Understanding the employment measures from the CPS and CES survey.

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 s...

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Published in:	Monthly Labor Review Vol. 129; no. 2; pp. 23 - 39
Main Authors:	Bowler, Mary, Morisi, Teresa L.
Format:	Article
Published:	US Department of Labor Feb2006
Subjects:	United States United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Labor market Labor supply statistics Market surveys Statistics on the working class
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Summary:	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.