In recent years, researchers have looked for supplements, in particular to data like JOLTS, to provide more nuance about job market dynamics.
"When JOLTS came along it was stepping into a data void that it has done a good job of filling.
An expanded JOLTS survey may get directly at that and other issues in the future, said Paul R. Calhoun Jr., who was involved with developing the survey in the 1990s and is its current manager.
"You got all these job openings," Calhoun said.
"We had the unemployment rate, so we knew how many people there are who are looking for work and don't have a job.