----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:44 AM Subject: Re: Household vs. payroll employment
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:59:32PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > worth thinking about any catagories is why they would change enough > > in 4 years to account for the differences. The biggest factor is > > the population control, so that is one good reason to focus on that > > factor. For example, why would the worker classification errors show > > a ~3 million shift towards reporting self employed as payroll employed > > between 2001 and 2004? > > Where did the 3 million number come from? Box 2 on page 6, difference from March, 2001-Feb, 2004 shows a difference of 2.8 million. I called it ~3 million because I didn't want to convey the impression that I was dealing with numbers that were known precisely to +/- 0.05 million. Looking at the document you cited again, I should probably have used box 3 on page 7 instead of box 2. That makes the difference ~2.5 million, not ~3. >Are you looking at the revised data from BLS? To be exact, I'm looking at the smoothed revised data in that table. But, comparing the revised to the non-revised between March, 2001 and Dec,2003 (the closest I could get to an exact comparison from the tables on pp. 11 & 12, one sees a minimal difference of only 200k or so in the two calculated numbers. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
