Looking at seasonally adjusted data, the current level of job creation, at around 100k per month, is well below its peak seen in mid-2010 and close to the level last seen in August 2009.
We adjusted salary data to account for cost-of-living expenses and discarded any school with a response rate below 15%.
But based on non-seasonally adjusted BLS data and real-time employment indicators, TrimTabs estimates that job growth was 147, 000 jobs.
To get a separate look I seasonally adjusted the data by hand.
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Its rank fell from No. 28 last year (adjusted for late data) to No. 112.
But the government unions argue that any advantage they receive disappears after the data is adjusted for factors such as education.
Some worry that there will be unintended consequences, no matter how carefully data are adjusted to account for differences among the patients treated.
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Labor Department data is adjusted for seasonal labor shifts, like summer auto-plant shutdowns, and receives a number of revisions before a final number is tallied.
Computer systems were not functioning but data was manually adjusted, artillery expert Steven Krstic said.
That is why most people pay attention to the seasonally adjusted number, as this data series is extremely noisy.
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But the lower number includes an additional three weeks of data and was adjusted for various factors, including age and race or ethnicity.
As far as I am aware, once the data are seasonally adjusted there is no reason to think of Jan-Feb as being special inventory wise.
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In August, for example, the raw data (Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA)) showed the number of jobs fell by 568, 000.
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Mortgage applications complete the set of bad data, with the seasonally adjusted number down 14.4% from a week ago and 2.8% in terms of its 4-week moving average.
The per capita income gap between the top 10% of urban households and bottom 10% of rural households is adjusted from 23x based on the official data to 65x.
Since headline CAGED is not seasonally adjusted, it only makes sense to compare data across years.
The data are notoriously unreliable and are invariably adjusted months later.
Unfortunately, very few people know that since very few others track the same real time data sources that we do, such as adjusted daily income tax collections and online job postings.
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And that estimate for when the drop-dead deadline will take place remains an estimate and could be adjusted up or back as more information comes in, more data comes in.
U.K. retail sales increased more than expected in July and figures for June were adjusted to show robust trade, adding to expectations that official data will be revised to show the country isn't as deeply in recession as estimated.
This transcript shows basic data including marital status, type of return filed, adjusted gross income and taxable income.
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Separately, data showed Wednesday that housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 584, 000 in November at the fastest rate since May, and building permits increased at their fastest clip since November 2008.
Adjusted OIBDA margin (as defined in Note 9 to the Selected Data, below) was 31% in the fourth quarter of 2011, consistent with the third quarter of 2011 and up from 29% in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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The GAO also questioned whether there was enough data to figure out how much the bundled payment should be adjusted to include these oral medicines.
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Recent data from the Economic Policy Institute show that the inflation-adjusted hourly wage of college-educated Americans aged 23 to 29 dropped about 4.7 percent from 2007 to 2011.
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This structuring of the data still shows a secular rise in the amount of inflation-adjusted per capita federal spending.
U.S. gross domestic product data on Friday showed the American economy expanding at an inflation-adjusted 3.4% annual rate in the second quarter, which should have been good news for equities, but analysts believed the market's focus would quickly return to the credit markets.
As a result, adjusted OIBDA rose again year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2011 and branded data ARPU grew 20 percent year-on-year as smartphone adoption accelerated, " said Philipp Humm CEO and President of T-Mobile USA. "However, not carrying the iPhone led to a significant increase in contract deactivations in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Macroeconomic Advisers adjusted its expected third-quarter growth rate to 2.4% from 3% after the trade data appeared.
U.S. data were also in focus, as initial jobless claims dropped by 35, 000 to a seasonally adjusted 353, 000, which was a larger drop than expected.
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