You’re providing very basic critiques of all surveys, not just this. Feel free to critique the methods that BLS (and many other big surveys) and you may be able

You’re providing very basic critiques of all surveys, not just this. Feel free to critique the methods that BLS (and many other big surveys) and you may be able to improve them. I think they certainly aren’t perfect and this isn’t meant as an absolute measure, but an estimate. So it’s the best measure we have compared to everything else. Perhaps we should ignore it because it is worse than nothing. But if you read through the methods you’ll see that they plan for the issues you bring up as they are typical for phone surveys. Also, if we’re just pitching narrative, I expect job seekers to be more likely to be responding to phone and email since they are waiting on interviews to contact them back.