Retail Trade: Automotive Parts, Accessories, and Tire Stores Payroll Employment in Texas

The Dallas Fed has improved the quality of the payroll employment estimates for Metropolitan Areas of Texas using early benchmarking and two-step seasonal adjustment. More information regarding the early benchmarking technique can be found at http://www.dallasfed.org/research/basics/benchmark.cfm. More information pertaining to two-step seasonal adjustment can be found at http://www.dallasfed.org/research/basics/twostep.cfm. Please note that this annual series created by the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas was calculated based on a seasonally adjusted monthly series.