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Employment Projections

EP Methods Overview Page

An in-depth guide on how we create estimates and the concepts we measure.
How do we make employment projections? See this overview to find out.
Downloadable materials describing our classification systems and how they map to other systems.
An overview of how we develop occupational separations data along with links to more detailed discussions.
Explore additional information about the EP program including appendices to the Handbook of Methods and other papers.