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Huge Revisions Across ADP’s Entire History

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  • The upshot is that it suggests employment growth was softer than first thought in 1H22 (average 340k vs 395k prior) but then moderated notably less in 2H22 (272k vs 208k prior).
  • For completeness, private payrolls currently sees those two figures as 438k for 1H22 and slowing to 263k in 2H22.
  • Within the details, the unusually large -151k shedding of jobs at large firms in Dec was revised away to a 52k gain, followed by a 128k increase in Jan. However, that weather distortion appears to have a greater impact on smaller firms, with those with 1-19 employees seeing a 70k drop.
  • Press release on revisions: “January's report presents the scheduled annual revision of the ADP National Employment Report, which updates the data series to be consistent with the annual Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) benchmark data for March 2022. In addition, this revision introduces some methodological changes, namely, in re-weighting of ADP data to match QCEW data, seasonal adjustment of weekly data instead of monthly data, and constructing the national aggregate from industry aggregates.”

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