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In reply to the discussion: Obama's Record On Job Creation Is 157,143 Per Month Since 4/2010, - better than any Republican- [View all]progree
(13,010 posts)The famous jobs report -- both the payroll jobs and the unemployment rate -- come out the FIRST FRIDAY of the month, 830 AM ET.
By the way, the payroll jobs report and the unemployment rate are based on separate surveys (the former of employers, the latter of households) though they happen to come out at the same time -- first Friday of the month.
Here's where the OFFICIAL data may be accessed. Accessing it from anywhere else may be problematic as one may be viewing someone's inaccurate or old copy or massaged - for - political - purposes copy.
# Payroll Jobs: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001 and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left
# Private Sector Payroll Employment: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
# Monthly change of above: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth
# . . Hint: to see both of the above two together on the same page, go to http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001
and click on the "More Formatting Options" link in the upper right and check the "Original Data Value" and the "1-Month Net Change" checkboxes and click the "Retrieve Data" button halfway down the page on the left
# Unemployment Rate, from 1948 on: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
# Labor Force Participation Rate from 1948 on: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
(on both of the above, you can change the "From" and "To" dates to whatever you want at the top center pulldown boxes