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Agnosticsherbet

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30. Information for the jobs (unemployment) report...

Reply to fasttense (Reply #29)

Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:41 AM

Oct 2012

Is obtained by sending out census workers out to survey 160,000 households in the U.S. No one is left out, because it is a survey not an actual head count. (This information can be found on a Us.gov site. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm)

What you wrote above is a urban myth. It is just not how they get those numbers.

This is a better link to the medhods used to get the employment report.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/

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Information for the jobs (unemployment) report... Agnosticsherbet Oct 2012 #30

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