There’s no jobs report today. So here’s what we know about the US labor market

(CNN) — 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.

Here’s a look at what we know — and what we don’t.

Expectations

Consensus estimates, according to financial data firm FactSet, are