{"id":1252,"date":"2025-02-06T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/02\/06\/fridays-jobs-report-will-be-confusing-heres-how-to-make-sense-of-it\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:15:14","slug":"fridays-jobs-report-will-be-confusing-heres-how-to-make-sense-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/02\/06\/fridays-jobs-report-will-be-confusing-heres-how-to-make-sense-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday\u2019s Jobs Report Will Be Confusing. Here\u2019s How to Make Sense of It."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Labor Department\u2019s latest monthly report on hiring and unemployment will include revisions for previous months that should give a more accurate picture of the U.S. job market \u2014 but that could also sow confusion.<\/p>\n

When the data is released on Friday, one major measure of employment will be revised up. Another will be revised down. Some historical numbers will be revised, but others won\u2019t. And the updates, though part of a routine process, will be taking place in a political environment where both sides have at times expressed skepticism of government economic statistics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is going to be a massive amount of confusion,\u201d said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy arm of the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n

Here is what economists say you will need to know about the revisions to make sense of the numbers.<\/p>\n