Oregon Employment, January 2012
In January, Oregon saw an increase of 5,400 jobs (seasonally adjusted) Unemployment rate declined to 8.8 percent (U.S. is 8.3 percent) Benchmark revisions for 2011 were down, as expected This morning...
View ArticleUpdate on Oregon Employment
Warning, this post and discussion is very wonky and gets down into the weeds of employment data. The takeaway is that Oregon’s employment continues to grow right along with the nation overall. In fact,...
View ArticleState Employment Revisions
State level employment estimates are very important for forecasters, policymakers and the media Current monthly employment estimates are over one full year off benchmark Using QCEW data through Dec...
View ArticleState Employment Revisions, 2012q1
State level employment estimates are very important for forecasters, policymakers and the media Current monthly employment estimates are over one full year off benchmark Using QCEW data through Mar...
View ArticleOregon Employment Benchmark Update
Still at the conference but the Employment Department posted the latest QCEW for 2012q2 online the other day. That means it is time to update our office’s prelimenary, unofficial benchmark for Oregon...
View ArticleOEA Slides from FTA Conference
Just returned from the conference and wanted to post the two sets of slides I shared with the group for those of you who are interested. The first is the update on financial crises and contains more...
View ArticleOregon Regional Employment, Revisions
Just as the national and state level employment data is revised once per year, so is the local county and metro level data. Using the same general process as the Oregon preliminary benchmark and other...
View ArticleState Employment Revisions, 2012q2
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 2012q2 QCEW data for all states. Regular readers will recognize that this is the series we use to benchmark the state employment data. What...
View ArticleOregon Employment, Revisions
This morning the Oregon Employment Department released the preliminary December 2012 jobs report. After the revision to November, that month now shows job losses of 900 while December’s job gain is...
View ArticleSigns of Life
The 2012q4 QCEW data was just released the other day by the Employment Department and as regular readers know, this data is very useful in terms of gauging future employment revisions. As has been the...
View ArticleState Employment Revisions, 2012q4
While still on paternity leave and in between diaper changes today, my “data disease” got the better of me. I have been digging into the latest QCEW for all states released by BLS this morning and the...
View ArticleState GDP Revisions
One more on State GDP. As stated in the previous post, the BEA underwent a comprehensive revision that added various categories including R&D and Intellectual Property Products to the total....
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