Reconstruction of CES time series: implementing the NAICS 2022 redefinitions

With the release of January 2023 data on March 13, 2023, the Current Employment Statistics program revised the basis for industry classification for states and areas from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to NAICS 2022. The conversion to NAICS 2022 resulted in revisions to data that reflected content and coding changes within the retail trade, information, mining and logging, manufacturing, wholesale trade, financial activities, and other services sectors. In the revision process, the chief aim was to maintain the integrity of data and comparability across the redefined series. The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program is a federal–state cooperative program between the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and state workforce agencies. The CES State and Area program produces data on employment, hours, and earnings for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and more than 450 metropolitan areas.