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The Conference Board Employment Trends Index Declined in January
February 5, 2019 | The Conference BoardEstimated reading time: 1 minute
The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) decreased in January, following an increase in December. The index now stands at 109.56, down from 110.96 (a downward revision) in December. The decrease marks a 3.4% gain in the ETI over the past 12 months.
“Due to the government shutdown, some of the components in this month’s Employment Trends Index release were unavailable or biased. Therefore, we encourage users to take this month’s decline with some caution,” said Gad Levanon, chief economist, North America, at The Conference Board. “However, we can still conclude that the index has experienced some softening since the summer, suggesting that job growth will slow down in 2019. Overall economic activity rapidly grew through the end of 2018, suggesting that employment growth will remain solid in early 2019, but as the economy slows down, job growth will also slow down later in the year. A slowdown in job growth is not unexpected in an economy that has expanded for this long and reached such a low unemployment rate.”
January’s decrease was fueled by negative contributions from seven of the eight components. From the largest negative contributor to the smallest, these were: the ratio of involuntarily part-time to all part-time workers, the percentage of firms with positions not able to fill right now, percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to get,” initial claims for unemployment insurance, job openings, real manufacturing and trade sales, and industrial production.
The Employment Trends Index aggregates eight labor-market indicators, each of which has proven accurate in its own area. Aggregating individual indicators into a composite index filters out “noise” to show underlying trends more clearly.
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