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Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)
Dataset Summary
| Agency: | Department of Labor |
| Sub-Agency: | US Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| Category: | Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings |
| Date Released: | 1909 |
| Date Updated: | Monthly |
| Time Period: | Employment and wages for the pay period including the 12th of the month |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Description: | Each month the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program surveys about 150,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 390,000 individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls. |
Dataset Information
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Data.gov Data Category Type
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Raw Data Catalog
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| Specialized Data Category Designation | Statistical |
| Keywords | Average hourly earnings, Average weekly earnings, Current Employment Statistics, Establishment survey, Hours, average weekly, National employment statistics, Strike Report, Experimental all employee hours and earnings series, national, Employment and earnings (establishment data). |
| Unique ID | 317 |
Contributing Agency Information
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Citation
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| Agency Program Page | http://www.bls.gov/ces/ |
| Agency Data Series Page | http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ce |
Dataset Coverage
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Unit of Analysis
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Average hourly earnings, Average weekly earnings, Hours, average weekly, national, Employment and earnings.
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| Granularity | US |
| Geographic Coverage | US |
Data Description
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Collection Mode
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| Data Collection Instrument | http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm |
| Data Dictionary/Variable List | http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ce |
Additional Dataset Documentation
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Technical Documentation
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| Additional Metadata | ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ce/ce.txt |
Statistical Information
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Statistical Methodology
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