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separately, but in the DES unemployment data, she would be counted only once, as an employed worker. Population Notes is published quarterly by the State Similarly, if one of her three jobs was eliminated, the Demographer's Office in Minnesota Planning. For BEA data would show a decline in employment, but as information or additional copies of Population Notes, long as she kept one of her other jobs, she would still be contact the Census Help Line at(612)296-2557. counted as employed by DES.Another difference is that Upon request,Population Notes will be made available in the BEA data is based on place of work, while the data an alternate format,such as Braille, large print or audio used to calculate the unemployment rate is based on tape.For TDD,contact Minnesota Relay Service at(612) place of residence. 297-5353 or(800)627-3529 and ask for Minnesota Planning. The BEA uses a variety of sources,principally from ad- Printed on recycled paper with at least 10 percent post- mmistrative records,to make the employment estimates. consumer waste. These sources include employer payroll records, tax records,and the annual County Business Patterns publi- cations. The documentation found in BEA publications like the BEA it does not attempt to measure self-employ- and CD-ROMs provides more details. ment.A third DES employment series,used in projections of future employment, incorporates an estimate of self- Employment Data from the Minnesota employment,but measures it in a different way than the Department of Economic Security BEA does. For more information call the DES at (612) 296-6545. The Minnesota Department of Economic Security main- tains several employment data series,including the regu- larly updated county unemployment statistics. In Acknowledgments addition to the count of employed and unemployed people, the DES also maintains two other series of em- Thanks to Don Hilber, Minnesota Department of Eco- ployment data that differ from the BEA's. One is a series nomic Security, and Pat Meagher, Minnesota Depart- of wage and salary employment.Like the BEA data,this ment of Finance, for their comments on earlier drafts of is based on jobs rather than employed persons, but un- this report. • Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID Permit No.171 St-Paul,MN 658 Cedar Street St. Paul, MN 55155 Kevin Kingwala City of Arden Hills 1450 W. Hwy. 96 Arden Hills MN 55112 POPULATION • "CP7WM!S