CES Publications

  • UPDATED Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly (PDF)--a package of charts and analysis featuring the latest industry employment numbers
  • Articles by CES staff
    • Current Employment Statistics seasonal adjustment and the 2007-2009 recession (PDF 874KB)
    • Payroll employment in 2011: a visual essay (PDF 665KB)
    • Employment loss and the 2007–09 recession: an overview (PDF 471KB)
    • Employment in health care: a crutch for the ailing economy during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 625KB)
    • Mining employment trends of 2007–09: a question of prices (PDF 586KB)
    • Construction employment peaks before the recession and falls sharply throughout it(PDF 477KB)
    • Manufacturing employment hard hit during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 544KB)
    • Professional and business services: employment trends in the 2007–09 (PDF 1MB)
    • Employment in financial activities: double billed by housing and financial crises (PDF 3MB)
    • Deep drop in retail trade employment during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 1MB)
    • Employment in leisure and hospitality departs from historical trends during 2007–09 recession (PDF 1MB)
    • The decline in work hours during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 607K)
    • Payroll employment turns the corner in 2010 (PDF 753K)
    • The 2010 Census: the impact of counting the Nation (PDF 3,320K)
    • New all-employee hours and earnings from the CES survey (PDF)