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		mysterydip on Aug 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlie... "a downward revision of about 28 percent." I don't expect numbers to be perfect, but with the amount of data access and computing we have, 28 percent off seems like a large amount.

Aloisius on Aug 21, 2024 [–]

The underlying estimates are for total current employed so the error was -0.5%.

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