What is the difference between LAUS employment and CES employment?
There are many definitional differences between the LAUS employment estimates and the CES employment estimates. The main difference is that LAUS is a count of people employed by place of residence while CES is an estimate of the number of jobs by place of work. CES covers only nonagricultural employment while LAUS estimates total employment across all industries and covers others not included in CES such as the self-employed and domestic workers. Although the two series generally follow the same trends, they cannot be directly compared due to the many definitional and methodological differences between them.
