Cajner, Tomaz; Crane, Leland D.; Decker, Ryan A.; … - 2019
processing firm ADP. We briefly describe the ADP-derived data series, compare it to the BLS data, and describe an exercise that … benchmarks the data series to an employment census. The CES and the ADP employment data are each derived from roughly equal …-sized samples. We argue that combining CES and ADP data series reduces the measurement error inherent in both data sources. In …