Krueger, Alan B.; Fortson, Kenneth N. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (2003) 4, pp. 931-957
Since 1979, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has nearly quadrupled the size of the sample used to estimate monthly employment changes. Although first-reported employment estimates are still noisy, the magnitude of sampling variability has declined in proportion to the increase in the sample...
