ADP, also known as Automatic Data Processing, is "one  of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions.   Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of HR, payroll,  tax and benefit administration solutions from a single source."[1]  These  services give them vast insight into national employment, and changes in  national employment.
 Much like  Challenger, Gray, & Christmas, they collate this information into a monthly  snapshot of the US employment situation.  ADP focuses entirely on the  private sector, however, because that's what they work with.
 In February, they  reported a seasonally adjusted employment increase of 217,000 jobs.   Looking at the March  report, we see two things right away:  First of all, private-sector  non-farm employment increased by 201,000 in March on a seasonally adjusted  basis.  Secondly, February's job growth was revised downwards to  208,000.
 164,000 (75.57%) of  those new jobs came from the service-providing sector and 37,000 (18.4%)  came from the goods-producing sector.  Large businesses were responsible  for 17,000 (8.45%) of the new jobs, medium-size businesses for 82,000  (40.8%), and small businesses for 102,000 (50.7%).
 [1]  From ADP's  web  site.
 
 
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