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What is CRIS? The Common Reporting Information System (CRIS) enables certain DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant programs to access aggregate wage information through the State Wage Interchange System. CRIS is an arrangement...

The National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) is an employment-based, random survey of the demographic, employment, and health characteristics of the field labor force working to ensure crops are harvested in the U.S.  This survey is the major...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta created a national Unemployment Claims Monitor, a virtual dashboard complete with data visualization tools for tracking initial and continued Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims. 

The Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) sought approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) for a proposed revision to the report on Current Employment Statistics (CES). BLS published the sixty-day PRA notice for the...

On May 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its monthly news release on state employment and unemployment for April 2020.  The data is produced by the BLS' Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), part...

Counts of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits differ from counts of unemployed individuals measured in surveys of households.  These two measures of unemployment offer distinct, but related indicators, of trends in joblessness in the...

On November 18, 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) asking for public comment on proposed updates to its race/ethnicity code list as part of the Race/Ethnicity Coding Improvement Project to comply with the Office...

The Census Bureau is requesting nominations to the Scientific Advisory Committee through a Federal Register Notice (FRN).

All surveys other than a complete census or complete administrative records involve various types of sampling errors, the most well-known of which is the “margin of error.”  To properly understand and use evidence, it’s important to have a basic...

The U.S. Census Bureau provides regular releases of American Community Survey (ACS) statistics on education and employment. The current release is of the 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, the most relied-on source for...