 And they’re in the budget, but they’re a relatively small proportion.QUESTION:
Emmanuelle Richard. And what is the estimated people who don’t have a mailing address, people who are nomads, who are – you know, who keep moving in trailers or who are hard to reach –MR. WEINBERG:
Well, we don’t – we have a separate – an operation called Enumeration at Transitory Locations. It’s a fancy name, but it’s people who live in trailer parks – I mean, campgrounds. It’s people who live in marinas. It’s people who live – who work in circuses and carnivals, that travel around the country. We have a separate operation for them that just started this week, actually, to go to those people. We’ve identified those places. We will go there and try to – and enumerate them in person. I don’t have an estimate for you. We’ll know that after. But –QUESTION:
It’s very small (inaudible) migrant workers who keep moving from –MR. WEINBERG:
No. They’re – well, no, no. They’re included, because we know – those are physical locations we will visit. It’s the people that move around. I know – I think it’s, like, 20,000 locations, transitory locations we’re visiting, something like that number. So it’s a substantial effort over a fairly short period of time.
Dagmar Benesova. If I can ask maybe the last question. You mentioned that it lowered the unemployment by 0.5 percent.MR. WEINBERG:
I’d rather – QUESTION:
Would it be temporary just – so it’s for April unemployment rate or for the whole year?MR. WEINBERG:
No. No. It’s – don’t quote that number until you read the source, because I’m just – it was my recollection. But basically these people will start work the last week in April, and they’ll work for perhaps six to eight weeks, through May and June and then maybe some of them into July. So you won’t see it in the April unemployment rate that’s reported at the beginning of May. You should see some effect in the May unemployment rate that’s reported in the beginning of June. Because the way the unemployment rate survey is done is we ask people, “Were you working the week of in this case May 12th
or April 12th
?” And if we don’t hire them till the end of April, they won’t have been working April 12th
. It will be not until May that they have the job. So will show up at the – in the May rate, is my expectation.MODERATOR:
Well, thank you very much for a very informative briefing.MR. WEINBERG:
Oh, you’re welcome.