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Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin
Table A-3. Selected employment indicators
Table A-4. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
Table A-5. Duration of unemployment
Table A-6. Reason for unemployment
Table A-7. Range of alternative measures of labor underutilization
Table A-8. Unemployed persons by age and sex, seasonally adjusted
Table A-9. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry--Continued
Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls by industry
Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls
Table B-6.  Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted

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                   THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  MARCH 1996
 
 
   Employment increased in March, and the unemployment rate was essentially
unchanged at 5.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S.
Department of Labor reported today.  Nonfarm payroll employment rose by
140,000 over the month, led by a gain in the services industry.  Factory
employment continued to decline, but part of the drop in March reflected
strike-related shutdowns in automobile manufacturing.
 
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
 
   Both the number of unemployed persons, 7.5 million in March, and the
unemployment rate, 5.6 percent, were about the same as in February.  The
jobless rate has remained within a narrow range (5.4 to 5.8 percent) since
late 1994.  Among the major worker groups, the jobless rate for blacks rose
to 11.1 percent, while the rates for adult men (5.0 percent), adult women
(4.8 percent), teenagers (17.5 percent), whites (4.8 percent), and
Hispanics (10.0 percent), showed little or no change in March.  (See tables
A-1 and A-2.)
 
   The number of persons unemployed for 27 weeks or more increased to 1.3
million.  This was about the same level as a year earlier.  (See table A-
5.)
 
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
   Total employment increased by 488,000, to 126.2 million in March.  Gains
since December have totaled 1.2 million.  The employment-population ratio--
the proportion of the population age 16 years and over that was employed--
edged up to 63.1 percent over the month.  (See table A-1.)
 
   The number of multiple jobholders was 7.9 million (not seasonally
adjusted) in March.  These workers made up 6.3 percent of the total number
of employed persons.  (See table A-9.)
 
   The civilian labor force rose by 637,000 in March to a seasonally
adjusted level of 133.7 million.  The labor force participation rate rose
0.3 percentage point to 66.9 percent, the same as a year earlier.  (See
table A-1.)
 
                                   - 2 -
 
Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
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                      |   Quarterly     |       Monthly data       |
                      |   averages      |                          |
                      |_________________|__________________________|Feb.-
      Category        |  1995  |  1996  |          1996            |Mar.
                      |_________________|__________________________|change
                      |   IV   |   I    |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    HOUSEHOLD DATA    |                    Labor force status
                      |____________________________________________________
Civilian labor force..| 132,432| 133,192| 132,903| 133,018| 133,655|    637
  Employment..........| 125,096| 125,680| 125,226| 125,663| 126,151|    488
  Unemployment........|   7,336|   7,512|   7,677|   7,355|   7,504|    149
Not in labor force....|  66,920|  66,584|  66,730|  66,754|  66,266|   -488
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                 Unemployment rates
                      |____________________________________________________
All workers...........|     5.5|     5.6|     5.8|     5.5|     5.6|    0.1
  Adult men...........|     4.7|     4.9|     4.9|     4.9|     5.0|     .1
  Adult women.........|     4.8|     4.9|     5.1|     4.8|     4.8|     .0
  Teenagers...........|    17.6|    17.4|    18.2|    16.6|    17.5|     .9
  White...............|     4.9|     4.9|     5.0|     4.9|     4.8|    -.1
  Black...............|     9.9|    10.7|    10.6|    10.3|    11.1|     .8
  Hispanic origin.....|     9.3|     9.7|     9.2|     9.7|    10.0|     .3
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
 ESTABLISHMENT DATA   |                     Employment
                      |____________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment....| 117,190|p117,674| 117,211|p117,835|p117,975|   p140
  Goods-producing 1/..|  24,155| p24,189|  24,116| p24,262| p24,190|   p-72
    Construction......|   5,293|  p5,386|   5,314|  p5,428|  p5,415|   p-13
    Manufacturing.....|  18,293| p18,232|  18,235| p18,262| p18,200|   p-62
  Service-producing 1/|  93,034| p93,484|  93,095| p93,573| p93,785|   p212
    Retail trade......|  20,956| p21,018|  20,933| p21,049| p21,071|    p22
    Services..........|  33,170| p33,451|  33,232| p33,495| p33,626|   p131
    Government........|  19,314| p19,323|  19,291| p19,327| p19,352|    p25
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                  Hours of work 2/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|    34.4|   p34.3|    33.8|   p34.6|   p34.5|  p-0.1
  Manufacturing.......|    41.4|   p41.0|    39.9|   p41.6|   p41.4|   p-.2
    Overtime..........|     4.4|    p4.3|     4.2|    p4.5|    p4.2|   p-.3
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                     Earnings2/
                      |____________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  $11.59| p$11.66|  $11.65| p$11.65| p$11.68| p$0.03
Avg. weekly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  399.19| p399.94|  393.77| p403.09| p402.96|  p-.13
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    1/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
p=preliminary.
    2/ Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
    N.A.= not available.
 
                                   - 3 -
 
Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
   About 1.6 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally
attached to the labor force in March, little different from the year-
earlier level.  These are people who wanted and were available for work but
had stopped looking for jobs sometime in the prior 12 months.  The number
of discouraged workers--persons who had stopped looking for work
specifically because they believed no jobs were available to them--was
451,000 in March, virtually unchanged from the year-earlier level.  (See
table A-9.)
 
Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 140,000 in March to 118.0 million.
This increase reflected continued strength within the service-producing
sector.  Declines occurred in goods-producing industries, in part because
about 35,000 auto manufacturing workers were off payrolls for the
entire survey reference period due to strike-related shutdowns.  Overall,
monthly job gains during the first quarter averaged 206,000, well ahead of
the pace registered during the last three quarters of 1995.  (See table B-
1.)
 
     Factory employment continued its downward trend, declining by 62,000
in March.  A large part of the decline was in motor vehicles and equipment,
reflecting temporary plant shutdowns that followed a strike by 3,000 auto
parts manufacturing workers.  The total number of workers affected by the
strike was much larger, but most worked a part of the reference week and,
thus, were counted as employed in the payroll survey.  There was a further
employment decline in the apparel industry, and electronic and electrical
equipment also registered a loss.
 
     Construction employment, which rose markedly in February, had a slight
drop in March, after seasonal adjustment.  Hiring in construction was
slower than normal for this time of the year in the West and South,
following strong growth during the winter months.  Mining employment rose
for the second straight month, with most of the increase in oil and gas
extraction.
 
     The services industry added 131,000 jobs over the month, about in line
with the strong average gain of the first 2 months of this year.  Job gains
were widespread within this industry in March.  Employment in health
services rose by 30,000 over the month.  Sizable over-the-month increases
also occurred in amusements and recreation, hotels, motion pictures, and
engineering and management services.  Within business services, employment
in computer services continued its strong growth trend, while the number of
jobs in help supply services, which has had sporadic growth over the past
year, declined by 8,000 in March.
 
     In retail trade, employment in automobile dealerships and service
stations rose by 11,000; there also was a job gain in department stores,
after seasonal adjustment.  In contrast, employment declined by 33,000 in
eating and drinking establishments, where job growth has slowed over the
past year.  Employment in wholesale trade increased by 15,000, mostly in
the distribution of durable goods.
 
                                   - 4 -
 
     In the finance industry, continued employment declines in banks and
savings institutions partially offset job gains in mortgage banking and in
security and commodity brokerages.  Employment in the transportation
industry increased by 12,000 in March, with trucking and local transit
contributing most of the growth.  Within government, local education
employment rose by 21,000.
 
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on
private nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours in March,
seasonally adjusted.  The factory workweek decreased 0.2 hour to 41.4
hours, and factory overtime was down by 0.3 hour to 4.2 hours.  Both
declines were largely a consequence of the strike and related auto plant
shutdowns.  (See table B-2.)
 
     The index of aggregate weekly hours of private production or
nonsupervisory workers on nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 134.5
(1982=100) in March.  The manufacturing index fell by 0.9 percent to 104.7
as the auto manufacturing index fell by nearly 11 percent.  (See table
B-5.)
 
Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     Average hourly earnings of private production or nonsupervisory
workers on nonfarm payrolls were up by 3 cents in March, after seasonal
adjustment.  Average weekly earnings were about unchanged.  Over the year,
average hourly earnings increased by 3.0 percent and average weekly
earnings by 2.7 percent.  (See table B-3.)
 
                         _________________________
 
     The Employment Situation for April 1996 is scheduled to be released on
Friday, May 3, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT).
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|        New Seasonal Adjustment Procedures for             |
|               Establishment-based Series                  |
|                                                           |
|      BLS plans to implement improved seasonal adjustment  |
| procedures for the nonfarm payroll employment, hours,     |
| and earnings series effective with the release of annual  |
| benchmark revisions and May 1996 preliminary estimates on |
| June 7, 1996.  The new seasonal adjustment procedures     |
| identify and control for the effects of varying time      |
| intervals between surveys (also known as the 4- vs. 5-week|
| effect) and are based on X-12 ARIMA software newly        |
| developed by the Bureau of the Census.  Historical        |
| data series from January 1988 forward will be revised     |
| to incorporate the new methodology.  Further information  |
| on this planned change is available upon request.         |
| (Contact Patricia Getz at 202-606-6521.)                  |
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HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  |                          |                                  1/
                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                  Seasonally adjusted
                                                  |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
         Employment status, sex, and age          |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                      TOTAL
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 198,007| 199,773| 199,921| 198,007| 199,355| 199,508| 199,634| 199,773| 199,921
  Civilian labor force............................| 131,423| 131,995| 132,692| 132,391| 132,471| 132,352| 132,903| 133,018| 133,655
        Participation rate........................|    66.4|    66.1|    66.4|    66.9|    66.4|    66.3|    66.6|    66.6|    66.9
    Employed......................................| 123,943| 124,137| 124,992| 125,106| 125,062| 124,981| 125,226| 125,663| 126,151
        Employment-population ratio...............|    62.6|    62.1|    62.5|    63.2|    62.7|    62.6|    62.7|    62.9|    63.1
      Agriculture.................................|   3,366|   3,102|   3,243|   3,636|   3,323|   3,325|   3,529|   3,519|   3,487
      Nonagricultural industries..................| 120,577| 121,035| 121,750| 121,470| 121,739| 121,656| 121,698| 122,143| 122,664
    Unemployed....................................|   7,480|   7,858|   7,700|   7,285|   7,409|   7,371|   7,677|   7,355|   7,504
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.7|     6.0|     5.8|     5.5|     5.6|     5.6|     5.8|     5.5|     5.6
  Not in labor force..............................|  66,584|  67,777|  67,229|  65,616|  66,884|  67,156|  66,730|  66,754|  66,266
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 16 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  94,879|  95,786|  95,864|  94,879|  95,580|  95,661|  95,713|  95,786|  95,864
  Civilian labor force............................|  70,961|  71,011|  71,444|  71,581|  71,208|  71,182|  71,593|  71,743|  72,030
        Participation rate........................|    74.8|    74.1|    74.5|    75.4|    74.5|    74.4|    74.8|    74.9|    75.1
    Employed......................................|  66,758|  66,481|  66,961|  67,681|  67,177|  67,162|  67,501|  67,764|  67,856
        Employment-population ratio...............|    70.4|    69.4|    69.9|    71.3|    70.3|    70.2|    70.5|    70.7|    70.8
    Unemployed....................................|   4,204|   4,529|   4,483|   3,900|   4,031|   4,020|   4,092|   3,979|   4,174
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.9|     6.4|     6.3|     5.4|     5.7|     5.6|     5.7|     5.5|     5.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 20 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  87,622|  88,296|  88,366|  87,622|  88,046|  88,172|  88,223|  88,296|  88,366
  Civilian labor force............................|  67,312|  67,355|  67,753|  67,563|  67,171|  67,133|  67,563|  67,719|  67,980
        Participation rate........................|    76.8|    76.3|    76.7|    77.1|    76.3|    76.1|    76.6|    76.7|    76.9
    Employed......................................|  63,763|  63,521|  64,005|  64,367|  63,901|  63,879|  64,246|  64,425|  64,594
        Employment-population ratio...............|    72.8|    71.9|    72.4|    73.5|    72.6|    72.4|    72.8|    73.0|    73.1
      Agriculture.................................|   2,313|   2,160|   2,249|   2,481|   2,259|   2,252|   2,399|   2,382|   2,403
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  61,450|  61,361|  61,755|  61,886|  61,642|  61,627|  61,848|  62,044|  62,191
    Unemployed....................................|   3,550|   3,834|   3,749|   3,196|   3,270|   3,254|   3,317|   3,294|   3,386
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.3|     5.7|     5.5|     4.7|     4.9|     4.8|     4.9|     4.9|     5.0
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
             Women, 16 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 103,128| 103,986| 104,058| 103,128| 103,775| 103,847| 103,921| 103,986| 104,058
  Civilian labor force............................|  60,462|  60,985|  61,248|  60,810|  61,263|  61,170|  61,310|  61,275|  61,625
        Participation rate........................|    58.6|    58.6|    58.9|    59.0|    59.0|    58.9|    59.0|    58.9|    59.2
    Employed......................................|  57,185|  57,656|  58,031|  57,425|  57,885|  57,819|  57,725|  57,899|  58,294
        Employment-population ratio...............|    55.5|    55.4|    55.8|    55.7|    55.8|    55.7|    55.5|    55.7|    56.0
    Unemployed....................................|   3,277|   3,329|   3,217|   3,385|   3,378|   3,351|   3,585|   3,376|   3,331
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.4|     5.5|     5.3|     5.6|     5.5|     5.5|     5.8|     5.5|     5.4
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
             Women, 20 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  96,037|  96,757|  96,798|  96,037|  96,555|  96,633|  96,717|  96,757|  96,798
  Civilian labor force............................|  56,971|  57,579|  57,811|  57,028|  57,502|  57,426|  57,591|  57,570|  57,903
        Participation rate........................|    59.3|    59.5|    59.7|    59.4|    59.6|    59.4|    59.5|    59.5|    59.8
    Employed......................................|  54,221|  54,805|  55,109|  54,226|  54,752|  54,715|  54,642|  54,790|  55,146
        Employment-population ratio...............|    56.5|    56.6|    56.9|    56.5|    56.7|    56.6|    56.5|    56.6|    57.0
      Agriculture.................................|     839|     759|     807|     881|     806|     816|     857|     851|     844
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  53,383|  54,046|  54,303|  53,345|  53,946|  53,899|  53,785|  53,938|  54,303
    Unemployed....................................|   2,749|   2,774|   2,701|   2,802|   2,750|   2,711|   2,949|   2,780|   2,757
        Unemployment rate.........................|     4.8|     4.8|     4.7|     4.9|     4.8|     4.7|     5.1|     4.8|     4.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian  noninstitutional population.............|  14,348|  14,719|  14,757|  14,348|  14,754|  14,703|  14,694|  14,719|  14,757
  Civilian labor force............................|   7,140|   7,061|   7,128|   7,800|   7,798|   7,793|   7,749|   7,729|   7,772
        Participation rate........................|    49.8|    48.0|    48.3|    54.4|    52.9|    53.0|    52.7|    52.5|    52.7
    Employed......................................|   5,959|   5,811|   5,879|   6,513|   6,409|   6,387|   6,338|   6,448|   6,411
        Employment-population ratio...............|    41.5|    39.5|    39.8|    45.4|    43.4|    43.4|    43.1|    43.8|    43.4
      Agriculture.................................|     214|     183|     187|     274|     258|     257|     273|     286|     240
      Nonagricultural industries..................|   5,744|   5,627|   5,692|   6,239|   6,151|   6,130|   6,065|   6,161|   6,171
    Unemployed....................................|   1,182|   1,250|   1,250|   1,287|   1,389|   1,406|   1,412|   1,282|   1,362
        Unemployment rate.........................|    16.5|    17.7|    17.5|    16.5|    17.8|    18.0|    18.2|    16.6|    17.5
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   1/  The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore,
identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  |                          |                                  1/
                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                  Seasonally adjusted
      Employment status, race, sex, age, and      |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                 Hispanic origin                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                      WHITE
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 166,521| 167,757| 167,853| 166,521| 167,441| 167,545| 167,669| 167,757| 167,853
  Civilian labor force............................| 111,250| 111,876| 112,246| 111,948| 112,023| 111,987| 112,198| 112,747| 112,970
      Participation rate..........................|    66.8|    66.7|    66.9|    67.2|    66.9|    66.8|    66.9|    67.2|    67.3
    Employed......................................| 105,609| 105,887| 106,495| 106,589| 106,451| 106,445| 106,576| 107,244| 107,497
      Employment-population ratio.................|    63.4|    63.1|    63.4|    64.0|    63.6|    63.5|    63.6|    63.9|    64.0
    Unemployed....................................|   5,641|   5,989|   5,751|   5,359|   5,572|   5,542|   5,623|   5,502|   5,473
      Unemployment rate...........................|     5.1|     5.4|     5.1|     4.8|     5.0|     4.9|     5.0|     4.9|     4.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|  57,631|  57,855|  58,106|  57,838|  57,679|  57,693|  57,894|  58,162|  58,309
      Participation rate..........................|    77.1|    76.9|    77.2|    77.4|    76.8|    76.8|    77.0|    77.3|    77.5
    Employed......................................|  54,838|  54,908|  55,237|  55,396|  55,150|  55,206|  55,438|  55,688|  55,795
      Employment-population ratio.................|    73.4|    73.0|    73.4|    74.1|    73.4|    73.5|    73.7|    74.0|    74.1
    Unemployed....................................|   2,793|   2,947|   2,869|   2,442|   2,529|   2,487|   2,456|   2,475|   2,514
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.8|     5.1|     4.9|     4.2|     4.4|     4.3|     4.2|     4.3|     4.3
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             Women, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|  47,490|  47,922|  48,056|  47,528|  47,832|  47,772|  47,727|  47,968|  48,136
      Participation rate..........................|    59.0|    59.3|    59.4|    59.1|    59.2|    59.1|    59.0|    59.3|    59.5
    Employed......................................|  45,515|  45,846|  46,095|  45,524|  45,796|  45,722|  45,604|  45,892|  46,141
      Employment-population ratio.................|    56.6|    56.7|    57.0|    56.6|    56.7|    56.6|    56.4|    56.8|    57.0
    Unemployed....................................|   1,974|   2,076|   1,961|   2,004|   2,036|   2,050|   2,123|   2,076|   1,995
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.2|     4.3|     4.1|     4.2|     4.3|     4.3|     4.4|     4.3|     4.1
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
 
  Civilian labor force............................|   6,129|   6,098|   6,084|   6,582|   6,512|   6,522|   6,577|   6,616|   6,525
      Participation rate..........................|    53.8|    52.3|    52.0|    57.8|    56.3|    56.2|    56.6|    56.8|    55.8
    Employed......................................|   5,255|   5,133|   5,163|   5,669|   5,505|   5,517|   5,533|   5,665|   5,561
      Employment-population ratio.................|    46.2|    44.0|    44.2|    49.8|    47.6|    47.5|    47.6|    48.6|    47.6
    Unemployed....................................|     874|     965|     921|     913|   1,007|   1,005|   1,044|     951|     964
      Unemployment rate...........................|    14.3|    15.8|    15.1|    13.9|    15.5|    15.4|    15.9|    14.4|    14.8
        Men.......................................|    15.9|    17.2|    17.0|    15.0|    16.4|    16.0|    16.6|    15.2|    16.0
        Women.....................................|    12.5|    14.3|    13.1|    12.7|    14.5|    14.7|    15.1|    13.4|    13.4
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                      BLACK
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  23,142|  23,455|  23,485|  23,142|  23,389|  23,419|  23,424|  23,455|  23,485
  Civilian labor force............................|  14,660|  14,632|  14,899|  14,798|  15,006|  14,959|  14,993|  14,827|  15,030
      Participation rate..........................|    63.3|    62.4|    63.4|    63.9|    64.2|    63.9|    64.0|    63.2|    64.0
    Employed......................................|  13,219|  13,116|  13,282|  13,310|  13,558|  13,436|  13,409|  13,302|  13,358
      Employment-population ratio.................|    57.1|    55.9|    56.6|    57.5|    58.0|    57.4|    57.2|    56.7|    56.9
    Unemployed....................................|   1,440|   1,516|   1,617|   1,488|   1,448|   1,523|   1,584|   1,525|   1,673
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.8|    10.4|    10.9|    10.1|     9.6|    10.2|    10.6|    10.3|    11.1
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              Men, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|   6,800|   6,713|   6,785|   6,806|   6,664|   6,683|   6,748|   6,775|   6,790
      Participation rate..........................|    73.5|    71.7|    72.3|    73.5|    71.8|    71.5|    72.2|    72.3|    72.4
    Employed......................................|   6,234|   5,992|   6,049|   6,244|   6,108|   6,062|   6,141|   6,089|   6,049
      Employment-population ratio.................|    67.3|    64.0|    64.5|    67.5|    65.8|    64.9|    65.7|    65.0|    64.5
    Unemployed....................................|     566|     721|     735|     562|     556|     621|     607|     686|     741
      Unemployment rate...........................|     8.3|    10.7|    10.8|     8.3|     8.3|     9.3|     9.0|    10.1|    10.9
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             Women, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|   7,115|   7,181|   7,288|   7,122|   7,366|   7,317|   7,343|   7,193|   7,287
      Participation rate..........................|    61.2|    61.0|    61.8|    61.2|    62.7|    62.2|    62.4|    61.1|    61.8
    Employed......................................|   6,488|   6,616|   6,680|   6,484|   6,789|   6,751|   6,678|   6,630|   6,674
      Employment-population ratio.................|    55.8|    56.2|    56.7|    55.7|    57.8|    57.4|    56.8|    56.3|    56.6
    Unemployed....................................|     627|     565|     608|     638|     577|     566|     665|     563|     613
      Unemployment rate...........................|     8.8|     7.9|     8.3|     9.0|     7.8|     7.7|     9.1|     7.8|     8.4
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
 
  Civilian labor force............................|     744|     738|     827|     870|     976|     959|     902|     860|     954
      Participation rate..........................|    33.1|    31.9|    35.6|    38.7|    41.2|    41.4|    39.1|    37.2|    41.1
    Employed......................................|     497|     507|     553|     582|     661|     623|     590|     583|     635
      Employment-population ratio.................|    22.1|    21.9|    23.8|    25.9|    27.9|    26.9|    25.6|    25.2|    27.4
    Unemployed....................................|     247|     230|     274|     288|     315|     336|     312|     276|     319
      Unemployment rate...........................|    33.2|    31.2|    33.1|    33.1|    32.3|    35.0|    34.6|    32.1|    33.5
        Men.......................................|    33.5|    31.0|    38.0|    33.9|    33.7|    39.0|    39.1|    30.6|    38.2
        Women.....................................|    32.9|    31.4|    28.2|    32.4|    30.8|    31.4|    30.4|    33.6|    28.4
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                 HISPANIC ORIGIN
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Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  18,458|  18,977|  19,025|  18,458|  18,845|  18,889|  18,929|  18,977|  19,025
  Civilian labor force............................|  12,067|  12,503|  12,524|  12,099|  12,374|  12,391|  12,655|  12,666|  12,571
      Participation rate..........................|    65.4|    65.9|    65.8|    65.6|    65.7|    65.6|    66.9|    66.7|    66.1
    Employed......................................|  10,925|  11,203|  11,229|  10,990|  11,227|  11,237|  11,493|  11,432|  11,308
      Employment-population ratio.................|    59.2|    59.0|    59.0|    59.5|    59.6|    59.5|    60.7|    60.2|    59.4
    Unemployed....................................|   1,143|   1,299|   1,295|   1,109|   1,147|   1,154|   1,162|   1,234|   1,262
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.5|    10.4|    10.3|     9.2|     9.3|     9.3|     9.2|     9.7|    10.0
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   1/  The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore,
identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
   NOTE:  Detail for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to totals
because data for the "other races" group are not presented and Hispanics are included in
both the white and black population groups.
Table A-3. Selected employment indicators
 
(In thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                    Seasonally adjusted
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                     Category                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                  CHARACTERISTIC
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Total employed, 16 years and over.................|123,943 |124,137 |124,992 |125,106 |125,062 |124,981 |125,226 |125,663 |126,151
  Married men, spouse present.....................| 41,879 | 41,958 | 42,051 | 42,025 | 42,081 | 42,058 | 42,171 | 42,339 | 42,178
  Married women, spouse present...................| 32,232 | 32,197 | 32,277 | 31,999 | 32,153 | 32,072 | 32,078 | 32,101 | 32,053
  Women who maintain families.....................|  7,163 |  7,310 |  7,457 |  7,113 |  7,274 |  7,304 |  7,294 |  7,295 |  7,397
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                    OCCUPATION
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Managerial and professional specialty...........| 34,985 | 35,957 | 36,186 | 34,949 | 35,730 | 35,712 | 35,682 | 35,866 | 36,149
  Technical, sales, and administrative support....| 37,259 | 37,141 | 37,631 | 37,412 | 37,291 | 36,999 | 37,057 | 37,328 | 37,782
  Service occupations.............................| 17,048 | 16,744 | 16,831 | 16,944 | 16,947 | 16,964 | 16,755 | 16,727 | 16,714
  Precision production, craft, and repair.........| 13,382 | 13,331 | 13,277 | 13,767 | 13,344 | 13,445 | 13,615 | 13,786 | 13,618
  Operators, fabricators, and laborers............| 17,901 | 17,763 | 17,804 | 18,164 | 18,213 | 18,264 | 18,257 | 18,147 | 18,058
  Farming, forestry, and fishing..................|  3,368 |  3,201 |  3,263 |  3,757 |  3,590 |  3,599 |  3,760 |  3,744 |  3,622
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                 CLASS OF WORKER
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Agriculture:                                    |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|  1,762 |  1,655 |  1,719 |  1,917 |  1,750 |  1,755 |  1,964 |  1,954 |  1,859
    Self-employed workers.........................|  1,553 |  1,418 |  1,484 |  1,648 |  1,514 |  1,521 |  1,547 |  1,531 |  1,572
    Unpaid family workers.........................|     50 |     30 |     40 |     52 |     34 |     46 |     48 |     34 |     41
  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|111,666 |112,062 |112,648 |112,448 |112,722 |112,618 |112,568 |113,165 |113,461
      Government..................................| 18,928 | 18,369 | 18,419 | 18,531 | 18,288 | 18,237 | 18,044 | 18,259 | 18,005
      Private industries..........................| 92,738 | 93,693 | 94,229 | 93,917 | 94,434 | 94,381 | 94,524 | 94,906 | 95,456
        Private households........................|  1,017 |    874 |    917 |  1,001 |    980 |    975 |    931 |    873 |    901
        Other industries..........................| 91,721 | 92,819 | 93,312 | 92,916 | 93,454 | 93,406 | 93,593 | 94,032 | 94,555
    Self-employed workers.........................|  8,777 |  8,863 |  8,992 |  8,873 |  8,853 |  8,877 |  8,913 |  8,953 |  9,092
    Unpaid family workers.........................|    135 |    110 |    109 |    125 |    105 |    106 |     85 |    116 |    102
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            PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  All industries:                                 |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,566 |  4,597 |  4,569 |  4,490 |  4,435 |  4,447 |  4,091 |  4,502 |  4,479
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,478 |  2,766 |  2,630 |  2,406 |  2,526 |  2,537 |  2,250 |  2,533 |  2,548
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,862 |  1,542 |  1,626 |  1,850 |  1,648 |  1,615 |  1,509 |  1,621 |  1,596
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 18,403 | 18,386 | 18,524 | 17,777 | 17,452 | 17,405 | 17,198 | 17,493 | 17,915
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  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,417 |  4,351 |  4,358 |  4,292 |  4,283 |  4,306 |  3,842 |  4,274 |  4,223
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,373 |  2,595 |  2,491 |  2,277 |  2,419 |  2,440 |  2,114 |  2,382 |  2,386
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,831 |  1,530 |  1,608 |  1,797 |  1,622 |  1,583 |  1,472 |  1,607 |  1,561
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 17,739 | 17,846 | 17,870 | 17,114 | 16,852 | 16,804 | 16,520 | 16,884 | 17,266
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   NOTE:  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.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-4. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
 
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  |        Number of         |
                                                  |    unemployed persons    |                Unemployment rates1/
                                                  |      (in thousands)      |
                     Category                     |                          |
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                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                  CHARACTERISTIC
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 Total, 16 years and over.........................|  7,285 |  7,355 |   7,504|   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.8  |   5.5  |   5.6
   Men, 20 years and over.........................|  3,196 |  3,294 |   3,386|   4.7  |   4.9  |   4.8  |   4.9  |   4.9  |   5.0
   Women, 20 years and over.......................|  2,802 |  2,780 |   2,757|   4.9  |   4.8  |   4.7  |   5.1  |   4.8  |   4.8
   Both sexes, 16 to 19 years.....................|  1,287 |  1,282 |   1,362|  16.5  |  17.8  |  18.0  |  18.2  |  16.6  |  17.5
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   Married men, spouse present....................|  1,395 |  1,306 |   1,361|   3.2  |   3.3  |   3.2  |   3.3  |   3.0  |   3.1
   Married women, spouse present..................|  1,289 |  1,268 |   1,165|   3.9  |   3.8  |   3.8  |   4.0  |   3.8  |   3.5
   Women who maintain families....................|    611 |    594 |     615|   7.9  |   7.7  |   6.8  |   8.2  |   7.5  |   7.7
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   Full-time workers..............................|  5,834 |  5,853 |   6,014|   5.4  |   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.7  |   5.4  |   5.5
   Part-time workers..............................|  1,465 |  1,516 |   1,499|   5.9  |   5.9  |   5.9  |   6.0  |   6.2  |   6.0
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                             2/                   |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                   OCCUPATION
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Managerial and professional specialty..........|    890 |    834 |     869|   2.5  |   2.5  |   2.5  |   2.4  |   2.3  |   2.3
   Technical, sales, and administrative support...|  1,726 |  1,763 |   1,739|   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.4  |   4.6  |   4.5  |   4.4
   Precision production, craft, and repair........|    808 |    858 |     843|   5.5  |   6.5  |   5.8  |   5.3  |   5.9  |   5.8
   Operators, fabricators, and laborers...........|  1,525 |  1,631 |   1,693|   7.7  |   8.3  |   8.4  |   8.3  |   8.2  |   8.6
   Farming, forestry, and fishing.................|    327 |    314 |     309|   8.0  |   7.8  |   7.7  |   8.4  |   7.7  |   7.9
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                     INDUSTRY
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers|  5,568 |  5,701 |   5,855|   5.6  |   5.8  |   5.8  |   5.8  |   5.7  |   5.8
     Goods-producing industries...................|  1,706 |  1,819 |   1,843|   6.1  |   6.7  |   6.5  |   6.3  |   6.4  |   6.5
       Mining.....................................|     37 |     40 |      40|   5.5  |   7.0  |   8.1  |   5.2  |   6.5  |   6.8
       Construction...............................|    713 |    750 |     683|  10.9  |  12.0  |  11.5  |  10.7  |  11.2  |  10.0
       Manufacturing..............................|    956 |  1,029 |   1,120|   4.6  |   5.0  |   5.0  |   5.0  |   4.9  |   5.3
         Durable goods............................|    514 |    652 |     638|   4.3  |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   5.3  |   5.1
         Nondurable goods.........................|    442 |    377 |     482|   5.0  |   5.8  |   5.8  |   5.7  |   4.4  |   5.7
     Service-producing industries.................|  3,862 |  3,882 |   4,011|   5.4  |   5.4  |   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.4  |   5.5
       Transportation and public utilities........|    319 |    272 |     293|   4.5  |   4.2  |   4.6  |   3.7  |   3.8  |   4.2
       Wholesale and retail trade.................|  1,640 |  1,634 |   1,782|   6.4  |   6.3  |   6.4  |   6.8  |   6.3  |   6.9
       Finance, insurance, and real estate........|    247 |    164 |     189|   3.3  |   3.0  |   3.2  |   2.9  |   2.2  |   2.5
       Services...................................|  1,656 |  1,812 |   1,747|   5.3  |   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.7  |   5.7  |   5.4
   Government workers.............................|    555 |    564 |     515|   2.9  |   2.9  |   2.8  |   2.8  |   3.0  |   2.8
   Agricultural wage and salary workers...........|    220 |    235 |     223|  10.3  |  12.0  |  12.6  |  10.5  |  10.7  |  10.7
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   1/  Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
   2/  Seasonally adjusted unemployment data for service occupations are not available
because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular
components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Table A-5. Duration of unemployment
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                    Seasonally adjusted
                                                  |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                     Duration                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
               NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Less than 5 weeks................................|  2,278 |  2,578 |  2,303 |  2,586 |  2,767 |  2,717 |  2,784 |  2,793 |  2,623
 5 to 14 weeks....................................|  2,569 |  2,796 |  2,578 |  2,295 |  2,383 |  2,431 |  2,413 |  2,280 |  2,298
 15 weeks and over................................|  2,633 |  2,485 |  2,819 |  2,309 |  2,305 |  2,322 |  2,370 |  2,307 |  2,479
    15 to 26 weeks................................|  1,199 |  1,237 |  1,398 |    977 |  1,057 |  1,085 |  1,118 |  1,126 |  1,164
    27 weeks and over.............................|  1,434 |  1,247 |  1,421 |  1,332 |  1,248 |  1,237 |  1,252 |  1,181 |  1,316
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Average (mean) duration, in weeks................|   18.2 |   16.3 |   18.2 |   17.3 |   16.3 |   16.2 |   16.0 |   16.6 |   17.3
 Median duration, in weeks........................|    9.8 |    8.3 |    9.8 |    8.2 |    8.0 |    8.1 |    8.3 |    8.0 |    8.3
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
               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..............................|   30.5 |   32.8 |   29.9 |   36.0 |   37.1 |   36.4 |   36.8 |   37.8 |   35.4
   5 to 14 weeks..................................|   34.3 |   35.6 |   33.5 |   31.9 |   32.0 |   32.5 |   31.9 |   30.9 |   31.1
   15 weeks and over..............................|   35.2 |   31.6 |   36.6 |   32.1 |   30.9 |   31.1 |   31.3 |   31.3 |   33.5
     15 to 26 weeks...............................|   16.0 |   15.7 |   18.2 |   13.6 |   14.2 |   14.5 |   14.8 |   15.3 |   15.7
     27 weeks and over............................|   19.2 |   15.9 |   18.5 |   18.5 |   16.7 |   16.6 |   16.5 |   16.0 |   17.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-6. Reason for unemployment
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                           |                       |
                                                           |                       |
                                                            Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted
                                                           |                       |
                                                            _______________________ _______________________________________________
                          Reason                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           | Mar.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Mar.  | Nov.  | Dec.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                           | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                   NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs........|  3,718|  4,099|  3,849|  3,420|  3,485|  3,484|  3,606|  3,595|  3,564
  On temporary layoff......................................|  1,267|  1,458|  1,266|  1,027|  1,049|  1,012|  1,132|  1,032|  1,027
  Not on temporary layoff..................................|  2,451|  2,641|  2,583|  2,393|  2,436|  2,472|  2,474|  2,564|  2,537
    Permanent job losers...................................|  1,765|  1,883|  1,925|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
    Persons who completed temporary jobs...................|    686|    758|    658|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
Job leavers................................................|    819|    776|    806|    796|    857|    881|    869|    747|    782
Reentrants.................................................|  2,435|  2,465|  2,534|  2,477|  2,504|  2,466|  2,458|  2,517|  2,588
New entrants...............................................|    509|    519|    511|    595|    585|    603|    641|    613|    591
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                   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.......|   49.7|   52.2|   50.0|   46.9|   46.9|   46.9|   47.6|   48.1|   47.4
   On temporary layoff.....................................|   16.9|   18.6|   16.4|   14.1|   14.1|   13.6|   14.9|   13.8|   13.6
   Not on temporary layoff.................................|   32.8|   33.6|   33.6|   32.8|   32.8|   33.3|   32.7|   34.3|   33.7
 Job leavers...............................................|   10.9|    9.9|   10.5|   10.9|   11.5|   11.9|   11.5|   10.0|   10.4
 Reentrants................................................|   32.6|   31.4|   32.9|   34.0|   33.7|   33.2|   32.5|   33.7|   34.4
 New entrants..............................................|    6.8|    6.6|    6.6|    8.2|    7.9|    8.1|    8.5|    8.2|    7.9
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
              UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                      CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.......|    2.8|    3.1|    2.9|    2.6|    2.6|    2.6|    2.7|    2.7|    2.7
 Job leavers...............................................|     .6|     .6|     .6|     .6|     .6|     .7|     .7|     .6|     .6
 Reentrants................................................|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9|    1.8|    1.9|    1.9
 New entrants..............................................|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .5|     .5|     .5|     .4
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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   1/  Not available.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-7. Range of alternative measures of labor underutilization
 
(Percent)
 
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                                                                     |                    |
                                                                     |                    |
                                                                         Not seasonally               Seasonally adjusted
                               Measure                               |                    |
                                                                            adjusted
                                                                   ____________________ _________________________________________
                                                                     | Mar. | Feb. | Mar. | Mar. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar.
                                                                     | 1995 | 1996 | 1996 | 1995 | 1995 | 1995 | 1996 | 1996 | 1996
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
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U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,                           |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
as a percent of the civilian labor force.............................|  2.0 |  1.9 |  2.1 |  1.7 |  1.7 |  1.8 |  1.8 |  1.7 |  1.9
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-2 Job losers and persons who completed                             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian                         |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
labor force..........................................................|  2.8 |  3.1 |  2.9 |  2.6 |  2.6 |  2.6 |  2.7 |  2.7 |  2.7
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the
civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)....................|  5.7 |  6.0 |  5.8 |  5.5 |  5.6 |  5.6 |  5.8 |  5.5 |  5.6
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged                                |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force                    |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
plus discouraged workers.............................................|  6.0 |  6.3 |  6.1 |  (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.....................................................|  6.9 |  7.2 |  6.9 |  (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.................................| 10.3 | 10.7 | 10.3 |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1)
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Not available.
   NOTE:  This range of alternative measures of labor underutilization replaces the U1-U7
range published in table A-7 of this release prior to 1994.  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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Table A-8. Unemployed persons by age and sex, seasonally adjusted
 
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  |        Number of         |
                                                  |    unemployed persons    |                Unemployment rates1/
                                                  |      (in thousands)      |
                   Age and sex                    |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Mar.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Mar.  |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |  Mar.
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Total, 16 years and over..........................|  7,285 |  7,355 |  7,504 |   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.8  |   5.5  |   5.6
  16 to 24 years..................................|  2,575 |  2,616 |  2,659 |  11.8  |  12.1  |  12.5  |  13.0  |  12.4  |  12.4
    16 to 19 years................................|  1,287 |  1,282 |  1,362 |  16.5  |  17.8  |  18.0  |  18.2  |  16.6  |  17.5
      16 to 17 years..............................|    642 |    642 |    637 |  19.8  |  20.1  |  20.9  |  20.5  |  20.0  |  19.4
      18 to 19 years..............................|    645 |    645 |    722 |  14.2  |  16.1  |  16.1  |  16.9  |  14.3  |  16.1
    20 to 24 years................................|  1,288 |  1,334 |  1,298 |   9.2  |   8.8  |   9.2  |  10.0  |   9.9  |   9.5
  25 years and over...............................|  4,734 |  4,762 |  4,865 |   4.3  |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.3
    25 to 54 years................................|  4,153 |  4,212 |  4,233 |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.4
    55 years and over.............................|    566 |    573 |    611 |   3.6  |   3.7  |   3.6  |   3.5  |   3.6  |   3.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Men, 16 years and over..........................|  3,900 |  3,979 |  4,174 |   5.4  |   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.7  |   5.5  |   5.8
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,369 |  1,464 |  1,508 |  11.9  |  12.8  |  13.0  |  12.9  |  13.1  |  13.4
      16 to 19 years..............................|    704 |    685 |    787 |  17.5  |  18.9  |  18.9  |  19.2  |  17.0  |  19.4
        16 to 17 years............................|    340 |    363 |    362 |  20.5  |  21.7  |  21.7  |  22.3  |  21.7  |  21.4
        18 to 19 years............................|    363 |    328 |    426 |  15.4  |  17.0  |  16.9  |  17.4  |  13.9  |  18.0
      20 to 24 years..............................|    665 |    779 |    720 |   8.9  |   9.4  |   9.6  |   9.3  |  10.9  |  10.0
    25 years and over.............................|  2,524 |  2,544 |  2,661 |   4.2  |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.2  |   4.2  |   4.4
      25 to 54 years..............................|  2,191 |  2,259 |  2,330 |   4.3  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.5
      55 years and over...........................|    322 |    305 |    315 |   3.7  |   3.7  |   3.5  |   3.5  |   3.5  |   3.5
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Women, 16 years and over........................|  3,385 |  3,376 |  3,331 |   5.6  |   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.8  |   5.5  |   5.4
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,206 |  1,152 |  1,152 |  11.8  |  11.4  |  11.9  |  13.1  |  11.5  |  11.4
      16 to 19 years..............................|    583 |    597 |    574 |  15.4  |  16.7  |  17.1  |  17.1  |  16.1  |  15.4
        16 to 17 years............................|    302 |    279 |    275 |  19.2  |  18.5  |  20.1  |  18.7  |  18.1  |  17.3
        18 to 19 years............................|    282 |    317 |    296 |  12.8  |  15.1  |  15.1  |  16.2  |  14.7  |  14.0
      20 to 24 years..............................|    623 |    555 |    577 |   9.6  |   8.2  |   8.8  |  10.8  |   8.8  |   9.1
    25 years and over.............................|  2,210 |  2,219 |  2,205 |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.3
      25 to 54 years..............................|  1,962 |  1,953 |  1,903 |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.6  |   4.4  |   4.3
      55 years and over...........................|    244 |    268 |    296 |   3.5  |   3.8  |   3.7  |   3.4  |   3.8  |   4.2
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-9. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted
 
(In thousands)
 
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                                                                      |                   |                   |
                               Category                               |       Total       |        Men        |       Women
                                                                       ___________________ ___________________ ___________________
                                                                      |  Mar.   |  Mar.   |  Mar.   |  Mar.   |  Mar.   |  Mar.
                                                                      |  1995   |  1996   |  1995   |  1996   |  1995   |  1996
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total not in the labor force..........................................|  66,584 |  67,229 |  23,918 |  24,419 |  42,666 |  42,810
 Persons who currently want a job.....................................|   5,715 |   5,400 |   2,362 |   2,233 |   3,352 |   3,167
  Searched for work and available to work now1/.......................|   1,732 |   1,584 |     821 |     752 |     911 |     832
   Reason not currently looking:                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
     Discouragement over job prospects2/..............................|     454 |     451 |     245 |     261 |     209 |     190
     Reasons other than discouragement3/..............................|   1,278 |   1,132 |     576 |     491 |     702 |     641
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total multiple jobholders4/...........................................|   7,610 |   7,905 |   3,999 |   4,117 |   3,611 |   3,788
    Percent of total employed.........................................|     6.1 |     6.3 |     6.0 |     6.1 |     6.3 |     6.5
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
 Primary job full time, secondary job part time.......................|   4,405 |   4,687 |   2,577 |   2,724 |   1,828 |   1,963
 Primary and secondary jobs both part time............................|   1,767 |   1,751 |     516 |     505 |   1,251 |   1,246
 Primary and secondary jobs both full time............................|     234 |     214 |     175 |     160 |      59 |      54
 Hours vary on primary or secondary job...............................|   1,161 |   1,213 |     709 |     702 |     452 |     511
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
   (In thousands)
 
 
 
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                 |                               |
                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
                                                 |                               |
                                                  _______________________________ _______________________________________________
                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Mar.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Mar.  | Nov.  | Dec.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
              Total..............................|115,307|115,417|116,376|117,052|116,302|117,212|117,357|117,211|117,835|117,975
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Total private.........................| 95,664| 96,182| 96,741| 97,301| 97,054| 97,912| 98,029| 97,920| 98,508| 98,623
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Goods_producing...............................| 23,803| 23,528| 23,591| 23,647| 24,370| 24,134| 24,173| 24,116| 24,262| 24,190
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Mining......................................|    575|    557|    557|    560|    589|    567|    569|    567|    572|    575
       Metal mining..............................|   50.3|   50.8|   50.5|   50.9|     51|     51|     51|     51|     51|     52
       Coal mining...............................|  108.5|  102.6|  103.1|  102.9|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)
       Oil and gas extraction....................|  315.3|  306.0|  304.7|  304.7|    323|    306|    308|    307|    310|    312
       Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels........|  100.7|   97.2|   98.6|  101.7|    106|    105|    106|    106|    107|    107
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  4,823|  4,852|  4,884|  4,983|  5,256|  5,295|  5,297|  5,314|  5,428|  5,415
       General building contractors..............|1,177.8|1,170.1|1,165.7|1,174.0|  1,258|  1,234|  1,233|  1,234|  1,251|  1,246
       Heavy construction, except building.......|  650.9|  606.1|  624.3|  664.4|    747|    739|    736|    729|    755|    762
       Special trade contractors.................|2,994.4|3,076.2|3,093.8|3,144.2|  3,251|  3,322|  3,328|  3,351|  3,422|  3,407
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Manufacturing...............................| 18,405| 18,119| 18,150| 18,104| 18,525| 18,272| 18,307| 18,235| 18,262| 18,200
         Production workers......................| 12,736| 12,484| 12,514| 12,477| 12,832| 12,616| 12,650| 12,580| 12,606| 12,545
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Durable goods..............................| 10,591| 10,535| 10,556| 10,523| 10,633| 10,553| 10,607| 10,581| 10,602| 10,555
         Production workers......................|  7,265|  7,203|  7,222|  7,197|  7,297|  7,211|  7,267|  7,237|  7,255|  7,214
       Lumber and wood products..................|  751.6|  734.4|  734.5|  733.1|    767|    753|    756|    749|    746|    744
       Furniture and fixtures....................|  506.9|  493.8|  492.3|  491.5|    509|    495|    497|    494|    493|    492
       Stone, clay, and glass products...........|  532.3|  514.6|  518.9|  526.5|    547|    539|    537|    534|    539|    540
       Primary metal industries..................|  716.0|  714.8|  712.9|  710.1|    718|    714|    714|    715|    714|    712
         Blast furnaces and basic steel products.|  239.4|  238.0|  236.8|  235.6|    240|    239|    239|    238|    238|    237
       Fabricated metal products.................|1,433.0|1,436.3|1,436.5|1,436.2|  1,439|  1,433|  1,438|  1,441|  1,442|  1,439
       Industrial machinery and equipment........|2,033.5|2,066.4|2,067.4|2,069.9|  2,029|  2,061|  2,067|  2,066|  2,065|  2,066
         Computer and office equipment...........|  336.1|  344.5|  343.5|  344.2|    336|    344|    345|    345|    344|    346
       Electronic and other electrical equipment.|1,610.8|1,642.9|1,647.7|1,640.6|  1,614|  1,637|  1,643|  1,645|  1,651|  1,644
         Electronic components and accessories...|  567.4|  607.5|  612.2|  607.9|    569|    599|    604|    608|    613|    609
       Transportation equipment..................|1,766.6|1,707.8|1,718.5|1,685.6|  1,767|  1,691|  1,724|  1,706|  1,720|  1,686
         Motor vehicles and equipment............|  936.0|  911.9|  921.8|  887.9|    937|    920|    927|    919|    921|    888
         Aircraft and parts......................|  455.1|  439.4|  439.1|  440.0|    455|    409|    437|    439|    440|    440
       Instruments and related products..........|  847.1|  837.4|  837.6|  838.5|    847|    836|    837|    838|    838|    839
       Miscellaneous manufacturing...............|  392.8|  386.6|  389.4|  390.8|    396|    394|    394|    393|    394|    393
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Nondurable goods...........................|  7,814|  7,584|  7,594|  7,581|  7,892|  7,719|  7,700|  7,654|  7,660|  7,645
         Production workers......................|  5,471|  5,281|  5,292|  5,280|  5,535|  5,405|  5,383|  5,343|  5,351|  5,331
       Food and kindred products.................|1,639.3|1,629.4|1,630.6|1,627.0|  1,690|  1,679|  1,681|  1,671|  1,676|  1,676
       Tobacco products..........................|   37.9|   40.3|   39.7|   37.7|     39|     38|     38|     38|     39|     39
       Textile mill products.....................|  666.6|  626.8|  631.3|  630.0|    670|    643|    638|    631|    634|    632
       Apparel and other textile products........|  941.3|  843.1|  852.8|  843.9|    946|    877|    868|    854|    858|    846
       Paper and allied products.................|  687.2|  677.9|  675.1|  672.9|    691|    682|    682|    681|    678|    677
       Printing and publishing...................|1,559.7|1,544.0|1,541.8|1,544.5|  1,561|  1,552|  1,550|  1,544|  1,543|  1,545
       Chemicals and allied products.............|1,048.3|1,031.7|1,031.9|1,032.9|  1,053|  1,039|  1,035|  1,036|  1,035|  1,036
       Petroleum and coal products...............|  144.0|  135.0|  133.9|  134.0|    148|    139|    139|    139|    138|    137
       Rubber and misc. plastics products........|  978.6|  955.7|  956.7|  957.0|    982|    966|    966|    959|    958|    956
       Leather and leather products..............|  110.9|  100.2|  100.5|  100.6|    112|    104|    103|    101|    101|    101
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   Service_producing.............................| 91,504| 91,889| 92,785| 93,405| 91,932| 93,078| 93,184| 93,095| 93,573| 93,785
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     Transportation and public utilities.........|  6,109|  6,170|  6,178|  6,199|  6,175|  6,240|  6,231|  6,231|  6,246|  6,256
       Transportation............................|  3,862|  3,920|  3,933|  3,955|  3,914|  3,973|  3,968|  3,969|  3,988|  4,000
         Railroad transportation.................|  238.4|  230.4|  232.4|  233.9|    242|    236|    237|    235|    236|    237
         Local and interurban passenger transit..|  446.5|  477.7|  485.5|  491.4|    433|    462|    466|    467|    473|    478
         Trucking and warehousing................|1,826.1|1,838.8|1,840.0|1,851.7|  1,877|  1,895|  1,883|  1,882|  1,891|  1,899
         Water transportation....................|  158.6|  146.1|  145.1|  145.0|    164|    157|    154|    153|    151|    149
         Transportation by air...................|  755.2|  787.0|  788.6|  791.1|    760|    780|    786|    789|    793|    795
         Pipelines, except natural gas...........|   16.7|   15.6|   15.5|   15.5|     17|     16|     16|     16|     16|     16
         Transportation services.................|  420.1|  424.7|  425.9|  426.8|    421|    427|    426|    427|    428|    426
       Communications and public utilities.......|  2,247|  2,250|  2,245|  2,244|  2,261|  2,267|  2,263|  2,262|  2,258|  2,256
         Communications..........................|1,342.5|1,360.8|1,360.1|1,361.1|  1,351|  1,367|  1,363|  1,368|  1,367|  1,368
         Electric, gas, and sanitary services....|  904.5|  889.1|  885.1|  882.9|    910|    900|    900|    894|    891|    888
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Wholesale trade.............................|  6,243|  6,350|  6,362|  6,395|  6,287|  6,373|  6,395|  6,401|  6,421|  6,436
       Durable goods.............................|  3,628|  3,711|  3,721|  3,742|  3,643|  3,708|  3,720|  3,730|  3,743|  3,753
       Nondurable goods..........................|  2,615|  2,639|  2,641|  2,653|  2,644|  2,665|  2,675|  2,671|  2,678|  2,683
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   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
  Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry--Continued
 
   (In thousands)
 
   -Continued
 
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                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
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                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Mar.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Mar.  | Nov.  | Dec.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
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     Retail trade................................| 20,300| 20,613| 20,551| 20,634| 20,760| 20,989| 20,981| 20,933| 21,049| 21,071
       Building materials and garden supplies....|  818.7|  823.4|  817.6|  836.9|    849|    860|    865|    869|    863|    867
       General merchandise stores................|2,423.4|2,554.4|2,451.5|2,443.8|  2,530|  2,553|  2,517|  2,499|  2,525|  2,548
         Department stores.......................|2,114.2|2,243.2|2,154.5|2,146.6|  2,207|  2,239|  2,207|  2,193|  2,217|  2,241
       Food stores...............................|3,288.5|3,378.2|3,360.2|3,359.9|  3,332|  3,394|  3,400|  3,395|  3,398|  3,404
       Automotive dealers and service stations...|2,177.7|2,225.2|2,235.9|2,255.4|  2,202|  2,237|  2,250|  2,255|  2,265|  2,276
         New and used car dealers................|  993.2|1,014.5|1,021.0|1,030.1|    998|  1,013|  1,018|  1,021|  1,026|  1,034
       Apparel and accessory stores..............|1,074.6|1,080.9|1,039.3|1,038.8|  1,110|  1,086|  1,071|  1,073|  1,070|  1,072
       Furniture and home furnishings stores.....|  935.0|  983.2|  979.7|  981.8|    943|    966|    967|    975|    984|    989
       Eating and drinking places................|7,033.1|6,943.3|7,054.2|7,131.8|  7,191|  7,262|  7,279|  7,248|  7,310|  7,277
       Miscellaneous retail establishments.......|2,548.7|2,624.5|2,612.9|2,585.2|  2,603|  2,631|  2,632|  2,619|  2,634|  2,638
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  6,890|  6,946|  6,969|  7,003|  6,938|  6,991|  7,001|  7,007|  7,035|  7,044
       Finance...................................|  3,304|  3,343|  3,354|  3,366|  3,313|  3,337|  3,342|  3,354|  3,366|  3,371
         Depository institutions.................|2,058.0|2,046.4|2,042.4|2,042.3|  2,066|  2,051|  2,047|  2,051|  2,051|  2,048
           Commercial banks......................|1,491.0|1,488.5|1,484.9|1,484.0|  1,499|  1,492|  1,492|  1,493|  1,492|  1,490
           Savings institutions..................|  288.7|  271.5|  271.2|  271.1|    289|    276|    273|    272|    272|    271
         Nondepository institutions..............|  477.7|  512.2|  519.1|  525.3|    475|    503|    509|    513|    519|    523
           Mortgage bankers and brokers..........|  223.7|  244.1|  247.9|  250.5|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)
         Security and commodity brokers..........|  528.6|  534.4|  536.2|  538.8|    532|    533|    535|    537|    539|    541
         Holding and other investment offices....|  239.9|  250.4|  256.4|  259.6|    240|    250|    251|    253|    257|    259
       Insurance.................................|  2,237|  2,255|  2,257|  2,265|  2,238|  2,252|  2,256|  2,259|  2,262|  2,265
         Insurance carriers......................|1,536.2|1,542.8|1,543.9|1,548.1|  1,536|  1,542|  1,544|  1,546|  1,547|  1,548
         Insurance agents, brokers, and service..|  700.8|  711.9|  713.1|  716.7|    702|    710|    712|    713|    715|    717
       Real estate...............................|  1,349|  1,348|  1,358|  1,372|  1,387|  1,402|  1,403|  1,394|  1,407|  1,408
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     Services3/..................................| 32,319| 32,575| 33,090| 33,423| 32,524| 33,185| 33,248| 33,232| 33,495| 33,626
       Agricultural services.....................|  521.9|  505.2|  511.7|  543.6|    584|    593|    599|    601|    614|    609
       Hotels and other lodging places...........|  1,553|  1,538|  1,554|  1,579|  1,616|  1,630|  1,629|  1,629|  1,635|  1,646
       Personal services.........................|  1,219|  1,196|  1,230|  1,227|  1,158|  1,139|  1,140|  1,149|  1,165|  1,163
       Business services.........................|  6,445|  6,621|  6,739|  6,807|  6,570|  6,769|  6,803|  6,783|  6,905|  6,924
         Services to buildings...................|    863|    876|    892|    896|    871|    890|    896|    890|    906|    904
         Personnel supply services...............|  2,303|  2,310|  2,381|  2,430|  2,399|  2,450|  2,459|  2,442|  2,530|  2,521
           Help supply services..................|  2,038|  2,041|  2,103|  2,147|  2,138|  2,168|  2,175|  2,160|  2,242|  2,234
         Computer and data processing services...|  1,021|  1,104|  1,116|  1,125|  1,017|  1,089|  1,101|  1,101|  1,112|  1,120
       Auto repair, services, and parking........|  1,012|  1,044|  1,060|  1,076|  1,014|  1,043|  1,053|  1,057|  1,068|  1,077
       Miscellaneous repair services.............|    340|    340|    343|    347|    344|    342|    347|    344|    347|    350
       Motion pictures...........................|    576|    584|    586|    598|    577|    593|    584|    589|    585|    595
       Amusement and recreation services.........|  1,331|  1,267|  1,306|  1,375|  1,434|  1,500|  1,469|  1,456|  1,465|  1,487
       Health services...........................|  9,179|  9,379|  9,416|  9,456|  9,197|  9,386|  9,403|  9,408|  9,445|  9,475
         Offices and clinics of medical doctors..|  1,571|  1,607|  1,613|  1,617|  1,576|  1,609|  1,616|  1,614|  1,620|  1,620
         Nursing and personal care facilities....|  1,676|  1,711|  1,717|  1,724|  1,679|  1,713|  1,716|  1,716|  1,720|  1,727
         Hospitals...............................|  3,798|  3,834|  3,840|  3,847|  3,802|  3,833|  3,838|  3,838|  3,847|  3,850
         Home health care services...............|    596|    619|    625|    631|    599|    626|    630|    625|    629|    632
       Legal services............................|    928|    927|    929|    932|    933|    930|    932|    931|    934|    937
       Educational services......................|  1,980|  1,856|  2,018|  2,035|  1,863|  1,890|  1,898|  1,888|  1,906|  1,916
       Social services...........................|  2,268|  2,285|  2,309|  2,328|  2,264|  2,293|  2,298|  2,296|  2,309|  2,317
         Child day care services.................|    534|    532|    539|    546|    519|    525|    527|    525|    528|    531
         Residential care........................|    628|    641|    645|    648|    629|    640|    642|    644|    647|    650
       Museums and botanical and zoological      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
         gardens.................................|     76|     76|     76|     79|     81|     83|     83|     83|     84|     84
       Membership organizations..................|  2,047|  2,026|  2,043|  2,051|  2,059|  2,060|  2,063|  2,061|  2,063|  2,066
       Engineering and management services.......|  2,671|  2,760|  2,798|  2,820|  2,658|  2,762|  2,774|  2,785|  2,798|  2,808
         Engineering and architectural services..|    787|    804|    804|    811|    795|    813|    816|    813|    816|    819
         Management and public relations.........|    770|    829|    837|    840|    773|    835|    841|    843|    844|    843
       Services, nec.............................|   40.7|   40.9|   40.8|   40.5|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Government..................................| 19,643| 19,235| 19,635| 19,751| 19,248| 19,300| 19,328| 19,291| 19,327| 19,352
       Federal...................................|  2,822|  2,761|  2,766|  2,764|  2,828|  2,800|  2,799|  2,780|  2,777|  2,772
         Federal, except Postal Service..........|1,988.4|1,906.6|1,914.2|1,910.5|  1,992|  1,946|  1,942|  1,928|  1,924|  1,916
       State.....................................|  4,736|  4,519|  4,696|  4,722|  4,613|  4,599|  4,591|  4,577|  4,597|  4,596
         Education...............................|2,045.1|1,869.5|2,040.1|2,064.9|  1,904|  1,919|  1,915|  1,904|  1,923|  1,923
         Other State government..................|2,690.4|2,649.0|2,655.5|2,656.8|  2,709|  2,680|  2,676|  2,673|  2,674|  2,673
       Local.....................................| 12,085| 11,955| 12,173| 12,265| 11,807| 11,901| 11,938| 11,934| 11,953| 11,984
         Education...............................|6,975.4|6,827.1|7,024.2|7,085.8|  6,599|  6,670|  6,683|  6,674|  6,683|  6,704
         Other local government..................|5,109.1|5,128.2|5,148.9|5,179.4|  5,208|  5,231|  5,255|  5,260|  5,270|  5,280
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      1/  These series are not published seasonally adjusted        because it has very little irregular movement.  Thus,
   because the seasonal component, which is small relative          the not seasonally adjusted series can be used
   to the trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot              for analysis of cyclical and long-term trends.
   be separated with sufficient precision.                             3/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
      2/ This series is not suitable for seasonal adjustment           p = preliminary.
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                          1/
Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
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                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
                                                 |                               |
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                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Mar.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Mar.  | Nov.  | Dec.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
         Total private...........................|  34.3 |  33.5 |  34.2 |  34.2 |  34.6 |  34.4 |  34.3 |  33.8 |  34.6 |  34.5
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Goods_producing...............................|  41.0 |  39.2 |  40.6 |  40.6 |  41.3 |  40.9 |  40.6 |  39.6 |  41.3 |  40.8
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Mining......................................|  44.0 |  43.8 |  45.2 |  45.4 |  44.6 |  44.3 |  44.6 |  43.9 |  45.7 |  46.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  38.1 |  36.6 |  38.1 |  37.8 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Manufacturing...............................|  41.7 |  39.8 |  41.2 |  41.2 |  42.0 |  41.5 |  41.2 |  39.9 |  41.6 |  41.4
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.4 |   4.0 |   4.2 |   4.1 |   4.7 |   4.4 |   4.3 |   4.2 |   4.5 |   4.2
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Durable goods.............................|  42.6 |  40.8 |  42.1 |  41.9 |  42.8 |  42.4 |  41.9 |  40.9 |  42.4 |  42.0
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.9 |   4.3 |   4.5 |   4.3 |   5.1 |   4.7 |   4.6 |   4.5 |   4.7 |   4.4
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        Lumber and wood products.................|  40.4 |  38.6 |  39.8 |  40.2 |  40.7 |  40.6 |  40.0 |  39.0 |  40.6 |  40.5
        Furniture and fixtures...................|  39.4 |  35.8 |  38.6 |  38.9 |  39.8 |  39.7 |  39.5 |  35.9 |  39.4 |  39.3
        Stone, clay, and glass products..........|  42.5 |  40.9 |  42.4 |  42.6 |  43.4 |  42.9 |  42.8 |  42.0 |  43.7 |  43.3
        Primary metal industries.................|  44.4 |  43.3 |  44.0 |  43.7 |  44.5 |  44.0 |  43.7 |  43.2 |  44.1 |  43.7
          Blast furnaces and basic steel products|  44.7 |  44.3 |  44.5 |  44.5 |  45.1 |  44.7 |  44.3 |  44.5 |  44.9 |  44.7
        Fabricated metal products................|  42.5 |  40.9 |  42.0 |  41.9 |  42.8 |  42.3 |  42.1 |  40.9 |  42.2 |  42.1
        Industrial machinery and equipment.......|  43.9 |  42.2 |  43.4 |  43.4 |  43.9 |  43.5 |  43.0 |  42.0 |  43.4 |  43.2
        Electronic and other electrical equipment|  41.5 |  40.3 |  41.5 |  41.5 |  41.8 |  41.7 |  41.1 |  40.1 |  41.8 |  41.7
        Transportation equipment.................|  44.5 |  42.2 |  43.2 |  41.8 |  44.5 |  43.9 |  42.8 |  42.3 |  43.3 |  41.6
          Motor vehicles and equipment...........|  45.9 |  43.3 |  44.0 |  41.4 |  45.8 |  45.0 |  44.4 |  43.5 |  43.9 |  40.9
        Instruments and related products.........|  41.7 |  40.4 |  41.9 |  41.8 |  41.7 |  41.5 |  41.2 |  40.2 |  42.0 |  41.7
        Miscellaneous manufacturing..............|  39.9 |  37.5 |  39.2 |  39.9 |  39.9 |  39.7 |  39.4 |  37.8 |  39.6 |  39.9
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Nondurable goods..........................|  40.5 |  38.5 |  40.1 |  40.3 |  40.9 |  40.4 |  40.2 |  38.7 |  40.6 |  40.6
          Overtime hours.........................|   3.9 |   3.6 |   3.8 |   3.8 |   4.2 |   4.0 |   3.9 |   3.8 |   4.2 |   4.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
        Food and kindred products................|  40.6 |  39.3 |  40.3 |  40.6 |  41.3 |  40.7 |  40.6 |  39.7 |  41.1 |  41.3
        Tobacco products.........................|  38.1 |  36.0 |  38.9 |  39.9 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
        Textile mill products....................|  41.2 |  36.1 |  40.2 |  40.8 |  41.8 |  40.6 |  40.2 |  36.2 |  40.8 |  41.1
        Apparel and other textile products.......|  37.3 |  33.3 |  36.8 |  36.9 |  37.6 |  36.6 |  36.8 |  33.5 |  37.1 |  37.0
        Paper and allied products................|  43.1 |  41.7 |  42.8 |  42.8 |  43.7 |  43.2 |  42.9 |  41.7 |  43.2 |  43.2
        Printing and publishing..................|  38.4 |  36.7 |  37.9 |  38.1 |  38.4 |  38.2 |  37.8 |  37.1 |  38.2 |  38.1
        Chemicals and allied products............|  43.3 |  42.5 |  43.2 |  43.1 |  43.4 |  43.2 |  43.2 |  42.5 |  43.4 |  43.1
        Petroleum and coal products..............|  43.4 |  43.1 |  42.9 |  43.2 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
        Rubber and misc. plastics products.......|  41.8 |  40.3 |  41.2 |  41.2 |  42.0 |  41.5 |  41.4 |  40.2 |  41.4 |  41.3
        Leather and leather products.............|  38.1 |  34.6 |  37.2 |  38.0 |  38.4 |  37.7 |  37.6 |  34.7 |  37.6 |  38.3
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Service_producing.............................|  32.4 |  31.9 |  32.4 |  32.5 |  32.7 |  32.7 |  32.6 |  32.2 |  32.7 |  32.8
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Transportation and public utilities.........|  39.1 |  38.5 |  39.4 |  39.4 |  39.5 |  39.5 |  39.6 |  38.9 |  39.8 |  39.8
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Wholesale trade.............................|  38.0 |  37.6 |  38.0 |  38.1 |  38.2 |  38.2 |  38.1 |  37.8 |  38.2 |  38.3
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Retail trade................................|  28.3 |  27.6 |  28.3 |  28.5 |  28.8 |  28.8 |  28.7 |  28.3 |  29.0 |  29.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  35.5 |  35.5 |  35.7 |  35.7 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Services....................................|  32.2 |  31.8 |  32.2 |  32.2 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
      1/  Data relate to production workers in mining and             2/  These series are not published seasonally
   manufacturing; construction workers in construction;            adjusted since the seasonal component, which is small
   and nonsupervisory workers in transportation and                relative to the trend-cycle and irregular
   public utilities; wholesale and retail trade;                   components, cannot be separated with sufficient
   finance,insurance, and real estate; and services.               precision.
   These groups account for approximately four-fifths                 p = preliminary.
   of the total employees on private nonfarm payrolls.
 
 
 
           ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                       ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                                1/
Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
 
           payrolls by industry
 
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                         |                               |
                                                         |    Average hourly earnings    |    Average weekly earnings
                                                         |                               |
                                                          _______________________________ _______________________________
                              Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                         | Mar.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Mar.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                         | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private...........................|$11.36 |$11.72 |$11.69 |$11.69 |$389.65|$392.62|$399.80|$399.80
                  Seasonally adjusted....................| 11.34 | 11.65 | 11.65 | 11.68 | 392.36| 393.77| 403.09| 402.96
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Goods_producing...............................| 12.86 | 13.25 | 13.17 | 13.14 | 527.26| 519.40| 534.70| 533.48
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Mining......................................| 15.24 | 15.66 | 15.62 | 15.55 | 670.56| 685.91| 706.02| 705.97
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Construction................................| 14.84 | 15.19 | 15.09 | 15.08 | 565.40| 555.95| 574.93| 570.02
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Manufacturing...............................| 12.25 | 12.64 | 12.56 | 12.52 | 510.83| 503.07| 517.47| 515.82
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Durable goods.............................| 12.83 | 13.13 | 13.09 | 13.00 | 546.56| 535.70| 551.09| 544.70
                Lumber and wood products.................|  9.95 | 10.28 | 10.24 | 10.28 | 401.98| 396.81| 407.55| 413.26
                Furniture and fixtures...................|  9.67 | 10.00 |  9.94 |  9.98 | 381.00| 358.00| 383.68| 388.22
                Stone, clay, and glass products..........| 12.25 | 12.59 | 12.53 | 12.58 | 520.63| 514.93| 531.27| 535.91
                Primary metal industries.................| 14.41 | 14.82 | 14.70 | 14.80 | 639.80| 641.71| 646.80| 646.76
                  Blast furnaces and basic steel products| 17.03 | 17.67 | 17.58 | 17.85 | 761.24| 782.78| 782.31| 794.33
                Fabricated metal products................| 12.05 | 12.35 | 12.29 | 12.29 | 512.13| 505.12| 516.18| 514.95
                Industrial machinery and equipment.......| 13.15 | 13.42 | 13.40 | 13.39 | 577.29| 566.32| 581.56| 581.13
                Electronic and other electrical equipment| 11.54 | 11.92 | 11.83 | 11.86 | 478.91| 480.38| 490.95| 492.19
                Transportation equipment.................| 16.66 | 16.82 | 16.92 | 16.48 | 741.37| 709.80| 730.94| 688.86
                  Motor vehicles and equipment...........| 17.23 | 17.36 | 17.44 | 16.80 | 790.86| 751.69| 767.36| 695.52
                Instruments and related products.........| 12.63 | 13.01 | 12.95 | 13.02 | 526.67| 525.60| 542.61| 544.24
                Miscellaneous manufacturing..............|  9.90 | 10.27 | 10.22 | 10.17 | 395.01| 385.13| 400.62| 405.78
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Nondurable goods..........................| 11.45 | 11.94 | 11.81 | 11.84 | 463.73| 459.69| 473.58| 477.15
                Food and kindred products................| 10.87 | 11.10 | 11.05 | 11.11 | 441.32| 436.23| 445.32| 451.07
                Tobacco products.........................| 20.44 | 18.73 | 18.49 | 19.34 | 778.76| 674.28| 719.26| 771.67
                Textile mill products....................|  9.30 |  9.57 |  9.55 |  9.54 | 383.16| 345.48| 383.91| 389.23
                Apparel and other textile products.......|  7.51 |  7.85 |  7.79 |  7.78 | 280.12| 261.41| 286.67| 287.08
                Paper and allied products................| 14.03 | 14.60 | 14.45 | 14.49 | 604.69| 608.82| 618.46| 620.17
                Printing and publishing..................| 12.26 | 12.46 | 12.45 | 12.52 | 470.78| 457.28| 471.86| 477.01
                Chemicals and allied products............| 15.43 | 16.13 | 16.01 | 16.03 | 668.12| 685.53| 691.63| 690.89
                Petroleum and coal products..............| 19.38 | 19.41 | 19.53 | 19.61 | 841.09| 836.57| 837.84| 847.15
                Rubber and misc. plastics products.......| 10.80 | 11.14 | 11.14 | 11.15 | 451.44| 448.94| 458.97| 459.38
                Leather and leather products.............|  8.13 |  8.55 |  8.46 |  8.47 | 309.75| 295.83| 314.71| 321.86
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Service_producing.............................| 10.84 | 11.21 | 11.20 | 11.21 | 351.22| 357.60| 362.88| 364.33
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Transportation and public utilities.........| 14.06 | 14.43 | 14.42 | 14.39 | 549.75| 555.56| 568.15| 566.97
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Wholesale trade.............................| 12.25 | 12.62 | 12.60 | 12.61 | 465.50| 474.51| 478.80| 480.44
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Retail trade................................|  7.63 |  7.91 |  7.85 |  7.90 | 215.93| 218.32| 222.16| 225.15
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Finance, insurance, and real estate.........| 12.21 | 12.63 | 12.72 | 12.76 | 433.46| 448.37| 454.10| 455.53
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Services....................................| 11.36 | 11.75 | 11.74 | 11.74 | 365.79| 373.65| 378.03| 378.03
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
              1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.                                     p = preliminary.
 
 
 
                 ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                             ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                           1/
Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
 
                 payrolls by industry, seasonally adjusted
 
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |  Percent
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |  change
                               Industry               | Mar.  | Nov.  | Dec.  | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  |   from:
                                                      | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ |Feb. 1996-
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       | Mar. 1996
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private:                       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                    Current dollars...................| $11.34| $11.58| $11.61| $11.65| $11.65| $11.68|     0.3
                    Constant (1982) dollars2/.........|   7.39|   7.43|   7.44|   7.43|   7.42|  N.A. |    (3)
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Goods_producing......................|  12.91|  13.16|  13.16|  13.31|  13.26|  13.21|     -.4
                   Mining.............................|  15.15|  15.44|  15.55|  15.49|  15.48|  15.47|     -.1
                   Construction.......................|  14.90|  15.17|  15.09|  15.28|  15.17|  15.16|     -.1
                   Manufacturing......................|  12.25|  12.47|  12.49|  12.61|  12.56|  12.52|     -.3
                     Excluding overtime4/.............|  11.61|  11.84|  11.87|  12.00|  11.94|  11.91|     -.3
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Service_producing....................|  10.79|  11.04|  11.09|  11.10|  11.10|  11.16|      .5
                   Transportation and public utilities|  14.05|  14.41|  14.39|  14.37|  14.38|  14.39|      .1
                   Wholesale trade....................|  12.27|  12.50|  12.57|  12.56|  12.56|  12.64|      .6
                   Retail trade.......................|   7.61|   7.78|   7.82|   7.86|   7.82|   7.88|      .8
                   Finance, insurance, and real estate|  12.16|  12.51|  12.53|  12.52|  12.62|  12.71|      .7
                   Services...........................|  11.30|  11.55|  11.61|  11.61|  11.64|  11.68|      .3
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
                    1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.
                    2/  The Consumer Price Index for Urban
                 Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is
                 used to deflate this series.
                    3/  Change was -.1 percent from January
                 1996 to February 1996, the latest month
                 available.
                    4/  Derived by assuming that overtime
                 hours are paid at the rate of time and one-
                 half.
                    N.A.  = not available.
                    p/  = preliminary.
 
 
 
         ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                            ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                             1/
Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls
 
         by industry
 
         (1982=100)
 
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                       |                           |
                                                       |  Not seasonally adjusted  |          Seasonally adjusted
                                                       |                           |
                                                        ___________________________ _______________________________________
                            Industry                   |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
                                                       |Mar. |Jan. | Feb.  | Mar.  |Mar. |Nov. |Dec. |Jan. | Feb.  | Mar.
                                                       |1995 |1996 |1996p/ |1996p/ |1995 |1995 |1995 |1996 |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
               Total private...........................|129.2|126.7| 130.3 | 131.2 |132.5|133.3|132.9|130.7| 134.5 | 134.5
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Goods_producing...............................|107.4|101.2| 105.3 | 105.5 |111.7|109.3|108.6|105.7| 111.1 | 109.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Mining.......................................| 52.1| 50.9|  52.7 |  53.2 | 54.5| 52.3| 53.1| 52.2|  55.1 |  55.5
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Construction.................................|126.7|121.6| 127.5 | 129.9 |143.8|144.0|142.2|142.4| 153.0 | 147.0
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Manufacturing................................|107.1|100.2| 104.1 | 103.7 |108.6|105.7|105.1|101.3| 105.7 | 104.7
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Durable goods...............................|107.9|102.6| 106.0 | 105.2 |108.9|106.7|106.3|103.1| 107.2 | 105.6
            Lumber and wood products...................|131.9|122.7| 126.5 | 127.8 |136.2|132.7|131.5|126.0| 131.4 | 131.1
            Furniture and fixtures.....................|124.3|109.7| 118.0 | 118.8 |126.1|122.0|122.0|110.3| 120.8 | 120.2
            Stone, clay, and glass products............|105.5| 97.8| 102.6 | 105.0 |111.0|108.4|107.9|105.1| 110.7 | 109.7
            Primary metal industries...................| 93.7| 91.3|  92.5 |  91.6 | 94.0| 92.4| 91.9| 90.9|  92.8 |  91.6
              Blast furnaces and basic steel products..| 73.3| 72.4|  72.3 |  72.0 | 74.5| 73.0| 72.4| 72.7|  73.4 |  72.6
            Fabricated metal products..................|113.7|109.3| 112.2 | 111.9 |115.2|112.8|112.6|109.6| 113.2 | 112.9
            Industrial machinery and equipment.........|103.5|101.1| 104.0 | 104.0 |103.1|103.8|103.0|100.5| 103.6 | 102.8
            Electronic and other electrical equipment..|107.3|105.0| 108.5 | 107.9 |108.2|108.4|106.9|104.4| 109.4 | 108.4
            Transportation equipment...................|121.9|112.2| 115.9 | 109.4 |121.6|113.8|114.9|112.3| 116.0 | 108.6
              Motor vehicles and equipment.............|162.8|150.5| 155.3 | 140.4 |162.5|156.2|156.6|153.1| 154.7 | 138.4
            Instruments and related products...........| 74.5| 71.6|  74.2 |  74.8 | 74.3| 73.6| 73.1| 71.2|  74.3 |  74.3
            Miscellaneous manufacturing................|104.6| 95.9| 101.4 | 103.1 |105.1|103.9|103.5| 98.9| 103.6 | 103.6
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Nondurable goods............................|105.9| 97.0| 101.4 | 101.7 |108.2|104.3|103.5| 98.7| 103.7 | 103.4
            Food and kindred products..................|109.3|105.7| 108.6 | 109.1 |115.6|113.5|113.4|110.2| 114.5 | 115.0
            Tobacco products...........................| 54.0| 55.9|  59.0 |  56.7 | 58.1| 58.4| 55.2| 52.2|  59.7 |  61.2
            Textile mill products......................| 96.4| 78.9|  89.0 |  90.4 | 98.3| 91.6| 89.9| 79.7|  90.9 |  91.4
            Apparel and other textile products.........| 86.0| 67.5|  75.7 |  75.1 | 87.1| 77.6| 77.1| 68.8|  76.8 |  75.3
            Paper and allied products..................|109.4|104.4| 106.7 | 106.4 |111.9|108.9|108.1|105.1| 108.5 | 108.0
            Printing and publishing....................|126.7|119.2| 122.8 | 124.1 |126.6|125.3|123.6|120.6| 124.2 | 123.7
            Chemicals and allied products..............|102.5|100.2| 101.6 | 101.2 |102.9|103.1|102.6|100.9| 102.5 | 101.4
            Petroleum and coal products................| 76.3| 70.4|  69.7 |  70.3 | 79.9| 73.6| 73.6| 74.3|  72.9 |  72.3
            Rubber and misc. plastics products.........|144.3|135.3| 138.3 | 138.4 |145.5|141.4|140.5|135.5| 138.9 | 138.6
            Leather and leather products...............| 51.1| 41.4|  44.7 |  45.6 | 51.9| 47.5| 46.2| 41.6|  45.6 |  45.9
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Service_producing.............................|138.9|138.1| 141.5 | 142.8 |141.8|144.0|143.8|141.9| 145.0 | 145.8
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Transportation and public utilities..........|122.2|121.6| 125.0 | 125.4 |125.0|126.5|126.9|124.5| 128.1 | 128.4
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Wholesale trade..............................|117.6|118.2| 119.6 | 120.4 |119.2|120.7|120.8|120.0| 121.5 | 122.1
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Retail trade.................................|124.1|122.6| 125.4 | 126.9 |129.5|130.5|130.0|128.0| 131.9 | 132.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Finance, insurance, and real estate..........|122.8|123.9| 125.2 | 125.7 |124.0|125.8|125.8|123.8| 126.4 | 127.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Services.....................................|165.3|164.1| 169.0 | 170.8 |167.4|170.8|170.6|168.6| 171.6 | 172.9
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
            1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.                                     p = preliminary.
 
 
 
      ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                  ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
Table B-6.  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, 356 industries1/
                             |
                              _______________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 1-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  42.3 |  45.2 |  50.1 |  57.3 |  53.7 |  48.2 |  53.5 |  49.6 |  53.4 |  57.0 |  52.2 |  58.1
           1993..............|  57.6 |  61.5 |  51.4 |  58.3 |  61.4 |  55.1 |  57.7 |  56.3 |  61.4 |  59.7 |  61.1 |  60.7
           1994..............|  60.0 |  63.3 |  65.9 |  62.4 |  58.0 |  63.8 |  60.5 |  61.5 |  60.7 |  61.1 |  65.3 |  61.1
           1995..............|  60.3 |  61.7 |  57.6 |  51.3 |  46.2 |  55.3 |  48.5 |  54.9 |  50.6 |  53.7 |  57.9 |  57.2
           1996..............|  48.6 |p/63.3 |p/55.3 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  40.2 |  42.6 |  50.7 |  56.3 |  56.3 |  54.6 |  50.6 |  51.3 |  52.5 |  54.9 |  58.7 |  59.1
           1993..............|  64.0 |  61.2 |  61.8 |  58.8 |  61.4 |  61.8 |  59.3 |  61.8 |  62.6 |  66.7 |  65.7 |  63.6
           1994..............|  68.8 |  70.9 |  69.8 |  67.1 |  66.0 |  66.0 |  68.4 |  68.3 |  67.8 |  67.3 |  68.1 |  67.4
           1995..............|  66.4 |  64.9 |  57.9 |  49.3 |  50.6 |  47.9 |  52.8 |  50.3 |  52.5 |  54.4 |  57.6 |  56.3
           1996..............|p/59.0 |p/59.3 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  43.4 |  46.2 |  46.3 |  50.8 |  55.1 |  55.3 |  52.7 |  52.2 |  56.7 |  55.9 |  63.6 |  63.2
           1993..............|  63.2 |  63.8 |  62.8 |  64.2 |  60.8 |  63.9 |  64.5 |  64.7 |  66.2 |  67.3 |  70.8 |  70.8
           1994..............|  71.2 |  70.2 |  70.5 |  69.5 |  69.8 |  69.1 |  70.5 |  70.9 |  69.0 |  69.0 |  67.4 |  67.0
           1995..............|  65.9 |  58.8 |  56.3 |  52.2 |  49.2 |  49.6 |  50.3 |  56.0 |  53.2 |  53.7 |p/57.6 |p/61.2
           1996..............|       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 12-month span:    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  47.2 |  42.3 |  42.7 |  44.1 |  48.0 |  52.5 |  55.8 |  60.7 |  59.7 |  61.4 |  62.9 |  62.9
           1993..............|  64.9 |  63.9 |  64.0 |  65.4 |  67.0 |  67.6 |  67.6 |  67.0 |  70.2 |  69.4 |  68.8 |  69.4
           1994..............|  68.4 |  70.8 |  71.9 |  70.2 |  69.5 |  69.7 |  70.4 |  70.8 |  70.4 |  70.2 |  66.0 |  64.0
           1995..............|  63.1 |  60.8 |  58.1 |  58.3 |  56.6 |  55.9 |  53.8 |p/56.2 |p/55.1 |       |       |
           1996..............|       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                              _______________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |
                             |                           Manufacturing payrolls, 139 industries1/
                             |
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      Over 1-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  37.1 |  40.3 |  46.0 |  57.2 |  48.2 |  46.0 |  56.1 |  42.8 |  50.7 |  47.5 |  51.4 |  52.5
           1993..............|  52.2 |  57.9 |  52.9 |  44.2 |  51.4 |  46.0 |  50.7 |  48.6 |  56.1 |  54.7 |  56.5 |  54.3
           1994..............|  59.4 |  61.2 |  59.4 |  56.5 |  55.0 |  59.0 |  54.0 |  56.5 |  53.2 |  59.4 |  59.0 |  57.6
           1995..............|  56.8 |  54.7 |  49.6 |  44.2 |  36.7 |  41.7 |  39.6 |  46.8 |  40.3 |  50.4 |  43.9 |  48.6
           1996..............|  43.2 |p/49.3 |p/42.8 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  29.9 |  36.0 |  45.0 |  51.4 |  52.2 |  54.3 |  45.3 |  50.7 |  43.9 |  49.6 |  51.4 |  53.6
           1993..............|  60.8 |  60.4 |  57.2 |  46.4 |  46.4 |  50.7 |  49.6 |  54.3 |  53.2 |  60.1 |  56.1 |  57.6
           1994..............|  65.1 |  66.5 |  64.4 |  59.0 |  58.6 |  58.3 |  61.5 |  59.0 |  61.5 |  60.4 |  64.0 |  62.2
           1995..............|  61.5 |  56.1 |  47.1 |  35.6 |  32.4 |  28.8 |  32.7 |  33.1 |  41.0 |  39.6 |  44.2 |  39.9
           1996..............|p/39.6 |p/39.6 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  33.5 |  36.0 |  39.6 |  47.5 |  51.8 |  52.5 |  47.5 |  48.9 |  52.5 |  47.1 |  57.9 |  58.3
           1993..............|  57.6 |  56.5 |  56.1 |  55.0 |  49.3 |  52.2 |  55.4 |  57.9 |  56.8 |  57.6 |  65.1 |  62.9
           1994..............|  61.9 |  62.9 |  64.4 |  61.5 |  60.8 |  59.0 |  62.2 |  62.6 |  61.5 |  64.0 |  61.5 |  61.5
           1995..............|  57.2 |  47.1 |  40.3 |  32.7 |  26.6 |  25.9 |  29.9 |  32.7 |  33.5 |  35.6 |p/35.3 |p/38.8
           1996..............|       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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      Over 12-month span:    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  42.4 |  36.7 |  36.3 |  36.0 |  39.6 |  45.7 |  50.0 |  55.8 |  57.9 |  56.8 |  58.3 |  56.5
           1993..............|  56.8 |  57.9 |  55.8 |  58.6 |  57.2 |  57.6 |  58.6 |  59.0 |  61.2 |  60.4 |  60.1 |  59.4
           1994..............|  58.3 |  59.7 |  61.9 |  61.5 |  61.5 |  61.5 |  61.9 |  63.3 |  61.5 |  59.7 |  56.5 |  49.6
           1995..............|  46.8 |  43.2 |  40.6 |  37.1 |  34.9 |  33.5 |  28.1 |p/30.2 |p/26.3 |       |       |
           1996..............|       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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         1/  Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-,             employment increasing plus one-half of the industries
       and 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month          with unchanged employment, where 50 percent
       span. Data are centered within the span.                        indicates an equal balance between industries with
         p = preliminary.                                              increasing and decreasing employment.
         NOTE:  Figures are the percent of industries with