| Sumario: | In this article the authors perform a 2006 analysis of the differences between two most visible monthly labor market surveys of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program. The CPS and the CES survey are monthly sample surveys; the CPS is a household survey, while the CES survey is a survey of businesses as well as government establishments. The first portion of the article offers a general background on the two surveys and a summary of past research into earlier divergences in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The second portion examines the latest BLS research into the divergences in the mid- to late 1990s through 2004.
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