Employment-unemployment: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States ....United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 |
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Page 1748 - Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Page 1859 - Seasonally-adjusted average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls rose slightly in July.
Page 1775 - Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers!/ on private nonfarm payrolls by industry I/ See footnote 1.
Page 1777 - The standard error is primarily a measure of sampling variability, that is, the variations that might occur by chance because only a sample of the population is surveyed. The chances are about...
Page 1827 - Because price data are used for different purposes by different groups, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes seasonally adjusted as well as unadjusted changes each month. For analyzing general price trends in the economy, seasonally adjusted...
Page 1776 - ... incoming" groups. Occupation, industry, and class of worker for the employed apply to the job held in the survey week. Persons with two or more jobs are classified in the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours during the survey week. The unemployed are classified according to their latest full-time civilian job lasting 2 weeks or more. The occupation and industry groups used...
Page 1808 - Discouraged Workers Discouraged workers are persons who report that they want work but are not looking for jobs because they believe they cannot find any. Because they do not meet the labor market test — that is, they are not engaged in active job search — they are classified as not in the labor force rather than as unemployed.
Page 1811 - EMPLOYMENT DATA in this section are obtained from the Current Population Survey, a program of personal interviews conducted monthly by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The sample consists of about 47,000 households, selected to represent the US population 16 years of age and older.
Page 1775 - August. (See table B-3.) The Hourly Earnings Index The Hourly Earnings Index — earnings adjusted for overtime in manufacturing...
Page 1749 - Since the data from the household survey are based on a sample, they may differ from the figures that would have been obtained if it were possible to take a complete census using the same schedules, enumerators, and procedures.