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 the percent of reports received for a monthly estimate compared to the total number of actively-reporting sample units on the sample registry.

For more information on registry receipts, see www.bls.gov/ces/cesregrevtec.htm.

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
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
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

NA = not available

Last Modified Date: September 5, 2008