stats.bls.gov/web/cpseea1.pdfBelow are the statistics from the 1-page summary of the BLS Employment report for Households (This is not the Payroll Employment report)
The 1st number is the total "civilian non-institutional population, 16 years and over."
The 2nd number is the total (participating) labor force.
The 3rd number is the Labor Force Participation Rate .
The 4th number is the total employment number.
The 5th number is the % of the working age population that is employed.
The 6th number is the alleged Unemployment number.
The 7th number is the alleged Unemployment rate.
The Last number is the number considered "Not-In-Labor-Force."
A-1. Employment status of the civilian non institutional population 16 years and over
2006:
August ........................ 229,167 151,734 66.2 144,618 63.1 7,116 4.7 77,433
September ................... 229,420 151,818 66.2 144,906 63.2 6,912 4.6 77,602
October ....................... 229,675 152,052 66.2 145,337 63.3 6,715 4.4 77,623
November .................... 229,905 152,449 66.3 145,623 63.3 6,826 4.5 77,456
December .................... 230,108 152,775 66.4 145,926 63.4 6,849 4.5 77,333
2007:
January 3 ..... 230,650_152,974_66.3_145,957_63.3_7,017_4.6_77,676
February ...... 230,834_152,784_66.2_145,919_63.2_6,865_4.5_78,050
March .......... 231,034_152,979_66.2_146,254_63.3_6,724_4.4_78,055
April ............ 231,253_152,587_66.0_145,786_63.0_6,801_4.5_78,666
May ............ 231,480_152,762_66.0_145,943_63.0_6,819_4.5_78,718
June ............ 231,713_153,072_66.1_146,140_63.1 6,933_4.5_78,641
July ............. 231,958_153,231_66.1_146,110_63.0_7,121_4.6_78,727
August ......... 232,211_152,891_65.8_145,794_62.8_7,097_4.6_79,319
The total number employed declined -316,000 in August, compared to the Payroll Employment decline of only -4,000.
In addition, the Payroll Employment decline was greatly reduced by the addition of +120,000 "imputed" jobs from the
BLS's birth/death concoction. These are jobs that were not counted, nor even extrapolated from the jobs that actually
were counted. Instead, the "imputed jobs" addition comes from a guesstimate of the net number of jobs created from new firms-- firms so new that the BLS doesn't yet have payroll statistics on them. Many of the industries, where additions were made, are clearly contracting (like Construction & Financial Services). It seems obvious that many of these "additions" should really have been "subtractions."
Without the addition of 120,000 more workers from this "imputation," Payroll Employment
would have declined -124,000.