Construction of Employment and Hours for Self-employed and Other Nonfarm Workers and for all Farm workers, Using Current Population Survey Data for Primary and Secondary Jobs

摘要

To construct hours for productivity measurement, the BLS Division of Major Sector Productivity (DMSP) relies primarily upon data from the BLS Current Employment Statistics program (CES, or establishment survey). Because the CES excludes nonfarm proprietors, unpaid family workers, and all farm workers, DMSP uses data from the BLS Current Population Survey (CPS, or household survey), to construct estimates of employment and hours at work for these workers. CPS data are also the basis for estimates of average weekly hours of government workers. For business sector productivity measurement, 86 percent of hours were obtained from the CES, and 14 percent from the CPS, in 2005.