Estimation of Current-Quarter Gross National Product by Pooling Preliminary Labor-Market Data
汇总初步劳动力市场数据估计当季国民生产总值
Two methods of using labor-market data as indicators of contemporaneous gross national product (GNP) are developed. The establishment survey data are used by inverting a partial-adjustment equation for hours. A second GNP forecast can be extracted from the household survey by using Okun's law. Using preliminary rather than final data adds about .2 to .4 percentage points to the expected value of the root mean squared errors and changes the weights that the pooling procedures…