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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (51526)3/3/2008 9:05:11 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 543174
 
How believable are average hours per worker? That would appear to be the best employment measure. Is it for all workers, or does it excluded part time?

However, if you look at how the employment polling is done, it is pretty poor IMO, rather a lot of statistical inference based on estimated job creation/loss which is not directly measured.

I know that for Oregon, the state actually could provide good detail for wage data, because I file both the total employee hours (for something called Workers Benefit Fund) as well as the normal income wage data (like W2's). So Oregon could compute total wage income and total worker hours, and also, could compute mean wage/hr as a result. I wonder if any law precludes them generating this data.

From what I provide the Feds, they can't do the same, because there is no hour data in any of the Federal tax forms.
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