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                    THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  SEPTEMBER 2006
   
   Nonfarm payroll employment held steady (+51,000), and the unemployment rate
(4.6 percent) was essentially unchanged in September, the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.  Job growth continued
in health care and financial activities, while employment declined in manufac-
turing.  Employment was little changed in other major industry sectors.
   
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
   
   The number of unemployed persons (6.9 million) and the unemployment rate
(4.6 percent) were essentially unchanged in September.  Thus far in 2006, the
jobless rate has ranged from 4.6 to 4.8 percent.
   
   Over the month, the unemployment rates for most major worker groups--adult
women (4.2 percent), teenagers (16.4 percent), whites (4.0 percent), blacks
(9.2 percent), and Hispanics (5.4 percent)--showed little or no change.  The
jobless rate for adult men (3.8 percent) declined in September.  The unemploy-
ment rate for Asians was 2.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted.  (See tables
A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
  
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   Total employment, at 144.9 million, was essentially unchanged in September.
Over the month, both the employment-population ratio (63.1 percent) and the
labor force participation rate (66.2 percent) held steady.  Over the year, the
employment-population ratio was up slightly, and the labor force participation
rate was unchanged.  (See table A-1.)

Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   About 1.3 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally attached
to the labor force in September, down from 1.4 million a year earlier.  These
individuals wanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime
in the prior 12 months.  They were not counted as unemployed because they had
not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.  Among the marginally
attached, there were 325,000 discouraged workers in September, about unchanged
from a year earlier.  Discouraged workers were not currently looking for work
specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them.  The other
975,000 marginally attached had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding
the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.
(See table A-13.)

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Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
_________________________________________________________________________________
                        |    Quarterly     |                            |
                        |    averages      |       Monthly data         |
                        |__________________|____________________________| August-
        Category        |       2006       |            2006            |September
                        |__________________|____________________________| change
                        |   II   |   III   |   July  |  Aug.  |  Sept.  |        
                        |________|_________|_________|________|_________|________
     HOUSEHOLD DATA     |                 Labor force status
                        |
                        |________________________________________________________
Civilian labor force....| 151,041|  151,677| 151,534|  151,698|  151,799|    101
  Employment............| 144,009|  144,586| 144,329|  144,579|  144,850|    271
  Unemployment..........|   7,032|    7,091|   7,205|    7,119|    6,949|   -170
Not in labor force......|  77,392|   77,490|  77,379|   77,469|   77,621|    152
                        |        |         |        |         |         |
                        |________|_________|________|_________|_________|________
                        |                 Unemployment rates
                        |
                        |________________________________________________________
All workers.............|     4.7|      4.7|     4.8|      4.7|      4.6|   -0.1
  Adult men.............|     4.1|      4.0|     4.2|      4.1|      3.8|    -.3
  Adult women...........|     4.2|      4.2|     4.2|      4.1|      4.2|     .1
  Teenagers.............|    14.7|     16.1|    15.5|     16.2|     16.4|     .2
  White.................|     4.1|      4.1|     4.1|      4.1|      4.0|    -.1
  Black or African      |        |         |        |         |         |
    American............|     9.1|      9.2|     9.5|      8.8|      9.2|     .4
  Hispanic or Latino    |        |         |        |         |         |
    ethnicity...........|     5.2|      5.3|     5.3|      5.3|      5.4|     .1
                        |________|_________|________|_________|_________|_______
  ESTABLISHMENT DATA    |                     Employment
                        |_______________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment......| 135,128|p 135,516| 135,374|p 135,562|p 135,613|   p 51
  Goods-producing (1)...|  22,420| p 22,428|  22,420| p 22,438| p 22,427|  p -11
    Construction........|   7,502|  p 7,522|   7,504|  p 7,527|  p 7,535|    p 8
    Manufacturing.......|  14,246| p 14,225|  14,236| p 14,229| p 14,210|  p -19
  Service-providing (1).| 112,708|p 113,088| 112,954|p 113,124|p 113,186|   p 62
    Retail trade (2)....|  15,236| p 15,209|  15,222| p 15,209| p 15,197|  p -12
    Professional and    |        |         |        |         |         |
      business services.|  17,269| p 17,393|  17,364| p 17,401| p 17,413|   p 12
    Education and health|        |         |        |         |         |
      services..........|  17,677| p 17,785|  17,735| p 17,802| p 17,817|   p 15
    Leisure and         |        |         |        |         |         |
      hospitality.......|  13,009| p 13,079|  13,062| p 13,082| p 13,092|   p 10
    Government..........|  21,931| p 21,985|  21,970| p 21,996| p 21,988|   p -8
                        |________|______ __|________|_________|_________|_______
                        |                  Hours of work (3)
                        |_______________________________________________________
Total private...........|    33.9|   p 33.8|    33.9|   p 33.8|   p 33.8|  p 0.0
  Manufacturing.........|    41.2|   p 41.3|    41.4|   p 41.3|   p 41.1|  p -.2
    Overtime............|     4.6|    p 4.4|     4.5|    p 4.4|    p 4.3|  p -.1
                        |        |         |        |         |         |
                        |________|_________|________|_________|_________|________
                        |    Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)(3)
                        |
                        |________________________________________________________
Total private...........|   104.9|  p 105.1|   105.2|  p 105.1|  p 105.0|  p-0.1
                        |________|_________|________|_________|_________|_______
                        |                       Earnings (3)
                        |
                        |________________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings,   |        |         |        |         |         |
  total private.........|  $16.64| p $16.80|  $16.76| p $16.80| p $16.84|p $0.04
Avg. weekly earnings,   |        |         |        |         |         |
  total private.........|  563.54| p 568.40|  568.16| p 567.84| p 569.19| p 1.35
________________________|________|_________|________|_________|_________|________

   1  Includes other industries, not shown separately.
   2  Quarterly averages and the over-the-month change are calculated using
unrounded data.
   3  Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
   p = preliminary.

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Table B.  Employment status in September 2006 of persons 16 years and over
who evacuated from their August 2005 residence, even temporarily, due to
Hurricane Katrina (1)

(Numbers in thousands, not seasonally adjusted)
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                                     |       |Residence in September 2006
                                     |       |---------------------------
 Employment status in September 2006 | Total |    Same     |  Different
                                     |       |    as in    |   than in
                                     |       | August 2005 | August 2005
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Civilian noninstitutional population.| 1,145 |     669     |      476
  Civilian labor force...............|   633 |     398     |      235
        Participation rate...........|  55.3 |    59.5     |     49.4
     Employed........................|   580 |     379     |      201
        Employment-population ratio..|  50.7 |    56.7     |     42.2
     Unemployed......................|    53 |      19     |       34
        Unemployment rate............|   8.3 |     4.7     |     14.5
  Not in labor force.................|   512 |     271     |      241
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   1  Represents persons in the civilian noninstitutional population
age 16 and over who resided in households that were eligible to be
selected for the Current Population Survey (CPS).  These data are not
representative of the total evacuee population because they do not in-
clude children or people residing in shelters, hotels, places of worship,
or other units outside the scope of the CPS.  The total number of evac-
uees estimated from the CPS may change from month to month as people
move in and out of the scope of the survey and because of sampling and
nonsampling error.
   NOTE:  These data use population controls that have been adjusted to
account for interstate moves by evacuees.


   Employment Status of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees (Household Survey Data)
   
   Beginning in October 2005, questions were added to the household survey
to identify persons who evacuated from their homes, even temporarily, due to
Hurricane Katrina.  Data collected through these questions do not account for
all evacuees; persons living outside the scope of the survey--such as those
living in hotels or shelters--are not included.  The questions were asked of
persons in the household survey sample throughout the country, since some
evacuees relocated far from the storm-affected areas.  An additional question
determined whether evacuees had returned to their homes and were residing there
at the time of the September 2006 survey.  The total number of evacuees esti-
mated from the household survey may change from month to month as people move
in and out of the scope of the survey; also, because the estimates are obtained
from a sample survey, they may vary from month to month due to sampling and
nonsampling error.
   
   Information gathered in September represented 1.1 million persons age 16
and over who had evacuated from where they were living in August 2005 due to
Hurricane Katrina.  These evacuees either had moved back to their homes or were
living in other residential units covered in the survey.  About 6 in 10 of the
evacuees were living in their August 2005 residences.  Of all evacuees identi-
fied, 55.3 percent were in the labor force in September 2006.  The unemployment
rate for persons identified as evacuees was 8.3 percent.  The rate was much
higher for evacuees who were not living in their former homes (14.5 percent)
than for those who were again living in their pre-Katrina residences (4.7 per-
cent).  (See table B.)

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Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)

   Total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+51,000) in September
at 135.6 million.  This followed job gains of 123,000 in July and 188,000 in
August (as revised).  Over the month, employment rose in health care and finan-
cial activities and declined in manufacturing.  (See table B-1.)
   
   Health care employment continued to grow, with a gain of 24,000 in September.
Within the industry, ambulatory health care services (which includes doctors'
offices and home health care) and hospitals added jobs.  Since December, health
care employment has increased by 231,000.
   
   Financial activities gained 16,000 jobs in September, as employment continued
to trend up in credit intermediation and insurance.  The over-the-month gain was
about in line with the industry's average monthly gain during the past year.
Real estate employment was flat over the month and has shown no net change since
April.
   
   Within professional and business services, accounting and bookkeeping services
added 10,000 jobs in September, and employment in the management of companies and
enterprises grew by 6,000.  Temporary help services employment was little changed
over the month and has been relatively flat thus far in 2006.  Professional and
business services employment has risen by 416,000 over the past 12 months.
   
   Elsewhere in the service-providing sector, employment in food services and
drinking places edged up in September (+15,000).  Over the month, employment
continued to trend up in the durable goods component of wholesale trade.  Within
the retail trade industry, sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores lost
8,000 jobs, as did general merchandise stores.  Since its most recent peak in
August 2005, retail trade employment has declined by 116,000.
   
   In the goods-producing sector, employment in mining was flat in September.
Reflecting the continued slowdown in the housing market, employment in con-
struction was little changed over the month.  Job losses in residential spe-
cialty trade contracting nearly offset gains in nonresidential specialty trade
contracting and in heavy construction.  Job gains in construction have averaged
6,000 per month since February of this year compared to increases of 27,000 per
month during the 12-month period ending in February.
   
   Manufacturing lost 19,000 jobs in September.  Within durable goods, factory
job losses occurred in several industries that are related to home building--
wood products, nonmetallic mineral products, and furniture.  Employment con-
tinued to trend downward in a number of nondurable goods manufacturing indus-
tries, including textile mills, plastics, and paper products.
   
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private
nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.8 hours in September, seasonally adjusted.
The manufacturing workweek decreased by 0.2 hour to 41.1 hours, and factory
overtime was down by 0.1 hour to 4.3 hours.  (See table B-2.)
   
   The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory
workers on private nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 percent in September to
105.0 (2002=100).  The manufacturing index fell by 0.7 percent to 96.0.  (See
table B-5.)
   
Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on pri-
vate nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents, or 0.2 percent, in September to $16.84,
seasonally adjusted.  Average weekly earnings increased by 0.2 percent in
September to $569.19.  Over the year, both average hourly and weekly earnings
increased by 4.0 percent.  (See table B-3.)


                         ______________________________


   The Employment Situation for October is scheduled to be released on Friday,
November 3, at 8:30 A.M. (EST).

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     |          Discontinuation of Hurricane Katrina Evacuee Data            |
     |                                                                       |
     |   October 2006 will be the last month that questions about Hurricane  |
     | Katrina evacuees will be asked in the household survey.  At that time,|
     | the data will have been collected for 1 year.                         |
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     |               Preliminary Estimate of Benchmark Revision              | 
     |                      to the Establishment Survey                      |
     |                                                                       |
     |   In accordance with usual practice, the Bureau of Labor Statistics   |
     | (BLS) is announcing the preliminary estimate of the upcoming annual   |
     | benchmark revision to establishment survey employment.  The final     |
     | CES benchmark revision will be published on February 2, 2007, with    |
     | the publication of the January 2007 Employment Situation news release.|
     |                                                                       |
     |   Each year, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey data are  |
     | benchmarked to comprehensive counts of employment for the month of    |
     | March derived from state unemployment insurance (UI) tax records that |
     | nearly all employers are required to file.  For national CES series,  |
     | the annual benchmark revisions over the last 10 years have averaged   |
     | plus or minus two-tenths of one percent.  The preliminary estimate    |
     | of the benchmark revision for March 2006 is +810,000 (0.6 percent).   |
     | (See table 1.)                                                        |
     |                                                                       |
     |   BLS currently is researching possible sources for this larger-than- |
     | normal expected benchmark revision.  On initial review, the difference|
     | between the CES sample-based estimates and the UI employment counts   |
     | does not appear to be concentrated in any one industry or geographic  |
     | region.                                                               |
     |                                                                       |
     |                                                                       |
     |                                                                       |
     | Table 1.  CES national total nonfarm benchmark revisions,             |
     | March 1996-2006                                                       |
     | --------------------------------------------------------              |
     |          |                      |                                     |
     |   Year   |   Benchmark revision |   Percent benchmark                 |
     |          |     (in thousands)   |         revision                    |
     | --------------------------------------------------------              |
     | 1996.....|            57        |           (1)                       |
     | 1997.....|           431        |           0.4                       |
     | 1998.....|            44        |           (1)                       |
     | 1999.....|           258        |            .2                       |
     | 2000.....|           468        |            .4                       |
     | 2001.....|          -123        |           -.1                       |
     | 2002.....|          -313        |           -.2                       |
     | 2003.....|          -122        |           -.1                       |
     | 2004.....|           203        |            .2                       |
     | 2005.....|          -158        |           -.1                       |
     | 2006 p...|           810        |            .6                       |
     | ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
     |   1/  Less than 0.05 percent.                                         |
     |   p = preliminary.                                                    |
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Explanatory Note


   This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current
Population Survey (household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics
survey (establishment survey).  The household survey provides the informa-
tion on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the
A tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA.  It is a sample survey of about 60,000 house-
holds conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS).
 
   The establishment survey provides the information on the employment,
hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that appears in the 
B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA.  This information is collected from
payroll records by BLS in cooperation with state agencies.  The sample 
includes about 160,000 businesses and government agencies covering ap-
proximately 400,000 individual worksites.  The active sample includes 
about one-third of all nonfarm payroll workers.  The sample is drawn 
from a sampling frame of unemployment insurance tax accounts.

   For both surveys, the data for a given month  relate to a particular week
or pay period.  In the household survey,  the reference week is generally
the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month.  In the establish-
ment survey, the reference  period is the pay period including the 12th,
which may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week.

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys
 
   Household survey.  The sample  is selected  to reflect the entire
civilian noninstitutional population.  Based on responses to a series of
questions on work and job search activities, each person  16 years and over
in a sample household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the
labor force.
   
   People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid
employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, pro-
fession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours
in a family business or farm.  People are also counted as employed if they
were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad weather,
vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal reasons.
 
   People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following
criteria:  They had no employment during the  reference week; they were
available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find
employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference
week.  Persons laid off from  a job and expecting recall need not be
looking for work to be counted as unemployed.  The unemployment data
derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility
for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.
 
   The civilian labor force  is the sum of employed and  unemployed persons.
Those not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor force.
The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the  labor
force.  The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent
of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the employed as a
percent of the population.
                                  
                                  - 7 -
 
   Establishment survey.  The sample establishments are drawn from pri-
vate nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well
as federal, state, and local government entities.  Employees on nonfarm
payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay
period, including persons on paid leave.  Persons are counted in each job
they hold.  Hours and earnings data are for private businesses and relate
only to production workers in the goods-producing sector and nonsupervisory
workers in the service-providing sector.  Industries are classified on the
basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2002 version of
the North American Industry Classification System.

   Differences in employment estimates.  The numerous conceptual and method-
ological differences between the household and establishment surveys result
in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the sur-
veys.  Among these are:
 
   --The household survey includes agricultural workers, the self-employed,
unpaid family workers, and private household workers among the employed.
These groups are excluded from the establishment survey.

   --The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed.
The establishment survey does not.
 
   --The household survey is limited to  workers 16 years of age and older.
The establishment survey is not limited by age.
 
   --The  household survey has no duplication of individuals, because in-
dividuals  are counted only once, even if they hold more than one job. In
the establishment survey, employees working at more than one job  and thus
appearing on more than one payroll would be counted separately for each
appearance.
 
Seasonal adjustment
 
   Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the
levels of employment and unemployment undergo sharp fluctuations due to
such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded production,
harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of schools.  The ef-
fect of such seasonal  variation can  be  very large; seasonal fluctua-
tions may account for as much as 95 percent of the month-to-month changes
in unemployment.
 
   Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern
each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by ad-
justing the statistics from month to month.  These adjustments make non-
seasonal developments, such as declines in economic activity or increases
in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot.  For
example, the large number of youth entering the labor force each June is
likely to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to May,
making it difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen
or declined.  However, because the effect of students finishing school in
previous years is known, the statistics for the current year can be adjusted
to allow for a comparable change.  Insofar as the seasonal adjustment is made
correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful tool with which to ana-
lyze changes in economic activity.
 
                                  - 8 -
 
   Most seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both the 
household and establishment surveys.  However, the adjusted series for many 
major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most super-
sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed by aggregating in-
dependently adjusted component series.  For example, total unemployment is 
derived by summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex components; 
this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be obtained by di-
rectly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more 
detailed age categories.

   For both the household and establishment surveys, a concurrent seasonal
adjustment methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated 
each month, using all relevant data, up to and including the data for the 
current month.  In the household survey, new seasonal factors are used to
adjust only the current month's data.  In the establishment survey, however, 
new seasonal factors are used each month to adjust the three most recent 
monthly estimates.  In both surveys, revisions to historical data are made 
once a year.

Reliability of the estimates
 
   Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject
to both sampling and nonsampling error.  When a sample rather than the en-
tire population is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates
may differ from the "true" population values they represent.  The exact
difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the particular sample
selected, and this variability is measured by the standard error of the
estimate.  There is about a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence,
that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 stand-
ard errors from the "true" population value because of sampling error.
BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence.
 
   For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total
employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or minus
430,000.  Suppose the estimate of total employment increases by 100,000
from one month to the next.  The 90-percent confidence interval on the
monthly change would range from -330,000 to 530,000 (100,000 +/- 430,000).
These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these
magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent chance that the
"true" over-the-month change lies within this interval.  Since this range
includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that
employment had, in fact, increased.  If, however, the reported employment
rise was half a million, then all of the values within the 90-percent
confidence interval would be greater than zero.  In this case, it is likely
(at least a 90-percent chance) that an employment rise had, in fact, oc-
curred.  At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 percent, the 90-percent con-
fidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 280,000, 
and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 
percentage point.
 
   In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have
lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates
which are based on a small number of observations.  The precision of esti-
mates is also improved when the data are cumulated over time such as for
quarterly and annual averages.  The seasonal adjustment process can also im-
prove the stability of the monthly estimates.
 
                                  - 9 -
 
   The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling
error.  Nonsampling errors can occur for many reasons, including the failure
to sample a segment of the population, inability to obtain information for
all respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to
provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made by respondents,
and errors made in the collection or processing of the data.
 
   For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 
2 months are based on substantially incomplete returns; for this reason,
these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables.  It is only after
two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample
reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final.
   
   Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is
the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new
firms.  To correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, 
an estimation procedure with two components is used to account for business
births.  The first component uses business deaths to impute employment for
business births.  This is incorporated into the sample-based link relative
estimate procedure by simply not reflecting sample units going out of busi-
ness, but imputing to them the same trend as the other firms in the sample.  
The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the 
residual net birth/death employment not accounted for by the imputation.  
The historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA model was de-
rived from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level database, and 
reflects the actual residual net of births and deaths over the past five 
years.
 
   The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted
once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment
obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program.
The difference between the March sample-based employment estimates and the
March universe counts is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a
rough proxy for total survey error.  The new benchmarks also incorporate
changes in the classification of industries.  Over the past decade, the
benchmark revision for total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.2 percent,
ranging from less than 0.05 percent to 0.4 percent.

Additional statistics and other information
 
   More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and Earnings,
published each month by BLS.  It is available for $27.00 per issue or
$53.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
20402.  All orders must be prepaid by sending a check or money order pay-
able to the Superintendent of Documents, or by charging to Mastercard or
Visa.
 
   Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error for
the household and establishment survey data published in this release.  
For unemployment and other labor force categories, these measures appear 
in tables 1-B through 1-D of its "Explanatory Notes."  For the establish-
ment survey data, the sampling error measures and the actual size of re-
visions due to benchmark adjustments appear in tables 2-B through 2-F of 
Employment and Earnings.

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     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                         HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                          Seasonally adjusted (1)                     
                                                                                                                                                          
              Employment status, sex, and age                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                           TOTAL                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   226,693    229,167    229,420    226,693    228,428    228,671    228,912    229,167    229,420 
       Civilian labor force............................   149,838    152,465    151,635    150,083    150,991    151,321    151,534    151,698    151,799 
             Participation rate........................      66.1       66.5       66.1       66.2       66.1       66.2       66.2       66.2       66.2 
         Employed......................................   142,579    145,379    145,010    142,435    143,976    144,363    144,329    144,579    144,850 
             Employment-population ratio...............      62.9       63.4       63.2       62.8       63.0       63.1       63.0       63.1       63.1 
         Unemployed....................................     7,259      7,086      6,625      7,648      7,015      6,957      7,205      7,119      6,949 
             Unemployment rate.........................       4.8        4.6        4.4        5.1        4.6        4.6        4.8        4.7        4.6 
       Not in labor force..............................    76,855     76,702     77,785     76,610     77,437     77,350     77,379     77,469     77,621 
         Persons who currently want a job..............     4,757      5,131      4,434      4,945      4,655      4,770      4,901      4,918      4,658 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 16 years and over                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   109,475    110,792    110,925    109,475    110,401    110,530    110,657    110,792    110,925 
       Civilian labor force............................    80,130     82,027     81,377     80,333     81,189     81,085     81,024     81,249     81,542 
             Participation rate........................      73.2       74.0       73.4       73.4       73.5       73.4       73.2       73.3       73.5 
         Employed......................................    76,446     78,446     78,109     76,257     77,313     77,357     77,162     77,423     77,911 
             Employment-population ratio...............      69.8       70.8       70.4       69.7       70.0       70.0       69.7       69.9       70.2 
         Unemployed....................................     3,684      3,581      3,267      4,076      3,876      3,727      3,862      3,827      3,631 
             Unemployment rate.........................       4.6        4.4        4.0        5.1        4.8        4.6        4.8        4.7        4.5 
       Not in labor force..............................    29,345     28,765     29,548     29,142     29,212     29,445     29,633     29,542     29,383 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   101,136    102,308    102,428    101,136    101,963    102,075    102,187    102,308    102,428 
       Civilian labor force............................    76,769     77,928     77,866     76,792     77,477     77,296     77,308     77,550     77,831 
             Participation rate........................      75.9       76.2       76.0       75.9       76.0       75.7       75.7       75.8       76.0 
         Employed......................................    73,637     74,973     75,199     73,331     74,202     74,215     74,082     74,358     74,864 
             Employment-population ratio...............      72.8       73.3       73.4       72.5       72.8       72.7       72.5       72.7       73.1 
         Unemployed....................................     3,132      2,955      2,667      3,461      3,275      3,082      3,226      3,192      2,966 
             Unemployment rate.........................       4.1        3.8        3.4        4.5        4.2        4.0        4.2        4.1        3.8 
       Not in labor force..............................    24,367     24,380     24,562     24,344     24,486     24,779     24,878     24,758     24,597 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 16 years and over                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   117,218    118,376    118,495    117,218    118,027    118,141    118,255    118,376    118,495 
       Civilian labor force............................    69,708     70,438     70,258     69,750     69,802     70,236     70,510     70,449     70,257 
             Participation rate........................      59.5       59.5       59.3       59.5       59.1       59.5       59.6       59.5       59.3 
         Employed......................................    66,133     66,933     66,901     66,178     66,663     67,006     67,168     67,156     66,939 
             Employment-population ratio...............      56.4       56.5       56.5       56.5       56.5       56.7       56.8       56.7       56.5 
         Unemployed....................................     3,575      3,505      3,357      3,572      3,139      3,230      3,342      3,293      3,318 
             Unemployment rate.........................       5.1        5.0        4.8        5.1        4.5        4.6        4.7        4.7        4.7 
       Not in labor force..............................    47,509     47,937     48,237     47,468     48,225     47,906     47,745     47,927     48,238 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   109,114    110,134    110,241    109,114    109,829    109,927    110,026    110,134    110,241 
       Civilian labor force............................    66,247     66,535     66,886     66,129     66,280     66,609     66,872     66,878     66,718 
             Participation rate........................      60.7       60.4       60.7       60.6       60.3       60.6       60.8       60.7       60.5 
         Employed......................................    63,153     63,606     64,028     63,074     63,555     63,878     64,035     64,131     63,927 
             Employment-population ratio...............      57.9       57.8       58.1       57.8       57.9       58.1       58.2       58.2       58.0 
         Unemployed....................................     3,095      2,929      2,858      3,055      2,725      2,730      2,837      2,747      2,791 
             Unemployment rate.........................       4.7        4.4        4.3        4.6        4.1        4.1        4.2        4.1        4.2 
       Not in labor force..............................    42,866     43,599     43,355     42,985     43,549     43,319     43,154     43,256     43,523 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    16,443     16,725     16,751     16,443     16,637     16,668     16,700     16,725     16,751 
       Civilian labor force............................     6,822      8,003      6,883      7,163      7,234      7,416      7,353      7,269      7,250 
             Participation rate........................      41.5       47.8       41.1       43.6       43.5       44.5       44.0       43.5       43.3 
         Employed......................................     5,789      6,801      5,783      6,030      6,220      6,270      6,211      6,089      6,058 
             Employment-population ratio...............      35.2       40.7       34.5       36.7       37.4       37.6       37.2       36.4       36.2 
         Unemployed....................................     1,033      1,202      1,100      1,133      1,015      1,145      1,142      1,180      1,192 
             Unemployment rate.........................      15.1       15.0       16.0       15.8       14.0       15.4       15.5       16.2       16.4 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,621      8,723      9,868      9,281      9,402      9,253      9,347      9,456      9,501 

       1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted
     columns.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                          Seasonally adjusted (1)                     
                                                                                                                                                          
           Employment status, race, sex, and age                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                           WHITE                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   184,851    186,500    186,669    184,851    186,002    186,166    186,329    186,500    186,669 
       Civilian labor force............................   122,614    124,671    123,953    122,843    123,449    123,747    123,946    124,070    124,032 
           Participation rate..........................      66.3       66.8       66.4       66.5       66.4       66.5       66.5       66.5       66.4 
         Employed......................................   117,420    119,575    119,265    117,354    118,429    118,720    118,846    118,956    119,125 
           Employment-population ratio.................      63.5       64.1       63.9       63.5       63.7       63.8       63.8       63.8       63.8 
         Unemployed....................................     5,194      5,096      4,688      5,489      5,020      5,027      5,100      5,114      4,907 
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.2        4.1        3.8        4.5        4.1        4.1        4.1        4.1        4.0 
       Not in labor force..............................    62,237     61,828     62,716     62,008     62,552     62,418     62,383     62,430     62,636 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................    63,841     64,815     64,676     63,849     64,463     64,388     64,351     64,532     64,568 
           Participation rate..........................      76.2       76.6       76.4       76.2       76.4       76.3       76.2       76.3       76.3 
         Employed......................................    61,567     62,666     62,792     61,280     62,107     62,110     62,028     62,193     62,441 
           Employment-population ratio.................      73.5       74.1       74.2       73.2       73.6       73.6       73.4       73.5       73.8 
         Unemployed....................................     2,274      2,149      1,884      2,568      2,356      2,278      2,323      2,340      2,126 
           Unemployment rate...........................       3.6        3.3        2.9        4.0        3.7        3.5        3.6        3.6        3.3 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................    53,021     53,216     53,581     52,971     52,985     53,254     53,542     53,527     53,490 
           Participation rate..........................      60.0       59.8       60.1       59.9       59.6       59.9       60.2       60.1       60.0 
         Employed......................................    50,841     51,122     51,546     50,851     51,083     51,337     51,547     51,600     51,532 
           Employment-population ratio.................      57.5       57.4       57.8       57.5       57.5       57.7       57.9       58.0       57.8 
         Unemployed....................................     2,180      2,094      2,036      2,120      1,902      1,917      1,994      1,927      1,958 
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.1        3.9        3.8        4.0        3.6        3.6        3.7        3.6        3.7 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................     5,751      6,640      5,695      6,023      6,001      6,106      6,053      6,011      5,975 
           Participation rate..........................      45.2       51.5       44.1       47.4       46.8       47.5       47.0       46.6       46.3 
         Employed......................................     5,012      5,787      4,927      5,222      5,239      5,273      5,270      5,163      5,152 
           Employment-population ratio.................      39.4       44.9       38.2       41.1       40.8       41.0       40.9       40.1       39.9 
         Unemployed....................................       739        853        769        801        762        833        783        848        823 
           Unemployment rate...........................      12.9       12.8       13.5       13.3       12.7       13.6       12.9       14.1       13.8 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN                                                                                                                
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    26,618     27,065     27,109     26,618     26,943     26,982     27,021     27,065     27,109 
       Civilian labor force............................    17,113     17,479     17,252     17,068     17,312     17,231     17,369     17,344     17,191 
           Participation rate..........................      64.3       64.6       63.6       64.1       64.3       63.9       64.3       64.1       63.4 
         Employed......................................    15,574     15,946     15,740     15,455     15,767     15,685     15,714     15,822     15,617 
           Employment-population ratio.................      58.5       58.9       58.1       58.1       58.5       58.1       58.2       58.5       57.6 
         Unemployed....................................     1,539      1,533      1,511      1,613      1,545      1,547      1,655      1,521      1,574 
           Unemployment rate...........................       9.0        8.8        8.8        9.5        8.9        9.0        9.5        8.8        9.2 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,504      9,586      9,857      9,549      9,631      9,751      9,652      9,722      9,918 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................     7,712      7,770      7,765      7,672      7,757      7,670      7,735      7,721      7,719 
           Participation rate..........................      72.1       71.4       71.2       71.7       71.6       70.7       71.2       70.9       70.8 
         Employed......................................     7,083      7,153      7,165      7,006      7,057      7,018      7,039      7,073      7,083 
           Employment-population ratio.................      66.2       65.7       65.7       65.5       65.1       64.7       64.8       65.0       64.9 
         Unemployed....................................       629        617        600        666        700        652        696        648        637 
           Unemployment rate...........................       8.2        7.9        7.7        8.7        9.0        8.5        9.0        8.4        8.3 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................     8,712      8,798      8,710      8,664      8,693      8,684      8,757      8,787      8,642 
           Participation rate..........................      64.9       64.7       64.0       64.6       64.1       64.0       64.5       64.6       63.5 
         Employed......................................     8,026      8,147      8,046      7,959      8,063      8,033      8,076      8,154      7,973 
           Employment-population ratio.................      59.8       59.9       59.1       59.3       59.5       59.2       59.5       60.0       58.5 
         Unemployed....................................       686        652        664        705        630        651        681        633        670 
           Unemployment rate...........................       7.9        7.4        7.6        8.1        7.2        7.5        7.8        7.2        7.7 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................       689        910        776        733        862        877        877        836        829 
           Participation rate..........................      27.6       35.3       30.1       29.4       33.8       34.2       34.1       32.4       32.1 
         Employed......................................       465        647        529        490        647        634        600        596        562 
           Employment-population ratio.................      18.6       25.1       20.5       19.7       25.3       24.7       23.3       23.1       21.8 
         Unemployed....................................       224        264        247        242        216        244        278        240        267 
           Unemployment rate...........................      32.5       29.0       31.8       33.1       25.0       27.8       31.6       28.8       32.2 
                                                                                                                                                          
                           ASIAN                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstutional population................     9,956     10,229     10,251      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
       Civilian labor force............................     6,553      6,706      6,836      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      65.8       65.6       66.7      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................     6,284      6,511      6,648      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      63.1       63.7       64.9      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       270        196        188      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.1        2.9        2.8      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
       Not in labor force..............................     3,403      3,522      3,415      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   

       1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted
     columns.
       2 Data not available.
       NOTE:  Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races.  Beginning in
     January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-3.  Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                          Seasonally adjusted (1)                     
                                                                                                                                                          
              Employment status, sex, and age                                                                                                             
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY                                                                                                              
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    29,361     30,232     30,324     29,361     29,966     30,053     30,140     30,232     30,324 
       Civilian labor force............................    19,915     20,679     20,615     19,944     20,574     20,753     20,663     20,628     20,669 
           Participation rate..........................      67.8       68.4       68.0       67.9       68.7       69.1       68.6       68.2       68.2 
         Employed......................................    18,688     19,588     19,536     18,647     19,541     19,649     19,578     19,528     19,556 
           Employment-population ratio.................      63.6       64.8       64.4       63.5       65.2       65.4       65.0       64.6       64.5 
         Unemployed....................................     1,227      1,091      1,079      1,297      1,033      1,104      1,085      1,100      1,113 
           Unemployment rate...........................       6.2        5.3        5.2        6.5        5.0        5.3        5.3        5.3        5.4 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,446      9,553      9,709      9,417      9,392      9,300      9,477      9,604      9,655 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................    11,480     11,870     11,899       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      83.8       84.2       84.1       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................    10,925     11,368     11,462       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      79.8       80.6       81.0       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       555        502        437       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.8        4.2        3.7       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................     7,372      7,722      7,703       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      56.9       58.0       57.7       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................     6,881      7,307      7,235       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      53.1       54.9       54.2       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       491        414        468       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       6.7        5.4        6.1       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................     1,062      1,088      1,012       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      39.2       38.7       35.8       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................       881        913        839       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      32.5       32.5       29.7       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       181        175        173       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................      17.0       16.1       17.1       (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   

       1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted
     columns.
       2 Data not available.
       NOTE:  Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population
     controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-4.  Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Educational attainment                                                                                                                 
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
              Less than a high school diploma                                                                                                             
     Civilian labor force..............................    12,863     12,804     12,810     12,729     12,937     12,847     12,780     12,780     12,681 
         Participation rate............................      45.7       46.3       46.2       45.2       45.8       46.1       47.1       46.2       45.7 
       Employed........................................    11,891     11,992     12,054     11,690     12,040     11,942     11,868     11,897     11,864 
         Employment-population ratio...................      42.2       43.4       43.4       41.5       42.6       42.8       43.8       43.0       42.8 
       Unemployed......................................       972        812        756      1,039        897        905        912        883        816 
         Unemployment rate.............................       7.6        6.3        5.9        8.2        6.9        7.0        7.1        6.9        6.4 
                                                                                                                                                          
           High school graduates, no college (1)                                                                                                          
     Civilian labor force..............................    38,362     38,308     38,557     38,324     38,250     38,597     38,403     38,328     38,429 
         Participation rate............................      63.9       63.2       63.5       63.9       63.0       63.3       63.7       63.2       63.3 
       Employed........................................    36,637     36,624     37,104     36,404     36,576     37,032     36,694     36,588     36,798 
         Employment-population ratio...................      61.0       60.4       61.1       60.7       60.3       60.7       60.9       60.3       60.6 
       Unemployed......................................     1,725      1,684      1,453      1,921      1,674      1,565      1,709      1,740      1,630 
         Unemployment rate.............................       4.5        4.4        3.8        5.0        4.4        4.1        4.5        4.5        4.2 
                                                                                                                                                          
              Some college or associate degree                                                                                                            
     Civilian labor force..............................    35,154     35,368     35,440     35,148     35,115     34,972     35,359     35,327     35,454 
         Participation rate............................      72.4       72.2       72.4       72.4       72.9       72.5       71.4       72.1       72.5 
       Employed........................................    33,933     34,101     34,227     33,866     33,792     33,738     34,068     34,037     34,175 
         Employment-population ratio...................      69.9       69.6       70.0       69.8       70.1       69.9       68.8       69.5       69.8 
       Unemployed......................................     1,221      1,266      1,213      1,282      1,323      1,234      1,290      1,291      1,279 
         Unemployment rate.............................       3.5        3.6        3.4        3.6        3.8        3.5        3.6        3.7        3.6 
                                                                                                                                                          
              Bachelor's degree and higher (2)                                                                                                            
     Civilian labor force..............................    41,617     42,352     42,927     41,558     42,156     42,379     42,735     42,650     42,797 
         Participation rate............................      78.2       77.2       78.1       78.1       77.5       77.6       77.7       77.7       77.9 
       Employed........................................    40,615     41,495     42,021     40,588     41,273     41,494     41,839     41,886     41,929 
         Employment-population ratio...................      76.3       75.6       76.5       76.3       75.9       76.0       76.0       76.3       76.3 
       Unemployed......................................     1,002        857        906        970        883        885        896        764        868 
         Unemployment rate.............................       2.4        2.0        2.1        2.3        2.1        2.1        2.1        1.8        2.0 

       1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.
       2 Includes persons with bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees. 
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-5.  Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status
     
     (In thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                          Category                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                      CLASS OF WORKER                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Agriculture and related industries................     2,284      2,426      2,261      2,140      2,184      2,241      2,260      2,202      2,143 
       Wage and salary workers.........................     1,260      1,434      1,291      1,118      1,286      1,329      1,370      1,256      1,196 
       Self-employed workers...........................       986        967        958        978        890        899        877        904        932 
       Unpaid family workers...........................        38         25         13       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)  
                                                                                                                                                         
     Nonagricultural industries........................   140,296    142,953    142,749    140,421    141,786    142,108    142,047    142,406    142,790 
       Wage and salary workers.........................   130,755    133,094    132,901    130,937    131,965    132,284    132,417    132,785    133,004 
         Government....................................    20,284     19,918     20,568     20,255     20,196     20,017     20,336     20,314     20,483 
         Private industries............................   110,471    113,176    112,333    110,688    111,799    112,253    112,114    112,436    112,500 
           Private households..........................       861        864        771       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)  
           Other industries............................   109,610    112,312    111,562    109,858    110,933    111,458    111,269    111,582    111,743 
       Self-employed workers...........................     9,453      9,769      9,762      9,359      9,696      9,716      9,572      9,620      9,679 
       Unpaid family workers...........................        88         90         85       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)  
                                                                                                                                                          
               PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME (2)                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                          
     All industries:                                                                                                                                      
     Part time for economic reasons....................     4,230      4,104      3,735      4,565      4,137      4,266      4,261      4,147      4,056 
         Slack work or business conditions.............     2,665      2,557      2,402      2,893      2,703      2,729      2,658      2,683      2,614 
         Could only find part-time work................     1,316      1,127      1,115      1,331      1,152      1,190      1,202      1,161      1,137 
       Part time for noneconomic reasons...............    19,812     17,524     19,812     19,581     19,701     19,684     19,501     19,624     19,622 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Nonagricultural industries:                                                                                                                          
     Part time for economic reasons....................     4,188      4,019      3,653      4,500      4,037      4,158      4,143      4,071      3,946 
         Slack work or business conditions.............     2,636      2,502      2,353      2,846      2,612      2,656      2,578      2,635      2,547 
         Could only find part-time work................     1,312      1,114      1,098      1,335      1,150      1,189      1,197      1,158      1,133 
       Part time for noneconomic reasons...............    19,414     17,125     19,462     19,207     19,292     19,310     19,170     19,220     19,269 

       1 Data not available.
       2 Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness,
     or industrial dispute.  Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the
     reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and bad weather.
       NOTE:  Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal
     adjustment of the various series.  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-6.  Selected employment indicators

     (In thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                       Characteristic                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                        AGE AND SEX                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total, 16 years and over..........................   142,579    145,379    145,010    142,435    143,976    144,363    144,329    144,579    144,850 
       16 to 19 years..................................     5,789      6,801      5,783      6,030      6,220      6,270      6,211      6,089      6,058 
         16 to 17 years................................     2,253      2,715      2,392      2,290      2,502      2,528      2,431      2,394      2,435 
         18 to 19 years................................     3,536      4,086      3,391      3,739      3,731      3,750      3,778      3,697      3,593 
       20 years and over...............................   136,790    138,578    139,227    136,405    137,757    138,093    138,118    138,490    138,791 
         20 to 24 years................................    13,714     14,366     13,821     13,841     13,871     13,842     13,828     14,052     13,944 
         25 years and over.............................   123,076    124,212    125,406    122,601    123,799    124,237    124,305    124,537    124,910 
           25 to 54 years..............................    99,229     99,586    100,294     98,852     99,280     99,541     99,554     99,720     99,906 
             25 to 34 years............................    30,854     31,067     31,289     30,714     30,884     30,988     31,086     31,097     31,145 
             35 to 44 years............................    34,949     34,531     34,700     34,821     34,486     34,518     34,429     34,573     34,556 
             45 to 54 years............................    33,426     33,987     34,306     33,317     33,910     34,035     34,038     34,051     34,205 
           55 years and over...........................    23,847     24,626     25,113     23,748     24,519     24,696     24,752     24,816     25,005 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Men, 16 years and over............................    76,446     78,446     78,109     76,257     77,313     77,357     77,162     77,423     77,911 
       16 to 19 years..................................     2,809      3,474      2,910      2,926      3,111      3,143      3,079      3,064      3,046 
         16 to 17 years................................     1,036      1,390      1,146      1,053      1,226      1,292      1,226      1,193      1,172 
         18 to 19 years................................     1,773      2,084      1,764      1,865      1,887      1,850      1,842      1,867      1,859 
       20 years and over...............................    73,637     74,973     75,199     73,331     74,202     74,215     74,082     74,358     74,864 
         20 to 24 years................................     7,196      7,727      7,447      7,247      7,384      7,364      7,370      7,504      7,503 
         25 years and over.............................    66,441     67,246     67,752     66,035     66,757     66,865     66,723     66,914     67,343 
           25 to 54 years..............................    53,676     54,043     54,290     53,324     53,632     53,682     53,619     53,730     53,938 
             25 to 34 years............................    17,164     17,180     17,350     17,033     17,077     17,043     17,065     17,025     17,200 
             35 to 44 years............................    18,953     18,825     18,820     18,808     18,805     18,717     18,702     18,753     18,697 
             45 to 54 years............................    17,560     18,038     18,121     17,483     17,750     17,922     17,853     17,951     18,041 
           55 years and over...........................    12,765     13,203     13,462     12,711     13,125     13,183     13,104     13,185     13,405 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Women, 16 years and over..........................    66,133     66,933     66,901     66,178     66,663     67,006     67,168     67,156     66,939 
       16 to 19 years..................................     2,980      3,327      2,873      3,104      3,109      3,128      3,132      3,025      3,012 
         16 to 17 years................................     1,217      1,325      1,246      1,237      1,276      1,235      1,205      1,201      1,263 
         18 to 19 years................................     1,763      2,002      1,628      1,874      1,843      1,900      1,936      1,830      1,734 
       20 years and over...............................    63,153     63,606     64,028     63,074     63,555     63,878     64,035     64,131     63,927 
         20 to 24 years................................     6,518      6,639      6,373      6,594      6,487      6,478      6,458      6,547      6,441 
         25 years and over.............................    56,635     56,966     57,655     56,566     57,042     57,372     57,582     57,623     57,567 
           25 to 54 years..............................    45,553     45,543     46,004     45,528     45,648     45,858     45,934     45,991     45,968 
             25 to 34 years............................    13,690     13,887     13,939     13,680     13,807     13,945     14,021     14,071     13,945 
             35 to 44 years............................    15,996     15,705     15,880     16,013     15,681     15,801     15,728     15,820     15,859 
             45 to 54 years............................    15,866     15,950     16,185     15,835     16,160     16,112     16,185     16,100     16,164 
           55 years and over...........................    11,082     11,423     11,651     11,037     11,394     11,513     11,648     11,632     11,600 
                                                                                                                                                          
                       MARITAL STATUS                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Married men, spouse present.......................    45,573     45,590     45,701     45,457     45,843     45,809     45,558     45,484     45,613 
     Married women, spouse present.....................    34,974     34,742     35,518     34,943     35,171     35,394     35,309     35,295     35,436 
     Women who maintain families.......................     8,872      9,286      9,095       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)  
                                                                                                                                                          
                 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Full-time workers (2).............................   117,781    121,979    120,780    117,469    118,959    119,452    119,818    119,888    120,437 
     Part-time workers (3).............................    24,798     23,400     24,230     25,009     24,955     24,935     24,599     24,711     24,531 
                                                                                                                                                          
                    MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total multiple jobholders.........................     7,705      7,233      7,792      7,616      7,718      7,398      7,455      7,494      7,648 
         Percent of total employed.....................       5.4        5.0        5.4        5.3        5.4        5.1        5.2        5.2        5.3 

       1 Data not available.
       2 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week.
       3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week.
       NOTE:  Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal
     adjustment of the various series.  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-7.  Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                    Number of                                                                             
                                                               unemployed persons                              Unemployment rates (1)                     
                                                                 (in thousands)                                                                           
                       Characteristic                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                        AGE AND SEX                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total, 16 years and over..........................    7,648      7,119      6,949       5.1        4.6        4.6        4.8        4.7        4.6   
       16 to 19 years..................................    1,133      1,180      1,192      15.8       14.0       15.4       15.5       16.2       16.4   
         16 to 17 years................................      531        570        535      18.8       15.1       17.0       16.7       19.2       18.0   
         18 to 19 years................................      602        629        655      13.9       13.4       14.3       14.7       14.5       15.4   
       20 years and over...............................    6,516      5,939      5,757       4.6        4.2        4.0        4.2        4.1        4.0   
         20 to 24 years................................    1,314      1,255      1,208       8.7        8.1        7.9        8.5        8.2        8.0   
         25 years and over.............................    5,187      4,670      4,537       4.1        3.7        3.6        3.7        3.6        3.5   
           25 to 54 years..............................    4,309      3,947      3,821       4.2        3.9        3.7        3.9        3.8        3.7   
             25 to 34 years............................    1,741      1,432      1,500       5.4        4.9        4.6        4.8        4.4        4.6   
             35 to 44 years............................    1,343      1,363      1,267       3.7        3.6        3.4        3.6        3.8        3.5   
             45 to 54 years............................    1,225      1,152      1,054       3.5        3.3        3.1        3.3        3.3        3.0   
           55 years and over...........................      883        741        748       3.6        3.0        2.9        3.1        2.9        2.9   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Men, 16 years and over............................    4,076      3,827      3,631       5.1        4.8        4.6        4.8        4.7        4.5   
       16 to 19 years..................................      615        635        665      17.4       16.2       17.0       17.1       17.2       17.9   
         16 to 17 years................................      285        269        280      21.3       17.6       18.0       16.9       18.4       19.3   
         18 to 19 years................................      333        375        387      15.1       15.3       16.6       17.6       16.7       17.2   
       20 years and over...............................    3,461      3,192      2,966       4.5        4.2        4.0        4.2        4.1        3.8   
         20 to 24 years................................      789        739        678       9.8        9.1        8.2        8.7        9.0        8.3   
         25 years and over.............................    2,654      2,444      2,271       3.9        3.7        3.5        3.6        3.5        3.3   
           25 to 54 years..............................    2,223      2,044      1,908       4.0        3.8        3.6        3.8        3.7        3.4   
             25 to 34 years............................      905        755        734       5.0        4.7        4.6        4.8        4.2        4.1   
             35 to 44 years............................      676        682        660       3.5        3.2        3.3        3.2        3.5        3.4   
             45 to 54 years............................      641        606        514       3.5        3.5        3.0        3.3        3.3        2.8   
           55 years and over...........................      432        400        363       3.3        3.0        3.1        3.2        2.9        2.6   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Women, 16 years and over..........................    3,572      3,293      3,318       5.1        4.5        4.6        4.7        4.7        4.7   
       16 to 19 years..................................      518        546        527      14.3       11.7       13.8       13.9       15.3       14.9   
         16 to 17 years................................      246        302        255      16.6       12.5       15.9       16.5       20.1       16.8   
         18 to 19 years................................      270        255        267      12.6       11.3       11.9       11.7       12.2       13.4   
       20 years and over...............................    3,055      2,747      2,791       4.6        4.1        4.1        4.2        4.1        4.2   
         20 to 24 years................................      524        516        530       7.4        7.0        7.5        8.3        7.3        7.6   
         25 years and over.............................    2,533      2,226      2,265       4.3        3.8        3.7        3.8        3.7        3.8   
           25 to 54 years..............................    2,086      1,904      1,913       4.4        4.0        3.9        4.0        4.0        4.0   
             25 to 34 years............................      836        676        765       5.8        5.1        4.7        4.8        4.6        5.2   
             35 to 44 years............................      667        681        608       4.0        4.0        3.7        4.0        4.1        3.7   
             45 to 54 years............................      584        546        540       3.6        3.1        3.3        3.2        3.3        3.2   
           55 years and over (2).......................      453        378        394       3.9        2.6        3.0        3.5        3.2        3.3   
                                                                                                                                                          
                       MARITAL STATUS                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Married men, spouse present.......................    1,280      1,181      1,082       2.7        2.5        2.5        2.5        2.5        2.3   
     Married women, spouse present.....................    1,218      1,058      1,059       3.4        3.0        2.9        3.1        2.9        2.9   
     Women who maintain families (2)...................      730        667        667       7.6        6.3        7.2        7.4        6.7        6.8   
                                                                                                                                                          
                 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Full-time workers (3).............................    6,239      5,787      5,623       5.0        4.5        4.5        4.6        4.6        4.5   
     Part-time workers (4).............................    1,401      1,366      1,331       5.3        5.1        5.2        5.4        5.2        5.1   

       1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
       2 Not seasonally adjusted.
       3 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from
     full-time jobs.
       4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from
     part-time jobs.
       NOTE:  Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. 





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     Table A-8.  Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                           Reason                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                    NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                                                       
      jobs.............................................    3,373      3,132      2,878      3,697      3,524      3,409      3,370      3,305      3,179  
       On temporary layoff.............................      670        798        582        970        949        981        933        886        873  
       Not on temporary layoff.........................    2,703      2,334      2,297      2,726      2,575      2,428      2,437      2,420      2,306  
         Permanent job losers..........................    1,836      1,658      1,570       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
         Persons who completed temporary jobs..........      867        677        727       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
     Job leavers.......................................      932        935        851        874        878        818        857        861        810  
     Reentrants........................................    2,378      2,315      2,305      2,423      2,119      2,091      2,358      2,277      2,299  
     New entrants......................................      577        704        590        626        525        650        629        650        641  
                                                                                                                                                          
                    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............................................     46.5       44.2       43.4       48.5       50.0       48.9       46.7       46.6       45.9  
        On temporary layoff............................      9.2       11.3        8.8       12.7       13.5       14.1       12.9       12.5       12.6  
        Not on temporary layoff........................     37.2       32.9       34.7       35.8       36.5       34.8       33.8       34.1       33.3  
      Job leavers......................................     12.8       13.2       12.8       11.5       12.5       11.7       11.9       12.1       11.7  
      Reentrants.......................................     32.8       32.7       34.8       31.8       30.1       30.0       32.7       32.1       33.2  
      New entrants.....................................      7.9        9.9        8.9        8.2        7.4        9.3        8.7        9.2        9.3  
                                                                                                                                                          
               UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE                                                                                                             
                      CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
      Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                                                      
       jobs............................................      2.3        2.1        1.9        2.5        2.3        2.3        2.2        2.2        2.1  
      Job leavers......................................       .6         .6         .6         .6         .6         .5         .6         .6         .5  
      Reentrants.......................................      1.6        1.5        1.5        1.6        1.4        1.4        1.6        1.5        1.5  
      New entrants.....................................       .4         .5         .4         .4         .3         .4         .4         .4         .4  

       1 Data not available.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-9.  Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                          Duration                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Sept.      Aug.       Sept.      Sept.      May        June       July       Aug.       Sept.  
                                                           2005       2006       2006       2005       2006       2006       2006       2006       2006   
                                                                                                                                                          
                    NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Less than 5 weeks.................................    2,772      2,477      2,612      2,751      2,516      2,673      2,704      2,617      2,581  
     5 to 14 weeks.....................................    2,079      2,397      1,876      2,253      2,242      2,052      2,175      2,215      2,080  
     15 weeks and over.................................    2,408      2,213      2,136      2,584      2,297      2,133      2,338      2,394      2,294  
        15 to 26 weeks.................................      982        907        902      1,120        968      1,020        998      1,066      1,027  
        27 weeks and over..............................    1,426      1,306      1,234      1,464      1,329      1,112      1,340      1,328      1,267  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Average (mean) duration, in weeks.................     18.2       17.2       17.5       18.2       17.1       16.2       17.3       17.4       17.4  
     Median duration, in weeks.........................      8.4        8.5        7.9        8.5        8.5        7.5        8.2        8.5        8.2  
                                                                                                                                                          
                    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...............................     38.2       35.0       39.4       36.3       35.7       39.0       37.5       36.2       37.1  
       5 to 14 weeks...................................     28.6       33.8       28.3       29.7       31.8       29.9       30.1       30.6       29.9  
       15 weeks and over...............................     33.2       31.2       32.2       34.1       32.6       31.1       32.4       33.1       33.0  
         15 to 26 weeks................................     13.5       12.8       13.6       14.8       13.7       14.9       13.8       14.8       14.8  
         27 weeks and over.............................     19.6       18.4       18.6       19.3       18.8       16.2       18.6       18.4       18.2  

        NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                               HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-10.  Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                            Unemployment        
                                                                                  Employed                     Unemployed                      rates            
                                                                                                                                                                
                                Occupation                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                            Sept.          Sept.            Sept.          Sept.          Sept.          Sept   
                                                                            2005           2006             2005           2006           2005           2006   
                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                
          Total, 16 years and over (1)................................     142,579        145,010          7,259          6,625            4.8            4.4   
     Management, professional, and related occupations................      49,377         50,649          1,161          1,094            2.3            2.1   
       Management, business, and financial operations occupations.....      20,588         21,182            449            439            2.1            2.0   
       Professional and related occupations...........................      28,789         29,467            712            655            2.4            2.2   
     Service occupations..............................................      23,181         23,863          1,593          1,359            6.4            5.4   
     Sales and office occupations.....................................      36,018         35,786          1,723          1,707            4.6            4.6   
       Sales and related occupations..................................      16,344         16,013            842            838            4.9            5.0   
       Office and administrative support occupations..................      19,675         19,773            881            869            4.3            4.2   
     Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations.....      15,902         16,303            971            932            5.8            5.4   
       Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.....................       1,041            930            118             76           10.2            7.5   
       Construction and extraction occupations........................       9,454          9,774            659            636            6.5            6.1   
       Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations..............       5,407          5,599            194            221            3.5            3.8   
     Production, transportation, and material moving occupations......      18,100         18,409          1,189            927            6.2            4.8   
       Production occupations.........................................       9,273          9,377            692            510            6.9            5.2   
       Transportation and material moving occupations.................       8,828          9,032            498            417            5.3            4.4   

       1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                         HOUSEHOLD DATA

     Table A-11.  Unemployed persons by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                        Number of                                                             
                                                                                        unemployed                                 Unemployment               
                                                                                         persons                                      rates                   
                       Industry and class of worker                                   (in thousands)                                                          
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                Sept.                 Sept.                  Sept.                 Sept.      
                                                                                2005                  2006                   2005                  2006       
                                                                                                                                                              
            Total, 16 years and over (1)..............................          7,259                 6,625                   4.8                   4.4       
     Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers..................          5,706                 5,261                   4.9                   4.5       
       Mining.........................................................             12                    14                   2.0                   2.1       
       Construction...................................................            572                   586                   5.7                   5.6       
       Manufacturing..................................................            775                   632                   4.7                   3.8       
         Durable goods................................................            439                   362                   4.2                   3.5       
         Nondurable goods.............................................            337                   270                   5.5                   4.4       
       Wholesale and retail trade.....................................          1,038                 1,008                   4.9                   4.9       
       Transportation and utilities...................................            211                   183                   3.7                   3.1       
       Information....................................................            168                   170                   4.9                   4.9       
       Financial activities...........................................            260                   235                   2.7                   2.4       
       Professional and business services.............................            862                   736                   6.7                   5.6       
       Education and health services..................................            658                   576                   3.5                   3.0       
       Leisure and hospitality........................................            842                   810                   7.3                   6.9       
       Other services.................................................            307                   310                   4.9                   5.0       
     Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers..........            127                    78                   9.5                   5.9       
     Government workers...............................................            568                   396                   2.7                   1.9       
     Self employed and unpaid family workers..........................            282                   299                   2.6                   2.7       

       1 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-12.  Alternative measures of labor underutilization

     (Percent)
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                   Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                       Measure                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                   Sept.    Aug.     Sept.    Sept.    May      June     July     Aug.     Sept. 
                                                                                   2005     2006     2006     2005     2006     2006     2006     2006     2006  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                     
          labor force...........................................................    1.6      1.5      1.4      1.7      1.5      1.4      1.5      1.6      1.5  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of                                                                                    
          the civilian labor force..............................................    2.3      2.1      1.9      2.5      2.3      2.3      2.2      2.2      2.1  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official                                                                                    
          unemployment rate)....................................................    4.8      4.6      4.4      5.1      4.6      4.6      4.8      4.7      4.6  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                 
          labor force plus discouraged workers..................................    5.1      4.9      4.6      5.3      4.8      4.9      5.0      5.0      4.8  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     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...........................................    5.7      5.6      5.2      6.0      5.5      5.6      5.7      5.7      5.4  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     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......................    8.5      8.3      7.6      9.0      8.2      8.4      8.5      8.4      8.0  

        NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a
     job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.  Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason
     for not currently looking for a job.  Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had
     to settle for a part-time schedule.  For further information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures,"  in the October 1995
     issue of the Monthly Labor Review.  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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     Table A-13.  Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                              Total                          Men                          Women            
                                                                                                                                                           
                               Category                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                       Sept.          Sept.          Sept.          Sept.          Sept.          Sept.    
                                                                       2005           2006           2005           2006           2005           2006     
                                                                                                                                                           
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                           
     Total not in the labor force................................     76,855         77,785         29,345         29,548         47,509         48,237    
       Persons who currently want a job..........................      4,757          4,434          2,024          1,901          2,733          2,533    
        Searched for work and available to work now (1)..........      1,438          1,299            704            602            734            698    
             Reason not currently looking:                                                                                                                 
                 Discouragement over job prospects (2)...........        362            325            201            170            161            154    
                  Reasons other than discouragement (3)..........      1,076            975            504            431            573            543    
                                                                                                                                                           
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                           
     Total multiple jobholders (4)...............................      7,705          7,792          3,928          3,854          3,777          3,938    
         Percent of total employed...............................        5.4            5.4            5.1            4.9            5.7            5.9    
                                                                                                                                                           
         Primary job full time, secondary job part time..........      4,014          4,153          2,295          2,272          1,719          1,881    
         Primary and secondary jobs both part time...............      1,725          1,673            532            472          1,193          1,201    
         Primary and secondary jobs both full time...............        259            289            171            197             88             92    
         Hours vary on primary or secondary job..................      1,660          1,632            913            887            747            745    

       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 school or family responsibilities, ill health, and
     transportation problems, as well as a small number for which reason for nonparticipation was not determined.
       4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                                  ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1.  Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

(In thousands)


                                         Not seasonally adjusted                    Seasonally adjusted

                                                                                                                             Change
           Industry               Sept.    July     Aug.     Sept.    Sept.    May      June     July     Aug.     Sept.      from:
                                  2005     2006     2006p    2006p    2005     2006     2006     2006     2006p    2006p   Aug. 2006-
                                                                                                                          Sept. 2006p

          Total nonfarm......... 134,137  135,174  135,380  135,842  133,840  135,117  135,251  135,374  135,562  135,613       51

        Total private........... 112,433  114,380  114,548  114,003  111,985  113,193  113,300  113,404  113,566  113,625       59

    Goods-producing.............  22,428   22,769   22,845   22,695   22,143   22,407   22,435   22,420   22,438   22,427      -11

Natural resources and mining....     641      693      696      692      631      672      677      680      682      682        0
   Logging......................    66.6     64.8     64.9     64.4     62.7     63.7     63.0     62.3     61.6     60.9      -.7
 Mining.........................   574.5    628.0    630.9    628.0    567.9    608.5    613.5    617.7    620.5    621.4       .9
  Oil and gas extraction........   126.4    139.5    140.9    138.2    126.5    134.6    136.7    137.2    139.0    138.3      -.7
  Mining, except oil and gas(1).   216.9    226.6    225.0    223.2    212.7    218.5    219.2    220.1    218.5    218.9       .4
   Coal mining..................    74.8     79.1     78.8     77.9     74.5     78.4     78.3     78.2     78.1     77.8      -.3
  Support activities for mining.   231.2    261.9    265.0    266.6    228.7    255.4    257.6    260.4    263.0    264.2      1.2

Construction....................   7,548    7,801    7,835    7,744    7,325    7,501    7,499    7,504    7,527    7,535        8
  Construction of buildings..... 1,729.5  1,802.1  1,803.2  1,786.0  1,697.6  1,756.1  1,752.6  1,756.9  1,759.6  1,760.1       .5
   Residential building.........   969.4  1,004.7  1,008.8    999.5    952.5    979.6    977.9    977.3    983.6    985.5      1.9
   Nonresidential building......   760.1    797.4    794.4    786.5    745.1    776.5    774.7    779.6    776.0    774.6     -1.4
  Heavy and civil engineering
   construction................. 1,029.2  1,047.2  1,052.9  1,055.5    963.9    985.4    981.5    983.0    985.0    992.5      7.5
  Specialty trade contractors... 4,789.2  4,952.0  4,978.4  4,902.9  4,663.3  4,759.7  4,765.0  4,764.1  4,782.5  4,782.2      -.3
   Residential specialty trade
    contractors................. 2,370.8  2,412.8  2,414.6  2,360.7  2,308.8  2,345.6  2,338.3  2,323.4  2,325.3  2,307.8    -17.5
   Nonresidential specialty
    trade contractors........... 2,418.4  2,539.2  2,563.8  2,542.2  2,354.5  2,414.1  2,426.7  2,440.7  2,457.2  2,474.4     17.2

Manufacturing...................  14,239   14,275   14,314   14,259   14,187   14,234   14,259   14,236   14,229   14,210      -19
   Production workers...........  10,101   10,226   10,273   10,218   10,048   10,198   10,221   10,212   10,206   10,176      -30

 Durable goods..................   8,943    9,010    9,045    9,012    8,933    9,014    9,033    9,011    9,013    9,005       -8
   Production workers...........   6,230    6,377    6,416    6,386    6,218    6,380    6,400    6,394    6,395    6,382      -13

  Wood products.................   558.8    557.6    553.5    546.1    552.2    555.5    551.6    550.8    546.1    542.0     -4.1
  Nonmetallic mineral products..   511.1    513.0    511.2    505.2    501.1    502.7    502.3    501.4    500.3    496.2     -4.1
  Primary metals................   469.8    472.6    473.5    470.7    469.7    473.7    475.6    474.6    473.6    471.0     -2.6
  Fabricated metal products..... 1,520.6  1,551.7  1,557.9  1,555.8  1,521.7  1,540.5  1,544.4  1,551.0  1,553.9  1,556.8      2.9
  Machinery..................... 1,160.4  1,195.3  1,193.1  1,189.4  1,163.4  1,179.6  1,184.3  1,191.4  1,192.8  1,191.0     -1.8
  Computer and electronic
   products(1).................. 1,320.9  1,335.4  1,335.3  1,329.2  1,322.8  1,327.5  1,334.5  1,327.6  1,330.4  1,330.8       .4
   Computer and peripheral
    equipment...................   207.7    204.5    204.0    203.6    207.4    202.7    203.3    203.1    203.0    202.9      -.1
   Communications equipment.....   147.3    147.7    147.2    146.5    147.9    149.6    149.7    147.1    147.3    147.3       .0
   Semiconductors and electronic
    components..................   452.0    465.8    466.4    465.4    451.8    458.5    461.4    462.7    463.8    465.4      1.6
   Electronic instruments.......   439.0    447.9    448.3    445.2    440.6    445.6    448.7    445.4    446.8    446.6      -.2
  Electrical equipment and
   appliances...................   431.3    444.9    445.7    443.2    431.8    442.4    445.1    444.0    445.1    444.7      -.4
  Transportation equipment(1)... 1,755.7  1,734.2  1,766.5  1,770.9  1,753.7  1,779.8  1,786.7  1,765.1  1,765.8  1,769.8      4.0
   Motor vehicles and parts(2).. 1,099.6  1,036.7  1,069.9  1,073.5  1,098.4  1,088.3  1,091.3  1,069.0  1,071.6  1,073.3      1.7
  Furniture and related products   560.4    550.6    549.3    542.5    561.3    556.8    555.1    550.4    547.0    543.4     -3.6
  Miscellaneous manufacturing...   653.9    654.8    658.6    658.5    655.0    655.0    653.6    655.0    657.6    659.3      1.7

 Nondurable goods...............   5,296    5,265    5,269    5,247    5,254    5,220    5,226    5,225    5,216    5,205      -11
   Production workers...........   3,871    3,849    3,857    3,832    3,830    3,818    3,821    3,818    3,811    3,794      -17

  Food manufacturing............ 1,488.5  1,488.4  1,502.6  1,502.6  1,461.4  1,461.7  1,466.2  1,468.8  1,468.8  1,472.7      3.9
  Beverages and tobacco products   195.5    201.6    201.6    201.9    191.0    194.9    195.6    196.5    196.9    197.5       .6
  Textile mills.................   215.7    195.9    193.8    189.8    214.7    199.9    197.2    195.8    192.8    189.0     -3.8
  Textile product mills.........   171.3    169.9    168.7    167.1    173.0    168.2    168.3    169.1    169.0    168.6      -.4
  Apparel.......................   258.8    248.3    245.2    246.3    255.1    250.8    249.6    249.0    244.4    244.2      -.2
  Leather and allied products...    39.6     36.5     36.9     37.5     39.5     37.5     37.2     37.1     36.9     37.3       .4
  Paper and paper products......   482.0    473.4    468.5    464.0    480.5    472.9    471.0    470.2    466.3    463.7     -2.6
  Printing and related support
   activities...................   648.6    641.4    642.4    639.0    646.4    640.9    641.8    639.0    640.4    637.3     -3.1
  Petroleum and coal products...   114.8    119.9    120.3    119.4    113.0    114.6    115.7    116.6    116.8    117.2       .4
  Chemicals.....................   879.9    899.2    899.8    894.6    880.3    887.7    891.1    893.0    896.7    894.7     -2.0
  Plastics and rubber products..   801.5    790.4    789.1    784.5    799.5    791.1    791.9    790.1    787.2    783.2     -4.0

    Service-providing........... 111,709  112,405  112,535  113,147  111,697  112,710  112,816  112,954  113,124  113,186       62

     Private service-providing..  90,005   91,611   91,703   91,308   89,842   90,786   90,865   90,984   91,128   91,198       70

Trade, transportation, and
 utilities......................  25,899   26,045   26,041   25,993   25,944   26,039   26,040   26,052   26,049   26,060       11

 Wholesale trade................ 5,768.0  5,879.7  5,879.7  5,868.0  5,762.3  5,842.1  5,848.1  5,847.0  5,856.9  5,865.6      8.7
  Durable goods................. 2,994.6  3,067.3  3,071.8  3,065.3  2,997.8  3,047.0  3,050.7  3,051.0  3,061.1  3,070.4      9.3
  Nondurable goods.............. 2,029.6  2,054.1  2,048.1  2,042.1  2,022.1  2,039.8  2,040.2  2,039.6  2,038.5  2,036.5     -2.0
  Electronic markets and agents
   and brokers..................   743.8    758.3    759.8    760.6    742.4    755.3    757.2    756.4    757.3    758.7      1.4

 Retail trade...................15,181.1 15,208.4 15,204.6 15,094.3 15,267.0 15,225.7 15,221.2 15,222.2 15,208.6 15,196.7    -11.9
  Motor vehicle and parts
   dealers(1)................... 1,937.9  1,927.1  1,924.9  1,919.0  1,929.4  1,909.6  1,909.7  1,907.3  1,906.9  1,908.0      1.1
   Automobile dealers........... 1,273.0  1,253.9  1,251.3  1,250.1  1,268.9  1,245.3  1,245.6  1,245.7  1,243.4  1,243.3      -.1
  Furniture and home furnishings
   stores.......................   574.8    587.8    588.2    585.1    580.9    595.2    595.3    594.8    593.6    592.9      -.7
  Electronics and appliance
   stores.......................   533.4    519.2    519.3    518.8    539.9    533.1    534.0    530.5    527.5    525.9     -1.6
  Building material and garden
   supply stores................ 1,268.4  1,358.2  1,329.4  1,306.4  1,272.3  1,317.2  1,315.5  1,316.5  1,313.5  1,316.3      2.8
  Food and beverage stores...... 2,795.7  2,827.9  2,825.9  2,805.9  2,803.0  2,803.4  2,804.2  2,808.8  2,811.9  2,811.0      -.9
  Health and personal care
   stores.......................   948.9    957.0    959.9    953.3    953.8    959.8    958.4    959.3    960.1    959.0     -1.1
  Gasoline stations.............   877.2    875.2    870.1    863.5    873.9    859.5    863.2    863.3    858.5    860.0      1.5
  Clothing and clothing
   accessories stores........... 1,397.6  1,436.2  1,445.9  1,416.5  1,414.2  1,412.3  1,423.3  1,434.0  1,434.4  1,436.4      2.0
  Sporting goods, hobby, book,
   and music stores.............   633.3    605.8    619.1    616.6    631.3    628.7    628.1    624.2    627.4    619.9     -7.5
  General merchandise stores(1). 2,872.7  2,804.9  2,803.6  2,785.7  2,927.4  2,880.0  2,866.0  2,859.8  2,852.2  2,844.2     -8.0
   Department stores............ 1,571.4  1,528.9  1,529.5  1,517.2  1,610.9  1,584.1  1,574.4  1,571.4  1,565.3  1,559.2     -6.1
  Miscellaneous store retailers.   901.2    892.5    894.7    889.6    902.2    896.3    892.2    892.7    891.2    891.6       .4
  Nonstore retailers............   440.0    416.6    423.6    433.9    438.7    430.6    431.3    431.0    431.4    431.5       .1

 Transportation and warehousing. 4,390.7  4,392.7  4,393.2  4,469.9  4,355.4  4,410.8  4,411.0  4,423.2  4,423.4  4,436.7     13.3
  Air transportation............   496.2    490.1    492.6    492.1    495.1    486.7    486.7    487.7    489.0    490.9      1.9
  Rail transportation...........   229.3    228.4    226.7    228.7    228.2    227.8    227.5    227.3    226.9    227.7       .8
  Water transportation..........    62.6     66.4     67.0     68.0     61.8     62.9     62.8     64.2     64.8     66.7      1.9
  Truck transportation.......... 1,416.2  1,445.3  1,449.9  1,448.9  1,397.4  1,417.5  1,419.3  1,427.1  1,426.6  1,429.5      2.9
  Transit and ground passenger
   transportation...............   396.7    327.4    320.2    402.6    388.0    394.8    393.5    391.6    389.3    394.5      5.2
  Pipeline transportation.......    37.8     38.8     38.7     37.8     37.6     38.1     38.1     38.4     38.1     37.7      -.4
  Scenic and sightseeing
   transportation...............    37.6     41.7     41.6     35.3     31.8     31.9     31.3     30.5     30.7     29.6     -1.1
  Support activities for
   transportation...............   554.0    566.3    567.6    564.7    551.9    566.4    567.7    564.9    565.0    564.8      -.2
  Couriers and messengers.......   568.8    581.2    579.5    581.8    573.8    581.2    580.5    583.6    583.9    586.4      2.5
  Warehousing and storage.......   591.5    607.1    609.4    610.0    589.8    603.5    603.6    607.9    609.1    608.9      -.2

 Utilities......................   558.7    564.3    563.1    560.8    558.9    560.3    559.4    559.8    559.9    560.6       .7

Information.....................   3,061    3,068    3,073    3,046    3,071    3,061    3,062    3,052    3,060    3,058       -2
  Publishing industries, except
   Internet.....................   905.1    904.1    903.6    897.6    904.4    902.9    901.4    900.8    900.3    897.0     -3.3
  Motion picture and sound
   recording industries.........   385.7    386.4    387.9    368.7    390.6    377.3    380.3    375.7    378.4    375.3     -3.1
  Broadcasting, except Internet.   326.3    329.2    329.0    327.8    326.7    327.0    327.6    328.0    328.1    327.9      -.2
  Internet publishing and
   broadcasting.................    30.4     29.5     30.7     31.2     30.4     30.5     30.3     29.5     30.7     31.2       .5
  Telecommunications............   990.1    987.5    988.6    986.1    993.4    993.1    989.2    986.3    988.8    989.9      1.1
  ISPs, search portals, and data
   processing...................   373.6    380.7    383.4    384.4    376.1    380.4    383.8    381.8    384.3    386.4      2.1
  Other information services....    49.5     50.7     50.1     49.7     49.7     50.1     49.8     50.0     49.7     50.0       .3

Financial activities............   8,165    8,388    8,381    8,335    8,172    8,315    8,315    8,321    8,331    8,347       16
 Finance and insurance.......... 6,012.7  6,161.9  6,161.7  6,146.0  6,029.1  6,139.0  6,130.5  6,142.3  6,152.3  6,164.8     12.5
  Monetary authorities - central
   bank.........................    20.7     21.9     21.8     21.8     20.7     21.5     21.7     21.7     21.7     21.8       .1
  Credit intermediation and
   related activities(1)........ 2,873.0  2,938.3  2,939.8  2,928.1  2,880.9  2,924.3  2,920.0  2,925.7  2,930.0  2,936.0      6.0
   Depository credit
    intermediation(1)........... 1,777.6  1,829.8  1,831.5  1,816.6  1,783.5  1,816.8  1,816.1  1,818.3  1,822.4  1,822.1      -.3
    Commercial banking.......... 1,298.8  1,332.0  1,333.6  1,322.3  1,302.8  1,321.7  1,322.7  1,322.9  1,325.7  1,325.5      -.2
  Securities, commodity
   contracts, investments.......   782.4    799.6    800.6    798.3    786.2    800.8    797.6    798.7    800.5    802.5      2.0
  Insurance carriers and related
   activities................... 2,251.2  2,310.3  2,307.6  2,305.9  2,255.1  2,302.9  2,301.0  2,304.9  2,308.1  2,312.0      3.9
  Funds, trusts, and other
   financial vehicles...........    85.4     91.8     91.9     91.9     86.2     89.5     90.2     91.3     92.0     92.5       .5
 Real estate and rental and
  leasing....................... 2,151.8  2,225.7  2,218.9  2,189.0  2,143.3  2,176.4  2,184.0  2,178.6  2,179.1  2,182.1      3.0
  Real estate................... 1,476.1  1,528.9  1,524.9  1,503.9  1,469.0  1,498.0  1,503.2  1,499.7  1,498.9  1,499.3       .4
  Rental and leasing services...   648.0    666.9    663.5    654.9    646.8    650.2    651.9    649.3    650.4    652.9      2.5
  Lessors of nonfinancial
   intangible assets............    27.7     29.9     30.5     30.2     27.5     28.2     28.9     29.6     29.8     29.9       .1

Professional and business
 services.......................  17,131   17,506   17,607   17,544   16,997   17,276   17,319   17,364   17,401   17,413       12
 Professional and technical
  services(1)................... 6,988.3  7,271.1  7,269.6  7,231.4  7,062.2  7,220.6  7,240.9  7,281.1  7,294.2  7,303.2      9.0
   Legal services............... 1,155.2  1,175.0  1,166.7  1,154.3  1,159.5  1,159.6  1,157.7  1,158.5  1,159.2  1,159.1      -.1
   Accounting and bookkeeping
    services....................   775.7    802.8    798.4    810.8    848.9    860.4    867.2    870.8    872.1    881.8      9.7
   Architectural and engineering
    services.................... 1,329.2  1,406.8  1,409.3  1,397.4  1,324.3  1,369.3  1,372.9  1,382.2  1,387.4  1,391.3      3.9
   Computer systems design and
    related services............ 1,190.5  1,267.4  1,275.7  1,268.9  1,195.9  1,255.5  1,258.8  1,267.8  1,273.1  1,273.4       .3
   Management and technical
    consulting services.........   854.4    894.3    897.9    893.0    852.9    879.4    880.0    886.5    890.4    891.9      1.5
 Management of companies and
  enterprises................... 1,748.6  1,808.5  1,801.9  1,794.7  1,754.2  1,779.7  1,783.0  1,789.1  1,794.1  1,800.3      6.2
 Administrative and waste
  services...................... 8,394.1  8,426.8  8,535.9  8,517.8  8,180.5  8,276.1  8,294.9  8,294.2  8,312.9  8,309.5     -3.4
  Administrative and support
   services(1).................. 8,055.8  8,084.3  8,197.9  8,179.5  7,846.5  7,941.1  7,960.8  7,959.1  7,980.9  7,975.0     -5.9
   Employment services(1)....... 3,759.2  3,663.5  3,769.3  3,768.8  3,628.2  3,653.8  3,659.2  3,648.1  3,658.1  3,644.6    -13.5
    Temporary help services..... 2,690.5  2,595.9  2,687.8  2,700.7  2,573.7  2,613.4  2,602.7  2,596.6  2,603.5  2,592.2    -11.3
   Business support services....   756.0    762.0    766.9    762.2    757.2    765.8    766.5    766.8    768.4    764.7     -3.7
   Services to buildings and
    dwellings................... 1,803.7  1,891.4  1,881.4  1,847.9  1,735.4  1,767.4  1,773.4  1,777.9  1,779.7  1,779.8       .1
  Waste management and
   remediation services.........   338.3    342.5    338.0    338.3    334.0    335.0    334.1    335.1    332.0    334.5      2.5

Education and health services...  17,366   17,397   17,433   17,729   17,451   17,676   17,704   17,735   17,802   17,817       15
 Educational services........... 2,788.4  2,530.7  2,532.3  2,809.7  2,844.9  2,853.1  2,852.2  2,856.9  2,883.9  2,867.3    -16.6
 Health care and social
  assistance....................14,577.5 14,865.9 14,900.8 14,919.1 14,605.8 14,823.3 14,852.1 14,877.6 14,918.5 14,949.7     31.2
 Health care(3).................12,367.4 12,647.4 12,673.5 12,650.3 12,382.9 12,561.5 12,585.4 12,615.6 12,642.9 12,667.0     24.1
   Ambulatory health care
    services(1)................. 5,130.9  5,275.3  5,299.3  5,295.4  5,145.1  5,249.1  5,257.1  5,271.7  5,291.0  5,310.8     19.8
    Offices of physicians....... 2,108.1  2,181.5  2,188.6  2,190.9  2,115.3  2,168.6  2,173.7  2,180.3  2,184.9  2,198.5     13.6
    Outpatient care centers.....   478.5    489.7    492.8    492.7    479.3    488.8    490.3    489.2    492.6    493.9      1.3
    Home health care services...   817.5    845.0    851.2    850.7    820.5    839.9    839.4    845.6    850.4    853.5      3.1
   Hospitals.................... 4,365.1  4,451.3  4,458.7  4,451.9  4,366.8  4,417.6  4,427.4  4,434.0  4,446.3  4,452.8      6.5
   Nursing and residential care
    facilities(1)............... 2,871.4  2,920.8  2,915.5  2,903.0  2,871.0  2,894.8  2,900.9  2,909.9  2,905.6  2,903.4     -2.2
    Nursing care facilities..... 1,585.0  1,597.0  1,594.2  1,589.7  1,582.2  1,590.1  1,588.6  1,593.0  1,588.7  1,587.6     -1.1
  Social assistance(1).......... 2,210.1  2,218.5  2,227.3  2,268.8  2,222.9  2,261.8  2,266.7  2,262.0  2,275.6  2,282.7      7.1
   Child day care services......   785.3    734.8    743.2    786.4    787.8    793.7    790.6    781.9    788.8    789.7       .9

Leisure and hospitality.........  13,019   13,746   13,724   13,269   12,826   13,014   13,023   13,062   13,082   13,092       10
 Arts, entertainment, and
  recreation.................... 1,982.3  2,230.2  2,189.1  1,976.8  1,895.1  1,910.2  1,911.8  1,913.7  1,908.7  1,899.5     -9.2
  Performing arts and spectator
   sports.......................   390.4    405.5    404.0    396.2    372.2    374.3    374.3    376.5    375.3    375.9       .6
  Museums, historical sites,
   zoos, and parks..............   124.7    137.0    136.0    126.4    123.2    124.1    123.8    123.9    124.6    124.5      -.1
  Amusements, gambling, and
   recreation................... 1,467.2  1,687.7  1,649.1  1,454.2  1,399.7  1,411.8  1,413.7  1,413.3  1,408.8  1,399.1     -9.7
 Accommodations and food
  services......................11,037.1 11,516.0 11,534.8 11,292.5 10,931.2 11,104.0 11,110.8 11,148.0 11,173.0 11,192.2     19.2
  Accommodations................ 1,840.7  1,951.5  1,946.6  1,843.7  1,814.5  1,799.3  1,798.0  1,806.5  1,809.6  1,813.8      4.2
  Food services and drinking
   places....................... 9,196.4  9,564.5  9,588.2  9,448.8  9,116.7  9,304.7  9,312.8  9,341.5  9,363.4  9,378.4     15.0

Other services..................   5,364    5,461    5,444    5,392    5,381    5,405    5,402    5,398    5,403    5,411        8
  Repair and maintenance........ 1,230.3  1,253.7  1,255.7  1,251.7  1,230.8  1,251.5  1,251.8  1,245.9  1,252.2  1,254.9      2.7
  Personal and laundry services. 1,267.0  1,277.1  1,273.7  1,271.8  1,271.3  1,269.8  1,267.9  1,271.2  1,269.3  1,275.5      6.2
  Membership associations and
   organizations................ 2,867.1  2,929.9  2,914.9  2,868.1  2,879.2  2,883.8  2,882.5  2,880.9  2,881.9  2,880.9     -1.0

Government......................  21,704   20,794   20,832   21,839   21,855   21,924   21,951   21,970   21,996   21,988       -8
 Federal........................   2,729    2,737    2,723    2,711    2,725    2,708    2,708    2,716    2,710    2,706       -4
  Federal, except U.S. Postal
   Service...................... 1,956.6  1,964.8  1,959.2  1,945.9  1,949.9  1,938.1  1,942.7  1,943.2  1,942.6  1,938.7     -3.9
  U.S. Postal Service...........   772.3    772.4    763.8    765.0    774.7    769.7    764.9    772.9    767.1    766.9      -.2
 State government...............   5,023    4,769    4,791    5,025    5,026    5,032    5,038    5,039    5,054    5,032      -22
  State government education.... 2,253.0  1,960.5  1,981.4  2,236.7  2,255.1  2,254.7  2,258.3  2,256.1  2,267.5  2,243.0    -24.5
  State government, excluding
   education.................... 2,770.0  2,808.3  2,809.3  2,788.7  2,771.1  2,776.9  2,779.8  2,783.0  2,786.3  2,788.8      2.5
 Local government...............  13,952   13,288   13,318   14,103   14,104   14,184   14,205   14,215   14,232   14,250       18
  Local government education.... 7,751.6  6,792.8  6,883.8  7,833.4  7,891.9  7,922.9  7,934.1  7,940.2  7,953.4  7,967.6     14.2
  Local government, excluding
   education.................... 6,200.7  6,495.1  6,433.7  6,269.9  6,212.1  6,260.9  6,270.7  6,274.7  6,279.0  6,282.0      3.0

  1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.
  2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.
  3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.
  p = preliminary.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                              ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2.  Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers(1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector
and selected industry detail


                                                   Not seasonally adjusted              Seasonally adjusted

                                                                                                                         Change
                  Industry                       Sept.  July   Aug.   Sept.   Sept.  May    June   July   Aug.   Sept.    from:
                                                 2005   2006   2006p  2006p   2005   2006   2006   2006   2006p  2006p  Aug. 2006-
                                                                                                                        Sept. 2006p


        Total private.........................   33.9   34.2   34.0   33.9    33.8   33.8   33.9   33.9   33.8   33.8       0.0

    Goods-producing...........................   40.6   40.5   40.9   40.8    40.0   40.4   40.6   40.7   40.6   40.3       -.3

Natural resources and mining..................   46.3   45.8   45.8   45.5    45.9   44.9   46.0   46.0   45.3   45.1       -.2

Construction..................................   39.4   39.4   39.9   39.2    38.2   38.5   39.0   38.8   39.0   38.4       -.6

Manufacturing.................................   41.1   40.9   41.2   41.4    40.7   41.2   41.3   41.4   41.3   41.1       -.2
   Overtime hours.............................    4.9    4.3    4.5    4.5     4.5    4.6    4.6    4.5    4.4    4.3       -.1

 Durable goods................................   41.6   41.2   41.6   41.6    41.2   41.5   41.6   41.8   41.6   41.3       -.3
   Overtime hours.............................    4.9    4.3    4.5    4.5     4.6    4.6    4.6    4.6    4.4    4.3       -.1

  Wood products...............................   40.1   40.1   40.4   40.0    39.6   40.1   39.6   40.1   40.0   39.8       -.2
  Nonmetallic mineral products................   42.7   43.4   43.9   43.8    41.9   43.1   43.6   43.6   43.4   43.4        .0
  Primary metals..............................   43.5   43.4   43.4   44.1    43.4   43.7   43.8   44.0   43.7   43.8        .1
  Fabricated metal products...................   41.1   41.1   41.6   41.6    40.8   41.4   41.5   41.6   41.7   41.4       -.3
  Machinery...................................   42.4   42.6   42.2   42.4    42.1   42.5   42.5   42.9   42.5   42.2       -.3
  Computer and electronic products............   40.4   40.3   40.3   40.6    40.2   40.5   40.8   40.6   40.5   40.4       -.1
  Electrical equipment and appliances.........   41.6   40.9   41.0   41.2    41.3   41.2   41.3   41.5   41.0   40.9       -.1
  Transportation equipment....................   43.2   41.8   42.9   43.0    42.7   43.0   42.9   43.5   42.9   42.5       -.4
   Motor vehicles and parts(2)................   43.3   40.9   42.8   42.7    42.7   42.7   42.8   43.0   42.7   42.1       -.6
  Furniture and related products..............   39.9   38.6   39.5   39.2    39.3   38.7   38.7   38.6   38.9   38.5       -.4
  Miscellaneous manufacturing.................   38.9   38.2   38.7   38.6    38.8   38.7   38.9   38.7   38.7   38.5       -.2

 Nondurable goods.............................   40.3   40.5   40.7   41.1    39.9   40.6   40.7   40.8   40.7   40.7        .0
   Overtime hours.............................    4.8    4.4    4.4    4.7     4.4    4.5    4.5    4.4    4.3    4.3        .0

  Food manufacturing..........................   39.5   39.9   40.3   41.3    38.8   39.9   39.9   40.1   40.1   40.5        .4
  Beverages and tobacco products..............   39.7   42.1   41.8   40.9    39.5   40.9   41.2   41.7   41.2   41.0       -.2
  Textile mills...............................   40.3   40.2   40.8   40.5    39.9   40.4   40.8   40.8   40.8   40.3       -.5
  Textile product mills.......................   39.2   39.7   40.2   40.3    38.7   40.2   40.2   40.3   40.4   40.1       -.3
  Apparel.....................................   35.8   36.3   36.5   36.4    35.8   36.7   36.8   36.7   36.4   36.4        .0
  Leather and allied products.................   38.5   38.8   39.5   38.2    38.5   39.3   39.1   39.2   39.6   38.6      -1.0
  Paper and paper products....................   43.3   43.3   43.3   43.5    42.8   43.1   43.3   43.5   43.4   43.2       -.2
  Printing and related support activities.....   39.1   38.7   39.0   39.8    38.6   39.2   39.3   39.1   39.1   39.3        .2
  Petroleum and coal products.................   48.0   45.8   45.1   46.1    47.4   45.4   45.6   45.6   45.6   45.3       -.3
  Chemicals...................................   41.9   42.4   42.4   42.5    42.0   42.4   42.6   42.8   42.7   42.7        .0
  Plastics and rubber products................   40.5   40.3   40.5   40.6    40.0   40.7   40.8   41.0   40.7   40.3       -.4

     Private service-providing................   32.4   32.9   32.5   32.3    32.4   32.4   32.4   32.4   32.3   32.4        .1

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........   33.5   33.9   33.6   33.5    33.3   33.3   33.4   33.4   33.3   33.4        .1

 Wholesale trade..............................   37.8   38.4   38.0   38.0    37.7   37.9   38.0   38.0   38.0   38.0        .0

 Retail trade.................................   30.7   31.0   30.7   30.6    30.5   30.4   30.4   30.4   30.3   30.4        .1

 Transportation and warehousing...............   36.9   37.4   37.2   37.0    36.6   36.7   36.9   36.9   36.9   36.8       -.1

 Utilities....................................   41.7   41.6   41.7   41.7    41.2   41.3   41.3   41.6   41.7   41.3       -.4

Information...................................   36.6   37.3   36.9   36.9    36.6   36.5   36.6   36.8   36.8   36.9        .1

Financial activities..........................   35.7   36.3   35.4   35.4    36.0   35.5   35.6   35.7   35.5   35.7        .2

Professional and business services............   34.3   34.9   34.5   34.3    34.3   34.4   34.6   34.6   34.4   34.4        .0

Education and health services.................   32.6   32.8   32.6   32.5    32.7   32.6   32.6   32.5   32.5   32.5        .0

Leisure and hospitality.......................   25.5   26.7   26.2   25.4    25.8   25.6   25.6   25.6   25.5   25.6        .1

Other services................................   30.9   31.2   31.0   30.7    30.9   30.9   30.9   30.8   30.8   30.7       -.1

  1 Data relate to production workers in natural resources and mining and manufacturing, construction workers in construction,
and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing industries.  These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the
total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
  2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.
  p = preliminary.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                          ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3.  Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers(1) on private nonfarm payrolls
by industry sector and selected industry detail


                                                       Average hourly earnings                  Average weekly earnings

                  Industry                         Sept.     July     Aug.      Sept.      Sept.     July     Aug.      Sept.
                                                   2005      2006     2006p     2006p      2005      2006     2006p     2006p

        Total private........................... $16.22    $16.71    $16.70    $16.87    $549.86   $571.48   $567.80   $571.89
         Seasonally adjusted....................  16.19     16.76     16.80     16.84     547.22    568.16    567.84    569.19

    Goods-producing.............................  17.78     18.02     18.11     18.18     721.87    729.81    740.70    741.74

Natural resources and mining....................  18.93     19.83     19.91     19.91     876.46    908.21    911.88    905.91

Construction....................................  19.69     20.13     20.24     20.36     775.79    793.12    807.58    798.11

Manufacturing...................................  16.66     16.72     16.79     16.88     684.73    683.85    691.75    698.83

 Durable goods..................................  17.45     17.54     17.71     17.81     725.92    722.65    736.74    740.90
  Wood products.................................  13.08     13.46     13.49     13.51     524.51    539.75    545.00    540.40
  Nonmetallic mineral products..................  16.76     16.58     16.74     16.51     715.65    719.57    734.89    723.14
  Primary metals................................  19.07     19.14     19.32     19.51     829.55    830.68    838.49    860.39
  Fabricated metal products.....................  15.91     16.18     16.14     16.15     653.90    665.00    671.42    671.84
  Machinery.....................................  17.02     17.13     17.13     17.26     721.65    729.74    722.89    731.82
  Computer and electronic products..............  18.65     19.06     19.15     19.35     753.46    768.12    771.75    785.61
  Electrical equipment and appliances...........  15.32     15.55     15.66     15.72     637.31    636.00    642.06    647.66
  Transportation equipment......................  22.31     21.92     22.39     22.56     963.79    916.26    960.53    970.08
  Furniture and related products................  13.55     13.74     13.80     13.97     540.65    530.36    545.10    547.62
  Miscellaneous manufacturing...................  14.06     14.53     14.46     14.44     546.93    555.05    559.60    557.38

 Nondurable goods...............................  15.34     15.33     15.24     15.29     618.20    620.87    620.27    628.42
  Food manufacturing............................  13.08     13.09     13.10     13.10     516.66    522.29    527.93    541.03
  Beverages and tobacco products................  18.67     18.19     17.82     18.06     741.20    765.80    744.88    738.65
  Textile mills.................................  12.39     12.54     12.67     12.62     499.32    504.11    516.94    511.11
  Textile product mills.........................  11.70     12.07     11.90     12.06     458.64    479.18    478.38    486.02
  Apparel.......................................  10.36     10.68     10.60     10.69     370.89    387.68    386.90    389.12
  Leather and allied products...................  11.70     11.58     11.54     11.49     450.45    449.30    455.83    438.92
  Paper and paper products......................  17.97     18.24     17.92     18.23     778.10    789.79    775.94    793.01
  Printing and related support activities.......  15.95     15.76     15.79     15.77     623.65    609.91    615.81    627.65
  Petroleum and coal products...................  24.39     23.66     23.27     23.89    1170.72   1083.63   1049.48   1101.33
  Chemicals.....................................  19.84     19.25     19.17     19.28     831.30    816.20    812.81    819.40
  Plastics and rubber products..................  14.87     15.05     15.05     15.07     602.24    606.52    609.53    611.84

     Private service-providing..................  15.79     16.36     16.31     16.51     511.60    538.24    530.08    533.27

Trade, transportation, and utilities............  15.00     15.52     15.42     15.54     502.50    526.13    518.11    520.59

 Wholesale trade................................  18.23     19.06     18.90     19.03     689.09    731.90    718.20    723.14

 Retail trade...................................  12.37     12.69     12.62     12.70     379.76    393.39    387.43    388.62

 Transportation and warehousing.................  16.82     17.42     17.34     17.38     620.66    651.51    645.05    643.06

 Utilities......................................  27.19     27.48     27.24     27.58    1133.82   1143.17   1135.91   1150.09

Information.....................................  22.40     23.20     23.32     23.52     819.84    865.36    860.51    867.89

Financial activities............................  18.02     18.80     18.78     19.00     643.31    682.44    664.81    672.60

Professional and business services..............  18.04     19.22     18.94     19.12     618.77    670.78    653.43    655.82

Education and health services...................  16.87     17.38     17.40     17.50     549.96    570.06    567.24    568.75

Leisure and hospitality.........................   9.23      9.49      9.59      9.71     235.37    253.38    251.26    246.63

Other services..................................  14.39     14.48     14.51     14.72     444.65    451.78    449.81    451.90

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                             ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4.  Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls
by industry sector and selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted


                                                                                                        Percent
                  Industry                        Sept.    May      June     July    Aug.     Sept.  change from:
                                                  2005     2006     2006     2006    2006p    2006p    Aug. 2006-
                                                                                                      Sept.2006p
        Total private:
         Current dollars........................ $16.19   $16.62   $16.69   $16.76   $16.80   $16.84      0.2
         Constant (1982) dollars(2).............   8.05     8.15     8.17     8.16     8.16     N.A.      (3)

    Goods-producing.............................  17.66    17.92    17.99    18.00    18.05    18.06       .1

Natural resources and mining....................  19.03    19.79    19.85    19.89    20.01    20.04       .1

Construction....................................  19.54    19.86    20.02    20.06    20.12    20.17       .2

Manufacturing...................................  16.60    16.79    16.80    16.80    16.83    16.82      -.1
   Excluding overtime(4)........................  15.73    15.90    15.91    15.93    15.98    15.98       .0

 Durable goods..................................  17.38    17.65    17.68    17.69    17.73    17.74       .1

 Nondurable goods...............................  15.30    15.33    15.30    15.28    15.29    15.26      -.2

     Private service-providing..................  15.80    16.27    16.34    16.43    16.46    16.52       .4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............  14.98    15.30    15.38    15.48    15.48    15.51       .2

 Wholesale trade................................  18.26    18.79    18.84    18.94    18.99    19.06       .4

 Retail trade...................................  12.35    12.54    12.60    12.66    12.64    12.67       .2

 Transportation and warehousing.................  16.82    17.04    17.19    17.36    17.32    17.37       .3

 Utilities......................................  26.95    27.34    27.47    27.57    27.49    27.43      -.2

Information.....................................  22.32    23.16    23.24    23.34    23.40    23.42       .1

Financial activities............................  18.01    18.64    18.69    18.79    18.86    19.00       .7

Professional and business services..............  18.15    18.93    18.98    19.15    19.16    19.26       .5

Education and health services...................  16.84    17.26    17.33    17.36    17.43    17.48       .3

Leisure and hospitality.........................   9.22     9.54     9.57     9.61     9.68     9.69       .1

Other services..................................  14.40    14.52    14.56    14.60    14.62    14.70       .5

  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 .0 percent from July 2006 to Aug. 2006, 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

Table B-5.  Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers(1) on private nonfarm payrolls
by industry sector and selected industry detail

(2002=100)


                                                   Not seasonally adjusted              Seasonally adjusted

                                                                                                                         Percent
                  Industry                      Sept.  July   Aug.   Sept.   Sept.  May    June   July   Aug.   Sept.  change from:
                                                2005   2006   2006p  2006p   2005   2006   2006   2006   2006p  2006p    Aug. 2006-
                                                                                                                        Sept. 2006p

        Total private.........................  103.8  107.2  106.8  105.8   103.1  104.7  105.1  105.2  105.1  105.0      -0.1

    Goods-producing...........................  101.8  103.9  105.5  104.2    98.6  101.7  102.4  102.6  102.4  101.4      -1.0

Natural resources and mining..................  119.6  128.3  129.0  127.7   116.3  121.4  125.4  126.1  124.7  124.1       -.5

Construction..................................  114.8  118.9  121.2  117.2   107.2  111.3  112.7  112.0  112.9  111.0      -1.7

Manufacturing.................................   95.3   96.0   97.1   97.1    93.9   96.4   96.9   97.0   96.7   96.0       -.7

 Durable goods................................   97.4   98.7  100.3   99.8    96.3   99.5  100.0  100.4  100.0   99.0      -1.0
  Wood products...............................  101.8  100.9  101.0   97.9    99.5  100.8   98.6   99.5   98.4   96.7      -1.7
  Nonmetallic mineral products................  100.0  102.7  103.1  101.2    95.7   99.7  100.5  100.3   99.2   98.2      -1.0
  Primary metals..............................   94.7   95.0   95.4   96.6    94.5   96.6   97.1   97.0   96.4   96.1       -.3
  Fabricated metal products...................   99.5  102.3  104.1  104.0    98.8  102.2  102.8  103.6  104.2  103.6       -.6
  Machinery...................................   99.4  104.1  103.0  103.7    99.1  102.2  102.9  104.7  103.9  103.4       -.5
  Computer and electronic products............   98.2  105.5  106.3  106.7    97.9  104.8  106.8  106.2  106.5  106.3       -.2
  Electrical equipment and appliances.........   88.5   90.7   91.2   91.1    87.8   90.8   91.6   91.9   91.1   90.6       -.5
  Transportation equipment....................   98.2   95.9  100.9  101.0    96.7  101.5  101.8  102.5  100.9   99.8      -1.1
   Motor vehicles and parts(2)................   98.2   86.9   94.5   93.8    96.7   95.8   96.6   95.1   94.4   92.6      -1.9
  Furniture and related products..............   92.6   89.2   91.3   88.9    91.3   90.4   90.1   89.0   89.3   87.5      -2.0
  Miscellaneous manufacturing.................   91.0   89.9   91.3   91.2    91.0   91.3   91.4   91.2   91.3   91.2       -.1

 Nondurable goods.............................   91.9   91.8   92.5   92.8    90.0   91.3   91.6   91.7   91.3   90.9       -.4
  Food manufacturing..........................   98.5   99.0  101.1  103.7    94.5   96.9   97.2   97.9   97.9   99.2       1.3
  Beverages and tobacco products..............   98.7  105.6  104.6  103.2    94.9  100.1   99.8  101.5  100.6  100.4       -.2
  Textile mills...............................   70.5   64.5   65.5   63.4    69.4   66.1   66.1   65.6   65.1   62.8      -3.5
  Textile product mills.......................   91.1   89.8   90.2   89.9    91.2   91.8   91.6   91.4   91.4   90.6       -.9
  Apparel.....................................   66.0   66.2   65.6   65.8    64.8   66.2   66.8   66.8   65.1   64.8       -.5
  Leather and allied products.................   80.4   73.3   74.9   73.2    79.6   76.6   75.4   75.4   75.4   73.2      -2.9
  Paper and paper products....................   89.8   88.1   87.7   86.9    88.1   87.5   88.0   88.0   87.2   86.0      -1.4
  Printing and related support activities.....   92.6   92.8   93.4   94.9    91.2   93.5   93.8   93.2   93.3   93.6        .3
  Petroleum and coal products.................  109.1  105.3  102.1  102.4   105.3  101.0  101.3  101.4  100.1   98.7      -1.4
  Chemicals...................................   96.0  100.0  100.1   98.3    96.4   99.2   99.9  100.2  100.5   99.2      -1.3
  Plastics and rubber products................   93.3   91.6   92.1   91.7    91.9   93.0   93.2   93.3   92.3   90.7      -1.7

     Private service-providing................  104.3  108.4  107.2  105.9   104.1  105.6  105.7  105.8  105.7  106.0        .3

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........  101.7  103.8  102.8  102.3   101.3  102.0  102.2  102.3  101.9  102.2        .3

 Wholesale trade..............................  102.5  106.6  105.4  105.0   102.0  104.4  104.7  104.8  104.8  104.9        .1

 Retail trade.................................  100.4  101.8  100.8   99.5   100.4  100.1   99.9   99.9   99.5   99.6        .1

 Transportation and warehousing...............  105.7  107.6  107.0  108.6   103.9  105.9  106.7  107.0  107.2  107.1       -.1

 Utilities....................................   95.7   97.2   97.1   96.5    94.5   95.7   95.3   96.2   96.5   95.5      -1.0

Information...................................   99.9  103.4  102.4  101.2   100.5  100.8  101.2  101.5  101.7  101.8        .1

Financial activities..........................  104.1  110.3  107.5  106.7   105.1  106.6  107.0  107.4  107.0  107.8        .7

Professional and business services............  107.9  112.8  112.3  111.0   106.9  109.6  110.6  110.8  110.4  110.4        .0

Education and health services.................  106.2  107.3  106.9  108.3   107.2  108.3  108.4  108.3  108.8  108.8        .0

Leisure and hospitality.......................  107.1  119.2  116.8  109.1   106.6  107.7  107.8  108.1  107.9  108.4        .5

Other services................................   95.5   99.0   98.0   95.8    96.0   96.8   96.7   96.4   96.5   96.3       -.2


  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.
  p = preliminary.
  NOTE:  The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours
by the corresponding 2002 annual average levels.  Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average
weekly hours and production or nonsupervisory worker employment.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                               ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6.  Indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls of production or nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls
by industry sector and selected industry detail

(2002=100)


                                                   Not seasonally adjusted              Seasonally adjusted

                                                                                                                         Percent
                  Industry                      Sept.  July   Aug.   Sept.   Sept.  May    June   July   Aug.   Sept.  change from:
                                                2005   2006   2006p  2006p   2005   2006   2006   2006   2006p  2006p    Aug. 2006-
                                                                                                                        Sept. 2006p

        Total private.........................  112.7  119.9  119.3  119.4   111.6  116.4  117.4  118.0  118.1  118.3       0.2

    Goods-producing...........................  110.8  114.6  116.9  116.0   106.6  111.7  112.8  113.1  113.2  112.2       -.9

Natural resources and mining..................  131.6  147.9  149.4  147.8   128.8  139.8  144.8  145.9  145.1  144.7       -.3

Construction..................................  122.0  129.3  132.5  128.8   113.1  119.4  121.8  121.3  122.7  120.9      -1.5

Manufacturing.................................  103.8  105.0  106.7  107.2   101.9  105.9  106.4  106.6  106.5  105.6       -.8

 Durable goods................................  106.1  108.1  110.9  111.0   104.4  109.6  110.4  110.9  110.6  109.7       -.8

 Nondurable goods.............................   99.6   99.5   99.6  100.2    97.3   98.9   99.0   99.1   98.7   98.1       -.6

     Private service-providing................  113.1  121.8  120.1  120.1   113.0  118.0  118.6  119.4  119.5  120.3        .7

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........  108.8  114.9  113.1  113.4   108.3  111.3  112.2  112.9  112.6  113.0        .4

 Wholesale trade..............................  110.1  119.7  117.3  117.8   109.7  115.6  116.2  116.9  117.3  117.8        .4

 Retail trade.................................  106.5  110.7  109.0  108.3   106.3  107.5  107.9  108.4  107.7  108.1        .4

 Transportation and warehousing...............  112.8  118.9  117.7  119.8   110.9  114.5  116.3  117.9  117.8  118.0        .2

 Utilities....................................  108.6  111.4  110.4  111.1   106.3  109.2  109.3  110.7  110.7  109.4      -1.2

Information...................................  110.7  118.8  118.3  117.8   111.0  115.6  116.4  117.2  117.8  118.0        .2

Financial activities..........................  116.0  128.2  124.9  125.4   117.0  122.8  123.7  124.8  124.7  126.6       1.5

Professional and business services............  115.9  129.0  126.5  126.3   115.4  123.5  124.9  126.2  125.9  126.5        .5

Education and health services.................  117.8  122.6  122.3  124.6   118.6  122.8  123.5  123.6  124.6  125.0        .3

Leisure and hospitality.......................  115.2  131.9  130.6  123.5   114.6  119.8  120.3  121.1  121.7  122.5        .7

Other services................................  100.2  104.5  103.6  102.8   100.7  102.4  102.6  102.5  102.8  103.1        .3

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.
  NOTE:  The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate
payrolls by the corresponding 2002 annual average levels.  Aggregate payroll estimates are the product of estimates of
average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and production or nonsupervisory worker employment.





ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                              ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7.  Diffusion indexes of employment change

(Percent)


       Time span           Jan.     Feb.     Mar.     Apr.      May     June     July     Aug.    Sept.     Oct.     Nov.     Dec.

                                                        Private nonfarm payrolls, 278 industries(1)


Over 1-month span:
     2002 ..............   40.8     36.5     38.3     38.7     40.1     46.0     43.7     43.3     41.7     41.9     41.5     36.0
     2003 ..............   44.1     37.9     34.9     38.3     42.8     38.8     37.6     39.7     50.7     49.8     52.0     51.3
     2004 ..............   51.6     49.5     62.4     65.5     62.4     57.7     52.7     52.0     57.0     54.3     55.0     54.1
     2005 ..............   50.7     57.7     56.7     54.7     54.5     56.7     59.2     54.1     51.4     53.4     61.7     58.6
     2006 ..............   61.0     59.9     58.5     64.4     55.8     56.8     53.8   p 55.6   p 51.4


Over 3-month span:
     2002 ..............   34.5     36.2     35.6     35.8     34.9     38.8     38.5     44.8     37.6     39.7     37.2     39.6
     2003 ..............   40.6     34.2     34.7     32.7     35.3     41.7     38.5     33.8     42.6     47.8     49.8     50.5
     2004 ..............   54.3     53.4     57.6     63.1     69.4     68.3     58.8     55.6     57.4     56.5     59.9     55.2
     2005 ..............   52.9     56.7     59.2     60.4     56.8     60.8     60.4     59.7     57.9     52.2     57.0     63.7
     2006 ..............   66.2     65.5     63.3     63.7     63.8     59.7     56.7   p 59.5   p 53.2


Over 6-month span:
     2002 ..............   30.2     30.6     31.5     30.9     32.0     36.3     35.8     37.6     34.5     36.0     36.7     35.3
     2003 ..............   34.4     31.8     31.8     34.0     32.7     36.2     33.3     32.4     40.5     45.3     46.4     47.7
     2004 ..............   49.8     52.3     54.7     60.8     63.3     63.8     63.1     63.5     59.0     61.3     55.9     55.6
     2005 ..............   55.4     57.7     57.4     58.8     55.2     58.6     60.8     59.5     60.6     57.7     58.5     60.6
     2006 ..............   61.2     61.5     63.1     67.6     65.5     65.8     62.9   p 61.5   p 60.8


Over 12-month span:
     2002 ..............   33.6     31.7     30.2     30.4     30.2     29.1     32.0     31.3     30.0     29.5     32.9     34.7
     2003 ..............   34.5     31.5     32.9     33.5     34.2     35.1     32.7     33.1     37.1     36.7     37.2     39.2
     2004 ..............   40.3     42.1     44.8     48.4     50.7     57.7     57.0     55.2     56.7     58.3     60.1     60.3
     2005 ..............   60.1     61.0     59.5     58.6     58.6     59.4     60.8     61.0     60.8     58.3     58.8     62.1
     2006 ..............   61.3     61.0     62.2     62.6     64.0     65.3     60.8   p 62.8   p 62.8

                                                        Manufacturing payrolls, 84 industries(1)


Over 1-month span:
     2002 ..............   19.6     21.4     18.5     29.2     25.0     30.4     36.9     25.6     28.6     17.9     17.9     19.6
     2003 ..............   32.7     19.6     19.6     10.7     23.2     19.0     19.6     29.2     28.6     36.3     42.3     40.5
     2004 ..............   44.0     47.6     44.6     64.9     53.6     45.8     56.5     52.4     41.7     42.3     39.9     39.3
     2005 ..............   39.3     38.7     38.7     42.3     44.6     34.5     47.6     35.7     45.2     43.5     50.0     52.4
     2006 ..............   59.5     48.8     49.4     57.7     50.0     60.7     45.2   p 43.5   p 40.5


Over 3-month span:
     2002 ..............    9.5      9.5     11.3     17.9     14.9     17.9     22.6     25.6     22.6     17.3      9.5     11.9
     2003 ..............   18.5     11.3     12.5      8.3      7.7     11.3     14.9     15.5     16.7     27.4     32.1     35.7
     2004 ..............   43.5     42.3     43.5     53.6     57.7     58.9     53.6     48.8     48.2     40.5     38.1     31.0
     2005 ..............   35.7     39.9     42.9     39.9     37.5     41.1     39.3     35.7     39.9     36.3     36.9     50.0
     2006 ..............   56.0     51.8     48.8     50.6     48.8     51.2     48.8   p 51.2   p 36.9


Over 6-month span:
     2002 ..............    7.1      8.3      7.7      8.3      8.3     11.9     12.5     11.9     13.7      8.9      7.1      7.7
     2003 ..............   11.3     11.3      8.3      9.5     10.7      9.5      6.0      8.9     13.7     18.5     24.4     23.8
     2004 ..............   28.6     33.3     33.3     45.8     47.6     51.2     56.0     51.8     48.2     49.4     39.3     35.7
     2005 ..............   36.9     36.9     35.1     33.3     33.3     32.7     36.9     36.9     41.1     41.7     39.3     42.3
     2006 ..............   37.5     45.8     45.2     51.2     48.2     51.8     45.2   p 45.8   p 47.6


Over 12-month span:
     2002 ..............    7.1      6.0      6.0      6.5      7.1      3.6      4.8      6.0      4.8      7.1      4.8      8.3
     2003 ..............   10.7      6.0      6.5      6.0      8.3      7.1      7.1      8.3     10.7     10.7      9.5     10.7
     2004 ..............   13.1     14.3     13.1     20.2     23.2     35.7     36.9     38.1     36.3     44.0     44.6     44.6
     2005 ..............   44.6     44.6     41.7     40.5     39.9     33.3     32.7     31.0     32.1     39.3     35.7     40.5
     2006 ..............   41.1     39.9     39.9     42.9     41.7     46.4     42.9   p 43.5   p 45.2

  1 Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span.
  p = preliminary.
  NOTE:  Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with
unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing
employment.