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Temporary Decennial Census workers almost gone

By Anonymous

Next week I'll have an estimate of the impact of the temporary decennial hiring and layoffs on the September employment report.

It is worth noting that the Census came in well under budget, and the temporary workers are almost all gone. One of the reasons the Census came in under budget was because of the quality of temporary workers hired (a small benefit from the high unemployment rate).

This month also marks the end of the weekly payroll report from the Census Bureau: "These data will continue through the end of September with the last release of data being the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2."

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This graph shows the number of Census workers paid each week. The red labels are the weeks of the BLS payroll survey.

The temporary Census payroll decreased to 9,820 last week, and September will be the last month with a significant impact on the employment report.

Full post as published by Calculated Risk on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).