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| Current Population Survey |
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| Unemployment rates in the U.S. are estimated using |
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| Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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| the name of the agency in charge of the employment numbers |
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| consists of 4 housing units each. |
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| So in stead of getting 2 samples, the Bureau splits the survey into 2 independent pieces that have the same chance behavior. Then takes the difference of the estimates and this serves as the SE. The pooled estimate of the two ( average of the two ) is taken as the estimate of the characteristic to be estimated |
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| consists either of a city, or a country, or a group of contiguous counties. |
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| is the percentage of the civilian labor force which is unemployed. |
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| are less informative than simple random samples of the same size. |
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| checked for incomplete or inconsistent entries. |
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| operates more or less evenly across the sample, it cannot be detected just by looking at data. |
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