There is no ministerial commentary. At the same time a press release of the Federal Labor Office on labor market appears with employment data of the Federal Statistical Office. Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology Tentative results of employment calculation are labeled as such in the monthly press releases and in other publications of the Federal Statistics Office. The first preliminary results obtain as ex-post forecasts will be replaced in the subsequent month by improved calculations which, however, are preliminary too and will be replaced again in some areas by new calculations, depending on the availability of improved data. Generally, users are informed in advance of envisaged fundamental revisions in the meeting of the Technical Committee on National Accounts and upon request.
Detailed information is provided with the publication of the results.
The initial data which are incorporated into the computation of average monthly employment are published in the corresponding Subject-matter series of the Federal Statistical Office, to the extent these official statistics are cited.