The case of the missing seasonally adjusted Employment level

When I search for employment level at FRED, it finds 1244 series. Third on the list is

Employment Level, Thousands of Persons, Not Seasonally Adjusted (LNU02000000)

but I can't find a "seasonally adjusted" version of it. Oh, there's plenty to look thru, broken out by race and gender and marital status and god knows what-all, and various combinations of those. Plus, it looks like half or more of the 1244 results are for the unemployment level, in case I want exactly the opposite of the thing I asked for.

Thanks, guys.

I know they have the numbers, they must have the numbers. They have Employment level: Men, seasonally adjusted and not. And they have Employment Level: Women, seasonally adjusted and not. So, unless FRED is counting more than two genders these days, they can add up the men and women series and get Employment Level [Total] for "seasonally adjusted" and for "not". But I'll be damned if I can find it.

I got a screen shot of the first page of results, most of the first page. Maybe you can see the third one down is "employment level" with no subsetting conditions. That one's not seasonally adjusted. But I'll be damned if I can find its seasonally adjusted mate.

The best part of that screen shot is that I used Internet Explorer for the search. Couldn't find FRED's search box on the IE display. The search box is always on the right. This time, it's on the left and it overwrites some other text. In addition, the whole lower part of the display is pretty well garbled. And down at the bottom, I love that Done, but with errors on page message. Internet Explorer, what a piece of shit.

I just used IE for the screen shot. Normally I use Firefox, which creates no such errors.

In the end, I gave up and just did a Googlesearch for

"employment level" "seasonally adjusted" "FRED"

The second hit showed me ...... FRED series name. First ... and so I tried it. The PDF opened up in Firefox. I did a quick CTRL F search for FRED, and there it was: FRED series name CE16OV, the employment level. The third item down in Table A2.

Holy cow. Can it be I missed it, among those 1244 FRED search results?

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If you do a FREDsearch for CE16OV -- that's letter O, not number 0... Civilian Employment, age 16 and Over -- there is no ambiguity and FRED shows the graph of the CE16OV series.

If you do a FREDsearch for CE1, just the first three characters, you get four items, including CE16OV. But it doesn't really help, because if I know to search for CE1 then I probably remember the series name and don't have to do any search at all.

If you do a FREDsearach for employment level and get 1244 results -- 25 pages of results, thank you very much -- and then add an sa tag to filter out everything that's not "seasonally adjusted", you're down to five pages: 235 series.

Using Firefox's CTRL F search then, searching those five pages for CE16OV, I get nothing on the first page... nothing on the second page... nothing on the third page... nothing on the fourth page... and nothing on the fifth page. Hm.

Looks like a glitch in the matrix.



// Edit: 5:20 AM 1 April ... They fixed it already! 1245 results now. And look what's right at the top of the list: CE16OV.