{"id":69133,"date":"2009-12-07T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paranoid-about-government-employment-data-adps-private-data-lines-up-with-it-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-07T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:56:00","slug":"actually-government-employment-data-matches-up-nicely-with-adp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/69133","title":{"rendered":"Actually, Government Employment Data Matches Up Nicely With ADP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paranoid-about-government-employment-data-adps-private-data-lines-up-with-it-2009-12\/adp-blue-shows-a-better-trend-for-manufacturing-employment-than-the-bls-pink-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1d56f70000000000688972&amp;maxX=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"adp4\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'moneygame'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re skeptical about U.S. government employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), here&#8217;s a reminder &#8212; ADP&#8217;s private payrolls data has lined up reasonably well with it.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, ADP&#8217;s data has recently shown a more positive trend than the governments.<\/p>\n<p>No data set is perfect, thus the more data points that roughly line up, the more one can be confident that the indicated direction is indeed the real underlying trend.<\/p>\n<p>And while the employment situation remains challenging for many Americans, it&#8217;s pretty rich to argue that the overall unemployment trend hasn&#8217;t improved. It has, and more than one data set shows this.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paranoid-about-government-employment-data-adps-private-data-lines-up-with-it-2009-12\/adp-blue-shows-a-better-trend-for-manufacturing-employment-than-the-bls-pink-1\">Check out ADP&#8217;s latest employment data vs. the BLS&nbsp; &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/paranoid-about-government-employment-data-adps-private-data-lines-up-with-it-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ing-heres-why-the-friday-unemployment-report-was-total-bunk-2009-12\">ING: Here&#8217;s Why The Friday Unemployment Report Was Total Bunk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/is-the-unavailability-of-seasonal-gigs-screwing-with-the-governments-unemployment-data-2009-12\">Lack Of Seasonal Work Is The Real Reason To Question The Official 10% Unemployment Rate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rosenberg-theres-just-a-1-in-35-chance-fridays-employment-number-was-right-2009-12\">Rosenberg: There&#8217;s Just A 1-In-35 Chance Friday&#8217;s Employment Number Was Right<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/hzXZpQnH2pM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re skeptical about U.S. government employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), here&#8217;s a reminder &#8212; ADP&#8217;s private payrolls data has lined up reasonably well with it. In some cases, ADP&#8217;s data has recently shown a more positive trend than the governments. No data set is perfect, thus the more data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}