52.2

1991

42.6 56.4 55.9 52.6 58.8 53.0 50.5 54.6 55.7 50.8 55.0 61.7 54.0

1992

53.1 55.6 57.1 63.4 57.8 51.0 61.9 56.9 52.8 60.9 52.4 59.3 56.8

1993

52.7 54.2 55.8 61.5 57.8 55.7 61.9 58.7 64.9 60.8 51.9 58.3 57.9

1994

51.8 53.3 55.6 62.1 56.9 63.4 61.7 58.8 63.6 61.8 50.6 56.6 58.0

1995

54.9 65.5 64.7 63.2 57.2 62.3 62.3 58.6 65.5 62.4 65.0 69.1 62.6

1996

53.9 63.6 65.0 62.1 66.4 61.3 61.0 63.6 63.9 58.1 61.1 65.0 62.1

1997

63.0 61.9 62.1 58.6 64.4 58.9 57.9 62.1 61.3 66.5 61.5 63.1 61.8

1998

64.8 64.2 64.2 69.0 64.5 60.5 67.5 65.6 59.7 65.6 60.4 62.9 64.1

1999

61.4 61.0 54.3 62.4 55.9 57.9 62.8 60.3 62.4 60.0 53.8 58.3 59.2

2000

57.0 56.4 64.3 61.5 57.5 58.6 58.7 54.6 60.4 58.0 60.8 54.6 58.6

2001

55.0 61.8 62.9 60.8 51.9 58.4 56.8 57.6 57.6 54.9 59.1 51.0 57.4

2002

49.4 58.6 56.9 54.4 61.4 58.0 57.9 57.8 60.7 56.4 59.3 62.5 57.8

2003

60.3 60.3 61.4 56.8 68.1 65.2 59.9 67.3 69.8 75.6 69.8 69.4 65.0

2004

66.9 67.1 64.9 70.0 70.5 66.0 69.0 66.7 77.5 70.5 69.7 67.7 68.9

2005

66.2 69.6 61.9 72.4 71.3 67.4 67.8 60.8 66.6 62.9 54.3 56.6 64.9

2006

60.9 75.8 75.7 70.1 66.5 62.6 64.4 57.7 73.3 69.5 67.9 57.3 66.9

2007

61.9 73.4 67.6 69.3 62.9 63.7 61.6 71.6 70.5 66.7 64.5 57.0 65.9

2008

56.3 72.5 74.7 67.3 68.5 63.1 57.4 74.2 72.2 74.0 65.1 78.8 68.6

2009

77.9 76.8 76.2 71.9 69.4 64.3 77.2 75.5 72.3 70.8 65.5 81.1 73.3

2010

70.0 68.6 72.0 72.2 65.5 65.3 68.9 73.8 77.2 69.5 65.9 76.1 70.4

2011

71.2 69.1 69.1 72.4 64.9 73.0 69.6 74.7 75.1 73.5 68.8 71.5 71.1

2012

74.7 82.2 77.0 73.8 64.0 72.9 71.7 70.3 77.0 72.0 76.2 65.4 73.1

2013

72.4 76.5 80.0 75.5 82.1 76.6 74.1 72.4 77.9 83.5 76.1 80.6 77.3

2014

72.9 79.0 80.5 73.0 82.8 76.2 74.5 76.7 75.5 86.1 80.1 80.2 78.1

2015

79.6 80.7 75.5 79.0 82.0 74.3 82.7 69.9 74.8 82.3 77.6 81.3 78.4

2016

72.4 79.4 70.1 77.4 74.0 75.2 81.1 76.3 81.7 76.3 68.0 67.6 75.0

2017

74.3 81.7 80.3 78.6 72.2 72.0 76.2 70.0 79.8 74.1 77.8 64.9 75.2

2018

68.2 80.4 74.7 72.4 63.7 68.4 70.5 76.6 77.5 71.7 77.8 61.0 71.9

2019

60.7 76.1 77.6 72.3 80.7 71.3 70.7 75.2 76.8 70.6 72.0 81.5 73.8

2020

76.1 77.2 66.3 74.9 69.4 63.1 77.8 76.8 70.4 79.3 74.4 76.1 73.5

2021

72.5 71.9 67.4 72.0 65.7 64.0 72.3 70.5 73.8 71.3 65.3 71.0 69.8

2022

64.9 63.7 62.1 70.1 63.3 73.2 68.2 67.4 72.8 66.5 49.4 64.0 65.5

2023

64.3 74.7 73.7 71.1 54.7 66.0 67.7 59.3 68.2 58.3 67.0 49.4 64.5

2024

56.0 66.9
Second preliminary release

Year

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual Average

1981

NA NA 74.3 76.7 78.4 73.0 76.9 74.8 70.1 72.8 75.3 65.4 NA

1982

74.8 76.5 75.8 79.6 NA 75.6 78.2 77.6 81.4 77.6 75.8 79.1 NA

1983

73.4 78.5 78.6 83.7 80.7 81.7 81.3 78.4 82.4 80.5 78.2 79.4 79.7

1984

72.1 80.6 81.6 80.6 79.3 80.3 79.2 78.2 78.1 76.3 77.7 73.8 78.1

1985

69.2 75.3 79.8 78.9 79.9 78.1 79.0 81.2 80.1 78.2 78.5 75.7 77.8

1986

74.3 78.6 78.0 78.4 81.2 77.8 77.2 78.1 78.6 80.8 79.2 73.9 78.0

1987

70.9 76.6 79.1 80.9 80.3 79.6 82.5 80.1 79.1 81.2 79.4 74.7 78.7

1988

76.1 77.7 77.8 82.4 82.1 83.5 81.8 80.4 83.5 82.0 79.9 78.8 80.5

1989

75.6 82.2 82.3 81.5 81.6 82.9 83.1 81.3 84.3 83.7 77.7 81.3 81.5

1990

76.0 81.6 83.9 84.1 82.7 86.1 83.5 84.0 84.2 81.1 78.1 80.6 82.1

1991

77.3 82.5 83.6 83.2 84.8 83.5 80.3 83.2 83.6 82.4 78.1 81.1 82.0

1992

80.1 82.2 82.6 86.0 84.3 81.5 85.7 84.3 83.0 85.5 83.2 79.6 83.2

1993

79.9 82.4 83.5 85.8 86.2 84.1 86.1 84.5 86.7 85.7 83.2 82.4 84.2

1994

78.5 82.3 82.1 85.1 83.7 86.1 85.3 82.2 85.8 83.5 80.7 82.3 83.1

1995

79.3 84.0 84.4 83.5 83.2 84.9 84.1 81.7 84.4 83.5 85.3 79.1 83.1

1996

76.5 80.9 82.4 80.7 82.4 81.2 81.0 82.4 81.8 78.9 78.3 77.0 80.3

1997

78.1 78.4 79.0 77.4 79.6 79.7 76.6 78.5 77.9 80.7 77.9 75.0 78.3

1998

79.8 80.4 80.3 82.3 81.7 79.9 81.4 81.4 78.1 80.5 77.2 75.1 79.8

1999

76.6 76.7 73.9 77.3 75.9 75.5 77.8 75.9 76.6 75.5 71.0 74.2 75.6

2000

72.0 74.3 77.3 75.8 75.4 72.8 72.6 73.1 73.8 75.8 71.9 72.9 74.0

2001

73.4 76.3 76.5 74.7 74.6 76.9 74.6 74.4 75.5 74.7 72.9 71.9 74.7

2002

74.4 76.1 69.5 71.3 74.0 78.8 74.7 76.8 77.5 76.5 73.6 73.4 74.7

2003

73.8 75.2 77.1 84.6 83.8 82.9 83.8 84.6 88.0 87.3 87.6 86.4 82.6

2004

82.6 87.6 83.5 89.2 86.7 87.8 86.3 87.5 89.7 88.9 88.1 88.6 87.2

2005

87.4 87.9 86.1 88.6 86.9 87.8 84.3 80.3 84.5 82.6 82.7 85.1 85.4

2006

85.2 86.3 86.7 86.4 85.8 86.0 85.2 82.8 85.0 84.1 82.7 83.7 85.0

2007

82.0 83.3 82.5 85.9 85.9 86.1 84.4 85.6 85.1 85.1 86.7 86.6 84.9

2008

86.1 87.5 85.8 85.9 86.8 88.7 81.8 89.3 89.4 89.9 89.2 91.2 87.6

2009

90.7 91.2 91.3 89.5 91.5 90.3 88.0 87.6 90.1 90.4 92.2 92.8 90.5

2010

91.2 90.0 91.8 91.2 91.7 90.8 91.0 94.2 92.4 93.7 88.6 93.2 91.6

2011

91.8 92.3 91.6 92.4 91.9 92.3 93.2 94.2 93.0 93.5 92.8 93.1 92.7

2012

93.3 94.3 93.9 93.7 92.6 93.0 93.0 93.3 93.6 92.0 87.2 90.8 92.6

2013

93.4 93.7 94.1 94.4 96.4 96.2 93.0 93.5 95.0 96.2 94.5 95.9 94.7

2014

95.6 94.2 94.2 95.6 95.7 95.3 92.9 96.5 96.4 96.8 94.8 95.6 95.3

2015

93.7 94.9 94.3 95.1 94.9 94.1 91.2 95.0 95.0 87.4 88.3 94.3 93.2

2016

92.5 93.7 93.5 93.7 91.1 95.9 94.8 95.5 93.0 92.0 92.1 91.6 93.3

2017

90.5 92.5 94.8 92.5 90.0 92.7 94.4 91.3 94.4 90.5 92.8 87.1 92.0

2018

90.0 89.4 90.1 87.4 87.7 89.1 89.1 93.9 93.6 88.5 91.8 88.3 89.9

2019

90.4 89.2 86.8 93.2 92.5 88.7 90.2 88.9 92.5 86.1 87.0 90.0 89.6

2020

87.5 89.4 85.1 88.4 85.5 85.0 89.7 87.9 87.5 87.9 85.0 91.1 87.5

2021

91.2 90.8 87.7 88.3 86.7 87.5 90.4 90.6 91.4 88.2 83.8 90.9 89.0

2022

89.1 89.2 86.1 90.2 92.4 93.4 87.6 93.8 94.3 88.9 84.8 91.3 90.1

2023

91.8 93.5 90.8 91.5 90.1 92.9 93.2 93.6 85.8 84.8 86.8 80.1 89.6

2024

85.5
Third final sample-based release

Year

Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Annual Average

1981

83.2 NA 85.4 86.8 87.9 86.9 86.6 85.9 85.7 85.9 83.9 83.2 NA

1982

83.6 85.6 86.5 86.9 87.6 87.9 86.9 87.4 89.3 88.2 86.8 87.9 87.1

1983

84.8 87.5 89.5 90.1 89.8 90.5 89.6 88.7 90.5 90.7 89.5 88.7 89.2

1984

85.2 88.7 88.9 89.6 90.2 92.0 90.1 88.5 88.1 87.3 85.9 85.7 88.3

1985

81.9 85.5 88.4 87.7 88.7 88.7 89.7 90.1 90.9 89.3 87.7 87.9 88.1

1986

84.6 86.6 88.9 88.0 88.7 88.9 87.6 88.0 88.1 88.4 85.4 85.0 87.3

1987

82.3 85.0 87.6 88.6 89.5 90.5 90.1 89.6 89.1 88.6 86.5 86.3 87.8

1988

85.5 87.1 88.7 90.2 90.0 91.3 90.3 89.8 91.5 89.7 86.6 87.6 89.0

1989

84.9 89.1 89.0 89.9 89.7 91.1 90.4 90.5 92.8 91.2 89.5 89.9 89.8

1990

86.3 89.6 91.9 91.9 90.8 93.4 91.0 91.7 91.9 91.0 89.7 90.7 90.8

1991

86.7 89.2 91.1 90.9 91.8 92.4 90.3 91.1 91.8 90.4 88.4 90.0 90.3

1992

88.2 89.0 90.7 91.8 92.1 92.2 92.0 92.5 92.9 91.9 90.2 89.7 91.1

1993

88.2 90.3 91.5 92.5 93.2 93.0 92.3 92.1 93.2 93.0 90.5 90.0 91.6

1994

88.3 89.5 90.7 91.6 90.1 92.5 91.1 91.0 91.6 90.1 88.0 89.5 90.3

1995

87.1 89.0 90.5 89.9 90.1 91.0 89.8 89.2 90.4 89.5 86.4 86.5 89.1

1996

84.7 87.2 87.9 86.4 87.9 88.2 88.1 87.5 87.6 86.2 84.3 85.1 86.7

1997

84.0 83.9 84.9 83.8 85.3 85.2 83.7 83.6 83.9 84.1 82.5 83.6 84.1

1998

85.0 85.3 85.8 86.1 85.9 86.0 86.3 86.0 84.9 83.9 82.6 83.2 85.1

1999

81.9 81.1 80.3 81.1 81.1 81.6 82.6 81.4 81.7 79.6 79.1 79.5 80.9

2000

78.4 79.3 81.1 77.3 80.4 77.5 77.9 77.9 78.7 80.7 78.3 79.9 78.9

2001

78.5 79.8 79.3 80.2 79.3 80.3 78.5 78.9 78.9 78.2 79.8 78.4 79.2

2002

80.8 78.2 74.7 74.5 83.2 80.5 79.1 80.2 80.8 80.6 77.5 77.0 79.0

2003

78.6 77.8 72.4 88.6 86.5 86.9 89.0 89.0 90.7 90.9 91.6 91.6 85.7

2004

90.8 90.6 87.3 90.6 92.0 90.9 90.7 90.9 92.1 91.4 91.3 91.6 90.9

2005

90.5 90.3 90.8 90.2 90.0 89.8 89.1 83.7 87.1 85.9 86.8 88.1 88.5

2006

87.5 88.5 88.7 88.5 88.5 88.9 88.2 86.2 87.4 86.5 86.2 86.9 87.7

2007

85.4 85.5 85.4 88.5 88.0 87.5 86.9 87.3 87.2 87.7 89.9 89.3 87.4

2008

89.1 89.3 89.8 89.3 91.0 91.1 89.3 91.2 91.6 92.8 93.2 93.0 90.9

2009

92.5 92.8 92.8 92.2 92.8 92.8 93.7 92.6 92.5 93.6 93.9 94.4 93.1

2010

93.5 93.1 93.3 92.1 94.5 92.3 95.2 95.4 96.2 95.3 95.1 95.6 94.3

2011

93.5 93.6 93.7 93.4 93.8 93.1 95.3 94.5 94.1 94.7 94.7 94.7 94.1

2012

94.9 95.2 95.4 94.9 94.1 93.9 94.6 94.8 94.5 94.5 91.6 96.4 94.6

2013

95.4 97.0 97.2 97.2 97.2 97.0 97.0 95.9 96.7 97.0 97.0 96.8 96.8

2014

96.9 97.0 97.0 96.5 96.5 96.5 97.3 97.3 97.3 97.3 97.0 96.2 96.9

2015

95.5 95.7 95.6 95.7 95.7 96.1 96.7 96.5 96.8 96.2 97.0 95.0 96.0

2016

95.2 94.8 95.6 94.3 93.8 96.6 97.1 96.1 95.6 95.7 96.0 96.1 95.6

2017

93.5 94.2 96.1 95.8 95.8 95.6 96.2 95.4 95.8 96.5 94.2 95.8 95.4

2018

94.4 92.1 94.3 91.4 92.7 92.5 94.7 95.6 95.5 92.5 94.1 90.9 93.4

2019

93.1 91.4 94.4 94.4 94.4 94.2 94.3 95.5 94.4 89.9 92.6 91.9 93.4

2020

92.0 92.1 92.7 90.8 90.7 89.7 91.8 90.5 89.6 89.6 90.3 94.5 91.2

2021

93.7 93.4 92.8 93.0 92.9 93.4 92.7 93.0 93.0 91.0 93.0 92.8 92.9

2022

91.0 91.5 94.8 94.6 94.4 95.4 95.9 95.1 95.0 92.1 93.7 93.7 93.9

2023

95.1 94.9 94.7 94.7 92.6 94.7 94.7 95.3 88.5 88.9 88.1 94.5 93.1

Last Modified Date: March 8, 2024