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.

Concurrent Seasonal Adjustment for Current Employment Statistics (CES) program.
With the release of January 2018 data on March 5, 2018, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program converted to concurrent seasonal adjustment which uses all available estimates, including those for the current month, in developing seasonal factors.  Concurrent seasonal factors are created every month for the current month’s preliminary estimates as well as the previous month’s final estimates.  Previously, seasonal factors were developed once a year during the annual benchmark process, and applied to the monthly estimates in the year ahead.  This methodology change aligns the CES program with other statistical programs that have recognized the value of concurrent seasonal adjustment.  The CES National program has been using this method since 2003, and the Business Employment Dynamics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, and Local Area Unemployment Statistics are utilizing concurrent seasonal adjustment.

• February 2020 (released March 17, 2020)
  • 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 |
  • Seasonally 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

    CES Data Release Schedule

Benchmarked Data Files (all files, except production workers, include sub-state areas)

• Benchmarked Data Files

Updated 2019 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.

2018 CES Benchmark Review

	Revised 2018	Preliminary 2019
New Hampshire Nonfarm Employment
Not Seasonally Adjusted, all employees	NSA-AE, 2018	NSA-AE, 2019
Seasonally Adjusted, all employees	SA-AE, 2018	SA-AE, 2019
Not Seasonally Adjusted, production workers in Manufacturing	NSA-PW, 2018	NSA-PW, 2019
Not Seasonally Adjusted Hours and Earnings for All Nonfarm Private Sector Employees
Average Hourly Earnings - all private employees	AHE-AE, 2018	AHE-AE, 2019
Average Weekly Earnings - all private employees	AWE-AE, 2018	AWE-AE, 2019
Average Weekly Hours - all private employees	AWH-AE, 2018	AWH-AE, 2019
Not Seasonally Adjusted Hours and Earnings for Nonfarm Production Workers in Manufacturing
Average Hourly Earnings - production workers in Manufacturing	AHE-PW, 2018	AHE-PW, 2019
Average Weekly Earnings - production workers in Manufacturing	AWE-PW, 2018	AWE-PW, 2019
Average Weekly Hours- production workers in Manufacturing	AWH-PW, 2018	AWH-PW, 2019

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.