Read employment data as a set of related measures
Use employment, unemployment and participation together when examining the condition of a labour market.
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Compare consumer and producer price indicators
Keep the stage of the supply chain and the reporting basis visible when reviewing inflation releases.
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Distinguish a trade balance from the wider current account
Identify what a cross border economic statistic includes before interpreting a deficit or surplus.
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Read a PMI as a survey indicator
Identify the survey provider, sector and comparison point before interpreting a purchasing managers index.
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Separate factory demand, production and capacity measures
Compare orders and output carefully to understand what each industrial indicator contributes to economic research.
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Use a broker profile as a starting point for research
Separate a directory profile, its publisher rating and independently checked regulatory records when examining a trading service.
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Turn trading study into a documented review routine
Keep reasons, execution details and outcomes together so a learning record can be reviewed without hindsight edits.
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Keep the context missing from a trade history statement
Combine execution records with contemporaneous notes to distinguish a recorded result from the process behind it.
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Prepare an operational contingency plan before an interruption
Document verified support channels and response procedures for access problems without assuming market orders will fill as expected.
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Golden years: older Americans at work and play
Older people make up a growing share of the American population, and their contributions to the country are numerous. When compared with…
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Job market remains tight in 2019, as the unemployment rate falls to its lowest level since 1969
The U.S. labor market remained strong in 2019, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, the lowest rate since 1969. Both…
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Job openings, hires, and quits set record highs in 2019
Data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey show that the labor market continued to be strong throughout most of 2019…
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Making volunteer work visible: supplementary measures of work in labor force statistics
Under the current definitions of labor force status, one person can be working in a job (in retail sales, for example) and…
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Male prime-age nonworkers: evidence from the NLSY97
The labor force participation rate of prime-age men (ages 25 to 54) has been mostly falling since the late 1960s, with steeper…
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Measuring the substitution effect in Producer Price Index goods data: 2002â16
This article examines the substitution effect in Producer Price Index (PPI) data for final- and intermediate-demand goods. The analysis demonstrates that PPIs…
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Occupational employment and wage differences across cohorts of establishments
We merge detailed microdata from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey with establishment founding dates from the BLS Longitudinal Database, which allows us…
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Producer price inflation slows in 2019, as price increases for both services and goods decelerate from a year earlier
Using data from the Producer Price Index (PPI) program, this article describes changes in producer prices in 2019. Final-demand producer inflation over…
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Projections overview and highlights, 2019â29
Employment and real output growth are projected to slow from 2019 to 2029. One in four people will be ages 65 and…
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The cost of layoffs in Unemployment Insurance taxes
To date, there have been several theoretical attempts at measuring the marginal cost of layoffs in Unemployment Insurance (UI) taxes. This article…
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food price indexes and data collection
This article describes the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on price changes for food categories within the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
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The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Respondent Follow-Up Survey
Nonfatal workplace injury and illness data published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII)…
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A framework for the evaluation and use of alternative data in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys
As part of the implementation of its strategic plan, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has increasingly studied the issue of…
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A look at the new job-task information in the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth
Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997, this article examines how the skill level and task content…
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Alternative measurements of Indian Country: understanding their implications for economic, statistical, and policy analysis
The term “Indian Country” is often used to mean either the demographic group of Native Americans in the United States or the…