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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.

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
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

Citation	http://www.bls.gov/ces/#data
Agency Program Page	http://www.bls.gov/ces/
Agency Data Series Page	http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ce

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	Average hourly earnings, Average weekly earnings, Hours, average weekly, national, Employment and earnings.
Granularity	US
Geographic Coverage	US

Data Description

Collection Mode	http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm
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

Technical Documentation	http://www.bls.gov/ces/
Additional Metadata	ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ce/ce.txt

Statistical Information

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