CES Benchmark Article: BLS Establishment Estimates Revised to ...

Benchmark Article

BLS Establishment Estimates Revised to
Incorpor
ate March
2009 Benchmark
s

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Introductio
n

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Summary
of t
h
e benchmark revisions

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of resear
ch into possible sources of the 2009 benchm
ark
revision

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Revisions in t
h
e post-bench
m
ark period

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Wh
y
benchmarks differ from

estimates

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Bench
m
ark revisions for o
t
her data types

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Methods

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Addition
of all em
ploy
ee h
ours and earnings as official BLS series

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Other changes to the CES
published series

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Availability

of revised data

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Sm
all do
m
a
in m
odel

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Seasonal adjustm
e
nt procedure

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Special m
ode
l
adjustments

 
Introduction
Victor
ia Battista

Victoria Battista is an econom
i
st in th
e Division of Current Employ
m
e
nt Statistics, Office of Employm
ent and Une
m
ploym
ent
Statis
tics, Bureau of Labor Statis
tics.
Telephone: (202) 691-6
555; e-m
a
il:
CESInfo@bls.gov

W
ith the release of data for January 2010, th
e Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) intro
duced its annual revision of national esti
m
a
tes of
em
ploym
e
nt
, hours, and earnings from the Cu
rrent Em
ployment Statistics
(CES) m
onthly survey of nonfar
m
es
tablishm
ents. Each
year, the CES survey realigns its sample
-based estim
ates to incor
porate universe counts of e
m
ploym
ent—a process known as
benchm
arking. Com
p
rehensive counts of em
ploym
ent, or benchm
ar
ks, are derived prim
arily from
unem
p
loyment insurance (UI) tax ...