Re: [CTRL] Suspicious Farm Job Data

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Wingate
-Caveat Lector- On 5 Nov 2002 at 21:32, flw wrote: > "Is anything real going on here?" asked Robertson at Macquarie. "Or is it > best just to walk away with the conclusion that the household survey > data -- including the published unemployment rate -- are too erratic to be > taken seriously?" T

[CTRL] Suspicious Farm Job Data

2002-11-05 Thread flw
-Caveat Lector- Reuters Odd Farm-Sector Surge Distorts Jobs Data Tuesday November 5, 2:48 pm ET By Wayne Cole NEW YORK (Reuters) - An inexplicable surge in farm jobs has played a major part in keeping the U.S. unemployment rate down in recent months, despite persistent weakness in other labor m