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Title: Current Employment
Statistics : CES
Originator:
Department/Agency Name:
Department Of Labor
Major Organizational
Subdivision: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Minor Organizational
Subdivision: Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics
Name of Unit: Division
of Current Employment Analysis
Access Constraints: None.
Approved for Public Release
Use Constraints: None
Abstract: The Current Employment Statistics program is a monthly
survey conducted by State employment security agencies in cooperation with the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The survey provides employment, hours and earnings
estimates based on payroll records of business establishments. Current
Employment Statistics Program, a Federal-State cooperative program; sample of
nearly 400,000 establishments employing about 1/3 of all payroll workers.
Purpose: Statistics from this program are used as economic
indicators. They are also used as a major component of preliminary estimates of
personal income. CES statistics are also used in the following ways: Industrial
production, and productivity; Components of composite indexes of leading and
coincident indicators; Plant location planning; Wage negotiations; Adjustment
of labor costs in escalation of long-term contracts; Economic research and
planning; Regional analysis; Industry studies.
Agency Program:
29 U.S.C. 1, 2, 1501, 1752; 13 U.S.C. 182; 22 U.S.C. 3101, 3141 Statutory
Requirements Met by the Programs: The Bureau of Labor Statistics "shall acquire
and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on
subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of
that word, and especially upon its relation to capital" (29 U.S.C. 1). The
Bureau of Labor Statistics shall collect, collate, report and publish full and
complete statistics of the volume of and changes in employment (29 U.S.C. 2).
Local Subject Terms:
- Employment Situation
- Real Earnings
- State and Regional Employment and Unemployment
- Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
- Payroll employment
- 790 Program
- US Federal GILS
Availability:
Distributor:
Name:
Office of Publications and Special Studies
Organization:
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Street
Address: 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Room 2860
City:
Washington
State:
DC
Zip
Code: 20212
Country:
USA
Network
Address: blsdata_staff@bls.gov
Hours
of Service: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Telephone:
(202) 691-5200
Fax:
(202) 691-789
Order Process: website
Linkage:
http://stats.bls.gov
Linkage Type: text/html
Point of Contact:
Name: Office of
Publications and Special Studies
Organization: Bureau of
Labor Statistics
Street
Address: 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Room 2860
City: Washington
State: DC
Zip Code: 20212
Country: USA
Network Address:
blsdata_staff@bls.gov
Hours of Service: 8:30
a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Telephone: (202)
691-5200
Fax:
(202) 691-789
Sources of Data:
Department/Agency Name:
Department Of Labor
Major Organizational
Subdivision: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Minor Organizational
Subdivision: Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics
Name of Unit: Office of
Current Employment Analysis
Record Source:
Name: Office of
Publications and Special Studies
Organization: Bureau of
Labor Statistics
Street
Address: 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Room 2860
City: Washington
State: DC
Zip Code: 20212
Country: USA
Network Address:
blsdata_staff@bls.gov
Hours of Service: 8:30
a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Telephone: (202)
691-5200
Fax:
(202) 691-789
Date of Last Modification: 20000908
Control Identifier: DOL-BLS-000164
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