[libertarian27]

From the same link: (table A-9)
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm

From April 2011 - to - May 2011

Full time jobs - down -142,000
Part time jobs - up +330,000

I’d like to know how they figured it to be +54,000 in May.

With +330,000 part time job additions and -142,000 full time jobs, those part time jobs must be very part time to get to a 54K figure.

Part time jobs do not a recovery make

And - multiple part time workers (which make up 5% of total employment) dropped -164,000 people....according to the numbers they aren’t being picked up as full time people - so, what’s happening here?

[libertarian27]

Oops (got numbers mixed up)

And - multiple part time workers (which make up 5% of total employment) added +164,000 people.

Self employed is dropping. Down- May '11 -273,000 from May 2010 figures.

[algernonpj]

... I’d like to know how they figured it to be +54,000 in May. ...

Here's what happening.

The BLS collects two types of data:
* Household data which is found in the A Tables, and
* Payroll data which is found in the B tables.

The official employment rate and the information you have posted thus far is all from the A tables.

The +54,00 figure is from the B tables. I has been adjusted by the Birth and Death model by +206,000!. About 1/2 way down the page, notice the annual benchmark adjustment in January of this Year!.

List of all the A and B tables found here

The Birth and Death model is a statistical tool to guesstimate the number of jobs that are added and lost as the result of businesses opening and closing.

Sneaky little devils aren't they.