The payroll survey can easily double-count someone: if you are one person with two jobs, you show up as two workers.

工资调查很容易把一个人重复计算进去：如果你是一个人同时做两份工作，你就会以两名员工的身份出现。

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The payroll survey also doesn't capture the number of self-employed, and so says little about how many people are generating an independent income.

工资单调查也没有统计个体经营者的数量，因此也没有说明有多少人在产生独立收入。

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There is another survey, sometimes referred to as the payroll survey, that assesses 400000 businesses based on their reported payrolls.

还有另一项调查，有时也被称为薪酬调查，即根据企业公布的薪酬对40万家企业进行评估。

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What's throwing investors off this time, he says, is the Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll survey.

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Maybe entrepreneurs are all over the place starting new businesses not picked up by the payroll survey.

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Government data derived from the monthly payroll survey counts 1.9 million jobs created in the last year.

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