I understand this will likely be removed, and I get that, but I hope it gets some visibility before then. I’ve got to give a big tip of the hat to u/thecodeofsilence for pointing this on a thread earlier today, and unfortunately I can’t find any media source reporting on this very important piece of information, so I relied on an article from last month that discusses it.
Imputation of data means that data was guessed at rather than actually measured. If this number stays relatively similar month over month, then we are comparing apples to apples. However, per u/thecodeofsilence, the recent history of imputations as a percent of the data is:
November 2024-February 2025: imputation rate 9-11%.
March 2025: 15%
April 2025: 29%
May 2025: 30%
June 2025: 35%
July 2025: 32%
August 2025: 36%
September 2025: 40%
October 2025: no report
November 2025: 34%
December 2025: 40%
No, it’s not against the science or the government to point this out, it’s actually the rigor of science to point this out. Yes, by the public admission of the BLS, far more of today’s numbers are guesswork than they were a year a half ago. Attempts to tamp down this fact are aggressively anti-science, and I’m grateful it was pointed out.
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I understand this will likely be removed, and I get that, but I hope it gets some visibility before then. I’ve got to give a big tip of the hat to u/thecodeofsilence for pointing this on a thread earlier today, and unfortunately I can’t find any media source reporting on this very important piece of information, so I relied on an article from last month that discusses it.
Imputation of data means that data was guessed at rather than actually measured. If this number stays relatively similar month over month, then we are comparing apples to apples. However, per u/thecodeofsilence, the recent history of imputations as a percent of the data is:
November 2024-February 2025: imputation rate 9-11%.
March 2025: 15%
April 2025: 29%
May 2025: 30%
June 2025: 35%
July 2025: 32%
August 2025: 36%
September 2025: 40%
October 2025: no report
November 2025: 34%
December 2025: 40%
No, it’s not against the science or the government to point this out, it’s actually the rigor of science to point this out. Yes, by the public admission of the BLS, far more of today’s numbers are guesswork than they were a year a half ago. Attempts to tamp down this fact are aggressively anti-science, and I’m grateful it was pointed out.