pinqy
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Actually, they don't, that's the difference. The CES is a survey of Businesses and only asks about non-farm payroll employment. The companies are asked how many people they had on payroll, average hours, average wages.The BLS has two survey sites, the CES (Current employment survey) and the CPS (Current population survey). Don't ask me what the difference is but they both cover unemployment.
The CPS is a household survey of total employment and unemployment.
Employment Situation Technical NoteThis news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the
Current Population Survey (CPS; household survey) and the Current Employment
Statistics survey (CES; establishment survey). The household survey provides
information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears
in the "A" tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about
60,000 eligible households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The establishment survey provides information on employment, hours,
and earnings of employees on nonfarm payrolls; the data appear in the
"B" tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each
month from the payroll records of a sample of nonagricultural business
establishments. Each month the CES program surveys about 141,000 businesses
and government agencies, representing approximately 486,000 individual worksites,
in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of
workers on nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately one-third
of all nonfarm payroll employees.