There has to be a better system...this one is obviously very flawed.. I read the link, which is why I'm saying it's obviously flawed the way it's set up...there's no point in putting out numbers that really don't mean anything...
The numbers do mean something. They are an attempt to tell us what the employment is.
You seem confused as to why the numbers are not as accurate as you want them to be.
What the numbers actually reflect is how many people are working. That number is about 168,000,000. The number of people working is then compared to the previous months number of people working. The difference between those two numbers is the number of jobs added or lost.
If one month the numbers say there were 168,000,000 people working and the next month the numbers say there are 168,250,000 people working that shows a 250,000 increase in jobs month to month. But if you can do the math, you will realize that 250,000 is 0.15% of the total people working. If the next month, the number is revised to only 125,000 jobs added then it means that the original numbers were only 99.95% accurate instead of being 99.999% accurate.
(When I develop an IEP for a student, if the psychologist and a few others who have critical input don't respond in a timely manner, should I just make things up? And change it later if they ever get back to me? Or if they're sick, on vacation, don't know they have to report, or just forget, or lie to get me to stop reminding them the info is due, should I just continue to write the evaluation according to what particular mood I'm in that day?)
When you develop an IEP for 100,000,000 students do you refuse to do any IEP if you only have the data for 99,950,000 students? Do you tell your boss, you refuse to do it until you get all the information even though you will be 99.95% accurate without that information?
If you have 99.9% of the data you need for one student, do you refuse to do the IEP until you get that last 0.1% of the questions answered?
Feel free to tell us how you propose you would get 99.999% of the jobs data every month. I'm sure BLS would be happy to do it if you can provide such a way.