But what if the household survey's much weaker numbers are correct?

但是，如果家庭调查得出的疲弱数据是正确的，那要怎么办呢？

The household survey must rely on estimates of the overall population.

家庭调查必须依赖对总体人口的估计。

The payroll survey samples more than 600,000 worksites; the household survey, some 60,000 households.

在职人员调查抽样了60多万个工作场所，家庭调查抽样了大约6万个家庭。

The household survey asked households for their employment status during the week that contains the 12th the month.

家庭调查要求家庭在包含本月12日的一周内提供他们的就业状况。

The unemployment rate -- calculated in the household survey -- mostly avoids the problem of estimating the population, says Guy Berger of Burning Glass Institute, a research organisation.

燃烧玻璃研究所的盖伊·伯杰说，失业率（根据家庭调查计算得出）在很大程度上规避了人口估计的问题。

What's more, explains Baker, temporarily furloughed federal workers were counted as unemployed in the household survey, since, technically, they weren't working. That hurt the unemployment rate.

此外，贝克解释说，在家庭调查中，暂时失业的联邦工人被算作失业者，因为从技术上讲，他们没有工作。这伤害了失业率。

So the household survey showed a drop in employment, in government employment of about 450,000.So, these are people that were employed by the federal government, presuming mostly employed by the federal government.

因此，家庭调查显示，政府就业人数下降了约45万人。 因此，这些人是联邦政府雇佣的，假定他们大多受雇于联邦政府。