Ah! Unemployment stats are not extracted from taxes paid. I never said they were. I said the jobs numbers were derived from the employer FICA reporting.
In your post #52 you had taken issue with my statement that jobs in all categories are counted, non-union and small business. I thought you were disagreeing, arguing that self-employed consultants are not included in the jobs numbers derived from the federal withholding payroll reports.
So, I was in my post #56 explaining how the employer reporting provides the basis for the jobs numbers, no matter how the worker is paid. I was not explaining the basis for unemployment rate in my post #56.
So, in your post #58 (responding to my #56) I see the first instance in our conversation were you referenced unemployment to me, specifically:
Do you have any evidence that the labor department, which releses the unemployment stats, uses SS #s? This is the first I've heard of that. I thought they used business survey #s.I did not realize you were asking how employer reports generate data for unemployment rates, I don't think I implied that, and I thought we had been discussing where the data for the jobs numbers (not the unemployment rate) comes from.