Economy
Employment
Description: Several measures of employment are available. Most exclude some wage and salary workers as well as all proprietors. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is the only source of total employment, including estimates of the number of proprietors as well as the total number of wage and salary workers. Estimates are available annually since 1969. State and national data are reported nine months after the end of a year. County data are released 16 months after the end of a year.
Total employment data are provided on Arizona Indicators since 1969 for the United States, Arizona, and the 15 Arizona counties.
Data Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Total employment is available from Table CA4 http://www.bea.gov/regional/reis/default.cfm?catable=CA04.
Comments on the Quality of the Data: The employment figures are estimates. The primary source is the Census of Employment and Wages, but the BEA must estimate employment for those not counted in the census. No distinction is made between full-time and part-time employment.
