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Employment Projections

Projections Evaluations

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2012 and onward

Evaluations of projections from 2012 and onward are published in a new format, designed to be comparable over time.

Before 2012

  • Wyatt, Ian, "Evaluating the 1996–2006 employment projections," Monthly Labor Review, September 2010,   pp. 33-69. (PDF)
  • Fullerton, Howard N, Jr., "Evaluating the BLS labor force projections to 2000," Monthly Labor Review, October 2003,  pp. 3-12. (PDF)
  • Alpert, Andrew and Auyer, Jill, "Evaluating the BLS 1988–2000 employment projections," Monthly Labor Review, October 2003,  pp. 13-37. (PDF)
  • Rosenthal, Neal H., "The quality of BLS projections: a historical account," Monthly Labor Review, May 1999,  pp. 27-35l. (PDF)
  • Rosenthal, Neal H., "Evaluating the 1995 BLS projections: introduction," Monthly Labor Review, September 1997, pp. 3-4. (PDF)
  • Fullerton, Howard N, Jr., "Evaluating the 1995 BLS projections: labor force projections," Monthly Labor Review, September 1997, pp. 5-9. (PDF)
  • Fullerton, Howard N., Jr., "Evaluating the 1995 BLS labor force projections," Proceedings of the Section on Government Statistics and Section on Social Statistics, (Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association, 1997), pp.394-399.
  • Andreassen, Arthur, "Evaluating the 1995 BLS projections: industry employment projections," Monthly Labor Review, September 1997, pp. 9-15. (PDF)
  • Veneri, Carolyn M., "Evaluating the 1995 BLS projections: occupational employment projections," Monthly Labor Review, September 1997, pp. 15-31. (PDF)

Availability

Monthly Labor Review issues from 1982 to the present are available online. Earlier issues are out of print but should be available at a Federal Depository Library.

 

Last Modified Date: September 6, 2023