Annual averages

Employment and Earnings, Jan, 2002

NOTE: Annual averages for 2001 from the Current Population Survey (tables 1 through 49) will differ slightly from the results that would be obtained by averaging the 12 published monthly estimates, because the annual averages are calculated using data from the expanded 60,000-household sample for all of the months of 2001.

The published monthly estimates for January through June of 2001, however, are based on the old 50,000-household sample survey and were not revised when the expanded sample was introduced with the release of July 2001 data. For more information on the sample expansion, see "Expansion of the Current Population Survey Sample Effective July 2001" in the August 2001 issue of this publication.