Changes to State and local area labor force estimation in 2005
The LAUS Redesign has been a multi-year, multi-project initiative to
improve labor force estimates for State and substate areas developed by
the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program. Funding for the
LAUS Redesign research and implementation activities was initially
provided to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2001.
Questions and
Answers on the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program
Redesign
Background Paper on Real-Time Benchmarking: "Proposed Improvement in Estimating
and Benchmarking State Labor Force Estimates" (PDF 98K)
As part of the LAUS redesign, model-based error measures on the
estimates and on over-the-month changes are available for the first time
for regions, divisions, and states. The analysis in the monthly
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release
reflects the use of these error measures.
Information on
Model-Based Error Measures for Regions, Divisions, and States
Last Modified Date: April 4, 2011
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