Current Labor Statistics Notes on current labor statistics ............... 54 Labor compensation and collective bargaining data Comparative indicators 30. Employment Cost Index, compensation .......................... 95 1. Labor market indicators .................................................... 66 31. Employment Cost Index, wages and salaries .................... 97 2. Annual and quarterly percent changes in 32. Employment Cost Index, benefits, private industry ......... 99 compensation, prices, and productivity .......................... 67 33. Employment Cost Index, private industry workers, 3. Alternative measures of wages and by bargaining status, and region .................................... 100 compensation changes ................................................... 67 34. National Compensation Survey, retirement benefits, private industry ............................................................ 101 35. National Compensation Survey, health insurance, Labor force data private industry .............................................................. 104 36. National Compensation Survey, selected benefits, private industry ............................................................. 106 4. Employment status of the population, 37. Work stoppages involving 1,000 workers or more ............ 106 seasonally adjusted ........................................................ 68 5. Selected employment indicators, seasonally adjusted ........ 69 Price data 6. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted .... 70 7. Duration of unemployment, seasonally adjusted ............... 70 8. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, 38. Consumer Price Index: U.S. city average, by expenditure seasonally adjusted ........................................................ 71 category and commodity and service groups ................. 107 9. Unemployment rates by sex and age, 39. Consumer Price Index: U.S. city average and seasonally adjusted ........................................................ 71 local data, all items ....................................................... 110 10. Unemployment rates by State, seasonally adjusted ............ 72 40. Annual data: Consumer Price Index, all items 11. Employment of workers by State, and major groups........................................................... 111 seasonally adjusted ......................................................... 72 41. Producer Price Indexes by stage of processing .................. 112 12. Employment of workers by industry, 42. Producer Price Indexes for the net output of major seasonally adjusted ......................................................... 73 industry groups ............................................................. 113 43. Annual data: Producer Price Indexes 13. Average weekly hours by industry, seasonally adjusted ...... 76 by stage of processing .................................................... 114 14. Average hourly earnings by industry, 44. U.S. export price indexes by end-use category................... 114 seasonally adjusted ......................................................... 77 45. U.S. import price indexes by end-use category................... 115 15. Average hourly earnings by industry ................................. 78 46. U.S. international price indexes for selected 16. Average weekly earnings by industry ................................ 79 categories of services ..................................................... 115 17. Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted ..................................................... 80 Productivity data 18. Job openings levels and rates, by industry and regions, seasonally adjusted........................................................ 81 47. Indexes of productivity, hourly compensation, 19. Hires levels and rates by industry and region, and unit costs, data seasonally adjusted ......................... 116 seasonally adjusted........................................................ 81 48. Annual indexes of multifactor productivity ....................... 117 20. Separations levels and rates by industry and region, 49. Annual indexes of productivity, hourly compensation, seasonally adjusted......................................................... 82 unit costs, and prices ..................................................... 118 21. Quits levels and rates by industry and region, 50. Annual indexes of output per hour for select industries .... 119 seasonally adjusted........................................................ 82 22. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, International comparisons data 10 largest counties ........................................................ 83 23. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, by State .. 85 51. Unemployment rates in 10 countries, 24. Annual data: Quarterly Census of Employment seasonally adjusted ........................................................ 122 52. Annual data: Employment status of the civilian and Wages, by ownership .............................................. 86 working-age population, 10 countries........................... 123 25. Annual data: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 53. Annual indexes of productivity and related measures, establishment size and employment, by supersector ...... 87 16 economies................................................................ 124 26. Annual data: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, by metropolitan area ........................................ 88 27. Annual data: Employment status of the population.......... 93 Injury and Illness data 28. Annual data: Employment levels by industry ................. 93 29. Annual data: Average hours and earnings level, 54. Annual data: Occupational injury and illness................... 126 by industry .................................................................... 94 55. Fatal occupational injuries by event or exposure .............. 128 Monthly Labor Review • March 2010 53 NotesCurrent onLabor StatisticsCurrent Labor Statistics This section of the Review presents the values) are described as “real,” “constant,” or 1979. principal statistical series collected and “1982” dollars. Detailed data on the occupational injury calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: and illness series are published in Occupa- series on labor force; employment; unem- Sources of information tional Injuries and Illnesses in the United States, ployment; labor compensation; consumer, by Industry, a BLS annual bulletin. producer, and international prices; produc- Finally, the Monthly Labor Review carries tivity; international comparisons; and injury Data that supplement the tables in this sec- analytical articles on annual and longer term and illness statistics. In the notes that follow, tion are published by the Bureau in a variety developments in labor force, employment, the data in each group of tables are briefly of sources. Definitions of each series and and unemployment; employee compensation described; key definitions are given; notes notes on the data are contained in later sec- and collective bargaining; prices; productiv- on the data are set forth; and sources of ad- tions of these Notes describing each set of ity; international comparisons; and injury ditional information are cited. data. For detailed descriptions of each data and illness data. series, see BLS Handbook of Methods, Bulletin General notes 2490. Users also may wish to consult Major Symbols Programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Report 919. News releases provide the lat- n.e.c. = not elsewhere classified. The following notes apply to several tables est statistical information published by the in this section: n.e.s. = not elsewhere specified. Bureau; the major recurring releases are p = preliminary. To increase Seasonal adjustment. Certain monthly published according to the schedule appear- and quarterly data are adjusted to eliminate the timeliness of some series, ing on the back cover of this issue. preliminary figures are issued the effect on the data of such factors as cli- More information about labor force, matic conditions, industry production sched- based on representative but employment, and unemployment data and incomplete returns. ules, opening and closing of schools, holiday the household and establishment surveys buying periods, and vacation practices, which r = revised. Generally, this revision underlying the data are available in the reflects the availability of later might prevent short-term evaluation of the Bureau’s monthly publication, Employment statistical series. Tables containing data that data, but also may reflect other and Earnings. 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