New unemployment stats

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Fri Sep 20 10:34:37 PDT 2002


On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Christian Gregory wrote:


> > Question: "Seasonally adjusted" means ... ?
>
> Taking into account the fluctuations of both the labor force and employment
> rate due to the time of year.
>
> Christian

I'd gathered it meant something along these lines. But I guess my question is really how these things are determined, what they consist of, etc. I understand it can be a fairly involved topic. Any explanatory websites that break it down (outside of the monstrously unhelpful DoL pages, that is) that you know of?

Thanks,

Brian

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