Employment situation report

Overview

Important degree: Extremely high

How to calculate

The employment situation survey released on the first Friday, mainly from two aspects , Home survey and institutional survey.

Family survey

These families include agricultural and non-agricultural workers, individual operations, and personnel engaged in housekeeping work. The questionnaire problem mainly includes the following:

u Do you have a job now?

ü Full time or part-time?

u is because there is no full-time job?

or:

u Do you have a few weeks?

u Do you find a job?

u In the nearest time (around), do you plan to find a job?

The family survey is characterized by the reliability depending on the answer to the subject, so it is not absolutely accurate. In addition, the family investigates whether the object is employed, but does not care about him / she has several jobs. For example, a typical family of three, a father has a full-time job, a part-time job, a full-time job, and a child under 16 years old. The result of the family survey is that a family is in an employed state and does not count in the unemployed population.

Institutional survey

A part of economic scholars and investors believe that the results of the agency survey are more accurate than family investigations. This conclusion we don't argue its right and wrong. We believe that these are objective data, these are objective, no one is important, who is not important, it is how it is generated.

Institutional investigation is also known as the payroll survey, and its investigation is 400,000 enterprises involving 500 different industrial sectors and government agencies, and the employee involved more than 40 million, and the United States The total population is about 300 million. Its survey takes up more than 13.33% of the total population, and all 45% of non-agricultural populations.

The agency survey provides more data more than a family survey, and the most important sections include the number of new and cuts in the last month, the average salary, average overtime time, etc. Wait.

Therefore, agency survey helps us have a more comprehensive understanding of the US employment. But it also has its inherent limitations. Unlike home investigations, institutional investigations pay more attention to jobs, not to pay attention to individuals. For example, a woman goes to get off work in the factory during the day, and after work, go to the housekeeping company to continue working. In a home survey, she will be defined as a member of the employment army, and in the institutional investigation, she also described as the employed population. At the same time, the report will be more prominent, there are two positions. But these two posts are not the same person, and the agency report will not be concerned.