Corrections to Employment Cost Index and Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Data

Employment Cost Index data for September 2012 through March 2013, as originally published, contained errors for several series.

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation contained errors for September 2012 and December 2012.

Employment Cost Index

The specific data series that contain statistically significant differences (when compared to the original estimates) for one or more reference periods, for 3-month or 12-month percent changes, are listed below:

Table 1. ECI series with statistically significant differences between originally published estimates and corrected estimates, September 2012 through March 2013, not seasonally adjusted

Table	Ownership	Measure	Series	September 2012	December 2012	March 2013
Table 4	Civilian	Total compensation	All workers, excluding incentive paid occupations	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 4	Civilian	Total compensation	Sales and office	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 4	Civilian	Total compensation	Sales and related	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 4	Civilian	Total compensation	Office and administrative support	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 12	Civilian	Benefits	All workers	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	All workers	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	All workers, excluding incentive workers	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Sales and office	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Sales and office, excluding incentive paid occupations	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Sales and related	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Sales and related, excluding incentive paid occupations	(Q) (A)	A	(Q) (A)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Office and administrative support	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Service-providing industries	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Service-providing industries, excluding incentive paid occupations	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Service-providing industries, sales and office	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Trade, transportation, and utilities	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Trade, transportation, and utilities, excluding incentive paid occupations	(Q)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Wholesale trade	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Wholesale trade, excluding incentive paid occupations	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
> Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Retail trade	(Q) (A)	(A)	(Q)
Table 5	Private industry	Total compensation	Retail trade, excluding incentive paid occupations	(Q) (A)	(A)	(Q) (A)
Table 6	Private industry	Total compensation	Nonunion, service-providing industries	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 6	Private industry	Total compensation	South	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 6	Private industry	Total compensation	South Atlantic	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 6	Private industry	Total Compensation	East South Central	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 6	Private industry	Total compensation	East North Central	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	All workers	(Q)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Sales and office	(Q) (A)	(A)	(Q) (A)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Production, transportation, and material moving	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Goods-producing industries	(*)	(*)	(Q)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Manufacturing	(*)	(*)	(Q) A
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Service-providing industries	(Q)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Table 12	Private industry	Benefits	Nonunion	(*)	(*)	(Q) (A)
Footnotes: (A) = Statistically significant 12-month percent change (Q) = Statistically significant 3-month percent change (*) = No statistically significant change

Other series were also corrected but the differences were not statistically significant. Table 2 contains all seasonally adjusted and not-seasonally adjusted series with at least one corrected estimate from September 2012 through March 2013. In some seasonal series, corrections were made to estimates prior to September 2012.

Corrected data are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/ect/data.htm. In addition, the following historical listings (located at www.bls.gov/ect/#tables) have been corrected:

• ECI Current-Dollar Historical Listings, NAICS basis (TXT) (PDF)
• ECI Constant-Dollar Historical Listings, NAICS basis (TXT) (PDF)
• ECI Continuous Occupational and Industry Historical Listing Series, September 1975 – Present (TXT) (PDF)
  • ECI Health Insurance, private industry
  • ECI Standard Errors
  • September 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
  • December 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
  • March 2013 (TXT) (PDF)
• Seasonal Factors and Revised Seasonally Adjusted Indexes
• • March 2013 (TXT) (PDF)

The following national ECI news releases, which contain the incorrect data, will not be reissued. However, they contain a statement about the errors and refer users to this website.

• September 2012 (USDL-12-2162) (HTML) (PDF)
• December 2012 (USDL-13-0143) (HTML) (PDF)
• March 2013 (USDL-13-0781) (HTML) (PDF)

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

The specific data series that contain statistically significant differences (when compared to the original estimates) for one or more reference periods are listed below:

Table 1. ECEC series with statistically significant differences between originally published estimates and corrected estimates, September 2012 and December 2012

Table	Ownership	Measure	Series	September 2012	December 2012
Table 1	Civilian	Insurance	Sales and office workers	(X)	(*)
Table 1	Civilian	Health insurance	Sales and office workers	(X)	(*)
Table 2	Civilian	Insurance	Sales and related workers	(X)	(X)
Table 5	Private industry	Insurance	Sales and office workers	(X)	(X)
Table 5	Private industry	Health insurance	Sales and office workers	(X)	(X)
Table 6	Private industry	Insurance	Trade, transportation, and utilities industries	(*)	(X)
Table 6	Private industry	Health insurance	Trade, transportation, and utilities industries	(*)	(X)
Table 9	Private industry	Insurance	Sales and related workers	(X)	(X)
Table 9	Private industry	Insurance	Service-providing industries, sales and office workers	(X)	(X)
Table 10	Private industry	Insurance	Retail trade industries	(X)	(X)
Table 11	Private industry	Insurance	Full time, sales and related workers	(X)	(X)
Table 11	Private industry	Insurance	Part-time, sales and related workers	(X)	(X)
Footnotes: (X) = Statistically significant change (*) = No statistically significant change
Note: All series are dollar estimates. Standard errors for proportion estimates are not computed.

Table 2 contains supplementary series that have at least one corrected estimate for September 2012 and December 2012 where the differences is statistically significant from the original estimate.
Table 3 contains news release series and table 4 supplemental series that have at least one corrected estimate for September 2012 and December 2012 that is not significantly different from the original estimate.
Corrected data are available at www.bls.gov/ncs/ect/data.htm. In addition, the following historical listings have been corrected:

• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Historical Listing, March 2004 to present (TXT) (PDF)
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Supplementary Tables Historical Listing, December 2006 to present (TXT) (PDF)
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Supplementary Tables
  • September 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
  • December 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
• ECEC Standard Errors – News Release Tables
  • September 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
  • December 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
• ECEC Standard Errors – Supplementary Tables
  • September 2012 (TXT) (PDF)
  • December 2012 (TXT) (PDF)

The following national ECEC news releases, which contain the incorrect data, will not be reissued. However, they contain a statement about the errors and refer users to this website.

 

Last Modified Date: July 17, 2013