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Peer reviewedBuss, Terry F. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1986
This study employs the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) survey methodology to estimate unemployment in the Youngstown/Warren Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) in June 1984. When the resulting estimates are compared with those obtained using the BLS's local survey methodology, it is found that the BLS estimates significantly understate…
Descriptors: Employment Statistics, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Bias
