"The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn't calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers. Instead, it will release some of the October jobs data - most importantly the number of jobs that employers created last month - along with the full November jobs report, now due a couple of weeks late on Dec. 16."
"The monthly jobs report consists of two parts: a survey of households that is used to determine the unemployment rate, among other things; and the "establishment" survey of companies, nonprofits and government agencies that is used to track job creation, wages and other measurements of labor market health. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the household survey for October could not be conducted because of the shutdown and could not be done retroactively."
The 43-day federal government shutdown prevented the Labor Department from conducting the household survey needed to calculate October's unemployment rate and several other key measures. The department will withhold the full October employment situation but will release employer-based establishment survey data on the number of jobs added. Those establishment numbers will be published alongside the full November jobs report, now delayed until Dec. 16. The September jobs report becomes the most recent full monthly measure ahead of the Federal Reserve's Dec. 9-10 meeting. Controversy surrounds recent jobs data after the July report and the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.
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