The Household Survey and the Establishment Survey Are in Sync.

Without the population control factor, employment in January would have only increased by 84,000. And at the same time, the labor force would have fallen by 5,000 so practically unchanged. So here we are, yet again, when you wade through all the data details, all the benchmarks and revisions, what you end up with is the establishment surveys way up here at 500,000 in January. And it's very likely the household survey is way down here at 84,000."

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