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KANSAS CITY AREA JOB COUNT RISES BY 17,100 OVER THE YEAR IN FEBRUARY 2008 Total nonfarm employment for the Kansas City, Mo.-Ks. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) rose by 17,100 over the year to 1,008,700 in February 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Kansas City MSA's 1.7-percent increase in employment was nearly three times the national increase of 0.6 percent. Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman noted that this marked the 48th consecutive month of over-the-year job growth in the metropolitan area. From February 2007 to February 2008, the rates of employment growth in Kansas City's two separately identifiable employment centers - the Missouri portion of the MSA and the Kansas portion of the MSA - were 1.5 and 2.0 percent, respectively. While the Kansas portion grew at a slightly faster pace, a similar number of jobs were added on both sides of the state line with the Missouri portion growing by 8,400 and the Kansas portion, by 8,700. (See chart A and table 1; Technical Note at end of release contains metropolitan area definitions. Data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, analysis is based on over-the-year comparisons.)Chart 1. Over-the-year net change in total nonfarm employment in the Kansas City metropolitan area and its components, January 2005-February 2008 
In the Kansas City, Mo.-Ks. MSA, four industry supersectors expanded by more than 2,000 jobs from February 2007 to February 2008. Over-the-year employment growth was led by the addition of 5,200 jobs in professional and business services, an increase of 3.6 percent. Nationally, this supersector grew much more slowly at 1.3 percent. Government, which added 3,300 jobs in Kansas City, grew at a 2.2-percent pace, twice the national rate of growth of 1.1 percent. Locally, jobs were up 3,100 in education and health services and 2,400 in trade, transportation, and utilities. The rate of job growth in trade, transportation, and utilities was also above the national rate, 1.2 versus 0.3 percent; and, though the percentage increase in jobs in education and health services did not surpass that for the nation, it none-the-less was close, 2.7 versus 2.9 percent.
Other job gainers included leisure and hospitality, up 1,500, and natural resources, mining, and construction, up 1,100. Other services added slightly less than 1,000 jobs. Manufacturing was the only supersector that recorded a loss of jobs over the year, down 1,300 (-1.6 percent). Still, the rate of job loss in manufacturing was slower than the national decline of 2.2 percent. Employment in the remaining two industry supersectors-information and financial activities-was little changed from February a year ago
Employment in the Missouri portion of the MSA, which accounted for 56 percent of the Kansas City workforce in February 2008, added 8,400 jobs over-the-year. The government supersector added the largest number of jobs in the Missouri portion, 2,700, and was up 2.9 percent from February 2007. Employment in natural resources, mining, and construction increased by 1,700 jobs, or 6.2 percent, over the year. Professional and business services gained 1,600 jobs; education and health services, 1,500; and trade, transportation, and utilities, 1,000. The largest over-the-year decline in the Missouri portion occurred in manufacturing, which lost 1,100 jobs. Employment in the remaining four industry supersectors varied by less than 1,000 from February a year ago.
The Kansas portion of the metropolitan area made up 44 percent of the Kansas City workforce and added 8,700 jobs from February 2007 to February 2008. Professional and business services contributed the largest number of jobs over the 12-month period in the Kansas portion, up 3,600, or 5.2 percent. Education and health services gained 1,600 jobs; trade, transportation and utilities, 1,400 jobs; and leisure and hospitality and other services were each up 1,300. Government, which added the largest number of jobs in the Missouri portion, was one of five industry supersectors in the Kansas portion to record little change over the year.
Technical Note This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program. The CES survey is a Federal-State cooperative endeavor in which State employment security agencies prepare the data using concepts, definitions, and technical procedures prescribed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted at their place of work rather than at their place of residence; those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification System. Method of estimation. The employment data are estimated using a "link relative" technique in which a ratio (link relative) of current-month employment to that of the previous month is computed from a sample of establishments reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the current month are obtained by multiplying the estimates for the previous month by these ratios. Small-domain models are used as the official estimators for approximately 39 percent of CES published series. Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, derived principally from tax reports which are submitted by employers who are covered under state unemployment insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the subsequent months. Reliability of the estimates The estimates presented in this release are based on sample survey and administrative data and thus are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of sampling variability--that is, variation that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed. Survey data are also subject to nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from the special estimation processes used. The sums of individual items may not always equal the totals shown in the same tables because of rounding. Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error for state CES data at the supersector level are available on the BLS Web site at http://www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Information on recent benchmark revisions for states is available at http://www.bls.gov/sae/. Area definitions. The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, dated December 5, 2005. A detailed list of the geographic definitions is published annually in the May issue of Employment and Earnings. The Kansas City, Mo.-Ks. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray Counties in Missouri; Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas.The Kansas City, Mo. portion includes Bates, Caldwell, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray Counties in Missouri. The Kansas City, Ks. portion includes Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas.Additional information More complete information on the technical procedures used to develop these estimates and additional data appear in Employment and Earnings, which is available by subscription from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (telephone 202-512-1800). Industry employment data for states and metropolitan areas from the CES program are also available in the above mentioned news releases and from the Internet at (http://www.bls.gov/sae/).
Last Modified Date: April 2, 2008 |
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