The Conference Board Employment Trends Index Increased in February

February’s improvement in the ETI was driven by positive contributions from seven of its eight components. The rising indicators—from the largest positive contributor to the smallest—were Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now, Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales, Industrial Production, Employees Hired by the Temporary-Help Industry, Ratio of Involuntarily Part-time to All Part-time Workers, Job Openings and Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance.