Category: DataSources

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Understanding the data

The Department of Labor posts their own employed totals in three basic formats that I have found so far. The are: OES – https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm CES – https://www.bls.gov/ces/ CPS – https://www.bls.gov/cps/ Problem is, they all seem to be based on samples.…

Non-Immigrant Guest Worker Data

There are two types: Applications – https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance Approvals – https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies Applications seem to run around 500,000 to about 650,000 per year, and you can find a summary for each year like this one: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/LCA_Selected_Statistics_FY2020.pdf Approvals can be found in reports…