{
  "exhibit_id": "SEC-16-099",
  "source": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, series CES8081300001",
  "series_title": "All employees, thousands, religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (NAICS 813), seasonally adjusted",
  "read_from": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES8081300001?output_view=data&from_year=2019&to_year=2021&include_graphs=false (read Sept. 26, 2026 via WebFetch; the public v1 API at https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/CES8081300001 returns only the latest three years without a registration key)",
  "coverage_note": "CES/QCEW coverage of NAICS 8131 (religious organizations) is incomplete because religious organizations are exempt from FUTA and most State unemployment-insurance laws and many do not report; the series understates church employment. NAICS 813 also includes grantmaking, civic, social-advocacy, business and professional organizations.",
  "unit": "thousands of employees, seasonally adjusted",
  "data": {
    "2019": {"Jan": 3004.0, "Feb": 3002.2, "Mar": 3008.8, "Apr": 3013.1, "May": 3009.9, "Jun": 3016.1, "Jul": 3014.4, "Aug": 3011.5, "Sep": 3004.0, "Oct": 3004.3, "Nov": 3006.8, "Dec": 3009.0},
    "2020": {"Jan": 3007.4, "Feb": 3006.6, "Mar": 2993.7, "Apr": 2717.9, "May": 2714.5, "Jun": 2732.3, "Jul": 2737.7, "Aug": 2748.6, "Sep": 2777.7, "Oct": 2772.5, "Nov": 2751.9, "Dec": 2737.1},
    "2021": {"Jan": 2732.7, "Feb": 2723.4, "Mar": 2713.1, "Apr": 2721.4, "May": 2726.2, "Jun": 2754.1, "Jul": 2771.3, "Aug": 2776.2, "Sep": 2780.5, "Oct": 2788.1, "Nov": 2792.8, "Dec": 2799.7}
  },
  "derived": {
    "feb_2020_to_apr_2020_change_thousands": -288.7,
    "feb_2020_to_apr_2020_change_percent": -9.6,
    "sep_2021_vs_feb_2020_shortfall_thousands": -226.1,
    "sep_2021_vs_feb_2020_shortfall_percent": -7.5,
    "note": "Derived by the sector researcher from the values above; Q3 2021 employment in NAICS 813 remained about 7.5 percent below February 2020 on the last day of the third quarter of 2021."
  },
  "grade": "verified_primary",
  "retrieved": "2026-09-26"
}