Current Employment Statistics

New Hampshire Current Employment Statistics (CES)
Nonfarm Employment by Industry and Number of Jobs by Place of Establishment
Nonfarm employment is a survey-based estimate of employment by place of work. It does not include the self employed, unpaid family members, or agricultural workers. Go to the Glossary for an explanation of seasonal adjustments.

• April 2013 (released May 14, 2013)
  • Not Seasonally Adjusted
    • Over-the-Month
    • Year-to-Date
    • Employment, Hours, and Earnings for Production Workers in Manufacturing
    • Employment, Hours, and Earnings for All Employees by Industry
  • Sesaonally Adjusted
    • Over-The-Month
    • Year-to-Date
      
  • Charts
    • Nonagricultural Employment, Not Seasonally Adjusted
    • Retail Trade Employment, Not Seasonally Adjusted
    • Manufacturing Employment, Not Seasonally Adjusted
    • Average Weekly Earnings of Production Workers in Manufacturing, Not Seasonally Adjusted
    • Average Weekly Hours of Production Workers, Not Seasonally Adjusted

    
    

Detailed Monthly Analysis of Industry Employment Data
A monthly descriptive and graphic analysis of the monthly preliminary estimates for total nonfarm and major division employment in New Hampshire.

• Current Month: March 2013 | Archive
  
  
  

Benchmarked Data Files (all files, execpt production workers, include sub-state areas) | Data Tables Archive

Updated 2012 estimates for New Hampshire statewide labor force statistics, including nonfarm employment by industry.

Benchmarking is the process of re-estimating statistics as more complete data become available. The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program benchmark prior years’ estimates annually.

Annual revisions of CES estimates are benchmarked to actual employment counts. These counts are reported on unemployment insurance (UI) tax reports that nearly all employers are required to file with state workforce agencies, and are reviewed as part of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program. CES estimates are then revised to reflect updated information on business openings and closures.

	Revised 2011	Preliminary 2012
New Hampshire Nonfarm Employment
Not Seasonally Adjusted, all employees	NSA-AE, 2011	NSA-AE, 2012
Seasonally Adjusted, all employees	SA-AE, 2011	SA-AE, 2012
Not Seasonally Adjusted, production workers in Manufacturing	NSA-PW, 2011	NSA-PW, 2012
Not Seasonally Adjusted Hours and Earnings for All Nonfarm Private Sector Employees
Average Hourly Earnings - all private employees	AHE-AE, 2011	AHE-AE, 2012
Average Weekly Earnings - all private employees	AWE-AE, 2011	AWE-AE, 2012
Average Weekly Hours - all private employees	AWH-AE, 2011	AWH-AE, 2012
Not Seasonally Adjusted Hours and Earnings for Nonfarm Production Workers in Manufacturing
Average Hourly Earnings - production workers in Manufacturing	AHE-PW, 2011	AHE-PW, 2012
Average Weekly Earnings - production workers in Manufacturing	AWE-PW, 2011	AWE-PW, 2012
Average Weekly Hours- production workers in Manufacturing	AWH-PW, 2011	AWH-PW, 2012

Note: Production of State estimates is now performed by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
With the production of preliminary estimates for March 2011, responsibility for the production of State and metropolitan area (MSA) estimates has transitioned from individual State Workforce Agencies to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). At the same time, the BLS implemented several methodological changes to standardize the estimation approach across States. The use of these procedures will allow BLS to rely less on individual analyst judgment and more on the use of standard statistical methodology. While these changes will reduce the potential for statistical bias in state and metropolitan area estimates, they may increase the month to month variability of the estimates.

New Hampshire Employment Security's Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau will continue to provide the BLS with non-confidential information on local events that may impact the estimates, such as strikes or large layoffs at businesses not covered by the CES survey, and to disseminate and analyze the CES estimates for local data users.

According to the BLS, this change was designed to improve the cost efficiency of the CES program and to reduce the potential for statistical bias in state and area estimates.

More detailed information on the changes to procedures for producing CES estimates is available on the BLS Web site at www.bls.gov/sae/cesprocs.htm.