Were there special procedures for seasonally adjusting the payroll employment series?
CES national estimates utilize a concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology which incorporates estimates up through the most current reference month. While there have been no methodology changes, BLS has been carefully reviewing the estimates to determine whether any industry series should be treated as outliers for any particular month. Outlier treatment essentially recognizes a months data as atypical and mitigates any smoothing of the employment change back across earlier months. No industries have been selected as outliers for seasonal adjustment. State seasonal adjustment factors are updated annually, with January estimate publication, and will not be subject to any changes until the January 2011 estimates are released.
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