BLS Handbook of Methods

Chapter 2.
Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Establishment Survey

Technical References

A Research Agenda to Guide and Improve the Current Employment Statistics Survey, American Statistical Association, January 1994.

Employment and Earnings, “Explanatory Notes and Estimates of Error,” monthly.

An up-to-date, concise description of the concepts and methods used to develop establishment-based employment, hours, and earnings data from the Current Employment Statistics program. Provides tables that present measures of the reliability of the data and the magnitude of revisions due to benchmark adjustments.

Duffin, Joshua. “BLS Establishment Estimates Revised to Incorporate March 2001 Benchmarks,” Employment and Earnings, June 2002.

Kropf, Jurgen, Christopher Manning, Kirk Mueller, and Stuart Scott, “Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment for Industry Employment Statistics,” Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, New York, August 2002.

Kropf, Jurgen, Sharon Strifas, and Monica Traetow, “Accounting for Business Births and Deaths in CES: Bias versus Net Birth/Death Modeling,” Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, New York, August 2002.

Stinson, John F., Jr. “Comparison of Nonagricultural Employment Estimates from Two Surveys,” Employment and Earnings, March 1984.

Werking, George S. and Richard L. Clayton, “Automated Telephone Methods for Business Surveys,” in Brenda G. Cox and others, eds., Business Survey Methods (New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1995), ch. 18, pp. 317-37.

X-12 ARIMA Reference Manual, Beta Version 1.0, Bureau of the Census, August 16, 1995.

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