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If they are truly random sampling and performing monthly polls, then it is a little suspicious that I have never received a call in my 23 some odd years of work life asking if I am employed or not for BLS information purposes.

>>>If they are truly random sampling and performing monthly polls, then it is a little suspicious that I have never received a call in my 23 some odd years of work life asking if I am employed or not for BLS information purposes.

Not really that suspicious. 60,000 households reached each month results in 720,000 hhs per year. With about 110MM hhs in the country, odds in a given year amount to about 1 in 150.

Not too fishy for you as an individual. But what about for all of us. My math:

There are 114,000,000 households in the USA.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_households_are_in_the_US

60,000 are polled so
114,000,000 / 60,000 = 1900
You have a one in 1,900 chance of being polled in any month.

12 monthly polls a year.
1900 / 12 = 158
You have a 1 in 158 chance of being polled in any given year.

Median Age = 36 years old

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

So the average person here at FR will have had say 16 years of being an adult in the household that might get polled.
158/16 = ~10

SO, the average person here should have a 1 in 10 chance of having already been polled for the governments employment figures.

I haven’t been. Have YOU?