Household Survey Charts Reveal This Is No Garden Variety Economic Downturn. Jan. 10, 2010 1:14 AM ET 6 Comments. ... The employment market is improving, just not as much as one would hope.

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 ...

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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, ...

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.

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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 ...

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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.

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.

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