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Not in their primary news release. A footnote says it is "generally conducted at the 90% interval", but the individual numbers do not have their actual compute
by jmalicki 2mo ago
Not in their primary news release. A footnote says it is "generally conducted at the 90% interval", but the individual numbers do not have their actual computed error bars.
Yes, they do publish them, but it is disappointing their primary releases do not have them.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
- biophysboy 2mo agoIt’s common in scientific/stats publishing to have the headline state the avg/median, the main text plot the errors, and the supplementary give the explicit numbers. They have a big page about std errors.
- jmalicki 2mo agoThe main text doesn't plot the error bars, and the full data tables in their release don't have error bars either. You have to really dig into their website to find their std errors.
- biophysboy 2mo agobls.gov/ces is the main page for this survey and has a plot. The error updates annually. Their handbook has a Reliability section where they detail sampling/nonsampling error.