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You need to COMPILE the survey responses and calculate to produce reports. I have had to do this in my later years at my agency (and even had to get some of it down to "1-pagers" ).
Regarding this -
If you're trying to get at this issue:
Final employment numbers for March won’t be out until May. BLS revises its payroll survey data in each of the two months following an initial release. BLS revises the data using additional survey responses that come in late, and by making further seasonal adjustments.
that has happened since the beginning of the survey and really has nothing to do with disasters. The survey has a very tight window in which employers can respond and be used in the preliminary estimates. Some employers are never able to meet that window, meaning their responses only ever go into the calculations of the revised numbers. And to be clear this has to do with survey responses from employers NOT "returns" from states.
I do know there are "revisions" but also (since I post these almost every month) that there will be "missing data" ( "late" ) for whatever reason, which HAS included due to weather-related issues. That gets rectified in a revision. THAT is all I am saying. The revisions refine the data.
The point is that BLS is compiling and reporting what they receive and is not personally generating their own numbers
I'll give you a little leeway here due to your misuse of the word compiling but you are still wrong. I already explained that that the survey responses are plugged into mathematical formulas to generate the jobs "estimates". BLS does not report what they receive - the individual survey responses are what BLS receives and they are never reported. By plugging the survey responses into mathematical formulas, BLS does, in fact, generate the jobs numbers themselves.
I'll give you a little leeway here due to your misuse of the word compiling but you are still wrong. I already explained that that the survey responses are plugged into mathematical formulas to generate the jobs "estimates". BLS does not report what they receive - the individual survey responses are what BLS receives and they are never reported. By plugging the survey responses into mathematical formulas, BLS does, in fact, generate the jobs numbers themselves.
Plugging into mathematical formulas = "calculating".
The CT is that people are "fudging" the calculations. But you keep on avoiding that original issue being argued, which was the CT, which I was rejecting.
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