Within known variation and error? sure. It's possible the seasonal adjustment was off, but the rate absolutely went down. And there's always the possibility of a fluke, but no chance of manipulation.Except the jobs numbers aren't used to calculate the UE rate....Total Employment is. And total employment went up 873,000It's the numbers Nole
Jobs listed as 114,000 in Sept.
In order to get from 8.1% to 7.8% you need 759,000 more jobs.
So if you don't even know how the rate is calculated, then how could you claim anything about manipulation?
Do you think that's an accurate or even likely representation of what happened in September?