Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment for National CES Survey
All-employee hours and earnings. BLS plans to transition from production/ nonsupervisory worker hours and earnings to all-employee hours and earnings in two stages. This plan will provide a multiyear overlap between the two series. Stage 1 –The new hours and earnings series added for all employees will be published beginning in early 2006. The current production and nonsupervisory worker series also will continue to be published. The retaining of current concepts should make the transition smoother for data users and for BLS, especially given that there will not be historical time series data available for the new all-employee-based hours and earnings series. Stage 2–After the all-employee hours and earnings series become well established with users, and there is a sufficient history to permit seasonal adjustment, the production/nonsupervisory worker series will be discontinued. BLS tentatively plans to drop these series in 2009.