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cthulu2016

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10. How could that chart be published without the labor stats as a second line?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 07:50 PM

Mar 2012

Gallup's unemployment measure is not worthless... it's essentially half of what the Labor Dept does, a poll aksing ""do you have a job".

But since the Gallup measure is unconventional and volatile, why would it be presented without the standard unemployment number for comparison? After all, the piece compares the two February measures.

It has always anoyed me that Gallup doesn't do that on their site.