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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
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:  JULY 1996
 
 
   Nonfarm payroll employment increased in July, and the unemployment rate
was essentially unchanged at 5.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.  The number of payroll jobs
rose by 193,000 over the month, led by a gain in the retail trade industry.
Average hourly earnings declined 2 cents in July, following a sharp rise in
the prior month.
 
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
 
   The number of unemployed persons totaled 7.3 million in July, and the
unemployment rate was 5.4 percent.  July jobless rates for the major worker
groups--adult men (4.7 percent), adult women (4.9 percent), teenagers (16.4
percent), whites (4.7 percent), blacks (10.5 percent), and Hispanics (9.0
percent)--showed little change from the prior month.  (See tables A-1 and A-
2.)
 
   Both the number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks and the
number of unemployed new entrants (persons with no work experience who had
been out of the labor force prior to beginning their job search) rose in
July.  (See tables A-5 and A-6.)
 
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
   Total employment, at 126.9 million, continued to trend upward in July,
and has risen by 1.9 million so far in 1996.  In contrast, it grew by only
about 400,000 during all of 1995.  The proportion of the population 16
years and over with jobs (the employment-population ratio) was unchanged
over the month at 63.2 percent.  (See table A-1.)
 
   The number of persons who held two or more jobs was 7.6 million (not
seasonally adjusted) in July.  These multiple jobholders made up 5.9
percent of all employed persons.  (See table A-9.)
 
   The civilian labor force increased by 512,000 in July to 134.2 million,
seasonally adjusted.  Labor force growth has totaled 1.8 million thus far
in 1996, about three times the level of growth for all of 1995.  Reflecting
this stronger labor force growth, the labor force participation rate was
66.9 percent in July, 0.6 percentage point higher than the rate at the end
of 1995.  (See table A-1.)
 
                                   - 2 -
 
Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
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                      |   Quarterly     |       Monthly data       |
                      |   averages      |                          |
                      |_________________|__________________________|June-
      Category        |       1996      |          1996            |July
                      |_________________|__________________________|change
                      |   I    |   II   |   May  |  June  |  July  |
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    HOUSEHOLD DATA    |                 Labor force status
                      |____________________________________________________
Civilian labor force..| 133,192| 133,647| 133,910| 133,669| 134,181|    512
  Employment..........| 125,680| 126,389| 126,462| 126,610| 126,884|    274
  Unemployment........|   7,512|   7,258|   7,448|   7,060|   7,297|    237
Not in labor force....|  66,584|  66,633|  66,368|  66,790|  66,460|   -330
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                 Unemployment rates
                      |____________________________________________________
All workers...........|     5.6|     5.4|     5.6|     5.3|     5.4|    0.1
  Adult men...........|     4.9|     4.7|     4.8|     4.6|     4.7|     .1
  Adult women.........|     4.9|     4.8|     5.0|     4.6|     4.9|     .3
  Teenagers...........|    17.4|    16.3|    16.4|    15.9|    16.4|     .5
  White...............|     4.9|     4.7|     4.9|     4.6|     4.7|     .1
  Black...............|    10.7|    10.3|    10.2|    10.1|    10.5|     .4
  Hispanic origin.....|     9.7|     9.2|     9.2|     8.8|     9.0|     .2
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
 ESTABLISHMENT DATA   |                     Employment
                      |____________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment....| 118,462|p119,273| 119,335|p119,555|p119,748|   p193
  Goods-producing 1/..|  24,187| p24,250|  24,262| p24,278| p24,279|     p1
    Construction......|   5,308|  p5,381|   5,384|  p5,406|  p5,431|    p25
    Manufacturing.....|  18,308| p18,294|  18,302| p18,298| p18,278|   p-20
  Service-producing 1/|  94,275| p95,023|  95,073| p95,277| p95,469|   p192
    Retail trade......|  21,317| p21,502|  21,499| p21,585| p21,674|    p89
    Services..........|  33,877| p34,251|  34,274| p34,364| p34,392|    p28
    Government........|  19,365| p19,436|  19,458| p19,454| p19,491|    p37
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                  Hours of work 2/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|    34.3|   p34.4|    34.2|   p34.7|   p34.3|  p-0.4
  Manufacturing.......|    40.9|   p41.7|    41.7|   p41.9|   p41.6|   p-.3
    Overtime..........|     4.2|    p4.6|     4.6|    p4.6|    p4.4|   p-.2
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                     Earnings 2/
                      |____________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  $11.65| p$11.76|  $11.73| p$11.82| p$11.80|p-$0.02
Avg. weekly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  399.22| p404.44|  401.17| p410.15| p404.74| p-5.41
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    1/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
    2/ Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
p=preliminary.
 
                                   - 3 -
 
Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
   About 1.5 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally
attached to the labor force in July--that is, they wanted and were
available for work but had stopped looking for jobs sometime in the prior
12 months.  Of this total, those who were no longer looking specifically
because they believed that no jobs were available for them--discouraged
workers--numbered 423,000.  (See table A-9.)
 
Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)
 
   Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 193,000 in July to 119.7 million,
after seasonal adjustment.  July's increase was somewhat below the average
monthly gain in the second quarter (273,000).  Retail trade employment
continued its robust growth trend of recent months; the construction and
finance industries experienced strong gains as well.  Manufacturing
employment declined over the month.  (See table B-1.)
 
   Employment in retail trade rose by 89,000 in July, marking the fourth
consecutive month of very large gains.  Almost half of the July increase
was in eating and drinking places, which has added 79,000 jobs in the past
2 months.  Food stores, auto dealers and service stations, and furniture
and home furnishings stores also experienced substantial growth in July.
Wholesale trade continued to show modest growth (12,000), mostly in the
nondurable goods distribution component.
 
   Construction employment increased by 25,000 in July; the industry has
added 208,000 jobs since the beginning of 1996.  Strong job growth among
contractors in special trades, such as carpentry and electrical work,
continued over the month.  Within finance, insurance, and real estate, job
gains were widespread in finance, while employment in real estate continued
its pace of moderate growth.
 
   Job growth in services was uncharacteristically sluggish in July.  This
weakness reflected declines in social services, hotels, educational
services, hospitals, and home health care services.  Business services
employment increased by 35,000, over half of which was in the help supply
component.
 
   Employment in transportation and public utilities was about unchanged in
July; growth in communications, air transportation, and local transit
slightly offset declines in trucking and public utilities.  Government
employment grew moderately in July.  At both the state and local level,
employment rose in education, after seasonal adjustment, but these
increases were partly offset by declines in the noneducation components.
Federal government employment continued to trend downward.
 
   Manufacturing employment fell by 20,000 in July, with small losses
spread among both the durable and nondurable goods industries.  Within
durable goods, the largest decline was in primary metals.  Fabricated
metals and aircraft and parts, by contrast, posted strong gains.
Employment in electronic equipment, which had shown little movement in the
past 4 months, rose in July.  Within nondurable goods, nearly all major
industry groups experienced small declines over the month.  Employment in
nondurables has fallen by 321,000 over the past 19 months, half of which
was in textiles and apparel.
 
                                   - 4 -
 
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
 
   The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private
nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.4 hour in July to 34.3 hours, seasonally
adjusted.  This decline nearly reversed June's large increase.  The
manufacturing workweek declined by 0.3 hour to 41.6 hours, and factory
overtime edged down by 0.2 hour to 4.4 hours.  Both measures had
experienced substantial gains during the first half of the year.  (See
table B-2.)
 
   The workweek decline caused the index of aggregate weekly hours of
private production or nonsupervisory workers on nonfarm payrolls to decline
by 1.2 percent, on a seasonally adjusted basis, to 136.1 (1982=100) in
July.  The manufacturing index edged down by 0.7 percent to 105.9.  (See
table B-5.)
 
Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
 
   Average hourly earnings of private production or nonsupervisory workers
declined 2 cents in July to $11.80, seasonally adjusted, following a gain
of 9 cents in the previous month.  Average weekly earnings decreased by 1.3
percent to $404.74.  Over the past year, average hourly earnings increased
by 2.9 percent and average weekly earnings rose by 2.3 percent.  (See table
B-3.)
 
                         _________________________
 
   The Employment Situation for August 1996 is scheduled to be released on
Friday, September 6, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT).
 
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  | Not seasonally adjusted  |               Seasonally adjusted1/
                                                  |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
         Employment status, sex, and age          |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                      TOTAL                       |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 198,615| 200,459| 200,641| 198,615| 199,921| 200,101| 200,278| 200,459| 200,641
  Civilian labor force............................| 134,440| 135,083| 136,272| 132,342| 133,655| 133,361| 133,910| 133,669| 134,181
        Participation rate........................|    67.7|    67.4|    67.9|    66.6|    66.9|    66.6|    66.9|    66.7|    66.9
    Employed......................................| 126,548| 127,706| 128,579| 124,832| 126,151| 126,095| 126,462| 126,610| 126,884
        Employment-population ratio...............|    63.7|    63.7|    64.1|    62.9|    63.1|    63.0|    63.1|    63.2|    63.2
      Agriculture.................................|   3,810|   3,793|   3,862|   3,409|   3,487|   3,368|   3,491|   3,382|   3,502
      Nonagricultural industries..................| 122,738| 123,912| 124,717| 121,423| 122,664| 122,726| 122,971| 123,228| 123,382
    Unemployed....................................|   7,892|   7,377|   7,693|   7,510|   7,504|   7,266|   7,448|   7,060|   7,297
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.9|     5.5|     5.6|     5.7|     5.6|     5.4|     5.6|     5.3|     5.4
  Not in labor force..............................|  64,175|  65,376|  64,369|  66,273|  66,266|  66,741|  66,368|  66,790|  66,460
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 16 years and over              |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  95,191|  96,140|  96,230|  95,191|  95,864|  95,955|  96,048|  96,140|  96,230
  Civilian labor force............................|  72,743|  73,165|  73,801|  71,329|  72,030|  71,935|  72,241|  72,121|  72,375
        Participation rate........................|    76.4|    76.1|    76.7|    74.9|    75.1|    75.0|    75.2|    75.0|    75.2
    Employed......................................|  68,750|  69,298|  69,819|  67,342|  67,856|  67,933|  68,278|  68,283|  68,400
        Employment-population ratio...............|    72.2|    72.1|    72.6|    70.7|    70.8|    70.8|    71.1|    71.0|    71.1
    Unemployed....................................|   3,993|   3,868|   3,982|   3,987|   4,174|   4,002|   3,964|   3,837|   3,975
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.5|     5.3|     5.4|     5.6|     5.8|     5.6|     5.5|     5.3|     5.5
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 20 years and over              |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  87,818|  88,570|  88,614|  87,818|  88,366|  88,440|  88,530|  88,570|  88,614
  Civilian labor force............................|  67,610|  68,439|  68,639|  67,264|  67,980|  67,821|  68,064|  68,118|  68,274
        Participation rate........................|    77.0|    77.3|    77.5|    76.6|    76.9|    76.7|    76.9|    76.9|    77.0
    Employed......................................|  64,533|  65,474|  65,618|  64,031|  64,594|  64,555|  64,818|  64,962|  65,094
        Employment-population ratio...............|    73.5|    73.9|    74.0|    72.9|    73.1|    73.0|    73.2|    73.3|    73.5
      Agriculture.................................|   2,485|   2,492|   2,529|   2,321|   2,403|   2,292|   2,337|   2,292|   2,381
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  62,047|  62,983|  63,090|  61,710|  62,191|  62,263|  62,480|  62,669|  62,713
    Unemployed....................................|   3,077|   2,964|   3,020|   3,233|   3,386|   3,266|   3,246|   3,157|   3,179
        Unemployment rate.........................|     4.6|     4.3|     4.4|     4.8|     5.0|     4.8|     4.8|     4.6|     4.7
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
             Women, 16 years and over             |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 103,424| 104,319| 104,411| 103,424| 104,058| 104,146| 104,230| 104,319| 104,411
  Civilian labor force............................|  61,696|  61,917|  62,471|  61,013|  61,625|  61,426|  61,669|  61,548|  61,806
        Participation rate........................|    59.7|    59.4|    59.8|    59.0|    59.2|    59.0|    59.2|    59.0|    59.2
    Employed......................................|  57,798|  58,408|  58,760|  57,490|  58,294|  58,161|  58,184|  58,326|  58,484
        Employment-population ratio...............|    55.9|    56.0|    56.3|    55.6|    56.0|    55.8|    55.8|    55.9|    56.0
    Unemployed....................................|   3,899|   3,509|   3,711|   3,523|   3,331|   3,264|   3,485|   3,222|   3,322
        Unemployment rate.........................|     6.3|     5.7|     5.9|     5.8|     5.4|     5.3|     5.7|     5.2|     5.4
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
             Women, 20 years and over             |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  96,265|  96,999|  97,064|  96,265|  96,798|  96,857|  96,925|  96,999|  97,064
  Civilian labor force............................|  57,149|  57,644|  57,933|  57,315|  57,903|  57,763|  57,915|  57,893|  58,102
        Participation rate........................|    59.4|    59.4|    59.7|    59.5|    59.8|    59.6|    59.8|    59.7|    59.9
    Employed......................................|  54,050|  54,903|  54,880|  54,422|  55,146|  55,060|  55,014|  55,211|  55,266
        Employment-population ratio...............|    56.1|    56.6|    56.5|    56.5|    57.0|    56.8|    56.8|    56.9|    56.9
      Agriculture.................................|     855|     915|     913|     801|     844|     813|     831|     842|     863
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  53,194|  53,989|  53,968|  53,621|  54,303|  54,247|  54,183|  54,369|  54,403
    Unemployed....................................|   3,100|   2,741|   3,052|   2,893|   2,757|   2,704|   2,901|   2,682|   2,837
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.4|     4.8|     5.3|     5.0|     4.8|     4.7|     5.0|     4.6|     4.9
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years            |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian  noninstitutional population.............|  14,531|  14,890|  14,963|  14,531|  14,757|  14,805|  14,823|  14,890|  14,963
  Civilian labor force............................|   9,681|   9,000|   9,701|   7,763|   7,772|   7,776|   7,932|   7,658|   7,805
        Participation rate........................|    66.6|    60.4|    64.8|    53.4|    52.7|    52.5|    53.5|    51.4|    52.2
    Employed......................................|   7,965|   7,328|   8,080|   6,379|   6,411|   6,480|   6,630|   6,437|   6,524
        Employment-population ratio...............|    54.8|    49.2|    54.0|    43.9|    43.4|    43.8|    44.7|    43.2|    43.6
      Agriculture.................................|     469|     387|     420|     287|     240|     263|     323|     248|     258
      Nonagricultural industries..................|   7,496|   6,941|   7,660|   6,092|   6,171|   6,217|   6,308|   6,189|   6,266
    Unemployed....................................|   1,715|   1,672|   1,620|   1,384|   1,362|   1,296|   1,301|   1,221|   1,280
        Unemployment rate.........................|    17.7|    18.6|    16.7|    17.8|    17.5|    16.7|    16.4|    15.9|    16.4
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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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                                                  |                          |
                                                  | Not seasonally adjusted  |               Seasonally adjusted1/
      Employment status, race, sex, age, and      |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                 Hispanic origin                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                      WHITE                       |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 166,931| 168,222| 168,345| 166,931| 167,853| 167,973| 168,098| 168,222| 168,345
  Civilian labor force............................| 113,747| 114,098| 114,808| 112,054| 112,970| 112,613| 113,109| 112,941| 113,076
      Participation rate..........................|    68.1|    67.8|    68.2|    67.1|    67.3|    67.0|    67.3|    67.1|    67.2
    Employed......................................| 108,096| 108,771| 109,338| 106,575| 107,497| 107,319| 107,612| 107,757| 107,772
      Employment-population ratio.................|    64.8|    64.7|    64.9|    63.8|    64.0|    63.9|    64.0|    64.1|    64.0
    Unemployed....................................|   5,651|   5,327|   5,470|   5,479|   5,473|   5,294|   5,497|   5,184|   5,304
      Unemployment rate...........................|     5.0|     4.7|     4.8|     4.9|     4.8|     4.7|     4.9|     4.6|     4.7
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
              Men, 20 years and over              |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|  57,975|  58,698|  58,789|  57,682|  58,309|  58,202|  58,340|  58,426|  58,456
      Participation rate..........................|    77.4|    77.8|    77.9|    77.0|    77.5|    77.3|    77.4|    77.5|    77.5
    Employed......................................|  55,705|  56,496|  56,584|  55,248|  55,795|  55,778|  55,914|  56,047|  56,079
      Employment-population ratio.................|    74.4|    74.9|    75.0|    73.8|    74.1|    74.1|    74.2|    74.3|    74.3
    Unemployed....................................|   2,270|   2,203|   2,205|   2,434|   2,514|   2,424|   2,426|   2,379|   2,376
      Unemployment rate...........................|     3.9|     3.8|     3.8|     4.2|     4.3|     4.2|     4.2|     4.1|     4.1
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
             Women, 20 years and over             |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|  47,748|  47,781|  47,926|  47,794|  48,136|  47,884|  48,103|  47,956|  47,981
      Participation rate..........................|    59.3|    59.0|    59.1|    59.3|    59.5|    59.2|    59.4|    59.2|    59.2
    Employed......................................|  45,506|  45,832|  45,779|  45,725|  46,141|  45,937|  45,976|  46,063|  46,009
      Employment-population ratio.................|    56.5|    56.6|    56.5|    56.7|    57.0|    56.8|    56.8|    56.9|    56.8
    Unemployed....................................|   2,242|   1,949|   2,148|   2,069|   1,995|   1,947|   2,128|   1,894|   1,972
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.7|     4.1|     4.5|     4.3|     4.1|     4.1|     4.4|     3.9|     4.1
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years            |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|   8,023|   7,618|   8,092|   6,578|   6,525|   6,527|   6,666|   6,558|   6,639
      Participation rate..........................|    69.9|    64.5|    68.3|    57.3|    55.8|    55.7|    56.6|    55.5|    56.0
    Employed......................................|   6,885|   6,443|   6,975|   5,602|   5,561|   5,604|   5,723|   5,647|   5,684
      Employment-population ratio.................|    60.0|    54.5|    58.9|    48.8|    47.6|    47.8|    48.6|    47.8|    48.0
    Unemployed....................................|   1,138|   1,175|   1,117|     976|     964|     923|     943|     911|     955
      Unemployment rate...........................|    14.2|    15.4|    13.8|    14.8|    14.8|    14.1|    14.1|    13.9|    14.4
        Men.......................................|    14.0|    15.9|    15.1|    15.1|    16.0|    15.2|    15.2|    14.7|    16.6
        Women.....................................|    14.4|    14.9|    12.3|    14.6|    13.4|    12.9|    12.9|    13.0|    12.0
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                      BLACK                       |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  23,249|  23,579|  23,611|  23,249|  23,485|  23,519|  23,549|  23,579|  23,611
  Civilian labor force............................|  15,062|  15,228|  15,590|  14,710|  15,030|  14,971|  15,149|  14,955|  15,279
      Participation rate..........................|    64.8|    64.6|    66.0|    63.3|    64.0|    63.7|    64.3|    63.4|    64.7
    Employed......................................|  13,280|  13,542|  13,785|  13,124|  13,358|  13,399|  13,599|  13,451|  13,671
      Employment-population ratio.................|    57.1|    57.4|    58.4|    56.5|    56.9|    57.0|    57.7|    57.0|    57.9
    Unemployed....................................|   1,782|   1,686|   1,805|   1,586|   1,673|   1,573|   1,551|   1,504|   1,609
      Unemployment rate...........................|    11.8|    11.1|    11.6|    10.8|    11.1|    10.5|    10.2|    10.1|    10.5
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              Men, 20 years and over              |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|   6,707|   6,778|   6,876|   6,687|   6,790|   6,696|   6,786|   6,728|   6,867
      Participation rate..........................|    72.2|    72.0|    73.0|    72.0|    72.4|    71.3|    72.2|    71.5|    72.9
    Employed......................................|   6,089|   6,165|   6,233|   6,077|   6,049|   6,055|   6,136|   6,110|   6,233
      Employment-population ratio.................|    65.5|    65.5|    66.2|    65.4|    64.5|    64.5|    65.3|    64.9|    66.2
    Unemployed....................................|     618|     613|     643|     610|     741|     641|     650|     617|     634
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.2|     9.0|     9.3|     9.1|    10.9|     9.6|     9.6|     9.2|     9.2
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             Women, 20 years and over             |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|   7,099|   7,366|   7,469|   7,120|   7,287|   7,300|   7,373|   7,373|   7,504
      Participation rate..........................|    60.8|    62.3|    63.1|    60.9|    61.8|    61.9|    62.4|    62.4|    63.4
    Employed......................................|   6,409|   6,730|   6,741|   6,480|   6,674|   6,687|   6,758|   6,743|   6,830
      Employment-population ratio.................|    54.9|    56.9|    57.0|    55.5|    56.6|    56.7|    57.2|    57.0|    57.7
    Unemployed....................................|     690|     636|     727|     640|     613|     613|     615|     630|     674
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.7|     8.6|     9.7|     9.0|     8.4|     8.4|     8.3|     8.5|     9.0
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years            |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Civilian labor force............................|   1,255|   1,084|   1,245|     903|     954|     976|     990|     854|     908
      Participation rate..........................|    55.2|    46.2|    52.8|    39.7|    41.1|    41.9|    42.3|    36.4|    38.5
    Employed......................................|     781|     648|     810|     567|     635|     657|     705|     598|     607
      Employment-population ratio.................|    34.4|    27.6|    34.4|    24.9|    27.4|    28.2|    30.1|    25.4|    25.8
    Unemployed....................................|     474|     436|     435|     336|     319|     319|     286|     256|     301
      Unemployment rate...........................|    37.8|    40.3|    34.9|    37.2|    33.5|    32.7|    28.9|    30.0|    33.1
        Men.......................................|    38.5|    42.8|    41.9|    39.4|    38.2|    34.1|    27.4|    35.3|    43.3
        Women.....................................|    37.0|    37.7|    26.6|    35.0|    28.4|    31.3|    30.2|    25.0|    20.9
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                 HISPANIC ORIGIN                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  18,653|  19,184|  19,238|  18,653|  19,025|  19,080|  19,131|  19,184|  19,238
  Civilian labor force............................|  12,535|  12,660|  12,893|  12,301|  12,571|  12,511|  12,514|  12,576|  12,641
      Participation rate..........................|    67.2|    66.0|    67.0|    65.9|    66.1|    65.6|    65.4|    65.6|    65.7
    Employed......................................|  11,381|  11,575|  11,707|  11,197|  11,308|  11,294|  11,365|  11,472|  11,500
      Employment-population ratio.................|    61.0|    60.3|    60.9|    60.0|    59.4|    59.2|    59.4|    59.8|    59.8
    Unemployed....................................|   1,154|   1,084|   1,186|   1,104|   1,262|   1,217|   1,149|   1,104|   1,141
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.2|     8.6|     9.2|     9.0|    10.0|     9.7|     9.2|     8.8|     9.0
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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.
 
 
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
Table A-3. Selected employment indicators
 
(In thousands)
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  | Not seasonally adjusted  |                 Seasonally adjusted
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                     Category                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                  CHARACTERISTIC                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Total employed, 16 years and over.................|126,548 |127,706 |128,579 |124,832 |126,151 |126,095 |126,462 |126,610 |126,884
  Married men, spouse present.....................| 42,094 | 42,629 | 42,521 | 42,099 | 42,178 | 42,067 | 42,406 | 42,587 | 42,478
  Married women, spouse present...................| 31,630 | 32,192 | 32,157 | 32,188 | 32,053 | 31,868 | 32,330 | 32,649 | 32,713
  Women who maintain families.....................|  7,067 |  7,345 |  7,157 |  7,127 |  7,397 |  7,389 |  7,314 |  7,360 |  7,230
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                    OCCUPATION                    |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Managerial and professional specialty...........| 35,302 | 36,440 | 36,181 | 35,542 | 36,149 | 36,115 | 36,257 | 36,696 | 36,361
  Technical, sales, and administrative support....| 38,125 | 37,720 | 38,210 | 37,771 | 37,782 | 37,638 | 37,681 | 37,683 | 37,795
  Service occupations.............................| 17,211 | 17,490 | 17,801 | 16,786 | 16,714 | 16,939 | 17,312 | 17,215 | 17,418
  Precision production, craft, and repair.........| 13,742 | 13,748 | 13,721 | 13,458 | 13,618 | 13,595 | 13,439 | 13,572 | 13,439
  Operators, fabricators, and laborers............| 18,016 | 18,338 | 18,540 | 17,833 | 18,058 | 18,124 | 18,282 | 18,137 | 18,392
  Farming, forestry, and fishing..................|  4,152 |  3,968 |  4,126 |  3,583 |  3,622 |  3,545 |  3,560 |  3,472 |  3,594
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                 CLASS OF WORKER                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Agriculture:                                    |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|  2,065 |  2,169 |  2,109 |  1,820 |  1,859 |  1,862 |  2,026 |  1,900 |  1,863
    Self-employed workers.........................|  1,688 |  1,578 |  1,686 |  1,562 |  1,572 |  1,484 |  1,456 |  1,457 |  1,564
    Unpaid family workers.........................|     58 |     46 |     66 |     46 |     41 |     52 |     46 |     35 |     52
  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|113,477 |114,693 |115,495 |112,417 |113,461 |113,527 |114,032 |114,130 |114,294
      Government..................................| 17,807 | 18,017 | 17,781 | 18,344 | 18,005 | 18,290 | 18,256 | 18,329 | 18,294
      Private industries..........................| 95,670 | 96,676 | 97,714 | 94,073 | 95,456 | 95,237 | 95,776 | 95,801 | 96,000
        Private households........................|    974 |    863 |    985 |    908 |    901 |    844 |    918 |    812 |    935
        Other industries..........................| 94,695 | 95,813 | 96,729 | 93,165 | 94,555 | 94,393 | 94,858 | 94,989 | 95,065
    Self-employed workers.........................|  9,153 |  9,083 |  9,088 |  9,062 |  9,092 |  9,081 |  8,878 |  9,073 |  8,998
    Unpaid family workers.........................|    108 |    137 |    134 |    105 |    102 |    101 |    124 |    136 |    130
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            PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME             |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  All industries:                                 |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,749 |  4,577 |  4,646 |  4,440 |  4,479 |  4,525 |  4,277 |  4,301 |  4,366
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,464 |  2,299 |  2,553 |  2,493 |  2,548 |  2,594 |  2,216 |  2,322 |  2,589
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,983 |  1,854 |  1,755 |  1,687 |  1,596 |  1,571 |  1,719 |  1,569 |  1,494
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 15,572 | 16,408 | 15,551 | 17,966 | 17,915 | 17,487 | 17,620 | 18,211 | 17,814
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  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,556 |  4,428 |  4,441 |  4,256 |  4,223 |  4,287 |  4,068 |  4,146 |  4,159
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,356 |  2,208 |  2,437 |  2,372 |  2,386 |  2,476 |  2,092 |  2,215 |  2,457
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,909 |  1,815 |  1,701 |  1,656 |  1,561 |  1,534 |  1,663 |  1,542 |  1,479
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 14,940 | 15,825 | 14,910 | 17,334 | 17,266 | 16,994 | 17,038 | 17,623 | 17,157
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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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                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                  CHARACTERISTIC                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Total, 16 years and over.........................|  7,510 |  7,060 |   7,297|   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.4  |   5.6  |   5.3  |   5.4
   Men, 20 years and over.........................|  3,233 |  3,157 |   3,179|   4.8  |   5.0  |   4.8  |   4.8  |   4.6  |   4.7
   Women, 20 years and over.......................|  2,893 |  2,682 |   2,837|   5.0  |   4.8  |   4.7  |   5.0  |   4.6  |   4.9
   Both sexes, 16 to 19 years.....................|  1,384 |  1,221 |   1,280|  17.8  |  17.5  |  16.7  |  16.4  |  15.9  |  16.4
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Married men, spouse present....................|  1,465 |  1,300 |   1,309|   3.4  |   3.1  |   3.0  |   2.9  |   3.0  |   3.0
   Married women, spouse present..................|  1,347 |  1,210 |   1,194|   4.0  |   3.5  |   3.7  |   3.8  |   3.6  |   3.5
   Women who maintain families....................|    640 |    603 |     721|   8.2  |   7.7  |   6.8  |   8.7  |   7.6  |   9.1
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Full-time workers..............................|  5,948 |  5,672 |   5,825|   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.4  |   5.5  |   5.2  |   5.3
   Part-time workers..............................|  1,592 |  1,389 |   1,505|   6.4  |   6.0  |   5.8  |   5.9  |   5.6  |   6.1
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                   OCCUPATION2/                   |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Managerial and professional specialty..........|    958 |    921 |     922|   2.6  |   2.3  |   2.3  |   2.3  |   2.4  |   2.5
   Technical, sales, and administrative support...|  1,758 |  1,630 |   1,842|   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.7  |   4.1  |   4.6
   Precision production, craft, and repair........|    907 |    749 |     776|   6.3  |   5.8  |   5.5  |   5.3  |   5.2  |   5.5
   Operators, fabricators, and laborers...........|  1,608 |  1,561 |   1,545|   8.3  |   8.6  |   8.0  |   8.3  |   7.9  |   7.7
   Farming, forestry, and fishing.................|    298 |    291 |     242|   7.7  |   7.9  |   8.0  |   9.1  |   7.7  |   6.3
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                     INDUSTRY                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers|  5,895 |  5,558 |   5,635|   5.9  |   5.8  |   5.7  |   5.7  |   5.5  |   5.5
     Goods-producing industries...................|  1,817 |  1,712 |   1,646|   6.5  |   6.5  |   6.1  |   6.2  |   6.1  |   5.9
       Mining.....................................|     23 |     26 |      16|   3.8  |   6.8  |   4.4  |   2.1  |   4.7  |   2.8
       Construction...............................|    723 |    622 |     661|  11.3  |  10.0  |  10.2  |  10.0  |   9.5  |  10.1
       Manufacturing..............................|  1,071 |  1,064 |     970|   5.1  |   5.3  |   4.8  |   5.1  |   5.1  |   4.6
         Durable goods............................|    570 |    580 |     514|   4.7  |   5.1  |   4.8  |   4.8  |   4.6  |   4.2
         Nondurable goods.........................|    501 |    484 |     455|   5.8  |   5.7  |   4.8  |   5.5  |   5.7  |   5.3
     Service-producing industries.................|  4,078 |  3,846 |   3,989|   5.7  |   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.2  |   5.4
       Transportation and public utilities........|    322 |    317 |     308|   4.6  |   4.2  |   4.2  |   4.2  |   4.5  |   4.3
       Wholesale and retail trade.................|  1,689 |  1,696 |   1,690|   6.5  |   6.9  |   6.6  |   6.6  |   6.4  |   6.3
       Finance, insurance, and real estate........|    250 |    189 |     211|   3.4  |   2.5  |   2.3  |   2.5  |   2.6  |   2.8
       Services...................................|  1,817 |  1,644 |   1,781|   5.7  |   5.4  |   5.6  |   5.7  |   5.1  |   5.5
   Government workers.............................|    540 |    514 |     606|   2.9  |   2.8  |   2.9  |   3.3  |   2.7  |   3.2
   Agricultural wage and salary workers...........|    211 |    193 |     175|  10.4  |  10.7  |  10.9  |  10.0  |   9.2  |   8.6
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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.
 
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
Table A-5. Duration of unemployment
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  | Not seasonally adjusted  |                 Seasonally adjusted
                                                  |                          |
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                     Duration                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
               NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED               |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Less than 5 weeks................................|  2,901 |  3,218 |  2,941 |  2,661 |  2,623 |  2,412 |  2,815 |  2,485 |  2,701
 5 to 14 weeks....................................|  2,778 |  1,892 |  2,540 |  2,554 |  2,298 |  2,337 |  2,334 |  2,160 |  2,322
 15 weeks and over................................|  2,213 |  2,267 |  2,212 |  2,332 |  2,479 |  2,388 |  2,336 |  2,435 |  2,319
    15 to 26 weeks................................|    917 |    965 |    822 |  1,051 |  1,164 |  1,106 |  1,020 |  1,116 |    958
    27 weeks and over.............................|  1,295 |  1,302 |  1,391 |  1,281 |  1,316 |  1,282 |  1,317 |  1,319 |  1,361
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Average (mean) duration, in weeks................|   15.7 |   16.2 |   16.1 |   16.5 |   17.3 |   17.4 |   16.8 |   17.6 |   16.8
 Median duration, in weeks........................|    7.8 |    6.1 |    7.7 |    8.7 |    8.3 |    8.8 |    8.3 |    8.1 |    8.6
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
               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..............................|   36.8 |   43.6 |   38.2 |   35.3 |   35.4 |   33.8 |   37.6 |   35.1 |   36.8
   5 to 14 weeks..................................|   35.2 |   25.6 |   33.0 |   33.8 |   31.1 |   32.7 |   31.2 |   30.5 |   31.6
   15 weeks and over..............................|   28.0 |   30.7 |   28.8 |   30.9 |   33.5 |   33.5 |   31.2 |   34.4 |   31.6
     15 to 26 weeks...............................|   11.6 |   13.1 |   10.7 |   13.9 |   15.7 |   15.5 |   13.6 |   15.8 |   13.1
     27 weeks and over............................|   16.4 |   17.6 |   18.1 |   17.0 |   17.8 |   18.0 |   17.6 |   18.6 |   18.5
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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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                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           | July  | June  | July  | July  | Mar.  | Apr.  |  May  | June  | July
                                                           | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                   NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs........|  3,470|  3,116|  3,323|  3,505|  3,564|  3,625|  3,388|  3,431|  3,343
  On temporary layoff......................................|  1,094|    853|    974|  1,070|  1,027|  1,116|  1,154|    990|    953
  Not on temporary layoff..................................|  2,376|  2,262|  2,349|  2,435|  2,537|  2,509|  2,234|  2,441|  2,391
    Permanent job losers...................................|  1,693|  1,670|  1,686|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
    Persons who completed temporary jobs...................|    683|    593|    663|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
Job leavers................................................|    861|    660|    772|    835|    782|    702|    661|    676|    749
Reentrants.................................................|  2,723|  2,719|  2,716|  2,557|  2,588|  2,379|  2,784|  2,419|  2,529
New entrants...............................................|    838|    882|    882|    565|    591|    550|    532|    528|    623
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                   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.......|   44.0|   42.2|   43.2|   47.0|   47.4|   50.0|   46.0|   48.6|   46.1
   On temporary layoff.....................................|   13.9|   11.6|   12.7|   14.3|   13.6|   15.4|   15.7|   14.0|   13.1
   Not on temporary layoff.................................|   30.1|   30.7|   30.5|   32.6|   33.7|   34.6|   30.3|   34.6|   33.0
 Job leavers...............................................|   10.9|    9.0|   10.0|   11.2|   10.4|    9.7|    9.0|    9.6|   10.3
 Reentrants................................................|   34.5|   36.9|   35.3|   34.3|   34.4|   32.8|   37.8|   34.3|   34.9
 New entrants..............................................|   10.6|   12.0|   11.5|    7.6|    7.9|    7.6|    7.2|    7.5|    8.6
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
              UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE               |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                      CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.......|    2.6|    2.3|    2.4|    2.6|    2.7|    2.7|    2.5|    2.6|    2.5
 Job leavers...............................................|     .6|     .5|     .6|     .6|     .6|     .5|     .5|     .5|     .6
 Reentrants................................................|    2.0|    2.0|    2.0|    1.9|    1.9|    1.8|    2.1|    1.8|    1.9
 New entrants..............................................|     .6|     .7|     .6|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .5
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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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      |
                                                                     ____________________ _________________________________________
                                                                     | July | June | July | July | Mar. | Apr. | May  | June | July
                                                                     | 1995 | 1996 | 1996 | 1995 | 1996 | 1996 | 1996 | 1996 | 1996
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
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U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,                           |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
as a percent of the civilian labor force.............................|  1.6 |  1.7 |  1.6 |  1.8 |  1.9 |  1.8 |  1.7 |  1.8 |  1.7
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-2 Job losers and persons who completed                             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian                         |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
labor force..........................................................|  2.6 |  2.3 |  2.4 |  2.6 |  2.7 |  2.7 |  2.5 |  2.6 |  2.5
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the                            |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)....................|  5.9 |  5.5 |  5.6 |  5.7 |  5.6 |  5.4 |  5.6 |  5.3 |  5.4
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged                                |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force                    |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
plus discouraged workers.............................................|  6.2 |  5.7 |  5.9 |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1) |  (1)
                                                                     |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,                      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
plus all other marginally attached workers, as a percent             |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
of the civilian labor force plus all marginally                      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |
attached workers.....................................................|  7.0 |  6.6 |  6.7 |  (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.................................| 10.4 | 10.0 | 10.0 |  (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.
 
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
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                    |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  July  |  June  |  July  |  July  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |  May   |  June  |  July
                                                  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1995  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996  |  1996
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Total, 16 years and over..........................|  7,510 |  7,060 |  7,297 |   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.4  |   5.6  |   5.3  |   5.4
  16 to 24 years..................................|  2,657 |  2,453 |  2,563 |  12.4  |  12.4  |  11.8  |  12.2  |  11.7  |  12.2
    16 to 19 years................................|  1,384 |  1,221 |  1,280 |  17.8  |  17.5  |  16.7  |  16.4  |  15.9  |  16.4
      16 to 17 years..............................|    672 |    627 |    637 |  20.8  |  19.4  |  18.7  |  19.4  |  19.0  |  19.4
      18 to 19 years..............................|    698 |    593 |    640 |  15.4  |  16.1  |  15.3  |  14.2  |  13.4  |  14.1
    20 to 24 years................................|  1,273 |  1,232 |  1,283 |   9.3  |   9.5  |   9.0  |   9.7  |   9.3  |   9.7
  25 years and over...............................|  4,849 |  4,614 |  4,720 |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.2  |   4.3  |   4.1  |   4.2
    25 to 54 years................................|  4,230 |  4,032 |  4,105 |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.2
    55 years and over.............................|    607 |    571 |    607 |   3.9  |   3.8  |   3.3  |   3.6  |   3.6  |   3.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Men, 16 years and over..........................|  3,987 |  3,837 |  3,975 |   5.6  |   5.8  |   5.6  |   5.5  |   5.3  |   5.5
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,426 |  1,372 |  1,492 |  12.5  |  13.4  |  12.8  |  12.9  |  12.4  |  13.3
      16 to 19 years..............................|    754 |    681 |    795 |  18.5  |  19.4  |  17.9  |  17.2  |  17.0  |  19.4
        16 to 17 years............................|    364 |    345 |    408 |  21.3  |  21.4  |  21.2  |  20.0  |  20.5  |  24.2
        18 to 19 years............................|    385 |    338 |    389 |  16.3  |  18.0  |  16.1  |  15.4  |  14.2  |  16.1
      20 to 24 years..............................|    672 |    691 |    696 |   9.2  |  10.0  |   9.9  |  10.4  |   9.7  |   9.8
    25 years and over.............................|  2,556 |  2,469 |  2,466 |   4.3  |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.1  |   4.0  |   4.0
      25 to 54 years..............................|  2,205 |  2,134 |  2,115 |   4.3  |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.1  |   4.1
      55 years and over...........................|    330 |    321 |    345 |   3.8  |   3.5  |   3.0  |   3.3  |   3.5  |   3.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Women, 16 years and over........................|  3,523 |  3,222 |  3,322 |   5.8  |   5.4  |   5.3  |   5.7  |   5.2  |   5.4
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,231 |  1,081 |  1,071 |  12.2  |  11.4  |  10.7  |  11.4  |  11.0  |  10.9
      16 to 19 years..............................|    630 |    540 |    485 |  17.0  |  15.4  |  15.3  |  15.6  |  14.8  |  13.1
        16 to 17 years............................|    308 |    282 |    229 |  20.1  |  17.3  |  16.1  |  18.8  |  17.5  |  14.4
        18 to 19 years............................|    313 |    255 |    251 |  14.4  |  14.0  |  14.4  |  12.9  |  12.5  |  11.8
      20 to 24 years..............................|    601 |    541 |    586 |   9.5  |   9.1  |   8.1  |   8.8  |   8.7  |   9.5
    25 years and over.............................|  2,293 |  2,145 |  2,254 |   4.5  |   4.3  |   4.2  |   4.5  |   4.1  |   4.3
      25 to 54 years..............................|  2,025 |  1,897 |  1,989 |   4.6  |   4.3  |   4.2  |   4.6  |   4.2  |   4.4
      55 years and over...........................|    277 |    250 |    262 |   3.9  |   4.2  |   3.6  |   3.9  |   3.6  |   3.7
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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   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
                                                                       ___________________ ___________________ ___________________
                                                                      |  July   |  July   |  July   |  July   |  July   |  July
                                                                      |  1995   |  1996   |  1995   |  1996   |  1995   |  1996
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE                        |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total not in the labor force..........................................|  64,175 |  64,369 |  22,448 |  22,429 |  41,727 |  41,940
 Persons who currently want a job.....................................|   5,292 |   5,196 |   2,036 |   2,037 |   3,256 |   3,159
  Searched for work and available to work now1/.......................|   1,568 |   1,490 |     735 |     661 |     832 |     830
   Reason not currently looking:                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
     Discouragement over job prospects2/..............................|     456 |     423 |     290 |     224 |     166 |     199
     Reasons other than discouragement3/..............................|   1,112 |   1,068 |     445 |     437 |     666 |     631
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                          |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total multiple jobholders4/...........................................|   7,779 |   7,642 |   4,341 |   4,197 |   3,439 |   3,444
    Percent of total employed.........................................|     6.1 |     5.9 |     6.3 |     6.0 |     5.9 |     5.9
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
 Primary job full time, secondary job part time.......................|   4,476 |   4,201 |   2,745 |   2,587 |   1,732 |   1,615
 Primary and secondary jobs both part time............................|   1,626 |   1,675 |     592 |     547 |   1,034 |   1,128
 Primary and secondary jobs both full time............................|     302 |     281 |     217 |     207 |      85 |      74
 Hours vary on primary or secondary job...............................|   1,325 |   1,443 |     761 |     828 |     564 |     615
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   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                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | July  |  May  | June  | July  | July  | Mar.  | Apr.  |  May  | June  | July
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
              Total..............................|116,961|119,887|120,582|119,516|117,201|118,737|118,928|119,335|119,555|119,748
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Total private.........................| 98,704|100,026|101,069|101,118| 97,881| 99,343| 99,531| 99,877|100,101|100,257
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Goods_producing...............................| 24,440| 24,278| 24,590| 24,562| 24,171| 24,196| 24,209| 24,262| 24,278| 24,279
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Mining......................................|    588|    572|    578|    579|    578|    574|    573|    576|    574|    570
       Metal mining..............................|   52.1|   51.5|   53.0|   52.8|     51|     51|     51|     52|     52|     52
       Coal mining...............................|  105.3|  100.1|  100.4|  100.2|    105|    101|    101|    101|    101|    100
       Oil and gas extraction....................|  320.7|  310.4|  313.1|  313.6|    317|    314|    314|    316|    314|    310
       Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels........|  109.9|  109.9|  111.4|  112.0|    105|    108|    107|    107|    107|    108
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  5,449|  5,437|  5,630|  5,749|  5,146|  5,340|  5,353|  5,384|  5,406|  5,431
       General building contractors..............|1,251.1|1,225.3|1,271.6|1,289.8|  1,195|  1,223|  1,227|  1,229|  1,235|  1,232
       Heavy construction, except building.......|  814.2|  794.6|  823.2|  835.3|    749|    769|    765|    764|    767|    768
       Special trade contractors.................|3,383.5|3,416.7|3,534.8|3,623.6|  3,202|  3,348|  3,361|  3,391|  3,404|  3,431
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Manufacturing...............................| 18,403| 18,269| 18,382| 18,234| 18,447| 18,282| 18,283| 18,302| 18,298| 18,278
         Production workers......................| 12,693| 12,614| 12,701| 12,550| 12,765| 12,617| 12,623| 12,632| 12,633| 12,624
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Durable goods..............................| 10,596| 10,682| 10,748| 10,636| 10,647| 10,623| 10,654| 10,679| 10,694| 10,687
         Production workers......................|  7,225|  7,320|  7,374|  7,259|  7,286|  7,262|  7,290|  7,302|  7,328|  7,324
       Lumber and wood products..................|  769.6|  757.5|  774.6|  774.3|    759|    755|    761|    762|    767|    764
       Furniture and fixtures....................|  493.6|  500.1|  502.3|  489.9|    502|    500|    498|    500|    500|    498
       Stone, clay, and glass products...........|  545.9|  542.5|  548.2|  542.4|    537|    536|    534|    537|    536|    533
       Primary metal industries..................|  702.5|  705.1|  708.8|  693.8|    707|    706|    704|    705|    707|    699
         Blast furnaces and basic steel products.|  240.7|  238.7|  239.4|  237.2|    240|    239|    238|    239|    239|    236
       Fabricated metal products.................|1,424.3|1,443.5|1,457.8|1,444.2|  1,437|  1,442|  1,440|  1,443|  1,450|  1,457
       Industrial machinery and equipment........|2,058.0|2,091.7|2,097.0|2,083.5|  2,062|  2,087|  2,086|  2,087|  2,086|  2,088
         Computer and office equipment...........|  351.4|  358.7|  360.5|  358.8|    349|    358|    358|    360|    359|    356
       Electronic and other electrical equipment.|1,617.3|1,648.8|1,656.6|1,646.8|  1,627|  1,651|  1,650|  1,652|  1,652|  1,656
         Electronic components and accessories...|  582.7|  612.8|  616.3|  614.9|    582|    614|    615|    615|    614|    615
       Transportation equipment..................|1,765.4|1,773.2|1,778.5|1,749.0|  1,790|  1,726|  1,763|  1,773|  1,775|  1,774
         Motor vehicles and equipment............|  952.2|  966.2|  972.7|  943.2|    972|    924|    958|    965|    967|    964
         Aircraft and parts......................|  447.2|  449.6|  445.7|  448.2|    450|    445|    447|    449|    446|    451
       Instruments and related products..........|  837.7|  833.9|  836.2|  833.4|    838|    832|    832|    834|    835|    833
       Miscellaneous manufacturing...............|  381.6|  385.4|  387.8|  378.7|    388|    388|    386|    386|    386|    385
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Nondurable goods...........................|  7,807|  7,587|  7,634|  7,598|  7,800|  7,659|  7,629|  7,623|  7,604|  7,591
         Production workers......................|  5,468|  5,294|  5,327|  5,291|  5,479|  5,355|  5,333|  5,330|  5,305|  5,300
       Food and kindred products.................|1,715.8|1,627.8|1,647.0|1,678.6|  1,678|  1,675|  1,666|  1,664|  1,647|  1,642
       Tobacco products..........................|   38.5|   37.8|   37.7|   37.0|     42|     41|     41|     41|     41|     40
       Textile mill products.....................|  657.8|  640.0|  641.9|  631.5|    663|    642|    636|    637|    638|    637
       Apparel and other textile products........|  908.9|  857.5|  856.9|  833.1|    931|    863|    859|    853|    848|    853
       Paper and allied products.................|  696.2|  675.9|  681.8|  678.1|    692|    681|    677|    679|    676|    674
       Printing and publishing...................|1,542.0|1,524.4|1,527.5|1,523.9|  1,543|  1,531|  1,527|  1,525|  1,528|  1,525
       Chemicals and allied products.............|1,038.5|1,020.5|1,026.8|1,024.4|  1,033|  1,027|  1,024|  1,025|  1,020|  1,019
       Petroleum and coal products...............|  147.3|  140.1|  142.7|  142.4|    144|    140|    139|    139|    140|    139
       Rubber and misc. plastics products........|  962.1|  966.4|  974.5|  957.6|    969|    960|    962|    963|    969|    965
       Leather and leather products..............|  100.0|   96.7|   97.3|   91.8|    105|     99|     98|     97|     97|     97
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   Service_producing.............................| 92,521| 95,609| 95,992| 94,954| 93,030| 94,541| 94,719| 95,073| 95,277| 95,469
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     Transportation and public utilities.........|  6,156|  6,314|  6,366|  6,329|  6,160|  6,289|  6,294|  6,311|  6,329|  6,336
       Transportation............................|  3,894|  4,039|  4,071|  4,029|  3,914|  4,008|  4,015|  4,028|  4,044|  4,052
         Railroad transportation.................|  239.4|  233.6|  232.2|  233.4|    236|    233|    233|    232|    231|    230
         Local and interurban passenger transit..|  368.2|  466.0|  452.6|  391.4|    429|    441|    442|    450|    453|    456
         Trucking and warehousing................|1,886.9|1,874.9|1,905.8|1,908.9|  1,867|  1,883|  1,882|  1,891|  1,891|  1,889
         Water transportation....................|  181.7|  173.3|  177.2|  182.9|    172|    171|    173|    167|    171|    173
         Transportation by air...................|  790.3|  839.1|  846.8|  854.5|    784|    834|    837|    837|    844|    848
         Pipelines, except natural gas...........|   15.0|   14.0|   14.4|   14.4|     15|     14|     14|     14|     14|     14
         Transportation services.................|  412.4|  438.3|  442.1|  443.6|    411|    432|    434|    437|    440|    442
       Communications and public utilities.......|  2,262|  2,275|  2,295|  2,300|  2,246|  2,281|  2,279|  2,283|  2,285|  2,284
         Communications..........................|1,339.9|1,377.7|1,392.4|1,398.9|  1,334|  1,378|  1,378|  1,384|  1,389|  1,393
         Electric, gas, and sanitary services....|  922.5|  897.6|  903.0|  901.1|    912|    903|    901|    899|    896|    891
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     Wholesale trade.............................|  6,470|  6,577|  6,623|  6,633|  6,427|  6,548|  6,550|  6,567|  6,577|  6,589
       Durable goods.............................|  3,766|  3,856|  3,882|  3,885|  3,742|  3,841|  3,844|  3,850|  3,857|  3,861
       Nondurable goods..........................|  2,704|  2,721|  2,741|  2,748|  2,685|  2,707|  2,706|  2,717|  2,720|  2,728
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   See footnotes at end of table.
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
  Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
   (In thousands)
 
   -Continued
 
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                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
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                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | July  |  May  | June  | July  | July  | Mar.  | Apr.  |  May  | June  | July
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
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     Retail trade................................| 21,314| 21,528| 21,785| 21,797| 21,196| 21,343| 21,422| 21,499| 21,585| 21,674
       Building materials and garden supplies....|  900.2|  941.0|  960.2|  953.6|    869|    887|    896|    907|    918|    921
       General merchandise stores................|2,628.3|2,626.0|2,662.2|2,674.4|  2,684|  2,681|  2,679|  2,728|  2,728|  2,731
         Department stores.......................|2,304.4|2,314.9|2,351.8|2,365.5|  2,353|  2,362|  2,358|  2,409|  2,410|  2,415
       Food stores...............................|3,387.6|3,407.3|3,443.4|3,454.0|  3,367|  3,402|  3,401|  3,416|  3,419|  3,433
       Automotive dealers and service stations...|2,214.1|2,267.0|2,294.4|2,312.2|  2,188|  2,242|  2,253|  2,259|  2,272|  2,285
         New and used car dealers................|  997.7|1,027.3|1,033.3|1,039.8|    993|  1,020|  1,025|  1,027|  1,030|  1,035
       Apparel and accessory stores..............|1,117.4|1,078.1|1,092.1|1,094.8|  1,127|  1,100|  1,098|  1,100|  1,102|  1,104
       Furniture and home furnishings stores.....|  932.6|  954.2|  964.0|  971.1|    943|    951|    957|    963|    973|    982
       Eating and drinking places................|7,525.5|7,606.6|7,727.9|7,698.3|  7,364|  7,413|  7,469|  7,454|  7,493|  7,533
       Miscellaneous retail establishments.......|2,607.8|2,647.5|2,640.5|2,638.5|  2,654|  2,667|  2,669|  2,672|  2,680|  2,685
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     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  6,904|  6,959|  7,034|  7,074|  6,821|  6,932|  6,942|  6,964|  6,968|  6,987
       Finance...................................|  3,254|  3,309|  3,340|  3,360|  3,230|  3,293|  3,303|  3,315|  3,321|  3,334
         Depository institutions.................|2,038.8|2,021.9|2,041.3|2,049.5|  2,023|  2,020|  2,023|  2,026|  2,029|  2,033
           Commercial banks......................|1,479.1|1,464.1|1,479.1|1,486.2|  1,465|  1,464|  1,467|  1,469|  1,470|  1,472
           Savings institutions..................|  274.5|  266.4|  269.0|  268.4|    273|    266|    266|    267|    268|    267
         Nondepository institutions..............|  461.7|  507.5|  511.5|  514.9|    460|    501|    505|    507|    509|    513
           Mortgage bankers and brokers..........|  204.9|  229.7|  231.7|  233.0|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)
         Security and commodity brokers..........|  524.3|  535.8|  543.7|  548.7|    519|    532|    534|    538|    541|    543
         Holding and other investment offices....|  229.0|  243.6|  243.8|  246.7|    228|    240|    241|    244|    242|    245
       Insurance.................................|  2,247|  2,259|  2,265|  2,270|  2,237|  2,258|  2,256|  2,261|  2,258|  2,259
         Insurance carriers......................|1,548.4|1,550.3|1,555.2|1,558.5|  1,541|  1,549|  1,549|  1,552|  1,550|  1,551
         Insurance agents, brokers, and service..|  698.9|  708.4|  710.1|  711.2|    696|    709|    707|    709|    708|    708
       Real estate...............................|  1,403|  1,391|  1,429|  1,444|  1,354|  1,381|  1,383|  1,388|  1,389|  1,394
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     Services3/..................................| 33,420| 34,370| 34,671| 34,723| 33,106| 34,035| 34,114| 34,274| 34,364| 34,392
       Agricultural services.....................|  641.7|  658.8|  686.7|  686.4|    579|    603|    606|    605|    616|    619
       Hotels and other lodging places...........|  1,797|  1,694|  1,797|  1,830|  1,661|  1,662|  1,673|  1,681|  1,702|  1,691
       Personal services.........................|  1,127|  1,160|  1,145|  1,134|  1,167|  1,174|  1,179|  1,177|  1,173|  1,174
       Business services.........................|  6,786|  7,100|  7,200|  7,244|  6,763|  7,058|  7,085|  7,152|  7,190|  7,225
         Services to buildings...................|    885|    903|    903|    903|    879|    899|    900|    903|    895|    897
         Personnel supply services...............|  2,450|  2,582|  2,638|  2,680|  2,442|  2,565|  2,569|  2,622|  2,650|  2,676
           Help supply services..................|  2,166|  2,283|  2,340|  2,381|  2,157|  2,265|  2,272|  2,322|  2,355|  2,376
         Computer and data processing services...|  1,085|  1,180|  1,193|  1,203|  1,085|  1,155|  1,169|  1,184|  1,193|  1,203
       Auto repair, services, and parking........|  1,029|  1,081|  1,096|  1,104|  1,020|  1,066|  1,072|  1,078|  1,085|  1,095
       Miscellaneous repair services.............|    360|    366|    369|    371|    356|    361|    363|    364|    366|    366
       Motion pictures...........................|    498|    527|    534|    537|    493|    520|    517|    525|    529|    530
       Amusement and recreation services.........|  1,689|  1,587|  1,740|  1,777|  1,441|  1,519|  1,517|  1,516|  1,506|  1,515
       Health services...........................|  9,291|  9,532|  9,585|  9,598|  9,259|  9,499|  9,520|  9,555|  9,563|  9,566
         Offices and clinics of medical doctors..|  1,612|  1,663|  1,678|  1,684|  1,606|  1,650|  1,659|  1,668|  1,674|  1,678
         Nursing and personal care facilities....|  1,698|  1,733|  1,745|  1,752|  1,693|  1,728|  1,733|  1,740|  1,744|  1,746
         Hospitals...............................|  3,796|  3,843|  3,858|  3,859|  3,780|  3,842|  3,844|  3,851|  3,848|  3,843
         Home health care services...............|    630|    659|    660|    655|    628|    655|    658|    658|    658|    654
       Legal services............................|    935|    923|    944|    947|    921|    927|    926|    929|    929|    933
       Educational services......................|  1,709|  2,025|  1,814|  1,725|  1,963|  1,991|  1,994|  1,987|  1,992|  1,982
       Social services...........................|  2,302|  2,416|  2,387|  2,360|  2,322|  2,377|  2,385|  2,395|  2,393|  2,381
         Child day care services.................|    514|    590|    556|    512|    567|    569|    569|    571|    571|    565
         Residential care........................|    648|    663|    671|    675|    642|    656|    661|    663|    665|    669
       Museums and botanical and zoological      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
         gardens.................................|     88|     88|     92|     93|     81|     83|     84|     85|     85|     86
       Membership organizations..................|  2,199|  2,143|  2,183|  2,212|  2,134|  2,136|  2,137|  2,147|  2,149|  2,147
       Engineering and management services.......|  2,777|  2,877|  2,906|  2,913|  2,755|  2,867|  2,863|  2,885|  2,893|  2,889
         Engineering and architectural services..|    828|    838|    857|    861|    814|    829|    834|    838|    848|    847
         Management and public relations.........|    833|    898|    905|    911|    824|    894|    892|    897|    897|    902
       Services, nec.............................|   44.5|   45.5|   46.1|   46.1|    (3)|    (3)|    (3)|    (3)|    (3)|    (3)
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     Government..................................| 18,257| 19,861| 19,513| 18,398| 19,320| 19,394| 19,397| 19,458| 19,454| 19,491
       Federal...................................|  2,851|  2,773|  2,782|  2,777|  2,825|  2,780|  2,777|  2,776|  2,756|  2,753
         Federal, except Postal Service..........|2,011.7|1,920.7|1,930.7|1,926.5|  1,982|  1,922|  1,920|  1,918|  1,906|  1,898
       State.....................................|  4,398|  4,712|  4,500|  4,401|  4,645|  4,640|  4,645|  4,655|  4,645|  4,652
         Education...............................|1,645.3|2,022.0|1,778.5|1,671.1|  1,946|  1,952|  1,956|  1,963|  1,959|  1,976
         Other State government..................|2,753.1|2,689.5|2,721.9|2,729.9|  2,699|  2,688|  2,689|  2,692|  2,686|  2,676
       Local.....................................| 11,008| 12,376| 12,231| 11,220| 11,850| 11,974| 11,975| 12,027| 12,053| 12,086
         Education...............................|5,473.2|7,082.3|6,760.9|5,619.3|  6,609|  6,675|  6,682|  6,690|  6,733|  6,782
         Other local government..................|5,535.2|5,293.4|5,469.7|5,601.1|  5,241|  5,299|  5,293|  5,337|  5,320|  5,304
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      1/  This series is not suitable for seasonal adjustment       the seasonal component, which is small relative to the
   because it has very little seasonal and irregular movement.      trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot be
   Thus, the not seasonally adjusted series can be used for         separated with sufficient precision.
   analysis of cyclical and long-term trends.                          p = preliminary.
      2/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
      3/ This series is not published seasonally adjusted because
 
 
 
   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                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | July  |  May  | June  | July  | July  | Mar.  | Apr.  |  May  | June  | July
                                                 | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
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         Total private...........................|  34.8 |  34.3 |  34.9 |  34.6 |  34.5 |  34.5 |  34.3 |  34.2 |  34.7 |  34.3
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Goods_producing...............................|  40.7 |  41.0 |  41.4 |  40.9 |  40.8 |  40.8 |  41.0 |  40.9 |  41.2 |  41.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Mining......................................|  44.5 |  45.2 |  46.0 |  44.9 |  44.6 |  45.7 |  45.0 |  45.2 |  45.8 |  45.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  40.0 |  38.8 |  39.6 |  39.8 |  38.9 |  38.7 |  38.9 |  38.1 |  38.7 |  38.7
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     Manufacturing...............................|  40.8 |  41.6 |  41.9 |  41.1 |  41.3 |  41.4 |  41.5 |  41.7 |  41.9 |  41.6
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.1 |   4.3 |   4.6 |   4.3 |   4.2 |   4.3 |   4.6 |   4.6 |   4.6 |   4.4
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Durable goods.............................|  41.4 |  42.4 |  42.7 |  41.7 |  42.0 |  42.0 |  42.4 |  42.5 |  42.6 |  42.3
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.2 |   4.7 |   4.9 |   4.4 |   4.5 |   4.5 |   4.9 |   5.1 |   5.0 |   4.7
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
        Lumber and wood products.................|  40.0 |  41.2 |  41.7 |  40.8 |  40.3 |  40.6 |  40.7 |  41.0 |  41.3 |  41.2
        Furniture and fixtures...................|  38.8 |  39.1 |  39.5 |  39.1 |  39.3 |  39.4 |  39.2 |  39.7 |  39.5 |  39.6
        Stone, clay, and glass products..........|  43.2 |  43.6 |  44.1 |  43.4 |  43.0 |  43.2 |  43.4 |  43.2 |  43.5 |  43.1
        Primary metal industries.................|  42.8 |  44.1 |  44.4 |  43.4 |  43.2 |  43.9 |  43.9 |  44.3 |  44.2 |  43.8
          Blast furnaces and basic steel products|  43.6 |  44.3 |  44.6 |  44.0 |  43.5 |  44.5 |  44.1 |  44.4 |  44.6 |  43.9
        Fabricated metal products................|  41.2 |  42.3 |  42.7 |  41.5 |  42.0 |  42.0 |  42.3 |  42.6 |  42.6 |  42.3
        Industrial machinery and equipment.......|  42.4 |  43.0 |  43.3 |  42.5 |  42.9 |  43.0 |  43.1 |  43.2 |  43.3 |  43.0
        Electronic and other electrical equipment|  40.6 |  41.1 |  41.6 |  40.7 |  41.3 |  41.4 |  41.0 |  41.3 |  41.6 |  41.4
        Transportation equipment.................|  42.1 |  44.5 |  44.5 |  42.6 |  43.3 |  42.2 |  44.6 |  44.5 |  44.4 |  43.8
          Motor vehicles and equipment...........|  42.6 |  45.9 |  45.8 |  43.3 |  44.5 |  42.1 |  46.1 |  46.5 |  45.8 |  45.4
        Instruments and related products.........|  40.9 |  41.5 |  42.0 |  41.0 |  41.3 |  41.7 |  41.4 |  41.6 |  41.9 |  41.4
        Miscellaneous manufacturing..............|  39.0 |  39.6 |  39.7 |  38.5 |  39.7 |  39.7 |  39.6 |  39.9 |  39.8 |  39.3
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Nondurable goods..........................|  40.1 |  40.4 |  40.8 |  40.3 |  40.3 |  40.5 |  40.4 |  40.6 |  40.8 |  40.6
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.0 |   3.8 |   4.1 |   4.1 |   3.9 |   4.0 |   4.2 |   4.0 |   4.2 |   4.1
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
        Food and kindred products................|  41.2 |  40.7 |  41.0 |  41.2 |  41.1 |  41.2 |  41.0 |  41.1 |  41.2 |  41.0
        Tobacco products.........................|  39.3 |  40.0 |  41.1 |  38.1 |  39.9 |  40.5 |  40.4 |  39.4 |  39.4 |  38.7
        Textile mill products....................|  39.8 |  40.6 |  41.3 |  40.3 |  40.4 |  40.8 |  40.3 |  40.6 |  40.9 |  40.9
        Apparel and other textile products.......|  36.5 |  37.3 |  38.0 |  36.7 |  36.7 |  36.9 |  36.5 |  37.2 |  37.7 |  37.0
        Paper and allied products................|  42.8 |  43.0 |  43.5 |  43.2 |  43.0 |  43.1 |  43.4 |  43.4 |  43.6 |  43.4
        Printing and publishing..................|  37.9 |  38.0 |  38.0 |  37.9 |  38.1 |  38.2 |  38.1 |  38.3 |  38.2 |  38.2
        Chemicals and allied products............|  42.8 |  43.0 |  43.5 |  43.1 |  43.1 |  43.1 |  42.9 |  43.2 |  43.5 |  43.4
        Petroleum and coal products..............|  44.1 |  42.6 |  44.7 |  44.4 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
        Rubber and misc. plastics products.......|  40.3 |  41.6 |  41.8 |  40.8 |  41.0 |  41.3 |  41.5 |  41.4 |  41.6 |  41.6
        Leather and leather products.............|  36.7 |  38.2 |  39.1 |  37.6 |  37.2 |  37.8 |  37.6 |  38.3 |  38.5 |  38.2
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   Service_producing.............................|  33.2 |  32.5 |  33.2 |  33.0 |  32.8 |  32.7 |  32.5 |  32.5 |  33.0 |  32.5
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     Transportation and public utilities.........|  40.1 |  39.3 |  40.1 |  39.6 |  39.6 |  39.9 |  39.4 |  39.2 |  40.0 |  39.2
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Wholesale trade.............................|  38.5 |  38.2 |  38.8 |  38.3 |  38.3 |  38.3 |  38.1 |  38.1 |  38.7 |  38.2
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Retail trade................................|  29.7 |  28.7 |  29.4 |  29.6 |  28.8 |  28.9 |  28.6 |  28.8 |  29.0 |  28.8
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     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  36.3 |  35.6 |  36.5 |  35.5 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Services....................................|  32.8 |  32.2 |  32.8 |  32.5 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
      1/  Data relate to production workers in mining and             adjusted because the seasonal component, which is
   manufacturing; construction workers in construction;               small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular
   and nonsupervisory workers in transportation and public            components, cannot be separated with sufficient
   utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance,         precision.
   and real estate; and services.  These groups account                  p = preliminary.
   for approximately four-fifths of the total employees on
   private nonfarm payrolls.
      2/  These series are not published seasonally
 
 
 
           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                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                         | July  |  May  | June  | July  | July  |  May  | June  | July
                                                         | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ | 1995  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private...........................|$11.39 |$11.73 |$11.75 |$11.74 |$396.37|$402.34|$410.08|$406.20
                  Seasonally adjusted....................| 11.47 | 11.73 | 11.82 | 11.80 | 395.72| 401.17| 410.15| 404.74
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Goods_producing...............................| 13.14 | 13.38 | 13.45 | 13.58 | 534.80| 548.58| 556.83| 555.42
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Mining......................................| 15.34 | 15.44 | 15.57 | 15.61 | 682.63| 697.89| 716.22| 700.89
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Construction................................| 15.14 | 15.27 | 15.33 | 15.51 | 605.60| 592.48| 607.07| 617.30
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Manufacturing...............................| 12.39 | 12.71 | 12.76 | 12.83 | 505.51| 528.74| 534.64| 527.31
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Durable goods.............................| 12.93 | 13.27 | 13.32 | 13.39 | 535.30| 562.65| 568.76| 558.36
                Lumber and wood products.................| 10.21 | 10.34 | 10.46 | 10.47 | 408.40| 426.01| 436.18| 427.18
                Furniture and fixtures...................|  9.83 | 10.08 | 10.11 | 10.13 | 381.40| 394.13| 399.35| 396.08
                Stone, clay, and glass products..........| 12.46 | 12.74 | 12.81 | 12.94 | 538.27| 555.46| 564.92| 561.60
                Primary metal industries.................| 14.70 | 14.83 | 14.92 | 15.04 | 629.16| 654.00| 662.45| 652.74
                  Blast furnaces and basic steel products| 17.41 | 17.57 | 17.66 | 17.86 | 759.08| 778.35| 787.64| 785.84
                Fabricated metal products................| 12.10 | 12.42 | 12.49 | 12.53 | 498.52| 525.37| 533.32| 520.00
                Industrial machinery and equipment.......| 13.23 | 13.45 | 13.51 | 13.54 | 560.95| 578.35| 584.98| 575.45
                Electronic and other electrical equipment| 11.72 | 12.07 | 12.16 | 12.35 | 475.83| 496.08| 505.86| 502.65
                Transportation equipment.................| 16.73 | 17.23 | 17.27 | 17.45 | 704.33| 766.74| 768.52| 743.37
                  Motor vehicles and equipment...........| 17.30 | 17.92 | 17.93 | 18.21 | 736.98| 822.53| 821.19| 788.49
                Instruments and related products.........| 12.76 | 13.04 | 13.08 | 13.22 | 521.88| 541.16| 549.36| 542.02
                Miscellaneous manufacturing..............| 10.07 | 10.36 | 10.35 | 10.42 | 392.73| 410.26| 410.90| 401.17
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Nondurable goods..........................| 11.66 | 11.89 | 11.94 | 12.03 | 467.57| 480.36| 487.15| 484.81
                Food and kindred products................| 10.93 | 11.20 | 11.25 | 11.25 | 450.32| 455.84| 461.25| 463.50
                Tobacco products.........................| 21.74 | 21.19 | 21.52 | 21.97 | 854.38| 847.60| 884.47| 837.06
                Textile mill products....................|  9.39 |  9.61 |  9.67 |  9.64 | 373.72| 390.17| 399.37| 388.49
                Apparel and other textile products.......|  7.64 |  7.93 |  7.99 |  7.99 | 278.86| 295.79| 303.62| 293.23
                Paper and allied products................| 14.41 | 14.59 | 14.64 | 14.82 | 616.75| 627.37| 636.84| 640.22
                Printing and publishing..................| 12.33 | 12.53 | 12.54 | 12.67 | 467.31| 476.14| 476.52| 480.19
                Chemicals and allied products............| 15.68 | 16.07 | 16.14 | 16.24 | 671.10| 691.01| 702.09| 699.94
                Petroleum and coal products..............| 19.25 | 18.97 | 18.78 | 18.97 | 848.93| 808.12| 839.47| 842.27
                Rubber and misc. plastics products.......| 11.01 | 11.19 | 11.20 | 11.31 | 443.70| 465.50| 468.16| 461.45
                Leather and leather products.............|  8.01 |  8.43 |  8.46 |  8.43 | 293.97| 322.03| 330.79| 316.97
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Service_producing.............................| 10.81 | 11.17 | 11.18 | 11.12 | 358.89| 363.03| 371.18| 366.96
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Transportation and public utilities.........| 14.25 | 14.43 | 14.44 | 14.47 | 571.43| 567.10| 579.04| 573.01
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Wholesale trade.............................| 12.45 | 12.72 | 12.85 | 12.77 | 479.33| 485.90| 498.58| 489.09
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Retail trade................................|  7.66 |  7.92 |  7.95 |  7.92 | 227.50| 227.30| 233.73| 234.43
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Finance, insurance, and real estate.........| 12.32 | 12.75 | 12.76 | 12.69 | 447.22| 453.90| 465.74| 450.50
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Services....................................| 11.26 | 11.68 | 11.67 | 11.61 | 369.33| 376.10| 382.78| 377.33
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
              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               | July  | Mar.  | Apr.  |  May  | June  | July  |   from:
                                                      | 1995  | 1996  | 1996  | 1996  |1996p/ |1996p/ |June 1996-
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       | July 1996
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private:                       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                    Current dollars...................| $11.47| $11.68| $11.72| $11.73| $11.82| $11.80|    -0.2
                    Constant (1982) dollars2/.........|   7.41|   7.40|   7.40|   7.38|   7.43|  N.A. |    (3)
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Goods_producing......................|  13.08|  13.25|  13.40|  13.38|  13.46|  13.52|      .4
                   Mining.............................|  15.39|  15.46|  15.44|  15.46|  15.59|  15.66|      .4
                   Construction.......................|  15.12|  15.24|  15.28|  15.31|  15.41|  15.49|      .5
                   Manufacturing......................|  12.39|  12.55|  12.74|  12.72|  12.78|  12.83|      .4
                     Excluding overtime4/.............|  11.79|  11.92|  12.09|  12.06|  12.12|  12.18|      .5
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Service_producing....................|  10.91|  11.16|  11.15|  11.18|  11.28|  11.23|     -.4
                   Transportation and public utilities|  14.26|  14.48|  14.49|  14.50|  14.53|  14.48|     -.3
                   Wholesale trade....................|  12.46|  12.70|  12.71|  12.71|  12.91|  12.78|    -1.0
                   Retail trade.......................|   7.71|   7.88|   7.90|   7.93|   7.98|   7.96|     -.3
                   Finance, insurance, and real estate|  12.40|  12.68|  12.64|  12.76|  12.86|  12.77|     -.7
                   Services...........................|  11.42|  11.67|  11.65|  11.69|  11.79|  11.77|     -.2
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
                    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 .7 percent from May 1996 to
                 June 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                   |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
                                                       |July | May | June  | July  |July |Mar. |Apr. | May | June  | July
                                                       |1995 |1996 |1996p/ |1996p/ |1995 |1996 |1996 |1996 |1996p/ |1996p/
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
               Total private...........................|136.1|136.0| 140.0 | 138.7 |133.5|135.5|135.2|135.4| 137.7 | 136.1
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Goods_producing...............................|110.4|110.4| 113.3 | 111.5 |109.3|109.4|109.9|110.0| 110.8 | 110.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Mining.......................................| 54.8| 54.7|  56.4 |  55.2 | 53.8| 55.7| 54.6| 55.2|  55.8 |  54.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Construction.................................|155.1|149.0| 158.2 | 163.1 |140.5|145.6|146.7|144.3| 147.1 | 147.8
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Manufacturing................................|104.5|105.7| 107.4 | 104.0 |106.2|105.2|105.7|106.2| 106.6 | 105.9
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Durable goods...............................|104.3|108.3| 110.0 | 105.5 |106.8|106.3|107.7|108.4| 109.0 | 108.1
            Lumber and wood products...................|133.7|135.4| 140.5 | 137.6 |133.0|133.1|134.5|135.9| 137.6 | 136.8
            Furniture and fixtures.....................|118.5|121.5| 123.2 | 118.5 |122.9|122.0|121.1|124.2| 122.6 | 122.9
            Stone, clay, and glass products............|110.6|111.2| 114.2 | 111.1 |107.6|108.9|109.1|108.6| 109.7 | 108.1
            Primary metal industries...................| 88.0| 91.8|  93.0 |  88.8 | 89.9| 91.5| 91.0| 92.0|  92.5 |  90.5
              Blast furnaces and basic steel products..| 72.0| 72.8|  73.9 |  72.0 | 71.5| 73.1| 72.4| 73.3|  73.7 |  71.7
            Fabricated metal products..................|108.9|114.0| 116.3 | 111.6 |112.6|112.9|113.5|114.5| 115.4 | 115.3
            Industrial machinery and equipment.........|100.3|103.5| 104.4 | 101.3 |102.1|103.2|103.4|103.7| 103.8 | 103.2
            Electronic and other electrical equipment..|104.0|107.2| 108.8 | 105.5 |106.9|108.0|107.0|107.8| 108.4 | 108.5
            Transportation equipment...................|114.7|124.0| 124.6 | 115.7 |120.3|113.1|122.9|122.5| 123.8 | 121.6
              Motor vehicles and equipment.............|151.9|169.9| 170.5 | 154.4 |163.0|147.5|168.0|171.7| 169.8 | 166.3
            Instruments and related products...........| 72.0| 73.5|  74.3 |  72.2 | 73.1| 73.6| 72.9| 73.6|  74.0 |  73.3
            Miscellaneous manufacturing................| 97.8|101.1| 102.4 |  96.0 |101.6|102.4|101.4|102.1| 102.3 | 100.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Nondurable goods............................|104.7|102.2| 103.9 | 102.0 |105.5|103.7|102.9|103.3| 103.4 | 102.8
            Food and kindred products..................|117.6|109.8| 112.0 | 115.3 |114.5|114.9|113.7|114.2| 112.9 | 112.1
            Tobacco products...........................| 54.9| 55.4|  57.8 |  51.2 | 63.2| 64.2| 64.0| 60.5|  62.5 |  59.4
            Textile mill products......................| 91.6| 91.2|  93.2 |  89.0 | 93.8| 92.0| 90.1| 90.9|  91.4 |  91.4
            Apparel and other textile products.........| 80.0| 77.1|  78.3 |  73.2 | 83.2| 76.7| 75.5| 76.4|  76.9 |  76.1
            Paper and allied products..................|110.5|107.2| 109.3 | 108.3 |110.1|108.4|108.5|108.5| 108.6 | 107.9
            Printing and publishing....................|123.4|122.1| 122.0 | 121.1 |124.6|123.6|122.7|123.2| 122.8 | 122.7
            Chemicals and allied products..............|101.6| 99.5| 101.0 |  99.3 |102.0|100.9|100.1|100.4| 100.4 |  99.7
            Petroleum and coal products................| 80.4| 73.6|  79.3 |  78.7 | 78.2| 74.3| 72.8| 72.9|  77.5 |  76.1
            Rubber and misc. plastics products.........|136.0|140.8| 143.3 | 136.7 |140.0|139.2|139.8|140.1| 141.3 | 141.3
            Leather and leather products...............| 43.7| 44.0|  45.1 |  40.1 | 46.9| 44.1| 43.9| 44.1|  43.8 |  42.8
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Service_producing.............................|147.7|147.4| 152.0 | 150.9 |144.4|147.2|146.6|146.8| 149.8 | 147.8
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Transportation and public utilities..........|126.3|127.7| 131.5 | 128.9 |125.0|129.1|127.6|127.2| 130.2 | 127.7
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Wholesale trade..............................|123.8|124.5| 127.3 | 125.7 |122.2|124.3|123.7|124.0| 126.1 | 124.4
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Retail trade.................................|137.0|133.9| 138.9 | 139.5 |132.1|133.7|132.7|134.0| 135.5 | 135.0
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Finance, insurance, and real estate..........|126.8|124.8| 129.9 | 127.1 |125.0|125.0|124.6|124.3| 129.0 | 125.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Services.....................................|174.5|176.0| 180.8 | 179.6 |171.0|175.2|175.1|174.7| 178.6 | 176.0
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
            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..............|  43.7 |  43.7 |  50.0 |  57.3 |  55.5 |  50.1 |  52.2 |  49.0 |  52.1 |  56.3 |  53.2 |  57.4
           1993..............|  60.0 |  60.8 |  51.3 |  58.6 |  61.7 |  55.2 |  57.7 |  57.0 |  61.8 |  59.7 |  61.8 |  59.6
           1994..............|  58.8 |  62.1 |  66.0 |  64.2 |  60.3 |  63.5 |  61.5 |  62.1 |  60.8 |  61.5 |  63.1 |  63.9
           1995..............|  63.2 |  59.3 |  54.9 |  54.6 |  51.4 |  55.1 |  54.1 |  57.4 |  51.8 |  54.8 |  56.3 |  59.4
           1996..............|  52.4 |  63.2 |  60.0 |  52.4 |  62.2 |p/57.7 |p/54.5 |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  39.7 |  41.9 |  49.7 |  57.0 |  58.4 |  55.8 |  50.6 |  50.1 |  52.8 |  54.4 |  57.6 |  61.2
           1993..............|  63.8 |  61.2 |  61.1 |  59.8 |  63.1 |  62.9 |  59.7 |  63.1 |  64.5 |  67.1 |  64.6 |  63.5
           1994..............|  67.1 |  69.5 |  70.4 |  68.7 |  66.4 |  66.0 |  68.5 |  69.5 |  65.3 |  65.6 |  68.0 |  67.8
           1995..............|  66.6 |  63.2 |  56.9 |  53.4 |  54.2 |  52.9 |  56.6 |  53.8 |  54.2 |  54.6 |  58.3 |  57.0
           1996..............|  60.7 |  61.8 |  61.2 |  60.0 |p/60.5 |p/62.9 |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  43.3 |  46.8 |  47.5 |  52.5 |  54.9 |  56.7 |  53.8 |  52.2 |  55.5 |  57.6 |  63.9 |  61.9
           1993..............|  63.3 |  65.2 |  63.8 |  64.2 |  62.4 |  65.9 |  65.7 |  63.9 |  66.3 |  67.3 |  70.6 |  69.5
           1994..............|  70.8 |  71.6 |  69.0 |  69.8 |  69.5 |  69.5 |  69.2 |  69.0 |  69.2 |  68.5 |  69.1 |  66.6
           1995..............|  66.3 |  60.8 |  58.7 |  54.4 |  53.5 |  54.1 |  53.1 |  56.3 |  55.9 |  54.1 |  56.2 |  61.8
           1996..............|  60.3 |  62.9 |p/63.9 |p/64.6 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      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 |  69.5 |  69.2 |  70.1
           1994..............|  70.2 |  71.6 |  71.8 |  71.8 |  72.1 |  71.8 |  71.5 |  72.1 |  70.1 |  69.4 |  65.7 |  65.0
           1995..............|  62.6 |  60.8 |  60.1 |  61.2 |  58.1 |  57.7 |  54.5 |  58.7 |  58.6 |  57.3 |  59.4 |p/60.0
           1996..............|p/61.0 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                              _______________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |
                             |                           Manufacturing payrolls, 139 industries1/
                             |
                              _______________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 1-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  37.4 |  39.9 |  43.9 |  56.8 |  50.0 |  48.9 |  52.2 |  44.6 |  47.5 |  47.8 |  51.4 |  54.7
           1993..............|  52.5 |  56.5 |  50.7 |  45.7 |  54.0 |  45.7 |  49.3 |  49.3 |  59.4 |  53.2 |  53.6 |  55.0
           1994..............|  56.5 |  60.1 |  59.7 |  58.6 |  53.2 |  57.9 |  57.6 |  53.6 |  55.8 |  54.7 |  57.2 |  59.4
           1995..............|  56.8 |  55.0 |  46.0 |  45.3 |  39.2 |  40.3 |  45.0 |  45.0 |  42.4 |  45.3 |  46.4 |  47.5
           1996..............|  42.1 |  48.2 |  48.2 |  39.6 |  53.2 |p/49.6 |p/45.0 |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  29.9 |  33.5 |  43.9 |  49.6 |  55.4 |  53.2 |  46.8 |  47.8 |  45.7 |  47.5 |  51.1 |  54.7
           1993..............|  60.8 |  58.3 |  53.2 |  47.8 |  48.9 |  54.0 |  50.4 |  58.3 |  57.6 |  59.7 |  54.7 |  57.6
           1994..............|  63.7 |  64.4 |  66.2 |  60.8 |  56.1 |  56.8 |  60.8 |  58.6 |  54.0 |  56.1 |  60.1 |  60.8
           1995..............|  60.4 |  51.8 |  43.5 |  34.9 |  33.1 |  32.0 |  33.1 |  35.6 |  38.8 |  39.6 |  40.6 |  38.8
           1996..............|  38.8 |  39.9 |  37.8 |  43.2 |p/45.0 |p/48.2 |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1992..............|  32.4 |  34.9 |  39.9 |  46.8 |  52.2 |  54.3 |  48.2 |  47.8 |  51.1 |  51.1 |  56.8 |  56.5
           1993..............|  56.5 |  59.0 |  56.8 |  55.4 |  50.7 |  57.9 |  59.4 |  56.5 |  57.6 |  58.6 |  64.4 |  60.8
           1994..............|  62.2 |  64.4 |  60.4 |  61.5 |  59.0 |  56.8 |  56.5 |  57.2 |  60.1 |  55.8 |  59.7 |  55.8
           1995..............|  55.4 |  45.0 |  38.5 |  33.5 |  27.7 |  28.8 |  28.8 |  30.6 |  33.5 |  33.1 |  34.2 |  38.8
           1996..............|  32.0 |  37.4 |p/37.1 |p/40.3 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      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 |  59.7 |  60.1 |  57.6
           1994..............|  57.9 |  58.6 |  60.8 |  60.8 |  60.8 |  63.3 |  59.4 |  60.1 |  57.2 |  55.8 |  49.6 |  47.5
           1995..............|  42.1 |  40.3 |  39.9 |  40.6 |  34.5 |  31.7 |  25.9 |  28.8 |  28.1 |  24.1 |  27.0 |p/29.1
           1996..............|p/33.8 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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         1/  Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, and         with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates
      6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month               an equal balance between industries with increasing
      span.  Data are centered within the span.                        and decreasing employment.  Data have been revised
         p = preliminary.                                              to reflect March 1995 benchmarks, new seasonal
         NOTE:  Figures are the percent of industries with             adjustment procedures, and new seasonal adjustment
      employment increasing plus one-half of the industries            factors.