What are the differences between Current Employment Statistics
(CES)/
Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages (QCEW)
and Current Population Survey (CPS) Concepts? (pdf) |
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| CES and
QCEW |
Current
Population Survey (CPS) |
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| CES
and QCEW data pertain to filled jobs. |
CPS
data pertain to persons. |
| A
person may be included more than once if they hold more than one
job. |
A
person is included only once. |
| The
reference period is the pay period which includes the 12th
of the month. It could be weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, etc. |
The
reference period is the calendar week which includes the
12th of the month |
| If
a person is on an unpaid leave of absence during the payroll
period including the week of the 12th of the month, therefore not
on payroll, then that person is not included. |
A
person is included as employed during an unpaid absence because
they have a job to which to return. |
| CES
and QCEW are establishment-based data, based on place of work. |
CPS
are household-based data, based on place of residence. |
| Age
is not a factor. |
Persons
must be 16 years of age or older. |
| QCEW
data are for only UI covered industries. CES includes 'presumed
not covered. |
CPS
includes all employed persons. Industry UI coverage is not a
concern. |
| CES
and QCEW do not include self-employed and unpaid family workers.
They include some, but not all, domestic and agricultural workers. |
CPS
includes self- employed, unpaid family, domestic, and agricultural
workers. |
| QCEW
is a report, not a survey. CES is a sample-based survey. |
CPS
is a sample-based survey. |
| QCEW
data are universe counts. CES data are estimates, rather than
counts. |
CPS
data are estimates, rather than counts. |
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