Absent a jobs report, here are some other ways of looking at the US labor market

A large US flag is seen on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington DC, on September 8. Anadolu/Getty Images

On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report.

Instead, the agency behind the market-moving release — data that has starkly become even more important, given economic uncertainty — is almost entirely dark due to the federal shutdown . There will be no more employment data until the government is funded again.

In the absence of official data, a constellation of previously reported federal data, private metrics, economists’ analyses, Federal Reserve indicators and job seekers’ lived experiences can help cobble together a rough snapshot of the current US labor market