Labor market experts said yesterday that flawed sampling methods are probably responsible for a serious job-loss undercount in official government statistics, as reported yesterday by The Chronicle.
New data indicate that California had about 180,000 fewer jobs in September than the number officially reported by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state Employment Development Department in their monthly calculation of payroll employment.
The statistics bureau says the problem exists nationally but won't say how severe it is. It is conducting an internal review to find out why official jobs statistics are diverging from other sources of data.
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