We haven’t checked in on the household job survey in a while.
This set of employment data is distinct from the “establishment survey”
I usually cite in a couple of ways. The household survey is
conducted by polling — as the name would suggest — households about
their
employment status, while the the establishment survey polls
businesses. The effect of this difference is that the household
survey
measures employment among people who live in San Diego (regardless of
where they are employed) and the establishment survey gauges employment
at San Diego businesses (regardless of where those businesses’
employees live). The second big difference is that the household
survey counts self-employed people, while the establishment survey does
not.
