The first official snapshot of the U.S. labor market since the government shutdown shows that employers added 119,000 jobs in September, a turnaround from the 4,000 positions lost in August. The unemployment rate rose slightly, to 4.4 percent.

But economists and market analysts say the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is two months old, doesn’t add much to their understanding of where things stand now.

“September feels like it was eons ago at this point,” said Daniel Zhao, chief economist at jobs review site Glassdoor.

Still, he said, “we will take any data we can get, and old news is still better than no news.”

The real test will come later in the year, as economists try to fill in the blanks from disrupted data. The October jobs report — which would’ve come out in earl

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