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2001 2002 2003

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Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted,

November 2000 - October 2003

Chart 1.

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 Nonfarm payroll employment, seasonally adjusted,

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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: OCTOBER 2003

Employment rose in October, and the unemployment rate, at 6.0 percent, was essentially unchanged, the

Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Nonfarm payroll employment

rose by 126,000 in October, following a similar increase (as revised) in September. Job gains occurred in

several service industries in October. Manufacturing employment continued to decline, but the rate of job

loss has moderated in recent months.

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

The unemployment rate, 6.0 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, 8.8 million, were essentially unchanged in October. Unemployment rates for the major worker groups—adult men (5.6 percent),

adult women (5.2 percent), teenagers (17.1 percent), whites (5.1 percent), blacks (11.5 percent), and

Hispanics or Latinos (7.2 percent)—also were little changed. The unemployment rate for Asians was

6.1 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

In October, 2.0 million unemployed persons had been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer, about

the same level as in September. They represented 23.0 percent of the total unemployed. (See table A-9.)

Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)

Total employment increased by 441,000 in October to 138.0 million, seasonally adjusted. The employment-population ratio edged up to 62.2 percent. The civilian labor force was little changed at 146.8 million,

while the labor force participation rate remained at 66.1 percent. (See table A-1.)
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Table A. Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Quarterly averages Monthly data Sept.-

Category 2003 Oct.

II III Aug. Sept. Oct. change 

HOUSEHOLD DATA Labor force status

Civilian labor force................................................. 146,685 146,539 146,530 146,545 146,793 248

Employment................................................................... 137,638 137,559 137,625 137,573 138,014 441

Unemployment................................................................... 9,047 8,980 8,905 8,973 8,779 -194

Not in labor force................................................................... 74,090 74,974 74,977 75,234 75,246 12

All workers............................................................... 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.1 6.0 -0.1

Adult men........................................................... 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.6 -.1

Adult women........................................................ 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.2 -.1

Teenagers........................................................ 18.6 17.5 16.6 17.5 17.1 -.4

White .................................................................. 5.4 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.1 -.2

Black or African American .................................... 11.2 11.1 10.9 11.2 11.5 .3

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity........................... 8.0 7.8 7.8 7.5 7.2 -.3

ESTABLISHMENT DATA 

Nonfarm employment........................................................ 129,984 p129,911 129,881 p130,006 p130,132 p126

Goods-producing 1........................................................ 22,093 p21,984 21,982 p21,969 p21,952 p-17

Construction............................................................. 6,782 p6,823 6,825 p6,841 p6,847 p6

Manufacturing........................................................ 14,744 p14,596 14,592 p14,564 p14,540 p-24

Service-providing 1............................................................... 107,891 p107,927 107,899 p108,037 p108,180 p143

Retail trade........................................................ 14,981 p14,973 14,975 p14,985 p15,015 p30

Professional and business services......... 15,999 p16,080 16,054 p16,124 p16,167 p43

Education and health services.............................. 16,498 p16,532 16,541 p16,569 p16,625 p56

Leisure and hospitality........................................................ 12,036 p12,053 12,051 p12,058 p12,081 p23

Government........................................................ 21,495 p21,469 21,470 p21,478 p21,488 p10

Hours of work 2

Total private.............................................................. 33.7 p33.7 33.7 p33.7 p33.8 p0.1

Manufacturing............................................................ 40.2 p40.3 40.2 p40.5 p40.5 p.0

Overtime........................................................ 4.0 p4.1 4.1 p4.2 p4.2 p.0

Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100) 2

Total private..........................................................98.7 p98.6 98.7 p98.7 p99.1 p0.4

Earnings 2

Average hourly earnings, total private............... $15.34 p$15.44 $15.45 p$15.45 p$15.46 p$0.01

Average weekly earnings, total private............ 517.07 p519.93 520.67 p520.67 p522.55 p1.88

 1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

 2 Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.

 p=preliminary.

Unemployment rates

Employment

2003
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Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)

In October, 1.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, 170,000 more than a year

earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals wanted and were available to work and had

looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed, however,

because they did not actively search for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Of the 1.6 million,

462,000 were discouraged workers—persons who were not currently looking for work specifically because

they believed no jobs were available for them. The number of discouraged workers was up by 103,000

from October 2002. (See table A-13.)

Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 126,000 in October to 130.1 million, seasonally adjusted.

This followed increases totaling 160,000 in August and September (as revised). During the February-July

period, payroll employment had decreased by an average of 85,000 per month. (See table B-1.)

Professional and business services added 43,000 jobs in October, following an increase of 70,000 in

September. Professional and technical services contributed over half of the job gain (24,000) in October,

with its management and technical consulting services component adding 7,000 jobs. Within administrative

and support services, employment in temporary help services continued to trend up in October. Since April,

temporary help has added 150,000 jobs.

Employment in health care and social assistance rose by 34,000 over the month and by 255,000 over the

year. In October, ambulatory health care services added 18,000 jobs, with about half the gain in offices of

physicians. Social assistance added 8,000 jobs in October, largely in child day care services. Employment

in private educational services grew by 23,000, seasonally adjusted. Job gains over the last 3 months have

more than offset declines that occurred in June and July. Over the year, employment in private education

grew by 56,000.

Within retail trade, employment in food stores rose by 13,000 in October, reflecting the hiring of additional workers in anticipation of strikes. Since April 2000, however, employment in food stores has trended

down.

Within the leisure and hospitality sector, food services and drinking places added 23,000 jobs in

October, following a gain of 20,000 in September. Restaurant employment has increased by 113,000

over the year.

Employment in construction was little changed in October. Since February, the industry has added

147,000 jobs. In the financial sector, employment in credit intermediation, which includes mortgage banking, fell by 10,000, reflecting the decline in mortgage refinancing activity.

Manufacturing employment decreased by 24,000 in October, with small losses distributed throughout

most of the sector. Factory job losses in September and October averaged 26,000, well below the 53,000

average for the prior 12 months.

After a small increase in September, employment in air transportation was down over the month. Since

reaching its most recent peak in March 2001, the industry has lost 138,000 jobs.
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Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)

The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls increased

by 0.1 hour over the month to 33.8 hours, seasonally adjusted. The manufacturing workweek and manufacturing overtime were unchanged from September, at 40.5 hours and 4.2 hours, respectively. (See

table B-2.)

The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.4 percent to 99.1 in October (2002=100). The manufacturing index fell by 0.2 percent over

the month to 94.3. (See table B-5.)

Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)

Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls increased

by 1 cent over the month to $15.46, seasonally adjusted. Average weekly earnings rose by 0.4 percent in

October to $522.55. Over the year, both average hourly and weekly earnings increased by 2.4 percent.

(See table B-3.)

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The Employment Situation for November 2003 is scheduled to be released on Friday, December 5, at

8:30 A.M. (EST).

 Change in Seasonal Adjustment Procedures for the Household Survey

Effective with the release of December 2003 estimates in January 2004, BLS will convert to the

use of concurrent seasonal adjustment to produce seasonally adjusted Current Population Survey

(CPS) labor force estimates. Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all available monthly estimates,

including those for the current month, in developing seasonal factors. Currently, seasonal factors for

the CPS data are projected twice a year. With the introduction of concurrent seasonal adjustment,

BLS will no longer publish seasonal factors for CPS data. BLS introduced the use of concurrent

seasonal adjustment for the nonfarm payroll data in June 2003 with the release of data for May

2003.

 Benchmark Revisions to the Payroll Survey

BLS will publish nonfarm payroll data revised to the March 2003 benchmark on February 6,

2004, with the release of data for January 2004. Previously, the revised data were published in June

of each year; earlier receipt and tabulation of the benchmark source data now make it feasible to accelerate the publication date to February.
Explanatory Note

This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the

Current Population Survey (household survey) and the Current

Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides the information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the A tables, marked

HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor

Statistics (BLS).

The establishment survey provides the information on the

employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that

appears in the B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. This

information is collected from payroll records by BLS in cooperation

with State agencies. The sample includes about 160,000 businesses

and government agencies covering approximately 400,000 individual

worksites. The active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm

payroll workers. The sample is drawn from a sampling frame of

unemployment insurance tax accounts.

For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular

week or pay period. In the household survey, the reference week is

generally the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In

the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the

calendar week.

Coverage, definitions, and differences

between surveys

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire

civilian noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of

questions on work and job search activities, each person 16 years and

over in a sample household is classified as employed, unemployed, or

not in the labor force.

People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as

paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least

15 hours in a family business or farm. People are also counted as

employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs because of

illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal

reasons.

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following

criteria: They had no employment during the reference week; they were

available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find

employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the

reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need

not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon

the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and unemployed

persons. Those not classified as employed or unemployed are not

 in the labor force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed

as a percent of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is

the labor force as a percent of the population, and the employmentpopulation ratio is the employed as a percent of the population.

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn

from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores,

as well as Federal, State, and local government entities. Employees on

nonfarm payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted

in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are for private businesses and relate only to production workers in the goods-producing

sector and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing sector.

Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in

accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry

Classification System.

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological differences between the household and

establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the surveys. Among these are:

• The household survey includes agricultural workers, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, and private household workers among

the employed. These groups are excluded from the establishment survey.

• The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the

employed. The establishment survey does not.

• The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older.

The establishment survey is not limited by age.

• The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because

individuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one job.

In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one job

and thus appearing on more than one payroll would be counted separately for each appearance.

Seasonal adjustment

Over the course of a year, the size of the nation’s labor force and the

levels of employment and unemployment undergo sharp fluctuations

due to such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded

production, harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of

schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large; seasonal fluctuations may account for as much as 95 percent of the monthto-month changes in unemployment.

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern

each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by

adjusting the statistics from month to month. These adjustments make

nonseasonal developments, such as declines in economic activity or

increases in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to

spot. For example, the large number of youth entering the labor force

each June is likely to obscure any other changes that have taken place

relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen or declined. However, because the effect of

students finishing school in previous years is known, the statistics

for the current year can be adjusted to allow for a comparable change.

Insofar as the seasonal adjustment is made correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in

economic activity.

In both the household and establishment surveys, most seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted. However, the ad-
justed series for many major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most supersectors, total employment, and

unemployment are computed by aggregating independently adjusted

component series. For example, total unemployment is derived by

summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex components;

this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be obtained

by directly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons,

or more detailed age categories.

The numerical factors used to make the seasonal adjustments for the

household survey are recalculated twice a year; the factors are calculated for the January-June period and again for the July-December

period. For the establishment survey, a concurrent seasonal adjustment

methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each

month for the three most recent monthly estimates, using all relevant

data, up to and including the data for the current month. In both surveys, revisions to historical data are made once a year.

Reliability of the estimates

Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are

subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample rather

than the entire population is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample

estimates may differ from the “true” population values they represent.

The exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the

particular sample selected, and this variability is measured by the

standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent chance, or

level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no

more than 1.6 standard errors from the “true” population value because

of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-

percent level of confidence.

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total

employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or

minus 290,000. Suppose the estimate of total employment increases

by 100,000 from one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence

interval on the monthly change would range from -190,000 to 390,000

(100,000 +/- 290,000). These figures do not mean that the sample

results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a

90-percent chance that the “true” over-the-month change lies within

this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we

could not say with confidence that employment had, in fact, increased.

If, however, the reported employment rise was half a million, then

all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval would be

greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least a 90-percent chance)

that an employment rise had, in fact, occurred. At an unemployment

rate of around 4 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the

monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 270,000, and for the

monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 percentage

point.

In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments

have lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than

estimates which are based on a small number of observations. The

precision of estimates is also improved when the data are cumulated

over time such as for quarterly and annual averages. The seasonal

adjustment process can also improve the stability of the monthly

estimates.

The household and establishment surveys are also affected by

nonsampling error. Nonsampling errors can occur for many reasons,

including the failure to sample a segment of the population, inability to

obtain information for all respondents in the sample, inability or

unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a

timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the

collection or processing of the data.

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most

recent 2 months are based on substantially incomplete returns; for this

reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables. It is only

after two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all

sample reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final.

Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment

survey is the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment

generated by new firms. To correct for this systematic underestimation

of employment growth, an estimation procedure with two components

is used to account for business births. The first component uses business

deaths to impute employment for business births. This is incorporated

into the sample-based link relative estimate procedure by simply not

reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the

same trend as the other firms in the sample. The second component is

an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the residual net birth/

death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The historical

time series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived from

the unemployment insurance universe micro-level database, and reflects

the actual residual net of births and deaths over the past five years.

The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are

adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll

employment obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference between the March samplebased employment estimates and the March universe counts is known

as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey

error. The new benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over the past decade, the benchmark revision for

total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.3 percent, ranging from

zero to 0.7 percent.

Additional statistics and other information

More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and

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Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error

for the household and establishment survey data published in this

release. For unemployment and other labor force categories, these

measures appear in tables 1-B through 1-D of its “Explanatory Notes.”

For the establishment survey data, the sampling error measures and the

actual size of revisions due to benchmark adjustments appear in tables

2-B through 2-F of Employment and Earnings.

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HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age

(Numbers in thousands)

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted 1

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 218,340 221,779 222,039 218,340 221,014 221,252 221,507 221,779 222,039

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 145,320 146,166 146,787 145,393 147,096 146,540 146,530 146,545 146,793

 Participation rate ............................................................... 66.6 65.9 66.1 66.6 66.6 66.2 66.2 66.1 66.1

 Employed .............................................................................. 137,551 137,731 138,619 136,988 137,738 137,478 137,625 137,573 138,014

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 63.0 62.1 62.4 62.7 62.3 62.1 62.1 62.0 62.2

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 7,769 8,436 8,169 8,405 9,358 9,062 8,905 8,973 8,779

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 5.3 5.8 5.6 5.8 6.4 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 73,019 75,612 75,252 72,947 73,918 74,712 74,977 75,234 75,246

 Persons who currently want a job ......................................... 4,192 4,637 4,561 4,542 4,668 4,921 4,840 4,837 4,941

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 104,985 106,744 106,879 104,985 106,362 106,475 106,604 106,744 106,879

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 77,641 78,216 78,392 77,727 78,372 78,182 78,160 78,485 78,431

 Participation rate ............................................................... 74.0 73.3 73.3 74.0 73.7 73.4 73.3 73.5 73.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 73,513 73,715 73,979 73,151 73,071 73,043 73,195 73,475 73,569

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 70.0 69.1 69.2 69.7 68.7 68.6 68.7 68.8 68.8

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 4,128 4,501 4,413 4,575 5,301 5,139 4,965 5,010 4,863

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 5.3 5.8 5.6 5.9 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.4 6.2

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 27,344 28,528 28,487 27,258 27,990 28,293 28,443 28,259 28,447

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 96,860 98,568 98,696 96,860 98,196 98,304 98,434 98,568 98,696

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 73,950 74,773 74,955 73,883 74,692 74,581 74,561 74,905 74,860

 Participation rate ............................................................... 76.3 75.9 75.9 76.3 76.1 75.9 75.7 76.0 75.8

 Employed .............................................................................. 70,372 70,923 71,141 69,921 70,130 70,193 70,203 70,610 70,665

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 72.7 72.0 72.1 72.2 71.4 71.4 71.3 71.6 71.6

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,579 3,850 3,815 3,962 4,562 4,388 4,357 4,295 4,195

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 4.8 5.1 5.1 5.4 6.1 5.9 5.8 5.7 5.6

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 22,910 23,794 23,741 22,977 23,504 23,724 23,873 23,662 23,837

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 113,355 115,035 115,160 113,355 114,653 114,778 114,903 115,035 115,160

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 67,679 67,951 68,396 67,667 68,724 68,359 68,370 68,060 68,362

 Participation rate ............................................................... 59.7 59.1 59.4 59.7 59.9 59.6 59.5 59.2 59.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 64,039 64,016 64,640 63,837 64,667 64,435 64,430 64,098 64,446

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 56.5 55.6 56.1 56.3 56.4 56.1 56.1 55.7 56.0

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,641 3,935 3,756 3,829 4,057 3,923 3,940 3,962 3,916

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 5.4 5.8 5.5 5.7 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.7

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 45,676 47,084 46,765 45,689 45,928 46,419 46,533 46,975 46,798

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 105,509 107,080 107,197 105,509 106,724 106,839 106,957 107,080 107,197

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 64,084 64,627 65,022 63,975 65,148 64,819 64,831 64,554 64,904

 Participation rate ............................................................... 60.7 60.4 60.7 60.6 61.0 60.7 60.6 60.3 60.5

 Employed .............................................................................. 60,947 61,193 61,777 60,668 61,753 61,462 61,470 61,120 61,519

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 57.8 57.1 57.6 57.5 57.9 57.5 57.5 57.1 57.4

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,137 3,434 3,245 3,308 3,395 3,357 3,361 3,434 3,384

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 4.9 5.3 5.0 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.2

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 41,425 42,453 42,176 41,533 41,576 42,020 42,126 42,526 42,294

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 15,971 16,131 16,145 15,971 16,095 16,109 16,116 16,131 16,145

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 7,286 6,766 6,810 7,535 7,256 7,140 7,139 7,086 7,030

 Participation rate ............................................................... 45.6 41.9 42.2 47.2 45.1 44.3 44.3 43.9 43.5

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,232 5,615 5,701 6,400 5,855 5,823 5,952 5,842 5,830

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 39.0 34.8 35.3 40.1 36.4 36.1 36.9 36.2 36.1

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,053 1,151 1,109 1,135 1,401 1,317 1,187 1,243 1,200

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 14.5 17.0 16.3 15.1 19.3 18.4 16.6 17.5 17.1

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 8,685 9,365 9,335 8,436 8,839 8,969 8,977 9,046 9,115

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical

numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age

(Numbers in thousands)

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted 1

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

WHITE 2

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 180,306 181,696 181,871 180,306 181,184 181,341 181,512 181,696 181,871

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 120,364 120,088 120,668 120,479 120,881 120,623 120,669 120,307 120,722

 Participation rate ................................................................. 66.8 66.1 66.3 66.8 66.7 66.5 66.5 66.2 66.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 114,691 114,093 114,996 114,294 114,203 114,044 114,141 113,934 114,567

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 63.6 62.8 63.2 63.4 63.0 62.9 62.9 62.7 63.0

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 5,673 5,994 5,672 6,184 6,678 6,580 6,528 6,373 6,155

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 4.7 5.0 4.7 5.1 5.5 5.5 5.4 5.3 5.1

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 59,943 61,608 61,203 59,828 60,303 60,717 60,843 61,389 61,149

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 62,240 62,531 62,714 62,243 62,447 62,526 62,532 62,496 62,695

 Participation rate ................................................................. 76.6 76.2 76.3 76.6 76.3 76.4 76.3 76.2 76.3

 Employed .............................................................................. 59,576 59,773 59,995 59,246 59,064 59,167 59,190 59,407 59,664

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 73.4 72.8 73.0 73.0 72.2 72.3 72.2 72.4 72.6

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 2,664 2,759 2,719 2,997 3,384 3,359 3,342 3,088 3,031

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.8 5.4 5.4 5.3 4.9 4.8

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 52,014 51,921 52,288 51,909 52,400 52,146 52,138 51,909 52,175

 Participation rate ................................................................. 60.1 59.6 60.0 60.0 60.3 60.0 59.9 59.6 59.9

 Employed .............................................................................. 49,822 49,533 50,095 49,601 50,104 49,867 49,853 49,521 49,879

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 57.6 56.9 57.5 57.3 57.7 57.4 57.3 56.9 57.2

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 2,192 2,388 2,193 2,308 2,297 2,279 2,285 2,388 2,296

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 4.2 4.6 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.6 4.4

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 6,110 5,636 5,667 6,328 6,034 5,952 5,998 5,902 5,852

 Participation rate ................................................................. 48.5 44.9 45.1 50.2 48.2 47.5 47.8 47.0 46.6

 Employed .............................................................................. 5,293 4,788 4,906 5,448 5,036 5,010 5,098 5,006 5,024

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 42.0 38.2 39.1 43.3 40.2 40.0 40.7 39.9 40.0

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 816 848 761 880 998 942 901 896 828

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 13.4 15.0 13.4 13.9 16.5 15.8 15.0 15.2 14.2

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 2

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 25,717 25,784 25,825 25,717 25,664 25,702 25,742 25,784 25,825

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 16,673 16,616 16,592 16,682 16,717 16,540 16,579 16,724 16,572

 Participation rate ................................................................. 64.8 64.4 64.2 64.9 65.1 64.4 64.4 64.9 64.2

 Employed .............................................................................. 15,111 14,855 14,777 15,027 14,746 14,697 14,769 14,853 14,658

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 58.8 57.6 57.2 58.4 57.5 57.2 57.4 57.6 56.8

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,562 1,761 1,814 1,656 1,971 1,842 1,810 1,871 1,913

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 9.4 10.6 10.9 9.9 11.8 11.1 10.9 11.2 11.5

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 9,043 9,168 9,233 9,034 8,947 9,162 9,163 9,060 9,254

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 7,438 7,399 7,391 7,413 7,447 7,336 7,344 7,454 7,359

 Participation rate ................................................................. 72.5 71.7 71.5 72.2 72.5 71.3 71.3 72.2 71.2

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,749 6,648 6,658 6,682 6,604 6,590 6,578 6,620 6,583

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 65.8 64.4 64.4 65.1 64.3 64.1 63.9 64.1 63.7

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 688 751 733 731 843 746 766 834 776

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 9.3 10.2 9.9 9.9 11.3 10.2 10.4 11.2 10.5

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 8,390 8,443 8,450 8,390 8,500 8,432 8,510 8,445 8,428

 Participation rate ................................................................. 64.4 64.6 64.6 64.4 65.3 64.7 65.2 64.6 64.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 7,708 7,682 7,630 7,676 7,675 7,614 7,684 7,678 7,583

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 59.1 58.8 58.3 58.9 59.0 58.4 58.9 58.7 57.9

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 683 761 820 715 826 819 826 767 845

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 8.1 9.0 9.7 8.5 9.7 9.7 9.7 9.1 10.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 845 774 750 879 770 771 725 826 785

 Participation rate ................................................................. 34.9 32.4 31.3 36.3 32.3 32.3 30.4 34.5 32.8

 Employed .............................................................................. 654 526 489 669 467 493 507 555 493

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 27.0 22.0 20.4 27.6 19.6 20.7 21.2 23.2 20.6

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 191 249 261 210 302 278 218 271 292

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 22.6 32.1 34.8 23.9 39.3 36.0 30.0 32.8 37.2

ASIAN 2

Civilian noninstutional population ............................................. 9,927 9,297 9,336 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 6,716 6,125 6,154 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 67.7 65.9 65.9 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,337 5,747 5,777 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 63.8 61.8 61.9 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 379 378 377 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 5.6 6.2 6.1 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 3,211 3,172 3,183 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( ) 3 ( )

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical

numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Beginning in 2003, persons who selected this race group only; persons who selected

more than one race group are not included. Prior to 2003, persons who reported more

than one race were included in the group they identified as the main race.

3 Data not available.

 NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1

because data are not presented for all races. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect

revised population controls used in the household survey.
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Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

(Numbers in thousands)

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted 1

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 26,272 27,808 27,913 26,272 27,494 27,597 27,701 27,808 27,913

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 18,119 18,831 18,948 18,049 18,856 18,750 18,829 18,859 18,915

 Participation rate ................................................................. 69.0 67.7 67.9 68.7 68.6 67.9 68.0 67.8 67.8

 Employed .............................................................................. 16,742 17,513 17,610 16,637 17,271 17,206 17,370 17,448 17,546

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 63.7 63.0 63.1 63.3 62.8 62.3 62.7 62.7 62.9

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,376 1,317 1,337 1,412 1,586 1,544 1,460 1,411 1,369

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 7.6 7.0 7.1 7.8 8.4 8.2 7.8 7.5 7.2

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 8,154 8,977 8,966 8,223 8,638 8,847 8,872 8,949 8,998

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 10,152 10,853 10,867 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 84.0 84.0 83.7 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 9,486 10,262 10,239 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 78.5 79.4 78.9 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 666 591 628 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 6.6 5.4 5.8 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 6,949 7,108 7,170 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 59.5 57.7 58.0 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,432 6,520 6,622 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 55.1 52.9 53.5 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 517 588 548 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 7.4 8.3 7.6 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 1,018 870 911 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 40.6 34.0 35.6 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 825 732 750 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 32.9 28.6 29.3 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 193 138 161 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 19.0 15.9 17.7 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical

numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available.

 NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. 

Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household

survey.

Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment

(Numbers in thousands)

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 12,344 12,636 12,551 12,461 12,498 12,537 12,639 12,576 12,692

 Participation rate ................................................................... 44.4 45.0 45.2 44.9 44.8 45.5 45.5 44.8 45.7

 Employed ................................................................................ 11,358 11,638 11,516 11,375 11,286 11,446 11,453 11,488 11,562

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 40.9 41.4 41.5 40.9 40.4 41.5 41.3 40.9 41.7

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 986 998 1,036 1,086 1,211 1,091 1,185 1,088 1,130

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 8.0 7.9 8.3 8.7 9.7 8.7 9.4 8.6 8.9

High school graduates, no college 1

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 38,052 38,044 37,947 37,966 37,977 37,847 37,914 38,068 37,852

 Participation rate ................................................................... 64.2 63.7 63.7 64.0 64.1 64.0 63.8 63.7 63.5

 Employed ................................................................................ 36,361 36,209 36,072 36,090 35,778 35,786 35,883 36,038 35,756

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 61.3 60.6 60.5 60.9 60.3 60.5 60.4 60.3 60.0

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 1,691 1,835 1,875 1,876 2,199 2,061 2,031 2,031 2,096

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 4.4 4.8 4.9 4.9 5.8 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.5

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 34,243 34,023 33,993 33,884 34,329 34,310 33,856 33,938 33,640

 Participation rate ................................................................... 73.5 72.9 72.7 72.8 73.2 72.2 72.4 72.7 71.9

 Employed ................................................................................ 32,751 32,423 32,461 32,299 32,648 32,594 32,271 32,304 32,013

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 70.3 69.5 69.4 69.4 69.6 68.6 69.0 69.2 68.5

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 1,492 1,599 1,533 1,585 1,681 1,717 1,585 1,634 1,627

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 4.4 4.7 4.5 4.7 4.9 5.0 4.7 4.8 4.8

Bachelor’s degree and higher 2

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 38,670 39,857 40,634 38,622 39,966 39,614 40,012 39,813 40,611

 Participation rate ................................................................... 78.6 77.7 78.2 78.5 78.3 77.5 77.5 77.6 78.2

 Employed ................................................................................ 37,538 38,552 39,431 37,458 38,743 38,387 38,752 38,537 39,374

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 76.3 75.1 75.9 76.1 75.9 75.1 75.1 75.1 75.8

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 1,132 1,305 1,203 1,165 1,224 1,226 1,260 1,276 1,237

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 2.9 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.0

1 Includes high school diploma or equivalent. 2 Includes persons with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees. 

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.
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Table A-5. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

(In thousands)

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries ............................................. 2,551 2,494 2,559 2,483 2,213 2,193 2,348 2,362 2,471

 Wage and salary workers ....................................................... 1,430 1,576 1,546 1,394 1,226 1,216 1,384 1,445 1,496

 Self-employed workers ........................................................... 1,092 900 996 1,040 1,005 946 937 878 940

 Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 28 18 17 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Nonagricultural industries ......................................................... 135,001 135,237 136,060 134,537 135,357 135,204 135,215 135,329 135,706

 Wage and salary workers ....................................................... 125,717 125,580 126,371 125,346 126,034 125,727 125,661 125,754 126,147

 Government .......................................................................... 19,691 19,722 19,862 19,692 19,701 19,631 19,651 19,739 19,853

 Private industries .................................................................. 106,026 105,858 106,510 105,704 106,275 106,135 105,940 105,967 106,324

 Private households ............................................................. 796 784 756 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

 Other industries .................................................................. 105,231 105,074 105,753 104,947 105,441 105,240 105,060 105,212 105,613

 Self-employed workers ........................................................... 9,188 9,545 9,574 9,080 9,250 9,306 9,538 9,394 9,464

 Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 95 111 115 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME 2

All industries:

 Part time for economic reasons .............................................. 3,965 4,455 4,394 4,343 4,499 4,649 4,449 4,975 4,836

 Slack work or business conditions ........................................ 2,710 2,878 2,793 2,888 3,153 3,112 3,017 3,203 2,989

 Could only find part-time work .............................................. 1,084 1,336 1,318 1,133 1,257 1,304 1,188 1,365 1,396

 Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 19,441 19,296 19,604 18,685 19,548 19,027 19,564 18,993 18,879

Nonagricultural industries:

 Part time for economic reasons .............................................. 3,907 4,368 4,297 4,274 4,390 4,566 4,360 4,847 4,717

 Slack work or business conditions ........................................ 2,668 2,828 2,727 2,857 3,074 3,079 2,963 3,145 2,925

 Could only find part-time work .............................................. 1,080 1,325 1,311 1,122 1,237 1,276 1,179 1,367 1,374

 Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 19,071 18,924 19,265 18,347 19,184 18,610 19,142 18,619 18,608

1 Data not available. 2 Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during

the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute. Part

time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time but worked

only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and

bad weather.

 NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily

add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. 

Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census industry classification system

derived from the 2002 North American Industry Classification System into the Current

Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls

used in the household survey.
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Table A-6. Selected employment indicators

(In thousands)

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 137,551 137,731 138,619 136,988 137,738 137,478 137,625 137,573 138,014

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 6,232 5,615 5,701 6,400 5,855 5,823 5,952 5,842 5,830

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 2,337 2,262 2,188 2,347 2,291 2,289 2,362 2,254 2,206

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 3,895 3,353 3,513 4,045 3,568 3,538 3,562 3,594 3,626

 20 years and over ................................................................... 131,319 132,116 132,918 130,589 131,883 131,655 131,673 131,730 132,184

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 13,310 13,294 13,438 13,303 13,473 13,379 13,393 13,395 13,444

 25 years and over ................................................................. 118,009 118,822 119,479 117,271 118,414 118,288 118,434 118,319 118,790

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 97,363 97,432 97,703 96,840 97,357 97,213 97,185 97,078 97,209

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 30,592 30,419 30,518 30,323 30,410 30,437 30,311 30,261 30,282

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 35,142 34,942 34,943 35,005 34,858 34,742 34,843 34,923 34,819

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 31,629 32,071 32,243 31,512 32,089 32,034 32,031 31,894 32,107

 55 years and over ............................................................... 20,646 21,390 21,777 20,430 21,057 21,074 21,249 21,241 21,581

Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 73,513 73,715 73,979 73,151 73,071 73,043 73,195 73,475 73,569

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 3,141 2,792 2,839 3,230 2,941 2,850 2,992 2,864 2,904

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 1,120 1,073 1,072 1,142 1,089 1,089 1,162 1,069 1,097

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 2,022 1,718 1,766 2,081 1,850 1,757 1,812 1,801 1,801

 20 years and over ................................................................... 70,372 70,923 71,141 69,921 70,130 70,193 70,203 70,610 70,665

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 7,010 7,015 7,061 6,975 7,012 6,962 6,947 7,029 7,040

 25 years and over ................................................................. 63,362 63,909 64,080 62,938 63,118 63,253 63,328 63,520 63,673

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 52,181 52,460 52,443 51,873 51,961 51,994 51,977 52,160 52,154

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 16,719 16,767 16,780 16,569 16,668 16,711 16,587 16,646 16,645

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 18,894 18,986 18,915 18,804 18,670 18,724 18,757 18,934 18,835

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 16,567 16,707 16,747 16,500 16,623 16,559 16,632 16,581 16,674

 55 years and over ............................................................... 11,181 11,449 11,637 11,065 11,157 11,259 11,351 11,360 11,520

Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 64,039 64,016 64,640 63,837 64,667 64,435 64,430 64,098 64,446

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 3,091 2,823 2,863 3,169 2,914 2,973 2,960 2,978 2,926

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 1,217 1,188 1,116 1,204 1,203 1,200 1,199 1,185 1,109

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 1,874 1,635 1,747 1,964 1,718 1,781 1,750 1,793 1,825

 20 years and over ................................................................... 60,947 61,193 61,777 60,668 61,753 61,462 61,470 61,120 61,519

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 6,300 6,280 6,377 6,328 6,461 6,416 6,445 6,366 6,403

 25 years and over ................................................................. 54,647 54,913 55,400 54,332 55,295 55,035 55,106 54,799 55,116

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 45,183 44,972 45,260 44,967 45,396 45,220 45,208 44,918 45,055

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 13,873 13,652 13,737 13,754 13,742 13,726 13,724 13,615 13,637

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 16,248 15,956 16,027 16,201 16,188 16,019 16,086 15,990 15,984

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 15,061 15,364 15,495 15,012 15,466 15,475 15,399 15,313 15,434

 55 years and over ............................................................... 9,465 9,941 10,139 9,365 9,900 9,816 9,898 9,881 10,061

Married men, spouse present ................................................... 44,628 44,809 45,006 44,245 44,371 44,739 44,620 44,522 44,674

Married women, spouse present .............................................. 34,618 34,635 35,345 34,322 34,600 34,612 34,655 34,562 35,096

Women who maintain families .................................................. 8,507 8,396 8,484 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Full-time workers 2 ................................................................... 113,570 113,568 113,828 113,458 112,904 113,316 112,954 113,206 113,662

Part-time workers 3 ................................................................... 23,981 24,163 24,791 23,635 24,990 24,458 24,981 24,419 24,451

1 Data not available. 2 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per

week. 3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per

week.

 NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily

add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. 

Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household

survey.
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Table A-7. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates 1

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 8,405 8,973 8,779 5.8 6.4 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 1,135 1,243 1,200 15.1 19.3 18.4 16.6 17.5 17.1

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 453 542 582 16.2 21.6 20.8 18.7 19.4 20.9

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 674 687 637 14.3 17.9 17.0 15.9 16.1 14.9

 20 years and over ................................................................... 7,269 7,729 7,579 5.3 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.4

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 1,502 1,636 1,491 10.1 10.7 10.3 10.3 10.9 10.0

 25 years and over ................................................................. 5,768 6,111 6,120 4.7 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 4.9

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 4,942 5,217 5,272 4.9 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.1

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 1,859 2,042 2,048 5.8 6.5 6.1 6.3 6.3 6.3

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 1,787 1,766 1,851 4.9 5.4 5.2 5.0 4.8 5.0

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 1,296 1,409 1,374 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.1

 55 years and over ............................................................... 823 869 833 3.9 4.6 4.3 4.1 3.9 3.7

Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 4,575 5,010 4,863 5.9 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.4 6.2

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 613 715 668 16.0 20.1 20.9 16.9 20.0 18.7

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 237 312 279 17.2 23.8 22.8 20.7 22.6 20.3

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 372 403 389 15.2 17.7 19.5 15.3 18.3 17.8

 20 years and over ................................................................... 3,962 4,295 4,195 5.4 6.1 5.9 5.8 5.7 5.6

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 813 954 839 10.4 11.7 11.7 10.8 11.9 10.7

 25 years and over ................................................................. 3,153 3,371 3,385 4.8 5.5 5.2 5.3 5.0 5.0

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 2,695 2,878 2,918 4.9 5.5 5.3 5.5 5.2 5.3

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 1,023 1,167 1,168 5.8 6.7 6.4 6.9 6.6 6.6

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 966 967 957 4.9 5.6 5.2 5.2 4.9 4.8

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 706 745 792 4.1 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.5

 55 years and over ............................................................... 459 493 467 4.0 5.5 4.6 4.4 4.2 3.9

Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 3,829 3,962 3,916 5.7 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.8 5.7

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 522 528 532 14.1 18.5 16.0 16.4 15.1 15.4

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 216 230 303 15.2 19.5 18.9 16.7 16.3 21.5

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 302 285 248 13.3 18.0 14.5 16.6 13.7 12.0

 20 years and over ................................................................... 3,308 3,434 3,384 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.2

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 689 682 651 9.8 9.5 8.9 9.8 9.7 9.2

 25 years and over ................................................................. 2,614 2,740 2,734 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.8 4.7

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 2,247 2,339 2,354 4.8 5.0 4.9 4.7 5.0 5.0

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 836 875 880 5.7 6.2 5.8 5.6 6.0 6.1

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 821 800 893 4.8 5.2 5.2 4.8 4.8 5.3

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 590 664 581 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.8 4.2 3.6

 55 years and over 2 ............................................................ 344 391 354 3.5 3.7 4.2 4.5 3.8 3.4

Married men, spouse present ................................................... 1,630 1,716 1,760 3.6 4.4 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.8

Married women, spouse present .............................................. 1,342 1,427 1,366 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.7

Women who maintain families 2 ............................................... 706 775 781 7.7 8.7 9.0 8.4 8.5 8.4

Full-time workers 3 ................................................................... 7,099 7,484 7,367 5.9 6.5 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.1

Part-time workers 4 ................................................................... 1,305 1,512 1,413 5.2 5.9 5.5 5.3 5.8 5.5

1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force. 2 Not seasonally adjusted. 3 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full

time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs. 4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work

part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs.

 NOTE: Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the

independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2003, data

reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-8. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

(Numbers in thousands)

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs .......... 4,151 4,500 4,319 4,828 5,010 4,951 4,942 5,014 4,936

 On temporary layoff ................................................................ 735 763 739 1,098 1,199 1,198 1,080 1,108 1,097

 Not on temporary layoff .......................................................... 3,416 3,737 3,580 3,729 3,811 3,753 3,862 3,905 3,838

 Permanent job losers ............................................................ 2,663 2,956 2,793 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

 Persons who completed temporary jobs .............................. 753 781 787 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Job leavers ............................................................................... 895 895 832 850 893 792 782 847 783

Reentrants ................................................................................ 2,291 2,404 2,443 2,386 2,687 2,529 2,540 2,408 2,544

New entrants ............................................................................ 432 637 575 494 648 670 628 700 655

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed ..................................................................... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... 53.4 53.3 52.9 56.4 54.2 55.4 55.6 55.9 55.3

 On temporary layoff ............................................................... 9.5 9.0 9.0 12.8 13.0 13.4 12.1 12.4 12.3

 Not on temporary layoff ......................................................... 44.0 44.3 43.8 43.6 41.3 42.0 43.4 43.5 43.0

 Job leavers .............................................................................. 11.5 10.6 10.2 9.9 9.7 8.9 8.8 9.4 8.8

 Reentrants ............................................................................... 29.5 28.5 29.9 27.9 29.1 28.3 28.6 26.9 28.5

 New entrants ........................................................................... 5.6 7.5 7.0 5.8 7.0 7.5 7.1 7.8 7.3

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

 CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4

 Job leavers .............................................................................. .6 .6 .6 .6 .6 .5 .5 .6 .5

 Reentrants ............................................................................... 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.7

 New entrants ........................................................................... .3 .4 .4 .3 .4 .5 .4 .5 .4

1 Data not available.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.

Table A-9. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

(Numbers in thousands)

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks .................................................................... 2,618 2,682 2,579 2,797 3,009 2,730 2,727 2,739 2,731

5 to 14 weeks ........................................................................... 2,281 2,514 2,346 2,515 2,936 2,699 2,595 2,783 2,577

15 weeks and over ................................................................... 2,870 3,240 3,243 3,099 3,572 3,592 3,572 3,524 3,463

 15 to 26 weeks ...................................................................... 1,272 1,268 1,354 1,374 1,536 1,633 1,637 1,421 1,444

 27 weeks and over ................................................................ 1,598 1,973 1,890 1,724 2,036 1,959 1,935 2,102 2,020

Average (mean) duration, in weeks .......................................... 18.0 19.5 19.6 17.6 19.8 19.3 19.0 19.7 19.1

Median duration, in weeks ........................................................ 9.6 10.2 10.3 9.6 12.3 10.0 9.6 10.1 10.3

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed ..................................................................... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

 Less than 5 weeks .................................................................. 33.7 31.8 31.6 33.2 31.6 30.3 30.7 30.3 31.1

 5 to 14 weeks ......................................................................... 29.4 29.8 28.7 29.9 30.9 29.9 29.2 30.8 29.4

 15 weeks and over ................................................................. 36.9 38.4 39.7 36.8 37.5 39.8 40.2 39.0 39.5

 15 to 26 weeks ..................................................................... 16.4 15.0 16.6 16.3 16.1 18.1 18.4 15.7 16.5

 27 weeks and over ............................................................... 20.6 23.4 23.1 20.5 21.4 21.7 21.8 23.2 23.0

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-10. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

 Total, 16 years and over 1 .......................................................................... 137,551 138,619 7,769 8,169 5.3 5.6

Management, professional, and related occupations ............................... 47,640 48,200 1,379 1,464 2.8 2.9

 Management, business, and financial operations occupations ............ 19,875 19,568 608 614 3.0 3.0

 Professional and related occupations ........................................................ 27,765 28,632 771 849 2.7 2.9

Service occupations .......................................................................................... 22,060 21,872 1,486 1,700 6.3 7.2

Sales and office occupations .......................................................................... 34,999 35,446 2,095 2,005 5.6 5.4

 Sales and related occupations ..................................................................... 15,921 16,010 1,022 1,011 6.0 5.9

 Office and administrative support occupations ........................................ 19,078 19,436 1,072 995 5.3 4.9

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations ........... 14,198 14,952 996 1,075 6.6 6.7

 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations ............................................... 1,169 1,261 94 115 7.5 8.4

 Construction and extraction occupations ................................................... 8,252 8,367 738 651 8.2 7.2

 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................. 4,777 5,323 163 309 3.3 5.5

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations ................ 18,655 18,149 1,348 1,321 6.7 6.8

 Production occupations .................................................................................. 10,101 9,727 719 683 6.6 6.6

 Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... 8,554 8,422 629 638 6.8 7.0

1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the Armed

Forces are included in the unemployed total.

 NOTE: Occupations reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census occupational classification

system derived from the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification system into the Current

Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used

in the household survey.

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by industry, not seasonally adjusted

Industry

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

 Total, 16 years and over 1 ....................................................................... 7,769 8,169 5.3 5.6

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers ...................................... 6,466 6,620 5.7 5.9

 Mining ................................................................................................................. 36 31 6.4 5.6

 Construction ...................................................................................................... 680 651 7.7 7.4

 Manufacturing ................................................................................................... 1,046 1,041 5.9 6.0

 Durable goods ................................................................................................ 666 683 5.9 6.3

 Nondurable goods ......................................................................................... 380 358 6.0 5.4

 Wholesale and retail trade ............................................................................ 1,212 1,189 6.1 5.7

 Transportation and utilities ............................................................................ 262 260 4.7 4.8

 Information ........................................................................................................ 211 182 6.0 5.4

 Financial activities ........................................................................................... 312 303 3.5 3.3

 Professional and business services ............................................................ 962 1,014 7.5 8.1

 Education and health services ..................................................................... 517 639 3.0 3.6

 Leisure and hospitality ................................................................................... 956 933 8.5 8.3

 Other services .................................................................................................. 272 378 4.6 6.1

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers ........................ 97 136 6.6 8.5

Government workers ......................................................................................... 499 500 2.5 2.4

Self employed and unpaid family workers ................................................... 275 338 2.6 3.1

1 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total.

 NOTE: Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census industry classification system

derived from the 2002 North American Industry Classification System into the Current

Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used

in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

(Percent)

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003

Oct.

2003

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force .............. 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor

force ...................................................................................................................................... 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate) ...................................................................................................................................... 5.3 5.8 5.6 5.8 6.4 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers ............................................................................................................ 5.6 6.0 5.9 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally

 attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally

 attached workers ................................................................................................................. 6.3 6.8 6.6 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed

 part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

 all marginally attached workers ........................................................................................... 9.0 9.8 9.5 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

1 Data not available.

 NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor

looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for

work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached,

have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job. Persons employed

part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but

have had to settle for a part-time schedule. For further information, see "BLS introduces new

range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly

Labor Review. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.

Table A-13. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Category

Total Men Women

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

Oct.

2002

Oct.

2003

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force ............................................................................ 73,019 75,252 27,344 28,487 45,676 46,765

 Persons who currently want a job ............................................................... 4,192 4,561 1,896 2,086 2,296 2,475

Searched for work and available to work now 1 ..................................... 1,416 1,586 708 737 708 849

 Reason not currently looking:

 Discouragement over job prospects 2 ......................................... 359 462 206 223 153 239

 Reasons other than discouragement 3 ........................................ 1,057 1,125 502 514 555 610

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders 4 ............................................................................ 7,320 7,515 3,722 3,776 3,597 3,738

 Percent of total employed ......................................................................... 5.3 5.4 5.1 5.1 5.6 5.8

 Primary job full time, secondary job part time ........................................... 3,893 3,849 2,284 2,203 1,610 1,646

 Primary and secondary jobs both part time .............................................. 1,738 1,840 507 578 1,232 1,261

 Primary and secondary jobs both full time ................................................ 264 235 160 138 103 97

 Hours vary on primary or secondary job ................................................... 1,374 1,554 744 837 629 717

1 Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and

were available to take a job during the reference week. 2 Includes thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training,

employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination. 3 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such

reasons as child-care and transportation problems, as well as a small number for which

reason for nonparticipation was not determined. 4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their

secondary job(s), not shown separately.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

(In thousands)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Change

from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Total nonfarm ............................. 131,297 129,633 130,249 131,071 130,408 129,903 129,846 129,881 130,006 130,132 126

Total private ........................................ 109,463 109,314 108,998 109,292 108,864 108,427 108,388 108,411 108,528 108,644 116

Goods-producing ............................................ 22,692 22,392 22,282 22,217 22,435 22,061 22,001 21,982 21,969 21,952 -17

Natural resources and mining .................................. 583 577 573 577 572 569 566 565 564 565 1

Logging ............................................................ 70.5 66.9 66.8 68.2 66.7 65.7 64.0 63.6 63.5 64.1 .6

Mining .................................................................... 512.6 510.5 506.3 508.4 505.7 502.8 502.1 501.1 500.1 500.5 .4

Oil and gas extraction ........................................ 121.2 126.4 125.7 126.5 121.5 125.7 125.3 125.0 125.5 126.0 .5

Mining, except oil and gas1................................. 213.4 214.1 211.3 211.7 209.7 208.9 209.6 209.1 207.4 207.5 .1

Coal mining ...................................................... 73.9 73.0 71.4 71.8 73.6 73.2 73.7 72.9 71.4 71.5 .1

Support activities for mining .............................. 178.0 170.0 169.3 170.2 174.5 168.2 167.2 167.0 167.2 167.0 -.2

Construction ............................................................. 6,922 7,134 7,082 7,058 6,720 6,800 6,804 6,825 6,841 6,847 6

Construction of buildings ................................... 1,621.3 1,665.1 1,658.5 1,656.5 1,588.0 1,609.7 1,606.7 1,610.9 1,620.3 1,621.5 1.2

Heavy and civil engineering construction ......... 979.5 987.6 986.4 978.6 918.1 905.8 910.8 913.9 915.8 912.8 -3.0

Specialty trade contractors ................................ 4,321.3 4,480.9 4,437.3 4,422.7 4,214.2 4,284.1 4,286.3 4,300.3 4,305.3 4,312.3 7.0

Manufacturing ........................................................... 15,187 14,681 14,627 14,582 15,143 14,692 14,631 14,592 14,564 14,540 -24

Production workers ....................................... 10,727 10,296 10,262 10,227 10,685 10,299 10,257 10,229 10,198 10,176 -22

Durable goods ....................................................... 9,413 9,052 9,017 9,006 9,400 9,081 9,034 9,018 9,000 8,990 -10

Production workers ....................................... 6,486 6,206 6,180 6,172 6,474 6,221 6,188 6,182 6,161 6,149 -12

Wood products ................................................... 557.1 549.5 547.7 547.0 554.2 541.0 540.8 538.2 541.1 542.7 1.6

Nonmetallic mineral products ............................ 524.5 512.5 508.6 504.2 516.1 505.0 501.1 501.4 498.1 496.7 -1.4

Primary metals .................................................... 504.9 477.9 474.3 469.8 504.4 482.0 478.5 475.9 471.9 469.0 -2.9

Fabricated metal products ................................. 1,536.6 1,471.5 1,464.9 1,470.0 1,532.0 1,476.4 1,470.7 1,469.2 1,464.4 1,466.2 1.8

Machinery ........................................................... 1,215.7 1,165.6 1,162.1 1,161.0 1,219.6 1,175.8 1,171.9 1,168.0 1,166.6 1,165.1 -1.5

1 Computer and electronic products .................... 1,482.7 1,392.3 1,381.5 1,379.1 1,483.9 1,407.7 1,398.1 1,392.5 1,385.9 1,379.3 -6.6

Computer and peripheral equipment ............. 241.3 221.1 220.2 219.4 242.0 226.5 223.6 221.9 221.5 219.2 -2.3

Communications equipment ........................... 186.6 169.6 168.9 169.1 185.5 173.3 171.9 170.9 170.0 169.3 -.7

Semiconductors and electronic components . 512.7 480.1 472.6 469.9 513.9 485.1 480.9 479.5 474.2 470.1 -4.1

Electronic instruments ..................................... 442.6 430.8 428.7 428.5 444.1 429.9 429.0 429.0 429.0 428.8 -.2

Electrical equipment and appliances ................ 488.8 462.6 462.0 459.8 489.1 467.7 465.9 462.1 461.1 460.3 -.8

Transportation equipment .................................. 1,815.0 1,773.8 1,772.7 1,769.7 1,815.5 1,774.3 1,760.2 1,767.6 1,769.1 1,769.1 .0

Furniture and related products .......................... 596.5 574.9 574.2 576.3 596.9 574.1 574.2 572.7 573.6 574.6 1.0

Miscellaneous manufacturing ............................ 690.8 671.1 668.6 668.7 688.3 676.6 673.0 670.4 667.9 666.6 -1.3

Nondurable goods ................................................. 5,774 5,629 5,610 5,576 5,743 5,611 5,597 5,574 5,564 5,550 -14

Production workers ....................................... 4,241 4,090 4,082 4,055 4,211 4,078 4,069 4,047 4,037 4,027 -10

Food manufacturing ........................................... 1,541.4 1,558.6 1,560.4 1,541.3 1,520.0 1,517.5 1,520.9 1,521.7 1,524.8 1,524.1 -.7

Beverages and tobacco products ...................... 205.2 199.7 198.8 196.8 203.1 194.5 194.4 194.8 194.4 194.5 .1

Textile mills ......................................................... 287.8 260.2 259.0 254.0 287.5 270.1 264.7 259.6 257.7 254.8 -2.9

Textile product mills ........................................... 196.1 178.9 179.3 179.7 195.4 186.4 184.2 178.4 179.6 179.6 .0

Apparel ................................................................ 349.4 299.5 298.5 298.0 346.7 307.8 301.2 299.0 295.3 294.6 -.7

Leather and allied products ............................... 48.6 43.2 42.9 42.8 48.6 43.3 43.5 43.1 43.0 42.5 -.5

Paper and paper products ................................. 546.4 528.3 526.9 524.5 545.6 530.6 527.3 526.4 525.0 523.9 -1.1

Printing and related support activities ............... 703.0 691.4 687.2 686.6 701.3 694.1 692.2 690.0 687.0 684.2 -2.8

Petroleum and coal products ............................. 120.2 119.4 117.9 116.5 118.7 118.4 118.0 116.9 116.0 115.5 -.5

Chemicals ........................................................... 922.6 916.5 908.2 906.0 925.1 916.5 917.7 914.8 912.1 909.3 -2.8

Plastics and rubber products ............................. 853.5 832.9 831.1 829.3 851.0 831.7 833.3 829.3 829.1 827.3 -1.8

Service-providing ............................................ 108,605 107,241 107,967 108,854 107,973 107,842 107,845 107,899 108,037 108,180 143

Private service-providing ............................ 86,771 86,922 86,716 87,075 86,429 86,366 86,387 86,429 86,559 86,692 133

Trade, transportation, and utilities ........................... 25,539 25,200 25,200 25,380 25,439 25,238 25,211 25,217 25,241 25,269 28

Wholesale trade .................................................... 5,635.7 5,571.7 5,554.0 5,564.6 5,618.9 5,570.6 5,560.1 5,550.0 5,548.8 5,547.6 -1.2

Durable goods .................................................... 2,996.1 2,946.8 2,929.6 2,940.6 2,990.8 2,947.5 2,940.4 2,934.5 2,930.9 2,932.4 1.5

Nondurable goods .............................................. 2,019.7 2,006.5 2,004.5 2,002.2 2,010.1 2,004.1 2,001.4 1,997.7 1,996.4 1,994.0 -2.4

Electronic markets and agents and brokers ..... 619.9 618.4 619.9 621.8 618.0 619.0 618.3 617.8 621.5 621.2 -.3

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail-Continued

(In thousands)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Change

from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Retail trade ............................................................ 15,070.9 14,950.8 14,906.1 15,063.2 15,025.2 14,964.2 14,958.0 14,975.1 14,984.9 15,015.2 30.3

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1........................ 1,896.8 1,896.5 1,896.7 1,896.4 1,886.8 1,877.9 1,883.2 1,880.5 1,884.3 1,884.9 .6

Automobile dealers ......................................... 1,259.2 1,253.6 1,255.2 1,255.3 1,254.9 1,246.0 1,249.0 1,248.1 1,250.1 1,250.2 .1

Furniture and home furnishings stores ............. 549.5 536.9 538.2 546.1 546.8 546.5 543.9 541.6 542.8 543.2 .4

Electronics and appliance stores ....................... 527.0 513.0 513.2 522.4 526.4 522.9 519.6 519.9 519.9 520.6 .7

Building material and garden supply stores ...... 1,180.3 1,222.1 1,209.7 1,214.4 1,184.2 1,194.2 1,196.5 1,203.3 1,210.8 1,215.8 5.0

Food and beverage stores ................................. 2,859.5 2,808.2 2,790.5 2,809.7 2,852.5 2,812.8 2,801.7 2,798.0 2,791.9 2,804.9 13.0

Health and personal care stores ....................... 950.0 966.8 965.8 973.4 949.2 967.9 965.8 965.9 968.3 972.1 3.8

Gasoline stations ................................................ 904.2 918.6 907.1 901.4 903.6 908.6 904.0 907.1 903.5 901.0 -2.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores ......... 1,302.2 1,281.7 1,257.1 1,276.7 1,307.4 1,277.5 1,277.6 1,278.9 1,278.4 1,283.5 5.1

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

 stores................................................................ 659.0 629.9 636.0 643.3 655.3 642.0 640.8 640.6 640.6 641.2 .6

1 General merchandise stores ............................. 2,824.4 2,807.4 2,818.7 2,885.1 2,809.1 2,831.5 2,838.9 2,857.7 2,863.8 2,867.6 3.8

Department stores .......................................... 1,707.1 1,663.2 1,671.9 1,723.9 1,696.6 1,689.9 1,690.3 1,703.6 1,705.6 1,706.3 .7

Miscellaneous store retailers ............................. 964.6 939.3 938.2 944.8 960.8 941.8 942.5 941.0 942.0 942.7 .7

Nonstore retailers ............................................... 453.4 430.4 434.9 449.5 443.1 440.6 443.5 440.6 438.6 437.7 -.9

Transportation and warehousing .......................... 4,232.8 4,083.4 4,148.7 4,161.6 4,194.6 4,113.9 4,103.7 4,101.2 4,115.8 4,114.3 -1.5

Air transportation ................................................ 560.5 505.5 507.4 502.0 556.3 510.0 502.4 500.0 502.5 497.4 -5.1

Rail transportation .............................................. 215.3 215.8 217.0 217.1 215.1 217.2 217.1 214.8 216.6 216.1 -.5

Water transportation ........................................... 50.4 52.5 49.8 49.4 50.4 50.1 50.0 49.9 48.6 49.2 .6

Truck transportation ........................................... 1,354.7 1,352.6 1,347.3 1,351.2 1,336.2 1,326.9 1,324.0 1,331.0 1,329.9 1,332.0 2.1

Transit and ground passenger transportation ... 372.2 293.7 363.0 370.8 365.1 345.4 347.4 348.3 355.7 358.0 2.3

Pipeline transportation ....................................... 40.5 39.1 38.6 38.6 40.4 39.7 39.5 38.9 38.9 38.8 -.1

Scenic and sightseeing transportation .............. 26.5 37.3 33.8 30.4 26.2 29.9 29.5 30.0 29.9 30.2 .3

Support activities for transportation ................... 531.2 522.7 524.0 525.8 528.1 523.2 520.2 519.1 522.7 522.7 .0

Couriers and messengers .................................. 557.4 551.9 552.6 555.1 557.5 560.9 560.6 557.8 557.3 555.3 -2.0

Warehousing and storage .................................. 524.1 512.3 515.2 521.2 519.3 510.6 513.0 511.4 513.7 514.6 .9

Utilities ................................................................... 599.8 593.9 590.9 590.3 600.6 589.5 589.6 590.8 591.1 591.4 .3

Information ................................................................ 3,388 3,283 3,252 3,250 3,392 3,285 3,278 3,267 3,265 3,257 -8

Publishing industries, except Internet ............... 964.8 942.0 938.0 937.5 964.7 945.1 941.4 941.5 939.7 937.8 -1.9

Motion picture and sound recording industries . 387.9 379.8 362.5 359.7 394.7 371.7 373.7 367.2 369.3 367.5 -1.8

Broadcasting, except Internet ............................ 330.7 323.1 325.6 324.7 330.3 324.2 324.1 322.9 325.4 324.1 -1.3

Internet publishing and broadcasting ................ 34.1 34.6 34.4 33.7 34.2 34.0 34.5 34.2 34.1 33.7 -.4

Telecommunications .......................................... 1,181.7 1,129.1 1,123.6 1,122.6 1,177.7 1,132.5 1,127.8 1,125.7 1,124.3 1,120.9 -3.4

ISPs, search portals, and data processing ....... 442.1 428.6 423.1 425.5 444.0 432.1 430.9 429.7 426.8 426.6 -.2

Other information services ................................. 46.3 45.6 45.2 46.0 46.5 45.1 45.1 45.5 45.7 46.0 .3

Financial activities .................................................... 7,858 8,043 7,981 7,969 7,872 7,972 7,981 7,980 7,989 7,980 -9

Finance and insurance .......................................... 5,828.8 5,943.9 5,918.2 5,911.3 5,841.1 5,923.3 5,928.6 5,924.4 5,935.1 5,923.5 -11.6

Monetary authorities - central bank ................... 22.8 22.1 21.9 21.8 22.9 22.1 22.1 22.0 22.0 21.8 -.2

1 Credit intermediation and related activities ....... 2,705.1 2,802.0 2,781.8 2,771.7 2,714.0 2,783.5 2,789.4 2,788.8 2,791.5 2,781.8 -9.7

1 Depository credit intermediation ..................... 1,738.0 1,782.9 1,766.2 1,766.3 1,745.6 1,768.5 1,771.5 1,772.4 1,772.8 1,774.4 1.6

Commercial banking .................................... 1,283.6 1,313.7 1,298.0 1,297.5 1,288.8 1,302.3 1,304.1 1,304.8 1,303.2 1,303.6 .4

Securities, commodity contracts, investments .. 795.1 800.5 799.1 802.5 796.9 796.7 796.6 794.9 799.3 800.8 1.5

Insurance carriers and related activities ........... 2,220.7 2,237.7 2,233.7 2,234.8 2,222.2 2,238.9 2,238.1 2,237.1 2,240.4 2,238.4 -2.0

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles ........ 85.1 81.6 81.7 80.5 85.1 82.1 82.4 81.6 81.9 80.7 -1.2

Real estate and rental and leasing ....................... 2,028.9 2,099.3 2,063.0 2,057.9 2,031.1 2,048.6 2,052.7 2,055.2 2,053.7 2,056.0 2.3

Real estate .......................................................... 1,354.9 1,399.7 1,378.7 1,378.8 1,354.4 1,365.2 1,368.9 1,371.5 1,373.5 1,375.5 2.0

Rental and leasing services ............................... 646.3 669.8 654.2 648.5 648.9 654.2 654.6 654.2 650.2 650.1 -.1

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets ......... 27.7 29.8 30.1 30.6 27.8 29.2 29.2 29.5 30.0 30.4 .4

Professional and business services ........................ 16,197 16,235 16,265 16,353 16,036 16,006 16,063 16,054 16,124 16,167 43

1 Professional and technical services ..................... 6,697.0 6,640.5 6,621.7 6,671.8 6,738.3 6,674.9 6,661.6 6,657.3 6,696.1 6,719.6 23.5

Legal services .................................................. 1,120.3 1,126.2 1,118.5 1,127.3 1,121.7 1,125.2 1,122.8 1,121.9 1,125.1 1,128.2 3.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services ........... 823.3 790.1 790.7 798.6 882.7 848.9 847.9 854.3 859.8 863.1 3.3

Architectural and engineering services .......... 1,256.7 1,258.7 1,252.6 1,251.7 1,251.3 1,236.0 1,240.9 1,238.1 1,247.1 1,246.6 -.5

Computer systems design and related

 services.......................................................... 1,153.2 1,124.6 1,127.6 1,137.5 1,153.4 1,142.0 1,130.6 1,125.4 1,134.8 1,140.1 5.3

Management and technical consulting

 services.......................................................... 737.1 742.1 741.2 752.2 734.0 731.8 735.0 736.1 742.0 748.9 6.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail-Continued

(In thousands)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Change

from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Professional and business services-Continued

Management of companies and enterprises ....... 1,709.8 1,698.8 1,697.5 1,695.3 1,703.9 1,690.8 1,698.5 1,690.8 1,691.1 1,689.2 -1.9

Administrative and waste services ....................... 7,789.8 7,895.5 7,946.0 7,986.3 7,594.0 7,639.8 7,702.5 7,706.1 7,737.2 7,758.2 21.0

1 Administrative and support services ................. 7,471.9 7,573.7 7,625.7 7,669.8 7,279.2 7,323.0 7,380.3 7,389.2 7,420.3 7,443.1 22.8

1 Employment services ...................................... 3,406.1 3,489.4 3,561.7 3,605.5 3,260.8 3,318.3 3,374.8 3,373.7 3,399.0 3,427.7 28.7

Temporary help services ............................. 2,294.7 2,322.7 2,387.7 2,405.1 2,192.6 2,207.9 2,226.6 2,236.6 2,264.3 2,281.2 16.9

Business support services .............................. 751.5 743.0 745.8 757.0 749.1 747.8 745.0 750.4 753.7 753.9 .2

Services to buildings and dwellings ............... 1,642.9 1,687.1 1,664.9 1,647.3 1,606.7 1,601.8 1,609.9 1,613.5 1,610.6 1,605.8 -4.8

Waste management and remediation services 317.9 321.8 320.3 316.5 314.8 316.8 322.2 316.9 316.9 315.1 -1.8

Education and health services ................................ 16,471 16,178 16,475 16,801 16,315 16,503 16,487 16,541 16,569 16,625 56

Educational services ............................................. 2,830.4 2,361.3 2,650.0 2,900.6 2,681.3 2,689.7 2,676.7 2,699.8 2,714.8 2,737.3 22.5

Health care and social assistance ........................13,640.5 13,816.8 13,824.7 13,900.6 13,633.3 13,813.2 13,810.0 13,840.8 13,854.1 13,887.9 33.8

1 Ambulatory health care services ....................... 4,693.6 4,800.0 4,787.3 4,816.8 4,692.0 4,777.4 4,781.6 4,791.7 4,792.0 4,809.7 17.7

Offices of physicians ....................................... 2,009.0 2,062.1 2,056.1 2,068.5 2,009.0 2,050.2 2,052.7 2,056.6 2,058.0 2,067.2 9.2

Outpatient care centers ................................... 412.0 413.9 411.6 412.3 412.2 414.7 412.9 413.7 413.3 413.3 .0

Home health care services ............................. 689.6 710.5 712.1 717.0 687.9 709.0 711.1 711.8 711.1 713.1 2.0

Hospitals ............................................................. 4,180.5 4,241.7 4,236.2 4,240.8 4,179.0 4,227.0 4,226.8 4,235.2 4,237.6 4,240.3 2.7

1 Nursing and residential care facilities ............... 2,757.4 2,797.0 2,788.4 2,798.9 2,757.1 2,790.7 2,787.2 2,789.7 2,794.0 2,799.0 5.0

Nursing care facilities ...................................... 1,581.2 1,586.4 1,585.5 1,588.7 1,580.8 1,589.6 1,586.0 1,583.8 1,586.4 1,588.6 2.2

1 Social assistance ................................................ 2,009.0 1,978.1 2,012.8 2,044.1 2,005.2 2,018.1 2,014.4 2,024.2 2,030.5 2,038.9 8.4

Child day care services ................................... 735.3 688.2 728.8 749.1 726.2 722.7 729.3 732.4 733.4 739.2 5.8

Leisure and hospitality ............................................. 11,982 12,632 12,247 12,017 12,032 12,039 12,051 12,051 12,058 12,081 23

Arts, entertainment, and recreation ...................... 1,742.9 2,008.0 1,815.7 1,719.6 1,790.1 1,758.4 1,763.8 1,759.8 1,765.2 1,772.9 7.7

Performing arts and spectator sports ................ 358.2 372.4 360.5 350.3 360.9 346.5 347.4 347.3 354.1 357.5 3.4

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks ...... 111.3 117.7 109.4 109.9 111.2 109.8 110.0 109.8 108.9 109.5 .6

Amusements, gambling, and recreation ........... 1,273.4 1,517.9 1,345.8 1,259.4 1,318.0 1,302.1 1,306.4 1,302.7 1,302.2 1,305.9 3.7

Accommodations and food services .................... 10,239.1 10,624.1 10,431.2 10,297.2 10,241.6 10,280.4 10,286.9 10,290.8 10,293.0 10,307.8 14.8

Accommodations ................................................ 1,782.7 1,916.9 1,797.9 1,741.6 1,789.1 1,769.1 1,778.6 1,769.1 1,751.0 1,742.4 -8.6

Food services and drinking places .................... 8,456.4 8,707.2 8,633.3 8,555.6 8,452.5 8,511.3 8,508.3 8,521.7 8,542.0 8,565.4 23.4

Other services .......................................................... 5,336 5,351 5,296 5,305 5,343 5,323 5,316 5,319 5,313 5,313 0

Repair and maintenance .................................... 1,230.2 1,226.7 1,220.6 1,217.7 1,230.4 1,218.6 1,219.5 1,222.3 1,220.0 1,218.1 -1.9

Personal and laundry services .......................... 1,239.5 1,227.4 1,221.2 1,224.3 1,237.5 1,225.0 1,224.6 1,223.5 1,218.8 1,221.2 2.4

Membership associations and organizations .... 2,866.1 2,897.2 2,854.6 2,863.1 2,875.3 2,879.5 2,872.1 2,872.7 2,873.8 2,873.5 -.3

Government .............................................................. 21,834 20,319 21,251 21,779 21,544 21,476 21,458 21,470 21,478 21,488 10

Federal ................................................................... 2,780 2,758 2,760 2,728 2,781 2,749 2,747 2,745 2,765 2,740 -25

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service ................. 1,951.6 1,946.8 1,950.9 1,920.3 1,947.5 1,928.2 1,928.9 1,929.5 1,952.4 1,928.4 -24.0

U.S. Postal Service ............................................ 828.7 811.4 808.9 808.0 833.6 821.1 817.7 815.8 812.6 811.4 -1.2

State government .................................................. 5,098 4,681 4,912 5,069 4,984 4,925 4,920 4,928 4,944 4,951 7

State government education .............................. 2,322.3 1,917.7 2,167.5 2,335.5 2,203.0 2,174.3 2,175.5 2,186.6 2,199.8 2,207.2 7.4

State government, excluding education ............ 2,775.2 2,763.3 2,744.2 2,733.9 2,780.8 2,751.1 2,744.7 2,741.6 2,744.0 2,743.6 -.4

Local government .................................................. 13,956 12,880 13,579 13,982 13,779 13,802 13,791 13,797 13,769 13,797 28

Local government education ............................. 7,925.5 6,653.9 7,512.5 7,943.0 7,691.5 7,718.7 7,723.5 7,735.1 7,687.0 7,707.7 20.7

Local government, excluding education ........... 6,030.0 6,226.4 6,066.5 6,039.1 6,087.7 6,083.5 6,067.2 6,061.9 6,081.7 6,089.5 7.8

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately. p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Change

from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Total private ....................................... 33.8 34.0 33.8 33.7 33.8 33.7 33.6 33.7 33.7 33.8 0.1

Goods-producing .......................................... 40.0 40.1 40.3 40.2 39.7 39.8 39.6 39.8 39.9 39.9 .0

Natural resources and mining .............................. 43.4 44.1 44.1 43.9 43.0 43.7 43.2 43.7 43.7 43.6 -.1

Construction ............................................................ 38.7 39.5 39.1 38.9 38.2 38.4 38.3 38.6 38.4 38.4 .0

Manufacturing ......................................................... 40.5 40.2 40.8 40.7 40.3 40.3 40.1 40.2 40.5 40.5 .0

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.3 4.2 4.5 4.4 4.2 4.0 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.2 .0

Durable goods ..................................................... 40.7 40.6 41.2 41.1 40.6 40.7 40.5 40.5 40.8 40.9 .1

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.3 4.3 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.3 .0

Wood products .................................................. 40.2 40.7 41.0 41.1 39.9 40.3 40.7 40.4 40.4 40.7 .3

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 42.3 42.6 42.7 42.3 41.9 42.2 41.6 42.1 41.9 42.0 .1

Primary metals .................................................. 42.3 41.6 42.5 42.4 42.4 42.0 41.7 41.9 42.2 42.4 .2

Fabricated metal products .............................. 40.7 40.5 40.9 40.9 40.6 40.5 40.5 40.5 40.7 40.8 .1

Machinery .......................................................... 40.4 40.5 41.1 40.8 40.5 40.9 40.3 40.7 41.1 40.9 -.2

Computer and electronic products ................ 39.4 40.9 40.7 40.7 39.3 40.5 40.5 41.1 40.5 40.6 .1

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 40.1 40.3 40.7 41.1 39.9 41.0 40.4 40.6 40.6 40.8 .2

Transportation equipment ............................... 42.5 40.9 42.6 42.4 42.4 41.4 41.3 40.7 42.0 41.9 -.1

Furniture and related products ....................... 38.6 39.4 39.6 39.1 38.7 38.9 38.9 39.1 39.2 39.1 -.1

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 38.9 38.1 38.4 38.3 38.8 38.6 38.4 38.2 38.3 38.2 -.1

Nondurable goods ............................................... 40.1 39.7 40.3 40.1 39.9 39.7 39.4 39.7 39.8 40.0 .2

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.3 4.1 4.5 4.3 4.1 3.9 4.0 3.9 4.1 4.1 .0

Food manufacturing ......................................... 39.9 39.7 40.1 39.7 39.4 39.4 39.0 39.3 39.4 39.4 .0

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 39.5 39.1 39.5 38.8 39.4 39.0 38.5 38.8 38.8 38.6 -.2

Textile mills ........................................................ 39.9 38.7 39.4 39.1 40.0 38.6 37.7 38.7 39.0 39.0 .0

Textile product mills ......................................... 38.7 40.1 41.0 40.6 38.9 39.1 39.8 39.9 40.8 40.5 -.3

Apparel ............................................................... 35.8 34.7 35.1 36.1 35.8 35.0 34.6 34.7 35.2 35.9 .7

Leather and allied products ............................ 38.7 38.8 38.4 39.3 38.5 38.8 39.8 39.0 38.5 39.1 .6

Paper and paper products .............................. 41.7 41.0 41.7 41.7 41.5 41.4 41.2 41.2 41.2 41.5 .3

Printing and related support activities ........... 38.7 38.1 38.8 38.8 38.5 38.1 38.0 38.0 38.2 38.5 .3

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 43.6 43.9 44.9 45.5 43.5 44.1 43.9 44.4 44.5 45.2 .7

Chemicals .......................................................... 42.5 42.2 42.5 42.0 42.5 42.2 42.1 42.3 42.2 42.0 -.2

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 40.6 40.1 40.8 41.0 40.5 40.1 40.0 40.2 40.5 40.8 .3

Private service-providing ............................. 32.4 32.6 32.3 32.3 32.5 32.4 32.3 32.4 32.4 32.4 .0

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 33.5 33.9 33.7 33.6 33.6 33.4 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.6 .0

Wholesale trade ................................................... 37.7 38.0 37.9 38.0 37.8 37.8 37.8 37.9 37.8 38.0 .2

Retail trade ........................................................... 30.7 31.4 31.0 30.8 30.9 30.8 30.6 30.8 30.9 30.9 .0

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 36.8 37.1 37.2 37.1 36.9 36.6 36.9 36.9 37.0 37.1 .1

Utilities ................................................................... 41.2 40.9 40.8 41.5 41.0 41.0 40.9 40.9 40.5 41.3 .8

Information ............................................................... 36.6 36.5 36.2 36.2 36.5 36.4 36.4 36.3 36.2 36.2 .0

Financial activities .................................................. 35.3 35.4 35.2 35.2 35.5 35.5 35.5 35.5 35.4 35.4 .0

Professional and business services .................... 34.2 34.1 33.8 33.8 34.2 34.1 34.0 33.9 33.9 33.9 .0

Education and health services ............................. 32.4 32.7 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.7 32.5 32.6 .1

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 25.7 26.3 25.3 25.5 25.9 25.5 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 .1

Other services ......................................................... 32.0 31.9 31.7 31.7 32.0 31.8 31.7 31.7 31.7 31.7 .0

1 Data relate to production workers in natural resources and mining and approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

manufacturing, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory p = preliminary.

workers in the service-providing industries. These groups account for
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and 

selected industry detail

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Total private ....................................... $15.12 $15.35 $15.48 $15.45 $511.06 $521.90 $523.22 $520.67

Seasonally adjusted ..................... 15.10 15.45 15.45 15.46 510.38 520.67 520.67 522.55

Goods-producing .......................................... 16.55 16.92 17.01 16.93 662.00 678.49 685.50 680.59

Natural resources and mining .............................. 17.25 17.61 17.74 17.67 748.65 776.60 782.33 775.71

Construction ............................................................ 18.79 19.06 19.19 19.11 727.17 752.87 750.33 743.38

Manufacturing ......................................................... 15.45 15.76 15.87 15.79 625.73 633.55 647.50 642.65

Durable goods ..................................................... 16.20 16.47 16.61 16.52 659.34 668.68 684.33 678.97

Wood products .................................................. 12.37 12.76 12.83 12.78 497.27 519.33 526.03 525.26

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 15.59 15.81 15.81 15.90 659.46 673.51 675.09 672.57

Primary metals .................................................. 17.93 18.10 18.25 18.22 758.44 752.96 775.63 772.53

Fabricated metal products .............................. 14.78 15.04 15.09 15.03 601.55 609.12 617.18 614.73

Machinery .......................................................... 15.97 16.35 16.43 16.35 645.19 662.18 675.27 667.08

Computer and electronic products ................ 16.24 16.78 16.76 16.74 639.86 686.30 682.13 681.32

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 14.02 14.43 14.49 14.38 562.20 581.53 589.74 591.02

Transportation equipment ............................... 21.13 21.30 21.55 21.27 898.03 871.17 918.03 901.85

Furniture and related products ....................... 12.74 13.05 13.11 13.02 491.76 514.17 519.16 509.08

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 13.01 13.26 13.41 13.50 506.09 505.21 514.94 517.05

Nondurable goods ............................................... 14.27 14.67 14.74 14.66 572.23 582.40 594.02 587.87

Food manufacturing ......................................... 12.66 12.78 12.88 12.71 505.13 507.37 516.49 504.59

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 17.62 17.60 17.33 17.70 695.99 688.16 684.54 686.76

Textile mills ........................................................ 11.70 11.94 12.08 12.03 466.83 462.08 475.95 470.37

Textile product mills ......................................... 11.02 11.47 11.44 11.32 426.47 459.95 469.04 459.59

Apparel ............................................................... 9.15 9.75 9.77 9.70 327.57 338.33 342.93 350.17

Leather and allied products ............................ 11.01 11.73 11.70 11.93 426.09 455.12 449.28 468.85

Paper and paper products .............................. 17.09 17.46 17.54 17.55 712.65 715.86 731.42 731.84

Printing and related support activities ........... 15.15 15.37 15.50 15.45 586.31 585.60 601.40 599.46

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 23.46 23.01 23.53 23.75 1,022.86 1,010.14 1,056.50 1,080.63

Chemicals .......................................................... 18.00 18.61 18.66 18.68 765.00 785.34 793.05 784.56

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 13.66 14.26 14.29 14.13 554.60 571.83 583.03 579.33

Private service-providing ............................. 14.72 14.92 15.05 15.05 476.93 486.39 486.12 486.12

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 14.13 14.32 14.43 14.36 473.36 485.45 486.29 482.50

Wholesale trade ................................................... 17.05 17.32 17.37 17.36 642.79 658.16 658.32 659.68

Retail trade ........................................................... 11.78 11.90 12.01 11.89 361.65 373.66 372.31 366.21

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 15.94 16.36 16.36 16.38 586.59 606.96 608.59 607.70

Utilities ................................................................... 23.93 24.78 25.11 25.02 985.92 1,013.50 1,024.49 1,038.33

Information ............................................................... 20.59 21.21 21.43 21.37 753.59 774.17 775.77 773.59

Financial activities .................................................. 16.48 17.30 17.29 17.29 581.74 612.42 608.61 608.61

Professional and business services .................... 16.89 17.04 17.14 17.14 577.64 581.06 579.33 579.33

Education and health services ............................. 15.42 15.75 15.78 15.80 499.61 515.03 512.85 513.50

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 8.65 8.66 8.78 8.81 222.31 227.76 222.13 224.66

Other services ......................................................... 13.86 13.91 13.99 13.93 443.52 443.73 443.48 441.58

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. p = preliminary.
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Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Total private:

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Current dollars .............................................. $15.10 $15.38 $15.43 $15.45 $15.45 $15.46 0.1

2 Constant (1982) dollars .............................. 8.26 8.30 8.32 8.30 8.28 N.A. 3( )

Goods-producing .......................................................... 16.48 16.79 16.81 16.86 16.91 16.88 -.2

Natural resources and mining .............................................. 17.21 17.60 17.62 17.69 17.71 17.74 .2

Construction ............................................................................ 18.66 18.96 18.96 18.99 19.04 19.04 .0

Manufacturing ......................................................................... 15.45 15.72 15.73 15.79 15.84 15.81 -.2

4 Excluding overtime .................................................... 14.68 14.98 14.96 15.02 15.06 15.03 -.2

Durable goods ..................................................................... 16.19 16.42 16.42 16.49 16.56 16.51 -.3

Nondurable goods ............................................................... 14.29 14.63 14.66 14.70 14.71 14.71 .0

Private service-providing ............................................. 14.72 15.00 15.06 15.06 15.05 15.07 .1

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................................... 14.13 14.34 14.40 14.39 14.38 14.39 .1

Wholesale trade ................................................................... 17.09 17.34 17.36 17.40 17.40 17.41 .1

Retail trade ........................................................................... 11.77 11.92 11.96 11.96 11.95 11.94 -.1

Transportation and warehousing ...................................... 15.92 16.30 16.40 16.36 16.35 16.38 .2

Utilities ................................................................................... 23.96 24.62 24.73 24.95 24.91 25.06 .6

Information ............................................................................... 20.49 21.13 21.26 21.32 21.30 21.31 .0

Financial activities .................................................................. 16.51 17.17 17.33 17.33 17.31 17.33 .1

Professional and business services .................................... 16.99 17.22 17.23 17.24 17.22 17.26 .2

Education and health services ............................................. 15.42 15.67 15.72 15.76 15.77 15.81 .3

Leisure and hospitality ........................................................... 8.62 8.75 8.76 8.75 8.78 8.79 .1

Other services ......................................................................... 13.86 13.98 13.98 13.98 13.98 13.97 -.1

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. 4 Derived by assuming that overtime hours are paid at the rate of

2 The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and time and one-half.

Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate this series. N.A. = not available.

3 Change was -0.2 percent from Aug. 2003 to Sept. 2003, the p = preliminary.

latest month available.
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Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

(2002=100)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Total private ....................................... 100.3 100.5 99.5 99.4 99.7 98.7 98.3 98.7 98.7 99.1 0.4

Goods-producing .......................................... 100.8 99.0 98.9 98.3 98.5 96.3 95.6 96.0 96.1 95.9 -.2

Natural resources and mining .............................. 100.7 99.5 98.3 99.0 97.7 96.7 95.4 96.2 95.5 96.0 .5

Construction ............................................................ 103.8 107.9 106.0 104.9 98.7 99.1 98.9 99.9 99.6 99.5 -.1

Manufacturing ......................................................... 99.4 94.7 95.8 95.2 98.5 95.0 94.1 94.1 94.5 94.3 -.2

Durable goods ..................................................... 98.9 94.4 95.3 95.0 98.4 94.8 93.8 93.8 94.1 94.2 .1

Wood products .................................................. 100.8 100.3 100.4 100.6 99.4 97.5 98.3 97.5 97.6 98.8 1.2

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 101.5 98.7 98.0 96.3 98.6 95.7 93.6 94.9 93.7 93.7 .0

Primary metals .................................................. 98.9 91.4 92.6 91.6 98.9 93.4 91.8 91.7 91.5 91.3 -.2

Fabricated metal products .............................. 99.5 94.3 94.9 95.2 98.9 94.7 94.3 94.2 94.3 94.6 .3

Machinery .......................................................... 97.5 93.3 94.6 93.9 98.2 95.0 93.6 94.3 95.1 94.5 -.6

Computer and electronic products ................ 97.2 94.7 93.3 93.2 97.2 95.3 94.6 95.4 93.4 93.0 -.4

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 97.9 90.8 91.8 92.0 97.3 93.7 91.9 91.6 91.2 91.3 .1

Transportation equipment ............................... 99.5 93.6 97.4 96.7 99.3 94.4 93.4 92.8 95.5 95.1 -.4

Furniture and related products ....................... 96.5 94.2 94.7 93.6 96.9 92.9 93.0 93.2 93.6 93.4 -.2

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 100.2 93.1 93.2 93.0 99.5 95.6 94.4 93.2 92.8 92.3 -.5

Nondurable goods ............................................... 99.9 95.4 96.6 95.5 98.7 95.1 94.2 94.4 94.4 94.6 .2

Food manufacturing ......................................... 102.4 102.2 103.4 101.1 99.3 98.6 97.9 98.5 98.9 98.8 -.1

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 99.1 88.7 90.4 88.0 97.2 85.7 85.3 85.1 84.9 85.4 .6

Textile mills ........................................................ 96.6 83.8 85.3 83.0 96.5 87.4 83.2 83.6 83.8 82.7 -1.3

Textile product mills ......................................... 98.4 92.1 95.9 95.5 98.8 93.5 94.6 91.8 95.5 95.0 -.5

Apparel ............................................................... 95.8 76.3 77.1 78.9 94.8 79.2 77.4 76.2 76.0 76.8 1.1

Leather and allied products ............................ 100.4 87.9 86.5 88.0 99.9 87.1 91.0 88.1 86.7 86.7 .0

Paper and paper products .............................. 98.9 92.9 94.2 93.2 98.2 94.0 93.0 92.8 92.4 92.7 .3

Printing and related support activities ........... 99.7 96.0 96.8 97.1 98.7 96.5 95.8 95.5 95.4 95.8 .4

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 101.9 100.8 102.3 102.9 100.0 99.6 98.8 99.5 99.3 100.6 1.3

Chemicals .......................................................... 99.4 99.2 99.0 97.5 100.0 99.0 99.3 99.6 98.9 98.2 -.7

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 99.9 95.8 97.3 97.7 99.4 96.1 95.5 95.7 96.3 97.0 .7

Private service-providing ............................. 100.2 100.8 99.5 99.9 100.1 99.5 99.2 99.5 99.6 99.8 .2

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 99.7 99.2 98.6 99.1 99.6 97.9 97.8 98.2 98.6 98.6 .0

Wholesale trade ................................................... 98.9 97.9 97.3 97.5 98.9 97.3 97.1 97.2 97.0 97.2 .2

Retail trade ........................................................... 99.4 100.7 99.0 99.5 99.7 98.9 98.2 99.0 99.4 99.6 .2

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 100.7 97.3 99.4 99.4 99.9 96.8 97.3 97.1 98.0 98.2 .2

Utilities ................................................................... 100.7 99.4 98.7 100.2 100.4 98.6 98.5 98.8 98.1 100.1 2.0

Information ............................................................... 99.1 100.1 98.2 98.0 99.4 99.6 99.5 99.2 98.8 98.8 .0

Financial activities .................................................. 99.4 102.0 100.4 100.2 100.3 101.3 101.4 101.4 101.3 101.0 -.3

Professional and business services .................... 101.0 100.1 99.3 99.9 99.9 98.6 98.6 98.3 98.6 98.9 .3

Education and health services ............................. 101.6 100.2 101.4 103.3 101.0 101.8 101.7 102.5 102.0 102.6 .6

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 99.3 107.3 99.7 98.5 100.6 98.8 98.1 98.6 98.9 99.4 .5

Other services ......................................................... 99.4 99.1 97.3 97.5 99.5 98.3 97.9 97.8 97.7 97.7 .0

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate hours estimates

p = preliminary. are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and production or

NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by nonsupervisory worker employment.

dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the
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Table B-6. Indexes of aggregrate weekly payrolls of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

(2002=100)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2002

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Oct.

2002

June

2003

July

2003

Aug.

2003

Sept.

2003p

Oct.

2003p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2003-

Oct. 2003

Total private ....................................... 101.4 103.1 103.0 102.8 100.7 101.5 101.5 102.0 102.0 102.5 0.5

Goods-producing .......................................... 102.2 102.5 103.1 102.0 99.4 99.0 98.4 99.1 99.5 99.2 -.3

Natural resources and mining .............................. 100.8 101.7 101.2 101.6 97.6 98.8 97.6 98.8 98.2 98.9 .7

Construction ............................................................ 105.4 111.1 109.8 108.3 99.5 101.5 101.2 102.4 102.4 102.3 -.1

Manufacturing ......................................................... 100.4 97.6 99.4 98.3 99.5 97.6 96.8 97.2 97.9 97.5 -.4

Durable goods ..................................................... 100.0 97.0 98.9 98.0 99.5 97.2 96.2 96.5 97.3 97.1 -.2

Nondurable goods ............................................... 100.7 98.9 100.6 98.9 99.6 98.3 97.5 98.0 98.1 98.3 .2

Private service-providing ............................. 101.2 103.2 102.8 103.2 101.1 102.4 102.5 102.9 103.0 103.2 .2

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 100.5 101.4 101.5 101.5 100.4 100.2 100.5 100.8 101.1 101.3 .2

Wholesale trade ................................................... 99.4 99.9 99.7 99.8 99.7 99.5 99.4 99.7 99.5 99.8 .3

Retail trade ........................................................... 100.3 102.7 101.9 101.4 100.6 101.0 100.6 101.5 101.8 101.9 .1

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 101.8 100.9 103.0 103.3 100.8 100.0 101.1 100.7 101.6 102.0 .4

Utilities ................................................................... 100.7 102.9 103.5 104.8 100.5 101.4 101.8 102.9 102.1 104.7 2.5

Information ............................................................... 100.8 105.0 104.0 103.5 100.7 104.0 104.6 104.5 104.1 104.1 .0

Financial activities .................................................. 101.3 109.2 107.4 107.2 102.4 107.5 108.7 108.7 108.4 108.3 -.1

Professional and business services .................... 101.5 101.4 101.2 101.8 100.9 101.0 101.0 100.8 101.0 101.5 .5

Education and health services ............................. 103.0 103.7 105.1 107.3 102.3 104.8 105.1 106.2 105.7 106.6 .9

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 100.2 108.4 102.1 101.2 101.2 100.9 100.3 100.6 101.3 102.0 .7

Other services ......................................................... 100.4 100.5 99.2 98.9 100.5 100.1 99.7 99.7 99.6 99.4 -.2

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate payroll estimates

p = preliminary. are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly 

NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by hours, and production or nonsupervisrory worker employment.

dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate payrolls by the
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Table B-7. Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted

(Percent)

Time Span Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Private nonfarm payrolls, 278 industries 1

Over 1-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 56.3 64.7 56.7 65.8 64.2 61.9 63.3 59.9 57.6 64.4 69.1 64.4

2000 ........................................................ 65.5 60.3 65.5 58.8 47.7 61.7 65.5 52.9 52.3 54.1 57.7 53.2

2001 ........................................................ 52.3 49.6 48.6 36.5 41.4 38.1 35.6 38.5 39.0 35.6 37.8 36.0

2002 ........................................................ 40.5 37.4 37.6 41.0 41.7 43.7 39.0 41.7 43.3 43.9 42.4 37.2

2003 ........................................................ 44.2 36.7 44.1 46.9 43.3 37.2 43.2 40.8 p 50.4 p 48.2

Over 3-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 61.5 64.9 61.0 65.8 66.4 69.1 66.9 64.4 62.2 62.9 66.7 69.6

2000 ........................................................ 70.1 66.0 68.3 68.3 58.5 56.3 58.1 62.2 55.9 53.1 54.0 58.3

2001 ........................................................ 54.9 50.7 50.5 43.5 37.2 36.0 36.2 35.8 34.5 32.2 31.7 30.9

2002 ........................................................ 34.4 38.3 36.5 35.4 36.7 38.8 39.7 41.4 38.1 39.0 37.8 34.9

2003 ........................................................ 36.0 35.6 36.0 41.2 43.0 40.6 37.6 34.5 p 41.7 p 48.2

Over 6-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 66.9 64.9 63.7 64.0 65.6 65.8 66.7 66.2 69.4 68.7 66.4 66.5

2000 ........................................................ 67.6 68.7 71.4 71.9 68.5 66.2 67.3 60.4 58.3 55.0 61.0 55.2

2001 ........................................................ 53.2 51.4 50.7 47.1 42.8 38.8 37.6 34.5 31.1 32.9 31.3 31.7

2002 ........................................................ 30.6 29.9 31.1 31.3 33.3 35.8 36.9 37.4 37.8 39.9 38.3 35.8

2003 ........................................................ 37.4 36.5 35.1 34.7 37.4 36.5 38.7 35.1 p 39.9 p 40.3

Over 12-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 70.5 68.7 68.2 68.0 68.3 68.3 68.0 68.0 67.8 69.1 68.3 69.1

2000 ........................................................ 70.9 69.2 73.2 71.0 69.8 71.0 70.0 70.3 70.3 65.6 63.8 62.1

2001 ........................................................ 59.5 59.5 53.4 49.3 48.6 45.0 43.3 43.9 39.9 37.8 37.1 34.9

2002 ........................................................ 33.6 31.7 30.2 30.2 30.4 30.6 30.8 31.8 31.5 30.0 33.5 33.3

2003 ........................................................ 33.8 33.3 34.5 35.4 36.5 35.4 35.8 33.6 p 38.3 p 36.0

Over 1-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 42.3 38.7 33.3 39.3 52.4 34.5 50.0 40.5 41.7 50.6 56.0 51.8

2000 ........................................................ 50.6 53.6 54.8 42.9 39.9 53.6 62.5 28.6 24.4 35.1 41.1 38.7

2001 ........................................................ 24.4 22.0 24.4 14.3 14.3 19.6 14.3 13.7 17.9 16.7 16.7 9.5

2002 ........................................................ 19.0 22.6 20.8 33.9 30.4 32.1 34.5 25.0 31.0 19.6 21.4 25.0

2003 ........................................................ 36.3 19.0 27.4 20.2 30.4 25.6 31.5 25.6 p 29.8 p 29.8

Over 3-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 33.9 40.5 37.5 35.7 41.7 43.5 42.3 38.1 41.1 44.6 49.4 56.5

2000 ........................................................ 54.2 54.8 58.3 51.8 41.7 41.1 54.8 48.2 29.2 25.6 25.0 42.3

2001 ........................................................ 34.5 24.4 17.9 14.3 11.9 14.3 10.7 7.7 8.3 9.5 8.9 8.3

2002 ........................................................ 11.9 11.9 16.7 20.2 21.4 20.2 28.6 25.6 25.6 17.9 14.9 10.7

2003 ........................................................ 14.9 15.5 19.6 16.7 17.9 14.3 20.2 18.5 p 22.6 p 26.8

Over 6-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 37.5 32.7 30.4 33.3 36.9 38.1 38.1 34.5 40.5 46.4 41.1 48.2

2000 ........................................................ 47.0 51.2 56.5 57.1 49.4 47.6 56.0 44.0 36.9 35.1 34.5 31.0

2001 ........................................................ 23.8 24.4 20.8 17.9 14.9 11.9 13.7 9.5 8.3 6.5 6.5 6.0

2002 ........................................................ 7.7 8.9 7.7 8.9 12.5 16.7 19.6 19.6 23.8 17.9 16.7 13.7

2003 ........................................................ 13.7 14.3 12.5 11.9 12.5 15.5 13.1 13.7 p 14.3 p 17.9

Over 12-month span:

1999 ........................................................ 35.7 32.1 29.8 32.1 32.7 32.1 34.5 32.1 33.3 39.3 41.1 42.9

2000 ........................................................ 41.7 39.3 47.0 50.0 46.4 52.4 51.8 49.4 46.4 40.5 35.1 33.3

2001 ........................................................ 29.8 32.1 20.8 19.0 13.1 12.5 10.7 11.9 11.9 10.1 8.3 6.0

2002 ........................................................ 7.1 6.0 6.0 7.1 7.7 5.4 6.0 8.9 7.7 9.5 13.1 13.1

2003 ........................................................ 13.7 15.5 16.7 13.1 15.5 16.1 13.1 14.3 p 12.5 p 11.9

Manufacturing payrolls, 84 industries 1

1Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, and 6-month increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment,

spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with

p= preliminary. increasing and decreasing employment.

NOTE: Figures are the percent of industries with employment