Rynek pracy i dane · 08/11/2004

Proposal to Revise Method for Estimation of Monthly Labor Force Statistics for Certain Subnational Areas; Request for Comments

The Department of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics and, specifically, the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, is responsible for the development and publication of State and local area labor force statistics. In the LAUS program, monthly estimates of the labor force, employment, unemployment, and the unemployment rate for more than 7,000 areas in the Nation are developed and issued. A major program redesign to improve the methodological basis of the LAUS estimates and update the geography and techniques to reflect 2000 Census data was initially funded in FY 2001. After completion of various long-term research projects, the BLS plans to implement improvements to the estimating methods with State and area LAUS estimates for January 2005, to be published in March 2005.