The chart below depicts month-to-month changes in the household survey’s estimate of the number of full-time employees across the economy. According to these estimates, full-time employment fell by ...

In the household survey, a change in employment is only considered “statistically significant” if it’s above 600,000. Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at consulting firm RSM, ...

The Payroll Survey shows employment growth of nearly 2.7 million jobs between March and November. The Household Survey, over the same period, shows 12,000. Something is seriously wrong!

The below chart shows BLS payroll growth revisions for 2022 as reported ... The likely upward jump in employment from the household survey and downward revision to payroll figures from the ...

The household survey can also be more volatile from month to month. The Labor Department surveys 60,000 households, a small fraction of the more than 100 million households in the United States.

Economists say President Donald Trump's flip-flopping on import tariffs has hampered businesses' ability to plan ahead and hire more workers.

A 408K decline in employment as measured by the household survey, when paired with a 250K drop in the labor force, pushed the unemployment rate up to 4.0%, its highest reading since January 2022.

But to put some numbers on the discrepancy, the household survey reports around 700,000 fewer workers from the peak last November, while the payroll survey reports around 1.6 million more workers.

Meanwhile, annual employment growth as measured by the household survey has nearly stalled, with the 0.4% rise through March the smallest increase outside the pandemic since October 2013. In this ...

Economic Policy Institute President Heidi Shierholz joins Yahoo Finance Live to explain the differences in the July jobs report headline numbers and the household survey and what that means for ...