New Monthly Hours and Earnings Measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Employment Statistics Program
By Robert P. Parker
Robert Parker is a consultant on federal statistics and former chief statistician of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
This article provides additional information on the development and release of the new measures as well the anticipated use of the new measures of new monthly hours and earnings measures by BLS and by BEA. It also describes other recent improvements in the CES survey program.
