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Enormous Discrepancy Between Jobs and Employment Continues

Freedom Outpost by Freedom Outpost
August 2, 2014
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Now that employment distortions related to the government shutdown in October are behind us, let’s take a detailed look at the recent and growing discrepancy between jobs as reported on the establishment survey and employment as reported on the household survey.

Jobs vs. Employment Discussion

Before diving into the details, it is important to understand limits on data, and how the BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) measures jobs in the establishment survey vs. employment in the household survey.

Establishment Survey: If you work one hour that counts as a job. There is no difference between one hour and 50 hours.
Establishment Survey: If you work multiple jobs you are counted twice. The BLS does not weed out duplicate social security numbers.

Household Survey: If you work one hour or 80 you are employed.
Household Survey: If you work a total of 35 hours you are considered a full time employee. If you work 25 hours at one job and 10 hours at another, you are a full time employee.

Household Survey vs. Establishment Survey

household-vs-establishment-survey

Over time, and with revisions, the two data series move in sync (as they should in normal conditions):

  • People get jobs (employment should rise)
  • People lose jobs (employment should drop)

However, there has been a serious discrepancy between the two data series in the last year that is not apparent in the above chart. A few tables will show what I mean.

Household vs. Establishment Year-Over-Year Comparisons

Category Nov-08 Nov-09 Nov-10 Nov-11 Nov-12 Nov-13
Employed Household 144,100 138,665 139,046 140,771 143,277 144,386
Jobs Establishment 135,130 129,593 130,300 132,268 134,472 136,765

Household vs. Establishment Year-Over-Year Averages

Category Nov-09 Nov-10 Nov-11 Nov-12 Nov-13
Yoy Change Household (5,435) 381 1,725 2,506 1,109
Yoy Change establishment (5,537) 707 1,968 2,204 2,293
Monthly Average Household -453 32 144 209 92
Monthly Average Establishment -461 59 164 184 191

Household vs. Establishment Month-Over-Month Changes

Month Household Establishment M/M Change HH M/M Change Establishment
Sep-12 142974 134065
Oct-12 143328 134225 354 160
Nov-12 143277 134472 -51 247
Dec-12 143305 134691 28 219
Jan-13 143322 134839 17 148
Feb-13 143492 135171 170 332
Mar-13 143286 135313 -206 142
Apr-13 143579 135512 293 199
May-13 143898 135688 319 176
Jun-13 144058 135860 160 172
Jul-13 144285 135949 227 89
Aug-13 144170 136187 -115 238
Sep-13 144303 136362 133 175
Oct-13 143568 136562 -735 200
Nov-13 144386 136765 818 203

The third table shows the volatile nature of the data, especially the household survey. It’s the second table that is the important one. Take special note of the bottom two lines in the second table.

Until this past year, the establishment survey and household survey moved tightly. In the last 12 months, the payroll survey averaged a gain of 191,000 jobs a month while the household survey averaged less than half of that at 92,000 jobs per month.

Blame Obamacare

Obamacare is the most likely explanation for the discrepancy.

Recall that the definition of full time under Obamacare is 30 hours, but full time to the BLS is 35 hours.

Next, consider what happens under Obamacare if someone working 34 hours
is cut back to 25 hours, then picks up another part time job.

Obamacare Effect

Prior to Obamacare
34 hours worked = 1 part time job household survey
34 hours worked = 1 job establishment survey

Enter Obamacare Person cut back to 25 hours and takes a second job for 10 hours

Here is the new math

25 + 10 = 1 full time job on the household survey.
25 + 10 = 2 jobs on the establishment survey.

In my example, the household survey totals up all the hours and says, voila! (35 hours = full time). So a few extra hours that people pick up working 2 part time jobs now throws someone into full time status –

thus no surge in part-time employment, but there is a surge in jobs.

I commented on this discrepancy last month and repeat my claim again today.

Request to ADP

To prove my thesis, we need to weed out duplicate social security numbers. The
BLS can’t, but ADP can. I contacted them twice but to no avail.

I would like ADP to crunch the data and determine how many duplicate social security numbers show up vs. the same months in prior years. If I am wrong it won’t be the first time. But let’s have a look at the

numbers and see what they say.

For further discussion and a synopsis of what really happened in today’s job report, please see Beneath the Headline Numbers, Not a Good Jobs Report

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