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 ...

The Household Survey Employment rises 548,000, Establishment Survey rises 678,000 with unemployment lower at 3.8%. ... The 3 charts show the relationships between past peaks/lows vs. the SP500.

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!

Since March 2001, the payroll survey suggests there are 1.24 million fewer jobs, in contrast to the household survey's measure of 1.81 million more working Americans-more than ever before.

The Household Survey is generated from a survey of about 60,000 households; these data include farm jobs in their employment totals. The household survey is used to generate unemployment rate figures.

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The household series (also called “civilian employment”) is constructed from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is a monthly survey of approximately 60,000 U.S. households. This series ...

The April Establishment Survey employment data (Payroll Survey) proved to be quite a shock. Expectations ranged rom +700K to +2.1 million; the +266K was the biggest miss in history.

The threshold for a statistically significant employment change in the household survey is 300,000 vs. 130,000 in the establishment survey. Household survey data on employment status are ...

The economy gained only 80,000 net jobs in October, almost half September's gain of 158,000 and the fewest in four months. Yet the unemployment rate fell for the first time since July. ...