Technical information:
   Household data:   (202) 691-6378    USDL 06-160
            http://www.bls.gov/cps/

   Establishment data:     691-6555    Transmission of material in this release
            http://www.bls.gov/ces/    is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EST),
Media contact:             691-5902    Friday, February 3, 2006.
                                        
                                        
                     THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  JANUARY 2006
                                        
   Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 193,000 in January, and the
unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.  Job gains occurred in several
industries, including construction, mining, food services and drinking places,
health care, and financial activities.

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

   The number of unemployed persons fell to 7.0 million in January, and the
unemployment rate decreased to 4.7 percent, seasonally adjusted.  The unemploy-
ment rate had ranged from 4.9 to 5.1 percent during most of 2005.  The jobless
rate for adult men declined to 4.0 percent in January.  For other major worker
groups--adult women (4.3 percent), teenagers (15.3 percent), whites (4.1 per-
cent), blacks (8.9 percent), and Hispanics (5.8 percent)--unemployment rates
were essentially unchanged.  The rate for black teens, which had an unusually
large decline in December, rose to 31.4 percent in January.  The unemployment
rate for Asians was 3.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted.  (See tables A-1,
A-2, and A-3.)
   
   In January, 16.3 percent of the unemployed had been without a job for 27
weeks or longer, down from 18.2 percent in the prior month.  In January 2005,
the proportion was 21.0 percent.  (See table A-9.)
   
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   Total employment continued to trend upward in January.  The labor force
participation rate and the employment-population ratio showed little or no
change over the month, at 66.0 and 62.9 percent, respectively.  (See
table A-1.)


     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    |                Establishment and Household Data Changes               |
    |                                                                       |
    |    The establishment survey data in this release have been revised    |
    | as a result of the annual benchmarking process and the updating of    |
    | seasonal adjustment factors.  See the note beginning on page 5 for    |
    | more information on the revisions.                                    |        
    |                                                                       |
    |    In addition, household survey data for January 2006 reflect up-    |
    | dated population controls.  See the note on page 6 for more informa-  |
    | tion.   Also, new seasonally adjusted employment data for multiple    |
    | jobholders have been added to table A-6 of this release.              |          
     -----------------------------------------------------------------------

                                  - 2 -

Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
______________________________________________________________________________
                         |    Quarterly    |                          |
                         |    averages     |       Monthly data       |
                         |_________________|__________________________| Dec.-
        Category         |      2005       |       2005      |  2006  | Jan.
                         |_________________|_________________|________|change
                         |  III   |   IV   |  Nov.  |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |
 ________________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
     HOUSEHOLD DATA      |                 Labor force status
                         |____________________________________________________
Civilian labor force.....| 149,827| 150,126| 150,183| 150,153| 150,114|  (1)
  Employment.............| 142,324| 142,671| 142,611| 142,779| 143,074|  (1)
  Unemployment...........|   7,503|   7,455|   7,572|   7,375|   7,040|  (1)
Not in labor force.......|  76,595|  77,070|  77,021|  77,271|  77,439|  (1)
                         |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                         |                 Unemployment rates
                         |____________________________________________________
All workers..............|     5.0|     5.0|     5.0|     4.9|     4.7|   -0.2
  Adult men..............|     4.4|     4.3|     4.3|     4.3|     4.0|    -.3
  Adult women............|     4.6|     4.5|     4.6|     4.5|     4.3|    -.2
  Teenagers..............|    16.1|    16.1|    17.1|    15.2|    15.3|     .1
  White..................|     4.3|     4.3|     4.2|     4.3|     4.1|    -.2
  Black or African       |        |        |        |        |        |
    American.............|     9.5|     9.7|    10.6|     9.3|     8.9|    -.4
  Hispanic or Latino     |        |        |        |        |        |
    ethnicity............|     6.0|     6.0|     6.1|     6.0|     5.8|    -.2
                         |________|________|________|________|________|_______
  ESTABLISHMENT DATA(2)  |                     Employment
                         |____________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment.......| 133,750|p134,160| 134,231|p134,371|p134,564|   p193
  Goods-producing(3).....|  22,140| p22,239|  22,264| p22,273| p22,331|    p58
    Construction.........|   7,305|  p7,390|   7,409|  p7,414|  p7,460|    p46
    Manufacturing........|  14,208| p14,208|  14,214| p14,213| p14,220|     p7
  Service-providing(3)...| 111,610|p111,921| 111,967|p112,098|p112,233|   p135
    Retail trade(4)......|  15,297| p15,285|  15,293| p15,302| p15,301|    p-2
    Professional and     |        |        |        |        |        |
      business services..|  16,942| p17,060|  17,061| p17,129| p17,153|    p24
    Education and health |        |        |        |        |        |
      services...........|  17,411| p17,475|  17,481| p17,503| p17,542|    p39
    Leisure and          |        |        |        |        |        |
      hospitality........|  12,840| p12,872|  12,881| p12,896| p12,922|    p26
    Government.......... |  21,843| p21,869|  21,880| p21,875| p21,874|    p-1
                         |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                         |                  Hours of work(5)
                         |____________________________________________________
Total private............|    33.8|   p33.8|    33.8|   p33.8|   p33.8|   p0.0
  Manufacturing..........|    40.6|   p40.9|    40.8|   p40.8|   p40.8|    p.0
    Overtime.............|     4.5|    p4.6|     4.6|    p4.5|    p4.5|    p.0
                         |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                         |    Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)(5)
                         |____________________________________________________
Total private............|   102.9|  p103.4|   103.5|  p103.7|  p103.9|   p0.2
                         |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                         |                    Earnings(5)
                         |____________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings,    |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private..........|  $16.16| p$16.30|  $16.28| p$16.34| p$16.41| p$0.07
Avg. weekly earnings,    |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private..........|  545.78| p550.94|  550.26| p552.29| p554.66|  p2.37
_________________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
   1  Changes in household data levels are not shown due to the introduction
of updated population controls.  See the note on page 6 for more information.
   2  Establishment data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark
levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.  See the note on page 5 for
more information.
   3  Includes other industries, not shown separately.
   4  Quarterly averages and the over-the-month change are calculated using
unrounded data.
   5  Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
   P = preliminary.

                                  - 3 -
   
Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   About 1.6 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally at-
tached to the labor force in January, down from 1.8 million a year earlier.
These were people who wanted and were available for work and had looked for
a job sometime in the prior 12 months but were not counted as unemployed
because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
The number of discouraged workers--a subset of the marginally attached who
were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no
jobs were available for them--was 396,000 in January, a decrease of 119,000
from a year earlier.  (See table A-13.)
   
Employment Status of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees (Household Survey Data)

   Beginning in October, 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 of 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 by the time
of the survey.
   
   These additional questions provided information to analyze the employment
status of this subgroup of evacuees.  The total number of evacuees estimated
from the household survey may change from month to month as people move in
and out of the scope of the survey.
   
   Information gathered in January showed that about 1.2 million persons age
16 and over had evacuated from where they were living in August due to Hurri-
cane Katrina.  These evacuees either had returned to their homes or were liv-
ing in other residential units covered in the survey in January.  About
600,000 of the evacuees had returned to their August 2005 residences.  Of all
evacuees identified, 56.8 percent were in the labor force in January.  The em-
ployment-population ratio for these evacuees was 48.4 percent.  The unemploy-
ment rate for persons identified as evacuees was 14.7 percent; it was much
higher for evacuees who had not returned home (26.3 percent) than for those
who had returned (2.9 percent).  (See table B.)


Table B.  Employment status in January 2006 of persons 16 years and
over who evacuated from their August residence, even temporarily, due
to Hurricane Katrina (1)

(Numbers in thousands, not seasonally adjusted)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     |       |  Residence in January
                                     |       |-------------------------
  Employment status in January 2006  | Total | Same as | Different than
                                     |       |in August|   in August
-------------------------------------------------------|---------------
Civilian noninstitutional population.| 1,245 |    575  |      670
  Civilian labor force...............|   707 |    351  |      355
        Participation rate.......... |  56.8 |   61.1  |     53.1
     Employed........................|   603 |    341  |      262
        Employment-population ratio..|  48.4 |   59.3  |     39.1
     Unemployed......................|   104 |     10  |       94
        Unemployment rate............|  14.7 |    2.9  |     26.3
  Not in labor force.................|   538 |    224  |      314
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   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 varia-
bility.
   NOTE:  These data use population controls that have been adjusted to
account for interstate moves by evacuees.

                                  - 4 -

Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 193,000 in January to 134.6 mil-
lion, seasonally adjusted.  This followed job gains of 354,000 in November
and 140,000 in December (as revised).  Since January 2005, job gains have
averaged 174,000 per month.  (See table B-1.)
   
   In January, construction employment increased by 46,000; over the year,
construction employment has risen by 345,000.  Specialty trade contractors
added 28,000 jobs over the month, while residential building and heavy and
civil engineering construction added 8,000 each.  Mining continued its upward
trend in January, adding 6,000 jobs.  Support activities for mining, particu-
larly those related to oil and gas, accounted for two-thirds of the over-the-
month gain.
   
   Elsewhere in the goods-producing sector, manufacturing employment was little
changed for the second month in a row.  Within durable goods, employment gains
in nonmetallic mineral products (6,000) and primary metals (3,000) were par-
tially offset by a decline in computer and electronic products (-6,000).
   
   In the service-providing sector, employment in health care and social
assistance rose by 38,000 in January.  Ambulatory health care services (which
includes doctors' offices and home health care) added 15,000 jobs.  Job growth
also occurred in hospitals (7,000) and in nursing and residential care facili-
ties (7,000).  Health care employment has increased by 287,000 over the year.
Employment in social assistance continued to trend up in January and has grown
by 77,000 over the year.
   
   Over the month, financial activities employment was up by 21,000, following
little change in December.  Credit intermediation added 11,000 jobs in January,
and real estate employment rose by 10,000.
   
   Employment in food services and drinking places grew by 31,000 in January;
over the year, this industry has added 214,000 jobs.  In January, wholesale
trade employment increased by 15,000.  Employment in retail trade was flat over
the month and has shown no net growth since July 2005.
   
   Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up over
the month (24,000); the number of jobs in the industry has increased by 515,000
over the year.  In January, computer systems design services gained 7,000 jobs.
Temporary help services employment was little changed over the month but has
increased by 187,000 over the year.  Following a strong employment increase in
December, accounting and bookkeeping services lost 18,000 jobs in January.
   
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private
nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.8 hours in January, seasonally adjusted.
The manufacturing workweek and factory overtime also were unchanged at 40.8
hours and 4.5 hours, respectively.  (See table B-2.)

   The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers
on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.2 percent in January to 103.9
(2002=100).  The manufacturing index also increased by 0.2 percent over the
month to 94.9.  (See table B-5.)

Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)

   Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private
nonfarm payrolls increased by 7 cents in January to $16.41, seasonally adjusted.
Average weekly earnings increased by 0.4 percent over the month to $554.66.
Over the year, average hourly earnings increased by 3.3 percent and average
weekly earnings increased by 3.6 percent.  (See table B-3.)


                         ______________________________


   The Employment Situation for February 2006 is scheduled to be released on
Friday, March 10, at 8:30 A.M. (EST).

                                  - 5 -

                     Revisions to Establishment Survey Data
                                          
  
  In accordance with annual practice, the establishment survey data have been
revised to reflect comprehensive universe counts of payroll jobs, or benchmarks.
These counts are derived principally from unemployment insurance tax records for
March 2005.  As a result of the benchmark process, all not seasonally adjusted
data series were subject to revision from April 2004 forward, the time period
since the last benchmark was established.  In addition, with this release, the
seasonally adjusted establishment survey data from January 2001 forward were
subject to revision due to the introduction of updated seasonal adjustment
factors.
  
  Table C presents revised total nonfarm employment data on a seasonally ad-
justed basis for January through December 2005.  The revised data for April
2005 forward incorporate the effect of applying the rate of change measured
by the sample to the new benchmark level, as well as updated net business
birth/death model adjustments and new seasonal adjustment factors.  The
November and December 2005 revisions also reflect the routine incorporation
of additional sample receipts into the November final and December second
preliminary estimates.  The total nonfarm employment level for March 2005
was revised downward by 158,000 (119,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis).
The previously published level for December 2005 was revised downward by
144,000 (97,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis).
  
  The February 2006 issue of Employment and Earnings will contain an article
that discusses the benchmark and post-benchmark revisions.  This issue also will
provide revised estimates for all regularly published tables containing national
establishment survey data on employment, hours, and earnings.
  
  LABSTAT, the BLS public database on the Internet, contains all revised
historical Current Employment Statistics (CES) data.  The data can be accessed
through the CES homepage at http://www.bls.gov/ces/.
  
  Further information on the revisions released today may be obtained by
calling 202-691-6555 or via the Internet on the CES homepage.
  
  
Table C.  Revisions in total nonfarm employment, seasonally adjusted,
January-December 2005

(In thousands)
_______________________________________________________________________
               |                     |
               |       Levels        |      Over-the-month changes
               |---------------------|---------------------------------
 Year and month|    As    |    As    |    As    |    As    |
               |previously|  revised |previously|  revised | Difference
               |published |          |published |          |
_______________|__________|__________|__________|__________|___________
      2005     |          |          |          |          |
January........|  132,573 |  132,471 |    124   |    76    |    -48
February.......|  132,873 |  132,736 |    300   |   265    |    -35
March..........|  132,995 |  132,876 |    122   |   140    |     18
April..........|  133,287 |  133,104 |    292   |   228    |    -64
May............|  133,413 |  133,210 |    126   |   106    |    -20
June...........|  133,588 |  133,376 |    175   |   166    |     -9
July...........|  133,865 |  133,617 |    277   |   241    |    -36
August.........|  134,013 |  133,792 |    148   |   175    |     27
September......|  134,030 |  133,840 |     17   |    48    |     31
October........|  134,055 |  133,877 |     25   |    37    |     12
November.......|  134,360 |  134,231 |    305   |   354    |     49
December(p)....|  134,468 |  134,371 |    108   |   140    |     32
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   p = preliminary.

                                  - 6 -

        Adjustments to Population Estimates for the Household Survey
  
  
  Effective with the data for January 2006, updated population controls
have been used in the household survey.  Population controls for the
household survey are developed by the U.S. Census Bureau.  Each year, the
Census Bureau updates the controls to reflect new information and assump-
tions about the growth of the population.  The change in population re-
flected in the new controls results from adjustments to the estimates of
net international migration and updated vital statistics information.

  Official population and labor force estimates for December 2005 and
earlier months will not be revised.  To assess the impact of the updated
population controls on trend growth, however, December 2005 estimates for
selected data series (not seasonally adjusted) were recalculated using the
new controls, and the differences from estimates based on the old controls
are shown in table D. The adjustments decreased the estimated size of the
civilian noninstitutional population by 67,000, the civilian labor force
by 130,000, and employment by 123,000; the new population controls had
a negligible impact on unemployment rates and other percentage estimates.
More detailed information on the population adjustments and their effect
on national labor force estimates are available at http://www.bls.gov/
cps/cps06adj.pdf on the Internet and also will be published in the
February 2006 issue of Employment and Earnings.


Table D.  Effect of the revised population controls on December 2005
estimates by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, not seasonally
adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
--------------------- -------------------------------------------------
                         |     |     |     |     |       |     | His-
                         |     |     |     |     | Black |     | panic
          Category       |     |     |     |     |  or   |     |  or
                         |Total| Men |Women|White|African|Asian| Latino
                         |     |     |     |     | Ameri-|     | ethni-
                         |     |     |     |     |  can  |     |  city
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Civilian noninstitutional|     |     |     |     |       |     |
  population ............| -67 | -31 | -36 | -12 |    7  | -70 | -108
  Civilian labor force...|-130 | -67 | -64 | -89 |    3  | -49 |  -87
    Employed............ |-123 | -61 | -62 | -82 |    2  | -47 |  -81
    Unemployed...........|  -8 |  -6 |  -2 |  -7 |    1  |  -2 |   -6
      Unemployment rate..|  .0 |  .0 |  .0 |  .0 |   .0  |  .0 |   .0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   NOTE:  Detail for men and women may not sum to totals because of
rounding.  Estimates for the above race groups (white, black or African
American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented
for all races.  In addition, persons whose ethnicity is identified as
Hispanic or Latino may be of any race and, therefore, are classified by
ethnicity as well as by race.





                                  - 7 -

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.
                                  
                                  - 8 -
 
   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.
 
                                  - 9 -
 
   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.
 
                                  - 10 -
 
   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.

   Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired
individuals upon request.  Voice phone:  202-691-5200; TDD message referral
phone:  1-800-877-8339.
 
 
 
 
     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                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                           TOTAL                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   224,837    227,425    227,553    224,837    226,693    226,959    227,204    227,425    227,553 
       Civilian labor force............................   147,125    149,874    149,090    147,956    150,083    150,043    150,183    150,153    150,114 
             Participation rate........................      65.4       65.9       65.5       65.8       66.2       66.1       66.1       66.0       66.0 
         Employed......................................   138,682    142,918    141,481    140,234    142,435    142,625    142,611    142,779    143,074 
             Employment-population ratio...............      61.7       62.8       62.2       62.4       62.8       62.8       62.8       62.8       62.9 
         Unemployed....................................     8,444      6,956      7,608      7,723      7,648      7,418      7,572      7,375      7,040 
             Unemployment rate.........................       5.7        4.6        5.1        5.2        5.1        4.9        5.0        4.9        4.7 
       Not in labor force..............................    77,712     77,550     78,463     76,881     76,610     76,916     77,021     77,271     77,439 
         Persons who currently want a job..............     5,136      4,808      5,095      4,974      4,945      4,994      4,887      5,167      4,962 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 16 years and over                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   108,489    109,863    109,936    108,489    109,475    109,616    109,745    109,863    109,936 
       Civilian labor force............................    78,574     80,140     79,814     79,177     80,333     80,249     80,394     80,431     80,525 
             Participation rate........................      72.4       72.9       72.6       73.0       73.4       73.2       73.3       73.2       73.2 
         Employed......................................    73,728     76,287     75,605     74,980     76,257     76,396     76,410     76,529     76,857 
             Employment-population ratio...............      68.0       69.4       68.8       69.1       69.7       69.7       69.6       69.7       69.9 
         Unemployed....................................     4,846      3,854      4,209      4,197      4,076      3,853      3,984      3,902      3,668 
             Unemployment rate.........................       6.2        4.8        5.3        5.3        5.1        4.8        5.0        4.9        4.6 
       Not in labor force..............................    29,914     29,722     30,122     29,311     29,142     29,367     29,351     29,432     29,411 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   100,219    101,489    101,560    100,219    101,136    101,265    101,383    101,489    101,560 
       Civilian labor force............................    75,322     76,670     76,513     75,650     76,792     76,780     76,722     76,786     76,928 
             Participation rate........................      75.2       75.5       75.3       75.5       75.9       75.8       75.7       75.7       75.7 
         Employed......................................    71,104     73,315     72,864     72,092     73,331     73,500     73,441     73,468     73,844 
             Employment-population ratio...............      70.9       72.2       71.7       71.9       72.5       72.6       72.4       72.4       72.7 
         Unemployed....................................     4,218      3,355      3,648      3,558      3,461      3,281      3,282      3,318      3,084 
             Unemployment rate.........................       5.6        4.4        4.8        4.7        4.5        4.3        4.3        4.3        4.0 
       Not in labor force..............................    24,897     24,819     25,047     24,569     24,344     24,485     24,660     24,703     24,631 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 16 years and over                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   116,348    117,562    117,617    116,348    117,218    117,343    117,459    117,562    117,617 
       Civilian labor force............................    68,551     69,734     69,276     68,779     69,750     69,794     69,789     69,722     69,589 
             Participation rate........................      58.9       59.3       58.9       59.1       59.5       59.5       59.4       59.3       59.2 
         Employed......................................    64,953     66,631     65,876     65,254     66,178     66,229     66,200     66,250     66,217 
             Employment-population ratio...............      55.8       56.7       56.0       56.1       56.5       56.4       56.4       56.4       56.3 
         Unemployed....................................     3,598      3,102      3,399      3,525      3,572      3,565      3,588      3,473      3,372 
             Unemployment rate.........................       5.2        4.4        4.9        5.1        5.1        5.1        5.1        5.0        4.8 
       Not in labor force..............................    47,798     47,828     48,341     47,569     47,468     47,549     47,670     47,840     48,028 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   108,316    109,425    109,478    108,316    109,114    109,228    109,332    109,425    109,478 
       Civilian labor force............................    65,253     66,376     65,929     65,260     66,129     66,175     66,223     66,215     66,022 
             Participation rate........................      60.2       60.7       60.2       60.2       60.6       60.6       60.6       60.5       60.3 
         Employed......................................    62,117     63,669     62,997     62,236     63,074     63,162     63,170     63,249     63,163 
             Employment-population ratio...............      57.3       58.2       57.5       57.5       57.8       57.8       57.8       57.8       57.7 
         Unemployed....................................     3,136      2,707      2,933      3,024      3,055      3,013      3,053      2,966      2,859 
             Unemployment rate.........................       4.8        4.1        4.4        4.6        4.6        4.6        4.6        4.5        4.3 
       Not in labor force..............................    43,063     43,048     43,548     43,056     42,985     43,053     43,109     43,209     43,456 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    16,302     16,511     16,515     16,302     16,443     16,465     16,489     16,511     16,515 
       Civilian labor force............................     6,550      6,828      6,648      7,046      7,163      7,088      7,238      7,152      7,164 
             Participation rate........................      40.2       41.4       40.3       43.2       43.6       43.0       43.9       43.3       43.4 
         Employed......................................     5,460      5,934      5,620      5,906      6,030      5,964      6,000      6,061      6,067 
             Employment-population ratio...............      33.5       35.9       34.0       36.2       36.7       36.2       36.4       36.7       36.7 
         Unemployed....................................     1,090        894      1,028      1,140      1,133      1,124      1,238      1,091      1,097 
             Unemployment rate.........................      16.6       13.1       15.5       16.2       15.8       15.9       17.1       15.2       15.3 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,752      9,683      9,867      9,256      9,281      9,377      9,251      9,359      9,352 

       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.




   
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                 HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     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                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                           WHITE                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............   183,640    185,327    185,436    183,640    184,851    185,028    185,187    185,327    185,436 
       Civilian labor force............................   120,778    122,752    122,351    121,490    122,843    122,810    122,813    122,994    123,168 
           Participation rate..........................      65.8       66.2       66.0       66.2       66.5       66.4       66.3       66.4       66.4 
         Employed......................................   114,756    117,803    116,745    116,072    117,354    117,396    117,598    117,729    118,071 
           Employment-population ratio.................      62.5       63.6       63.0       63.2       63.5       63.4       63.5       63.5       63.7 
         Unemployed....................................     6,023      4,949      5,605      5,419      5,489      5,415      5,215      5,264      5,097 
           Unemployment rate...........................       5.0        4.0        4.6        4.5        4.5        4.4        4.2        4.3        4.1 
       Not in labor force..............................    62,862     62,575     63,085     62,150     62,008     62,218     62,374     62,333     62,268 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................    62,929     63,925     63,890     63,264     63,849     63,901     63,827     64,028     64,250 
           Participation rate..........................      75.7       76.1       76.0       76.1       76.2       76.2       76.0       76.2       76.4 
         Employed......................................    59,849     61,455     61,100     60,713     61,280     61,465     61,498     61,586     61,924 
           Employment-population ratio.................      72.0       73.2       72.7       73.0       73.2       73.3       73.3       73.3       73.7 
         Unemployed....................................     3,080      2,470      2,790      2,551      2,568      2,436      2,328      2,441      2,326 
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.9        3.9        4.4        4.0        4.0        3.8        3.6        3.8        3.6 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................    52,399     53,175     52,900     52,335     52,971     52,998     53,037     53,067     52,913 
           Participation rate..........................      59.6       60.0       59.7       59.6       59.9       59.9       59.9       59.9       59.7 
         Employed......................................    50,272     51,365     50,847     50,301     50,851     50,856     50,976     51,034     50,938 
           Employment-population ratio.................      57.2       58.0       57.4       57.2       57.5       57.5       57.6       57.6       57.5 
         Unemployed....................................     2,128      1,810      2,052      2,034      2,120      2,141      2,061      2,034      1,974 
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.1        3.4        3.9        3.9        4.0        4.0        3.9        3.8        3.7 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................     5,450      5,651      5,561      5,892      6,023      5,912      5,949      5,899      6,005 
           Participation rate..........................      43.1       44.3       43.6       46.6       47.4       46.5       46.7       46.3       47.1 
         Employed......................................     4,636      4,983      4,798      5,058      5,222      5,074      5,123      5,110      5,209 
           Employment-population ratio.................      36.7       39.1       37.6       40.0       41.1       39.9       40.2       40.1       40.8 
         Unemployed....................................       815        669        763        834        801        838        826        789        797 
           Unemployment rate...........................      14.9       11.8       13.7       14.2       13.3       14.2       13.9       13.4       13.3 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN                                                                                                                
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    26,306     26,744     26,788     26,306     26,618     26,663     26,705     26,744     26,788 
       Civilian labor force............................    16,538     17,001     16,764     16,723     17,068     17,150     17,118     16,979     16,982 
           Participation rate..........................      62.9       63.6       62.6       63.6       64.1       64.3       64.1       63.5       63.4 
         Employed......................................    14,720     15,487     15,231     14,965     15,455     15,591     15,299     15,397     15,476 
           Employment-population ratio.................      56.0       57.9       56.9       56.9       58.1       58.5       57.3       57.6       57.8 
         Unemployed....................................     1,818      1,514      1,532      1,758      1,613      1,559      1,819      1,582      1,506 
           Unemployment rate...........................      11.0        8.9        9.1       10.5        9.5        9.1       10.6        9.3        8.9 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,768      9,743     10,024      9,584      9,549      9,513      9,587      9,766      9,806 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................     7,383      7,560      7,473      7,402      7,672      7,659      7,556      7,553      7,520 
           Participation rate..........................      69.9       70.3       69.4       70.0       71.7       71.4       70.4       70.2       69.8 
         Employed......................................     6,526      6,897      6,840      6,641      7,006      7,006      6,849      6,903      6,959 
           Employment-population ratio.................      61.7       64.1       63.5       62.8       65.5       65.3       63.8       64.2       64.6 
         Unemployed....................................       858        663        633        761        666        653        707        651        561 
           Unemployment rate...........................      11.6        8.8        8.5       10.3        8.7        8.5        9.4        8.6        7.5 
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................     8,439      8,667      8,587      8,532      8,664      8,726      8,714      8,633      8,681 
           Participation rate..........................      63.5       64.3       63.7       64.2       64.6       64.9       64.8       64.1       64.4 
         Employed......................................     7,683      7,965      7,892      7,777      7,959      8,069      7,927      7,896      7,981 
           Employment-population ratio.................      57.8       59.1       58.5       58.5       59.3       60.0       58.9       58.6       59.2 
         Unemployed....................................       756        702        695        755        705        658        787        738        700 
           Unemployment rate...........................       9.0        8.1        8.1        8.8        8.1        7.5        9.0        8.5        8.1 
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................       716        774        703        788        733        765        848        792        781 
           Participation rate..........................      29.2       30.7       27.9       32.2       29.4       30.6       33.8       31.5       30.9 
         Employed......................................       512        624        499        546        490        517        523        598        536 
           Employment-population ratio.................      20.9       24.8       19.8       22.3       19.7       20.7       20.8       23.8       21.2 
         Unemployed....................................       204        150        204        242        242        248        326        194        245 
           Unemployment rate...........................      28.6       19.3       29.0       30.7       33.1       32.4       38.4       24.4       31.4 
                                                                                                                                                          
                           ASIAN                                                                                                                          
     Civilian noninstutional population................     9,661     10,036      9,990      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
       Civilian labor force............................     6,386      6,652      6,565      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      66.1       66.3       65.7      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................     6,115      6,400      6,357      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      63.3       63.8       63.6      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       271        252        208      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       4.2        3.8        3.2      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
       Not in labor force..............................     3,274      3,384      3,425      (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.
 



   
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                    HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     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                                                                                                             
                                                            Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                            2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY                                                                                                              
     Civilian noninstitutional population..............    28,642     29,645     29,622     28,642     29,361     29,456     29,552     29,645     29,622 
       Civilian labor force............................    19,170     20,316     20,272     19,402     19,944     20,047     20,214     20,292     20,528 
           Participation rate..........................      66.9       68.5       68.4       67.7       67.9       68.1       68.4       68.4       69.3 
         Employed......................................    17,839     19,084     18,969     18,208     18,647     18,871     18,991     19,066     19,344 
           Employment-population ratio.................      62.3       64.4       64.0       63.6       63.5       64.1       64.3       64.3       65.3 
         Unemployed....................................     1,331      1,232      1,303      1,194      1,297      1,176      1,223      1,226      1,184 
           Unemployment rate...........................       6.9        6.1        6.4        6.2        6.5        5.9        6.1        6.0        5.8 
       Not in labor force..............................     9,472      9,329      9,349      9,239      9,417      9,409      9,338      9,353      9,094 
                                                                                                                                                          
                   Men, 20 years and over                                                                                                                 
       Civilian labor force............................    11,089     11,664     11,647      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      83.1       84.3       84.3      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................    10,404     11,071     11,002      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      78.0       80.0       79.6      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       685        593        645      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       6.2        5.1        5.5      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
                                                                                                                                                          
                  Women, 20 years and over                                                                                                                
       Civilian labor force............................     7,188      7,590      7,605      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      56.8       58.1       58.2      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................     6,717      7,135      7,142      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      53.1       54.6       54.7      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       471        455        464      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................       6.5        6.0        6.1      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
                                                                                                                                                          
                 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                                               
       Civilian labor force............................       893      1,061      1,020      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Participation rate..........................      33.7       38.7       37.3      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Employed......................................       718        878        825      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Employment-population ratio.................      27.1       32.0       30.2      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
         Unemployed....................................       175        184        195      (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)        (2)   
           Unemployment rate...........................      19.6       17.3       19.1      (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.




   
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                         HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     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                                                                                                                 
                                                            Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                            2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
              Less than a high school diploma                                                                                                             
     Civilian labor force..............................    12,562     12,490     12,621     12,597     12,729     12,502     12,529     12,388     12,628 
         Participation rate............................      44.7       45.6       45.9       44.8       45.2       45.4       45.4       45.3       46.0 
       Employed........................................    11,417     11,499     11,580     11,638     11,690     11,611     11,602     11,465     11,742 
         Employment-population ratio...................      40.6       42.0       42.1       41.4       41.5       42.1       42.1       41.9       42.7 
       Unemployed......................................     1,144        991      1,041        959      1,039        891        927        923        886 
         Unemployment rate.............................       9.1        7.9        8.2        7.6        8.2        7.1        7.4        7.5        7.0 
                                                                                                                                                          
           High school graduates, no college (1)                                                                                                          
     Civilian labor force..............................    38,002     38,167     38,018     37,870     38,324     38,467     38,372     38,173     38,001 
         Participation rate............................      62.6       63.1       62.5       62.4       63.9       63.8       63.4       63.1       62.5 
       Employed........................................    35,907     36,445     36,075     36,086     36,404     36,627     36,547     36,417     36,324 
         Employment-population ratio...................      59.2       60.3       59.3       59.5       60.7       60.8       60.4       60.2       59.7 
       Unemployed......................................     2,096      1,722      1,943      1,784      1,921      1,840      1,825      1,756      1,678 
         Unemployment rate.............................       5.5        4.5        5.1        4.7        5.0        4.8        4.8        4.6        4.4 
                                                                                                                                                          
              Some college or associate degree                                                                                                            
     Civilian labor force..............................    34,254     35,329     35,265     34,523     35,148     35,310     35,411     35,498     35,535 
         Participation rate............................      72.4       72.0       71.9       73.0       72.4       72.3       72.3       72.4       72.5 
       Employed........................................    32,740     33,978     33,917     33,125     33,866     33,967     34,059     34,115     34,290 
         Employment-population ratio...................      69.2       69.3       69.2       70.0       69.8       69.6       69.5       69.6       69.9 
       Unemployed......................................     1,514      1,350      1,348      1,398      1,282      1,343      1,352      1,383      1,246 
         Unemployment rate.............................       4.4        3.8        3.8        4.1        3.6        3.8        3.8        3.9        3.5 
                                                                                                                                                          
              Bachelor's degree and higher (2)                                                                                                            
     Civilian labor force..............................    40,789     42,100     41,818     40,764     41,558     41,616     41,600     42,097     41,837 
         Participation rate............................      78.2       78.4       78.2       78.1       78.1       77.7       78.1       78.4       78.3 
       Employed........................................    39,760     41,262     40,907     39,777     40,588     40,670     40,665     41,187     40,955 
         Employment-population ratio...................      76.2       76.8       76.5       76.2       76.3       75.9       76.3       76.7       76.6 
       Unemployed......................................     1,029        838        911        987        970        946        936        910        882 
         Unemployment rate.............................       2.5        2.0        2.2        2.4        2.3        2.3        2.2        2.2        2.1 

       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.





     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                     HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-5.  Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

     (In thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                          Category                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                      CLASS OF WORKER                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Agriculture and related industries................     1,920      1,942      1,970      2,138      2,140      2,126      2,154      2,130      2,198 
       Wage and salary workers.........................     1,042      1,058      1,118      1,197      1,118      1,161      1,187      1,187      1,266 
       Self-employed workers...........................       865        868        834        915        978        936        928        921        897 
       Unpaid family workers...........................        13         15         17      (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Nonagricultural industries........................   136,761    140,976    139,512    138,076    140,421    140,577    140,427    140,638    140,862 
       Wage and salary workers.........................   127,208    131,616    129,918    128,438    130,937    131,123    131,001    131,170    131,185 
         Government....................................    20,363     20,252     19,970     20,312     20,255     20,330     20,224     20,192     19,952 
         Private industries............................   106,846    111,364    109,948    108,173    110,688    110,799    110,787    111,021    111,266 
           Private households..........................       800        782        839      (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
           Other industries............................   106,045    110,582    109,109    107,372    109,858    109,986    110,039    110,261    110,440 
       Self-employed workers...........................     9,449      9,294      9,534      9,545      9,359      9,356      9,274      9,370      9,550 
       Unpaid family workers...........................       104         66         59      (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
                                                                                                                                                          
               PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME (2)                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                          
     All industries:                                                                                                                                      
       Part time for economic reasons..................     4,903      4,183      4,597      4,395      4,565      4,240      4,175      4,138      4,133 
         Slack work or business conditions.............     3,214      2,654      3,108      2,759      2,893      2,643      2,595      2,541      2,649 
         Could only find part-time work................     1,314      1,132      1,182      1,332      1,331      1,299      1,246      1,246      1,226 
       Part time for noneconomic reasons...............    19,207     20,420     19,908     19,088     19,581     19,696     19,612     19,582     19,708 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Nonagricultural industries:                                                                                                                          
       Part time for economic reasons..................     4,793      4,069      4,513      4,303      4,500      4,161      4,105      4,051      4,064 
         Slack work or business conditions.............     3,145      2,591      3,063      2,686      2,846      2,592      2,567      2,508      2,606 
         Could only find part-time work................     1,304      1,129      1,170      1,318      1,335      1,284      1,230      1,230      1,198 
       Part time for noneconomic reasons...............    18,866     20,040     19,545     18,738     19,207     19,255     19,235     19,214     19,368 

       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.




   
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                       HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-6.  Selected employment indicators

     (In thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                       Characteristic                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                        AGE AND SEX                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total, 16 years and over..........................   138,682    142,918    141,481    140,234    142,435    142,625    142,611    142,779    143,074 
       16 to 19 years..................................     5,460      5,934      5,620      5,906      6,030      5,964      6,000      6,061      6,067 
         16 to 17 years................................     2,089      2,270      2,099      2,269      2,290      2,290      2,285      2,334      2,280 
         18 to 19 years................................     3,371      3,664      3,522      3,636      3,739      3,673      3,694      3,713      3,788 
       20 years and over...............................   133,221    136,984    135,861    134,328    136,405    136,661    136,610    136,717    137,007 
         20 to 24 years................................    13,398     13,799     13,382     13,706     13,841     13,945     13,931     13,840     13,713 
         25 years and over.............................   119,824    123,185    122,479    120,691    122,601    122,719    122,731    122,906    123,302 
           25 to 54 years..............................    97,330     99,104     98,514     98,061     98,852     98,834     98,849     98,934     99,216 
             25 to 34 years............................    30,345     30,876     30,541     30,667     30,714     30,864     30,920     30,866     30,860 
             35 to 44 years............................    34,353     34,681     34,388     34,599     34,821     34,601     34,513     34,581     34,632 
             45 to 54 years............................    32,632     33,547     33,585     32,795     33,317     33,369     33,416     33,486     33,724 
           55 years and over...........................    22,493     24,081     23,965     22,629     23,748     23,885     23,883     23,972     24,086 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Men, 16 years and over............................    73,728     76,287     75,605     74,980     76,257     76,396     76,410     76,529     76,857 
       16 to 19 years..................................     2,624      2,972      2,741      2,888      2,926      2,896      2,970      3,061      3,013 
         16 to 17 years................................       942      1,041        942      1,067      1,053      1,043      1,062      1,090      1,064 
         18 to 19 years................................     1,682      1,931      1,799      1,816      1,865      1,848      1,890      1,951      1,943 
       20 years and over...............................    71,104     73,315     72,864     72,092     73,331     73,500     73,441     73,468     73,844 
         20 to 24 years................................     6,966      7,280      7,057      7,188      7,247      7,310      7,330      7,356      7,297 
         25 years and over.............................    64,139     66,034     65,807     64,930     66,035     66,192     66,142     66,157     66,534 
           25 to 54 years..............................    52,184     53,239     52,985     52,861     53,324     53,429     53,419     53,375     53,621 
             25 to 34 years............................    16,646     17,032     16,855     16,905     17,033     17,107     17,103     17,080     17,106 
             35 to 44 years............................    18,556     18,710     18,616     18,773     18,808     18,800     18,745     18,739     18,818 
             45 to 54 years............................    16,982     17,497     17,514     17,183     17,483     17,522     17,571     17,556     17,697 
           55 years and over...........................    11,954     12,795     12,822     12,069     12,711     12,763     12,723     12,782     12,913 
                                                                                                                                                          
     Women, 16 years and over..........................    64,953     66,631     65,876     65,254     66,178     66,229     66,200     66,250     66,217 
       16 to 19 years..................................     2,836      2,962      2,879      3,018      3,104      3,068      3,031      3,000      3,054 
         16 to 17 years................................     1,146      1,229      1,157      1,202      1,237      1,247      1,223      1,245      1,216 
         18 to 19 years................................     1,689      1,733      1,723      1,820      1,874      1,825      1,804      1,762      1,845 
       20 years and over...............................    62,117     63,669     62,997     62,236     63,074     63,162     63,170     63,249     63,163 
         20 to 24 years................................     6,432      6,519      6,325      6,519      6,594      6,635      6,601      6,484      6,415 
         25 years and over.............................    55,685     57,150     56,672     55,761     56,566     56,527     56,589     56,749     56,769 
           25 to 54 years..............................    45,146     45,865     45,529     45,200     45,528     45,405     45,430     45,559     45,596 
             25 to 34 years............................    13,699     13,844     13,685     13,762     13,680     13,757     13,817     13,786     13,754 
             35 to 44 years............................    15,797     15,971     15,772     15,826     16,013     15,801     15,768     15,843     15,814 
             45 to 54 years............................    15,650     16,050     16,071     15,612     15,835     15,847     15,845     15,930     16,027 
           55 years and over...........................    10,539     11,285     11,143     10,561     11,037     11,122     11,159     11,190     11,173 
                                                                                                                                                          
                       MARITAL STATUS                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Married men, spouse present.......................    44,853     45,708     45,530     45,195     45,457     45,634     45,480     45,469     45,790 
     Married women, spouse present.....................    34,880     35,438     35,388     34,696     34,943     34,868     34,910     34,948     35,167 
     Women who maintain families.......................     8,854      9,028      8,711      (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
                                                                                                                                                          
                 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Full-time workers (2).............................   114,181    117,791    116,395    115,939    117,469    117,783    117,860    118,135    118,166 
     Part-time workers (3).............................    24,501     25,127     25,086     24,254     25,009     24,898     24,814     24,743     24,931 
                                                                                                                                                          
                    MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total multiple jobholders.........................     7,225      7,665      7,428      7,446      7,616      7,564      7,545      7,473      7,603 
         Percent of total employed.....................       5.2        5.4        5.3        5.3        5.3        5.3        5.3        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.




    
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                      HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-7.  Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                    Number of                                                                             
                                                               unemployed persons                              Unemployment rates (1)                     
                                                                 (in thousands)                                                                           
                       Characteristic                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                        AGE AND SEX                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                          
     Total, 16 years and over..........................    7,723      7,375      7,040       5.2        5.1        4.9        5.0        4.9        4.7   
       16 to 19 years..................................    1,140      1,091      1,097      16.2       15.8       15.9       17.1       15.2       15.3   
         16 to 17 years................................      542        507        451      19.3       18.8       18.7       21.4       17.8       16.5   
         18 to 19 years................................      611        580        635      14.4       13.9       14.2       14.2       13.5       14.4   
       20 years and over...............................    6,582      6,284      5,943       4.7        4.6        4.4        4.4        4.4        4.2   
         20 to 24 years................................    1,433      1,283      1,224       9.5        8.7        8.5        8.4        8.5        8.2   
         25 years and over.............................    5,155      5,010      4,737       4.1        4.1        3.9        3.9        3.9        3.7   
           25 to 54 years..............................    4,323      4,227      3,924       4.2        4.2        4.1        4.1        4.1        3.8   
             25 to 34 years............................    1,639      1,625      1,482       5.1        5.4        4.8        5.0        5.0        4.6   
             35 to 44 years............................    1,477      1,381      1,317       4.1        3.7        3.9        3.9        3.8        3.7   
             45 to 54 years............................    1,207      1,221      1,125       3.5        3.5        3.6        3.5        3.5        3.2   
           55 years and over...........................      826        808        791       3.5        3.6        3.2        3.1        3.3        3.2   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Men, 16 years and over............................    4,197      3,902      3,668       5.3        5.1        4.8        5.0        4.9        4.6   
       16 to 19 years..................................      639        584        584      18.1       17.4       16.5       19.1       16.0       16.2   
         16 to 17 years................................      305        269        218      22.2       21.3       18.1       23.6       19.8       17.0   
         18 to 19 years................................      345        312        355      15.9       15.1       15.5       15.6       13.8       15.4   
       20 years and over...............................    3,558      3,318      3,084       4.7        4.5        4.3        4.3        4.3        4.0   
         20 to 24 years................................      818        743        711      10.2        9.8        9.4        9.1        9.2        8.9   
         25 years and over.............................    2,731      2,583      2,386       4.0        3.9        3.7        3.7        3.8        3.5   
           25 to 54 years..............................    2,246      2,154      1,960       4.1        4.0        3.8        3.8        3.9        3.5   
             25 to 34 years............................      840        785        748       4.7        5.0        4.4        4.5        4.4        4.2   
             35 to 44 years............................      749        725        625       3.8        3.5        3.5        3.6        3.7        3.2   
             45 to 54 years............................      658        643        588       3.7        3.5        3.5        3.3        3.5        3.2   
           55 years and over...........................      485        430        426       3.9        3.3        3.2        3.1        3.3        3.2   
                                                                                                                                                          
     Women, 16 years and over..........................    3,525      3,473      3,372       5.1        5.1        5.1        5.1        5.0        4.8   
       16 to 19 years..................................      501        507        513      14.2       14.3       15.2       15.0       14.4       14.4   
         16 to 17 years................................      237        238        233      16.5       16.6       19.1       19.5       16.1       16.1   
         18 to 19 years................................      267        268        281      12.8       12.6       12.8       12.7       13.2       13.2   
       20 years and over...............................    3,024      2,966      2,859       4.6        4.6        4.6        4.6        4.5        4.3   
         20 to 24 years................................      615        540        514       8.6        7.4        7.5        7.5        7.7        7.4   
         25 years and over.............................    2,424      2,427      2,351       4.2        4.3        4.2        4.3        4.1        4.0   
           25 to 54 years..............................    2,076      2,073      1,963       4.4        4.4        4.4        4.5        4.4        4.1   
             25 to 34 years............................      799        840        734       5.5        5.8        5.3        5.7        5.7        5.1   
             35 to 44 years............................      728        656        692       4.4        4.0        4.4        4.2        4.0        4.2   
             45 to 54 years............................      549        577        537       3.4        3.6        3.7        3.7        3.5        3.2   
           55 years and over (2).......................      360        340        381       3.3        3.9        3.1        3.1        2.9        3.3   
                                                                                                                                                          
                       MARITAL STATUS                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                          
     Married men, spouse present.......................    1,405      1,219      1,136       3.0        2.7        2.6        2.6        2.6        2.4   
     Married women, spouse present.....................    1,160      1,151      1,102       3.2        3.4        3.3        3.3        3.2        3.0   
     Women who maintain families (2)...................      788        671        778       8.2        7.6        7.3        7.2        6.9        8.2   
                                                                                                                                                          
                 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
     Full-time workers (3).............................    6,397      5,920      5,782       5.2        5.0        4.9        4.9        4.8        4.7   
     Part-time workers (4).............................    1,336      1,454      1,261       5.2        5.3        5.4        5.7        5.5        4.8   

       1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
       2 Not seasonally adjusted.
       3 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from
     full-time jobs.
       4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from
     part-time jobs.
       NOTE:  Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. 
     Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.




   
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                         HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-8.  Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                           Reason                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                    NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                                                       
      jobs.............................................    4,771      3,622      3,990      3,982      3,697      3,508      3,455      3,486      3,336  
       On temporary layoff.............................    1,473      1,013      1,319        962        970        944        899        935        873  
       Not on temporary layoff.........................    3,299      2,609      2,671      3,020      2,726      2,564      2,556      2,552      2,462  
         Permanent job losers..........................    2,360      1,866      1,861       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
         Persons who completed temporary jobs..........      938        743        810       (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)        (1)   
     Job leavers.......................................      820        752        831        815        874        889        900        841        839  
     Reentrants........................................    2,310      2,083      2,252      2,336      2,423      2,349      2,538      2,430      2,314  
     New entrants......................................      542        499        535        621        626        654        679        644        622  
                                                                                                                                                          
                    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............................................     56.5       52.1       52.4       51.4       48.5       47.4       45.6       47.1       46.9  
        On temporary layoff............................     17.4       14.6       17.3       12.4       12.7       12.8       11.9       12.6       12.3  
        Not on temporary layoff........................     39.1       37.5       35.1       39.0       35.8       34.7       33.8       34.5       34.6  
      Job leavers......................................      9.7       10.8       10.9       10.5       11.5       12.0       11.9       11.4       11.8  
      Reentrants.......................................     27.4       30.0       29.6       30.1       31.8       31.7       33.5       32.8       32.5  
      New entrants.....................................      6.4        7.2        7.0        8.0        8.2        8.8        9.0        8.7        8.7  
                                                                                                                                                          
               UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE                                                                                                             
                      CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                          
      Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                                                      
       jobs............................................      3.2        2.4        2.7        2.7        2.5        2.3        2.3        2.3        2.2  
      Job leavers......................................       .6         .5         .6         .6         .6         .6         .6         .6         .6  
      Reentrants.......................................      1.6        1.4        1.5        1.6        1.6        1.6        1.7        1.6        1.5  
      New entrants.....................................       .4         .3         .4         .4         .4         .4         .5         .4         .4  

       1 Data not available.
       NOTE:  Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                         HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-9.  Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                             Not seasonally adjusted                            Seasonally adjusted                       
                                                                                                                                                          
                          Duration                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                           Jan.       Dec.       Jan.       Jan.       Sept.      Oct.       Nov.       Dec.       Jan.   
                                                           2005       2005       2006       2005       2005       2005       2005       2005       2006   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                    NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Less than 5 weeks.................................    2,948      2,443      2,833      2,597      2,751      2,708      2,779      2,764      2,556  
     5 to 14 weeks.....................................    2,527      2,189      2,433      2,348      2,253      2,263      2,268      2,240      2,263  
     15 weeks and over.................................    2,969      2,324      2,343      2,821      2,584      2,477      2,492      2,417      2,241  
        15 to 26 weeks.................................    1,269      1,014      1,143      1,191      1,120      1,045      1,108      1,068      1,090  
        27 weeks and over..............................    1,700      1,310      1,200      1,630      1,464      1,432      1,383      1,350      1,151  
                                                                                                                                                          
     Average (mean) duration, in weeks.................     18.5       17.5       16.0       19.2       18.2       18.0       17.6       17.3       16.8  
     Median duration, in weeks.........................      9.2        8.6        8.3        9.3        8.5        8.6        8.5        8.5        8.4  
                                                                                                                                                          
                    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...............................     34.9       35.1       37.2       33.4       36.3       36.4       36.9       37.2       36.2  
       5 to 14 weeks...................................     29.9       31.5       32.0       30.2       29.7       30.4       30.1       30.2       32.1  
       15 weeks and over...............................     35.2       33.4       30.8       36.3       34.1       33.3       33.0       32.6       31.7  
         15 to 26 weeks................................     15.0       14.6       15.0       15.3       14.8       14.0       14.7       14.4       15.4  
         27 weeks and over.............................     20.1       18.8       15.8       21.0       19.3       19.2       18.3       18.2       16.3  

       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                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                             Jan.           Jan.           Jan.           Jan.            Jan.           Jan.     
                                                                             2005           2006           2005           2006            2005           2006     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
          Total, 16 years and over (1)................................     138,682        141,481          8,444          7,608            5.7            5.1   
     Management, professional, and related occupations................      48,878         50,131          1,215          1,078            2.4            2.1   
       Management, business, and financial operations occupations.....      20,063         21,074            482            424            2.3            2.0   
       Professional and related occupations...........................      28,815         29,056            733            654            2.5            2.2   
     Service occupations..............................................      22,276         22,550          1,763          1,549            7.3            6.4   
     Sales and office occupations.....................................      35,284         35,799          1,982          1,761            5.3            4.7   
       Sales and related occupations..................................      15,936         16,315            950            949            5.6            5.5   
       Office and administrative support occupations..................      19,348         19,484          1,031            812            5.1            4.0   
     Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations.....      14,327         15,088          1,487          1,275            9.4            7.8   
       Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.....................         798            851            166            161           17.2           15.9   
       Construction and extraction occupations........................       8,376          9,102          1,082            915           11.4            9.1   
       Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations..............       5,154          5,135            240            199            4.4            3.7   
     Production, transportation, and material moving occupations......      17,916         17,914          1,414          1,365            7.3            7.1   
       Production occupations.........................................       9,372          9,450            721            665            7.1            6.6   
       Transportation and material moving occupations.................       8,544          8,464            693            700            7.5            7.6   

       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)                                                          
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                 Jan.                  Jan.                  Jan.                  Jan.        
                                                                                 2005                  2006                  2005                  2006        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
            Total, 16 years and over (1)..............................          8,444                 7,608                   5.7                   5.1       
     Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers..................          6,849                 6,135                   6.0                   5.3       
       Mining.........................................................             29                    26                   4.9                   3.9       
       Construction...................................................          1,079                   868                  11.8                   9.0       
       Manufacturing..................................................            889                   778                   5.3                   4.6       
         Durable goods................................................            547                   450                   5.1                   4.1       
         Nondurable goods.............................................            341                   328                   5.7                   5.4       
       Wholesale and retail trade.....................................          1,302                 1,203                   6.3                   5.7       
       Transportation and utilities...................................            276                   287                   5.0                   5.0       
       Information....................................................            168                   105                   5.4                   3.3       
       Financial activities...........................................            252                   233                   2.7                   2.4       
       Professional and business services.............................            958                   825                   7.6                   6.5       
       Education and health services..................................            613                   593                   3.4                   3.2       
       Leisure and hospitality........................................            993                   910                   8.7                   8.1       
       Other services.................................................            290                   308                   4.7                   4.9       
     Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers..........            153                   140                  13.2                  11.5       
     Government workers...............................................            555                   457                   2.6                   2.2       
     Self employed and unpaid family workers..........................            346                   341                   3.2                   3.2       

       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.




 
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                            HOUSEHOLD DATA
     
     Table A-12.  Alternative measures of labor underutilization

     (Percent)
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                   Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted                 
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                       Measure                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                   Jan.     Dec.     Jan.     Jan.     Sept.    Oct.     Nov.     Dec.     Jan.  
                                                                                   2005     2005     2006     2005     2005     2005     2005     2005     2006  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
     U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                     
          labor force...........................................................    2.0      1.6      1.6      1.9      1.7      1.7      1.7      1.6      1.5  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of                                                                                    
          the civilian labor force..............................................    3.2      2.4      2.7      2.7      2.5      2.3      2.3      2.3      2.2  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official                                                                                    
          unemployment rate)....................................................    5.7      4.6      5.1      5.2      5.1      4.9      5.0      4.9      4.7  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                 
          labor force plus discouraged workers..................................    6.1      4.9      5.4      5.5      5.3      5.2      5.3      5.2      4.9  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally                                                                                   
          attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all                                                                                    
          marginally attached workers...........................................    6.9      5.6      6.1      6.4      6.0      5.8      5.9      5.9      5.7  
                                                                                                                                                                 
     U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total                                                                                      
          employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                  
          labor force plus all marginally attached workers......................   10.2      8.4      9.2      9.3      9.0      8.6      8.7      8.6      8.4  

        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.




 
     HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                                  HOUSEHOLD DATA

     Table A-13.  Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

     (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                              Total                          Men                          Women            
                                                                                                                                                           
                               Category                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                       Jan.           Jan.           Jan.           Jan.           Jan.           Jan.     
                                                                       2005           2006           2005           2006           2005           2006     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                           
     Total not in the labor force................................     77,712         78,463         29,914         30,122         47,798         48,341    
       Persons who currently want a job..........................      5,136          5,095          2,433          2,293          2,703          2,802    
        Searched for work and available to work now (1)..........      1,804          1,644            981            828            823            815    
             Reason not currently looking:                                                                                                                 
               Discouragement over job prospects (2).............        515            396            338            216            177            180    
                  Reasons other than discouragement (3)..........      1,289          1,248            643            613            645            636    
                                                                                                                                                           
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                           
     Total multiple jobholders (4)...............................      7,225          7,428          3,674          3,803          3,551          3,626    
         Percent of total employed...............................        5.2            5.3            5.0            5.0            5.5            5.5    
                                                                                                                                                           
         Primary job full time, secondary job part time..........      3,782          3,953          2,117          2,211          1,665          1,743    
         Primary and secondary jobs both part time...............      1,612          1,682            548            574          1,064          1,108    
         Primary and secondary jobs both full time...............        284            289            179            191            104             99    
         Hours vary on primary or secondary job..................      1,497          1,468            809            806            688            662    

       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                Jan.     Nov.    Dec.     Jan.      Jan.     Sept.    Oct.     Nov.    Dec.     Jan.     from:
                                   2005     2005    2005p    2006p     2005     2005     2005     2005    2005p    2006p  Dec. 2005-
                                                                                                                          Jan. 2006p

          Total nonfarm......... 130,368  135,316  135,044  132,419  132,471  133,840  133,877  134,231  134,371  134,564      193

        Total private........... 108,741  112,985  112,825  110,644  110,756  111,985  112,025  112,351  112,496  112,690      194

    Goods-producing.............  21,414   22,402   22,157   21,758   21,988   22,143   22,179   22,264   22,273   22,331       58

Natural resources and mining....     591      645      644      637      605      631      636      641      646      651        5
   Logging......................    65.3     64.2     62.8     60.9     66.9     62.7     62.1     62.1     62.2     62.3       .1
 Mining.........................   525.4    581.1    581.1    576.4    537.7    567.9    573.8    579.3    583.3    589.0      5.7
  Oil and gas extraction........   123.0    128.5    128.2    127.5    124.0    126.5    127.4    128.9    128.3    128.6       .3
  Mining, except oil and gas(1).   199.0    216.8    212.3    207.1    207.8    212.7    214.5    215.0    215.3    216.3      1.0
   Coal mining..................    72.1     75.2     75.8     76.0     72.3     74.5     75.1     75.1     75.5     76.2       .7
  Support activities for mining.   203.4    235.8    240.6    241.8    205.9    228.7    231.9    235.4    239.7    244.1      4.4

Construction....................   6,682    7,524    7,286    7,016    7,115    7,325    7,347    7,409    7,414    7,460       46
  Construction of buildings..... 1,615.2  1,738.8  1,722.1  1,681.5  1,675.6  1,697.6  1,702.4  1,722.4  1,728.4  1,738.6     10.2
   Residential building.........   900.4    969.1    965.3    945.2    934.1    952.5    952.8    963.6    969.8    977.4      7.6
   Nonresidential building......   714.8    769.7    756.8    736.3    741.5    745.1    749.6    758.8    758.6    761.2      2.6
  Heavy and civil engineering
   construction.................   809.9  1,005.3    932.2    869.2    922.3    963.9    965.3    977.1    973.9    982.1      8.2
  Specialty trade contractors... 4,256.5  4,779.7  4,631.3  4,464.9  4,517.5  4,663.3  4,679.2  4,709.4  4,711.9  4,739.5     27.6
   Residential specialty trade
    contractors................. 2,069.0  2,370.9  2,316.8  2,232.3  2,192.8  2,308.8  2,326.0  2,339.4  2,348.6  2,369.1     20.5
   Nonresidential specialty
    trade contractors........... 2,187.5  2,408.8  2,314.5  2,232.6  2,324.7  2,354.5  2,353.2  2,370.0  2,363.3  2,370.4      7.1

Manufacturing...................  14,141   14,233   14,227   14,105   14,268   14,187   14,196   14,214   14,213   14,220        7
   Production workers...........   9,946   10,131   10,131   10,042   10,054   10,048   10,069   10,103   10,117   10,138       21

 Durable goods..................   8,882    8,970    8,984    8,918    8,943    8,933    8,952    8,960    8,966    8,973        7
   Production workers...........   6,116    6,287    6,317    6,269    6,169    6,218    6,249    6,274    6,298    6,315       17

  Wood products.................   546.0    556.6    556.6    552.2    556.8    552.2    550.7    556.7    559.5    562.3      2.8
  Nonmetallic mineral products..   486.6    505.6    497.3    490.2    505.5    501.1    500.8    502.0    501.8    508.0      6.2
  Primary metals................   467.0    470.7    471.6    472.8    467.4    469.7    470.5    471.5    470.0    473.3      3.3
  Fabricated metal products..... 1,505.9  1,525.7  1,527.8  1,522.9  1,512.3  1,521.7  1,520.8  1,524.1  1,526.7  1,529.4      2.7
  Machinery..................... 1,149.4  1,163.6  1,169.9  1,159.8  1,150.1  1,163.4  1,174.5  1,164.4  1,163.9  1,160.0     -3.9
  Computer and electronic
   products(1).................. 1,315.2  1,322.2  1,323.7  1,312.8  1,317.5  1,322.8  1,323.5  1,322.0  1,320.5  1,314.8     -5.7
   Computer and peripheral
    equipment...................   205.4    206.0    206.1    203.1    204.6    207.4    207.9    206.3    205.5    202.6     -2.9
   Communications equipment.....   149.8    148.4    148.9    146.9    149.2    147.9    148.2    148.0    148.5    146.1     -2.4
   Semiconductors and electronic
    components..................   448.6    450.2    450.9    447.6    450.9    451.8    450.7    450.6    450.3    449.6      -.7
   Electronic instruments.......   434.3    442.3    442.8    440.9    435.4    440.6    441.6    442.0    441.5    441.9       .4
  Electrical equipment and
   appliances...................   440.3    434.3    435.6    436.4    440.7    431.8    431.1    434.3    434.9    436.1      1.2
  Transportation equipment(1)... 1,754.7  1,776.3  1,785.9  1,764.8  1,766.6  1,753.7  1,765.5  1,771.8  1,775.9  1,775.6      -.3
   Motor vehicles and parts(2).. 1,094.8  1,095.7  1,099.6  1,085.6  1,103.7  1,098.4  1,088.4  1,092.4  1,091.6  1,093.4      1.8
  Furniture and related products   568.0    557.8    559.0    553.7    571.7    561.3    560.5    558.4    558.2    557.1     -1.1
  Miscellaneous manufacturing...   649.3    656.7    656.8    651.9    654.2    655.0    653.6    654.7    654.9    656.6      1.7

 Nondurable goods...............   5,259    5,263    5,243    5,187    5,325    5,254    5,244    5,254    5,247    5,247        0
   Production workers...........   3,830    3,844    3,814    3,773    3,885    3,830    3,820    3,829    3,819    3,823        4

  Food manufacturing............ 1,459.8  1,474.1  1,471.1  1,442.8  1,484.7  1,461.4  1,458.5  1,465.0  1,466.5  1,465.3     -1.2
  Beverages and tobacco products   188.1    193.2    192.0    190.3    193.0    191.0    192.4    193.4    192.5    194.6      2.1
  Textile mills.................   224.0    210.0    206.9    206.3    227.4    214.7    213.2    210.9    209.0    209.5       .5
  Textile product mills.........   169.9    172.9    172.2    174.9    172.8    173.0    173.8    174.5    174.5    177.1      2.6
  Apparel.......................   263.9    253.7    249.8    245.9    271.6    255.1    251.8    253.7    252.6    252.4      -.2
  Leather and allied products...    39.3     39.5     39.9     38.7     40.1     39.5     39.6     39.5     39.8     39.4      -.4
  Paper and paper products......   488.7    479.4    477.5    475.2    490.2    480.5    478.5    478.5    477.2    476.7      -.5
  Printing and related support
   activities...................   648.1    647.4    644.6    635.3    653.0    646.4    645.1    644.8    641.9    640.3     -1.6
  Petroleum and coal products...   108.3    112.3    109.4    107.2    111.8    113.0    113.1    112.3    111.9    111.0      -.9
  Chemicals.....................   872.9    879.7    881.9    878.4    878.0    880.3    879.3    881.5    882.6    882.7       .1
  Plastics and rubber products..   796.4    801.1    797.9    791.5    802.0    799.5    799.1    799.4    798.8    797.5     -1.3

    Service-providing........... 108,954  112,914  112,887  110,661  110,483  111,697  111,698  111,967  112,098  112,233      135

     Private service-providing..  87,327   90,583   90,668   88,886   88,768   89,842   89,846   90,087   90,223   90,359      136

Trade, transportation, and
 utilities......................  25,534   26,445   26,629   25,835   25,724   25,944   25,945   26,006   26,018   26,037       19

 Wholesale trade................ 5,655.4  5,790.7  5,796.2  5,754.5  5,701.7  5,762.3  5,767.8  5,782.7  5,786.6  5,801.7     15.1
  Durable goods................. 2,954.0  3,011.7  3,024.2  3,008.3  2,969.7  2,997.8  3,002.3  3,010.5  3,017.9  3,024.5      6.6
  Nondurable goods.............. 1,986.8  2,035.6  2,026.7  2,000.6  2,012.1  2,022.1  2,021.7  2,028.9  2,024.6  2,026.2      1.6
  Electronic markets and agents
   and brokers..................   714.6    743.4    745.3    745.6    719.9    742.4    743.8    743.3    744.1    751.0      6.9

 Retail trade...................15,046.7 15,684.5 15,871.7 15,183.7 15,156.7 15,267.0 15,259.6 15,292.9 15,302.3 15,300.8     -1.5
  Motor vehicle and parts
   dealers(1)................... 1,884.1  1,914.4  1,903.7  1,883.5  1,910.4  1,929.4  1,921.5  1,914.3  1,914.0  1,912.3     -1.7
   Automobile dealers........... 1,245.5  1,254.5  1,249.1  1,238.0  1,256.2  1,268.9  1,260.5  1,254.5  1,253.2  1,250.9     -2.3
  Furniture and home furnishings
   stores.......................   573.9    600.0    604.8    591.4    570.9    580.9    581.5    583.3    582.2    587.7      5.5
  Electronics and appliance
   stores.......................   528.6    564.5    570.4    548.0    521.4    539.9    540.5    541.2    541.5    540.7      -.8
  Building material and garden
   supply stores................ 1,190.9  1,267.2  1,261.7  1,232.0  1,251.9  1,272.3  1,273.1  1,281.6  1,288.4  1,293.5      5.1
  Food and beverage stores...... 2,800.6  2,832.0  2,843.9  2,791.6  2,813.8  2,803.0  2,809.5  2,806.6  2,807.6  2,806.2     -1.4
  Health and personal care
   stores.......................   943.5    972.5    983.4    969.7    943.7    953.8    959.3    964.7    969.7    969.4      -.3
  Gasoline stations.............   859.5    868.2    865.2    852.3    868.8    873.9    874.6    869.1    867.5    862.9     -4.6
  Clothing and clothing
   accessories stores........... 1,386.6  1,500.3  1,574.9  1,437.4  1,383.5  1,414.2  1,413.5  1,434.5  1,448.0  1,434.6    -13.4
  Sporting goods, hobby, book,
   and music stores.............   651.9    675.1    704.5    651.5    645.5    631.3    638.7    641.5    641.3    643.4      2.1
  General merchandise stores(1). 2,906.0  3,111.5  3,160.2  2,905.1  2,909.4  2,927.4  2,910.6  2,920.4  2,905.4  2,913.0      7.6
   Department stores............ 1,615.0  1,743.0  1,788.7  1,591.5  1,602.4  1,610.9  1,590.6  1,595.2  1,591.8  1,582.8     -9.0
  Miscellaneous store retailers.   890.3    912.2    925.6    882.3    906.2    902.2    899.1    897.3    897.5    897.8       .3
  Nonstore retailers............   430.8    466.6    473.4    438.9    431.2    438.7    437.7    438.4    439.2    439.3       .1

 Transportation and warehousing. 4,276.5  4,410.5  4,403.7  4,339.2  4,308.5  4,355.4  4,358.4  4,370.2  4,368.8  4,375.1      6.3
  Air transportation............   505.2    488.7    487.3    483.3    509.8    495.1    493.7    488.9    487.6    488.6      1.0
  Rail transportation...........   225.9    228.6    227.7    225.1    228.0    228.2    228.1    227.8    227.4    227.4       .0
  Water transportation..........    55.5     62.1     62.8     61.4     57.8     61.8     62.6     63.6     64.0     63.9      -.1
  Truck transportation.......... 1,348.1  1,412.3  1,403.4  1,377.8  1,375.3  1,397.4  1,402.0  1,403.7  1,404.2  1,405.8      1.6
  Transit and ground passenger
   transportation...............   400.7    411.5    409.3    402.9    389.8    388.0    388.5    394.9    391.2    391.3       .1
  Pipeline transportation.......    38.1     37.1     37.0     37.4     38.0     37.6     37.2     37.2     37.0     37.3       .3
  Scenic and sightseeing
   transportation...............    19.6     26.7     26.5     23.8     24.3     31.8     31.5     31.4     32.3     32.6       .3
  Support activities for
   transportation...............   543.3    554.2    557.8    554.2    547.2    551.9    549.8    553.9    554.6    557.4      2.8
  Couriers and messengers.......   567.0    586.2    590.0    576.9    563.2    573.8    576.3    576.8    576.4    573.3     -3.1
  Warehousing and storage.......   573.1    603.1    601.9    596.4    575.1    589.8    588.7    592.0    594.1    597.5      3.4

 Utilities......................   555.7    559.0    557.5    557.8    557.2    558.9    559.4    560.1    559.8    559.6      -.2

Information.....................   3,052    3,071    3,079    3,048    3,068    3,071    3,058    3,064    3,066    3,064       -2
  Publishing industries, except
   Internet.....................   899.4    906.3    907.6    898.6    902.0    904.4    903.7    902.8    902.9    901.6     -1.3
  Motion picture and sound
   recording industries.........   359.8    385.9    392.9    379.2    370.1    390.6    379.3    383.5    387.5    388.3       .8
  Broadcasting, except Internet.   326.9    327.2    327.0    321.5    326.8    326.7    327.6    325.7    324.2    322.5     -1.7
  Internet publishing and
   broadcasting.................    30.8     30.3     30.2     29.3     30.9     30.4     30.1     30.1     30.3     29.4      -.9
  Telecommunications............ 1,007.1    993.9    993.1    992.2  1,009.7    993.4    991.2    995.1    993.3    994.6      1.3
  ISPs, search portals, and data
   processing...................   376.9    377.7    379.3    376.5    377.7    376.1    376.9    376.7    378.3    377.4      -.9
  Other information services....    50.7     49.4     49.3     50.4     50.9     49.7     49.4     49.9     49.7     50.5       .8

Financial activities............   8,035    8,208    8,219    8,191    8,091    8,172    8,201    8,217    8,224    8,245       21
 Finance and insurance.......... 5,967.6  6,063.6  6,074.8  6,071.1  5,984.4  6,029.1  6,053.3  6,066.7  6,071.0  6,086.7     15.7
  Monetary authorities - central
   bank.........................    20.9     20.9     21.0     21.2     20.8     20.7     20.7     20.9     21.1     21.2       .1
  Credit intermediation and
   related activities(1)........ 2,832.4  2,891.2  2,894.6  2,900.8  2,841.0  2,880.9  2,892.9  2,895.8  2,898.7  2,909.7     11.0
   Depository credit
    intermediation(1)........... 1,757.6  1,788.6  1,793.7  1,800.0  1,757.9  1,783.5  1,790.8  1,793.3  1,796.9  1,800.0      3.1
    Commercial banking.......... 1,288.3  1,305.2  1,307.2  1,310.3  1,288.1  1,302.8  1,306.9  1,309.0  1,309.6  1,310.1       .5
  Securities, commodity
   contracts, investments.......   777.9    790.9    791.7    791.3    779.6    786.2    790.5    790.7    790.9    793.2      2.3
  Insurance carriers and related
   activities................... 2,248.5  2,273.5  2,279.8  2,270.6  2,254.7  2,255.1  2,262.1  2,271.8  2,272.7  2,275.2      2.5
  Funds, trusts, and other
   financial vehicles...........    87.9     87.1     87.7     87.2     88.3     86.2     87.1     87.5     87.6     87.4      -.2
 Real estate and rental and
  leasing....................... 2,067.8  2,144.2  2,144.6  2,119.6  2,106.9  2,143.3  2,147.5  2,150.2  2,153.4  2,158.7      5.3
  Real estate................... 1,407.4  1,475.3  1,477.2  1,467.0  1,433.8  1,469.0  1,474.7  1,478.4  1,482.9  1,492.8      9.9
  Rental and leasing services...   634.9    641.0    639.5    625.2    647.1    646.8    645.1    643.9    642.5    637.9     -4.6
  Lessors of nonfinancial
   intangible assets............    25.5     27.9     27.9     27.4     26.0     27.5     27.7     27.9     28.0     28.0       .0

Professional and business
 services.......................  16,249   17,194   17,131   16,752   16,638   16,997   16,991   17,061   17,129   17,153       24
 Professional and technical
  services(1)................... 6,931.2  7,068.8  7,124.8  7,141.8  6,911.1  7,062.2  7,074.8  7,087.2  7,119.1  7,123.5      4.4
   Legal services............... 1,155.1  1,160.6  1,164.6  1,155.6  1,164.3  1,159.5  1,159.2  1,160.0  1,161.6  1,164.4      2.8
   Accounting and bookkeeping
    services....................   920.9    791.9    840.3    935.1    828.9    848.9    851.0    847.5    860.1    842.5    -17.6
   Architectural and engineering
    services.................... 1,256.7  1,342.7  1,339.0  1,319.2  1,277.5  1,324.3  1,326.1  1,335.3  1,338.5  1,341.7      3.2
   Computer systems design and
    related services............ 1,170.8  1,212.3  1,216.7  1,211.0  1,174.8  1,195.9  1,204.4  1,204.9  1,208.7  1,215.3      6.6
   Management and technical
    consulting services.........   808.3    863.4    871.3    861.1    818.7    852.9    855.5    861.4    865.7    871.1      5.4
 Management of companies and
  enterprises................... 1,733.4  1,750.9  1,759.9  1,743.3  1,747.3  1,754.2  1,749.9  1,743.2  1,756.5  1,758.4      1.9
 Administrative and waste
  services...................... 7,584.6  8,373.8  8,246.7  7,866.6  7,979.5  8,180.5  8,165.8  8,230.5  8,253.1  8,270.7     17.6
  Administrative and support
   services(1).................. 7,257.5  8,042.8  7,914.9  7,538.1  7,644.4  7,846.5  7,835.6  7,897.8  7,919.0  7,934.8     15.8
   Employment services(1)....... 3,273.7  3,791.3  3,752.5  3,483.3  3,482.6  3,628.2  3,617.2  3,663.7  3,682.9  3,698.4     15.5
    Temporary help services..... 2,297.4  2,715.0  2,684.9  2,479.9  2,462.6  2,573.7  2,576.2  2,616.2  2,635.2  2,649.5     14.3
   Business support services....   753.7    759.5    761.0    749.0    762.7    757.2    752.7    754.7    752.8    757.6      4.8
   Services to buildings and
    dwellings................... 1,548.7  1,772.4  1,667.7  1,581.0  1,700.0  1,735.4  1,741.1  1,755.4  1,745.6  1,739.1     -6.5
  Waste management and
   remediation services.........   327.1    331.0    331.8    328.5    335.1    334.0    330.2    332.7    334.1    335.9      1.8

Education and health services...  17,063   17,709   17,668   17,425   17,176   17,451   17,440   17,481   17,503   17,542       39
 Educational services........... 2,746.8  3,016.0  2,962.1  2,747.2  2,817.3  2,844.9  2,815.9  2,820.2  2,818.8  2,819.8      1.0
 Health care and social
  assistance....................14,316.1 14,692.5 14,706.1 14,677.9 14,358.7 14,605.8 14,624.5 14,661.2 14,684.3 14,721.8     37.5
 Health care(3).................12,146.9 12,446.3 12,457.6 12,433.0 12,182.9 12,382.9 12,392.7 12,423.8 12,440.3 12,469.5     29.2
   Ambulatory health care
    services(1)................. 5,018.9  5,186.1  5,193.2  5,174.3  5,040.8  5,145.1  5,152.9  5,172.7  5,181.6  5,196.2     14.6
    Offices of physicians....... 2,065.4  2,134.4  2,146.7  2,137.5  2,070.0  2,115.3  2,119.8  2,128.4  2,135.8  2,141.0      5.2
    Outpatient care centers.....   461.6    484.0    484.0    481.5    462.7    479.3    480.6    482.4    483.4    482.9      -.5
    Home health care services...   798.3    828.0    826.5    822.0    804.1    820.5    820.8    824.3    823.5    827.3      3.8
   Hospitals.................... 4,300.7  4,383.1  4,386.0  4,387.2  4,305.7  4,366.8  4,371.7  4,379.2  4,385.2  4,392.5      7.3
   Nursing and residential care
    facilities(1)............... 2,827.3  2,877.1  2,878.4  2,871.5  2,836.4  2,871.0  2,868.1  2,871.9  2,873.5  2,880.8      7.3
    Nursing care facilities..... 1,569.8  1,587.7  1,588.2  1,577.9  1,575.7  1,582.2  1,578.9  1,582.5  1,584.0  1,583.7      -.3
  Social assistance(1).......... 2,169.2  2,246.2  2,248.5  2,244.9  2,175.8  2,222.9  2,231.8  2,237.4  2,244.0  2,252.3      8.3
   Child day care services......   776.1    803.6    801.1    800.4    773.9    787.8    793.2    792.9    793.6    798.4      4.8

Leisure and hospitality.........  12,064   12,601   12,575   12,304   12,673   12,826   12,840   12,881   12,896   12,922       26
 Arts, entertainment, and
  recreation.................... 1,640.5  1,764.2  1,742.7  1,677.8  1,859.6  1,895.1  1,897.8  1,907.5  1,904.5  1,905.3       .8
  Performing arts and spectator
   sports.......................   331.2    354.0    347.6    318.9    365.2    372.2    365.0    362.8    359.5    354.9     -4.6
  Museums, historical sites,
   zoos, and parks..............   108.3    118.1    114.9    110.0    118.4    123.2    121.6    121.0    121.0    121.1       .1
  Amusements, gambling, and
   recreation................... 1,201.0  1,292.1  1,280.2  1,248.9  1,376.0  1,399.7  1,411.2  1,423.7  1,424.0  1,429.3      5.3
 Accommodations and food
  services......................10,423.4 10,836.8 10,832.5 10,625.9 10,813.3 10,931.2 10,942.4 10,973.9 10,991.9 11,016.3     24.4
  Accommodations................ 1,719.2  1,755.5  1,737.7  1,707.1  1,808.8  1,814.5  1,812.9  1,811.1  1,804.3  1,797.7     -6.6
  Food services and drinking
   places....................... 8,704.2  9,081.3  9,094.8  8,918.8  9,004.5  9,116.7  9,129.5  9,162.8  9,187.6  9,218.6     31.0

Other services..................   5,330    5,355    5,367    5,331    5,398    5,381    5,371    5,377    5,387    5,396        9
  Repair and maintenance........ 1,221.8  1,225.9  1,234.0  1,229.1  1,235.5  1,230.8  1,227.1  1,232.0  1,241.1  1,241.5       .4
  Personal and laundry services. 1,257.9  1,265.9  1,266.5  1,258.4  1,276.6  1,271.3  1,270.3  1,271.1  1,270.6  1,275.9      5.3
  Membership associations and
   organizations................ 2,850.5  2,862.9  2,866.5  2,843.3  2,885.8  2,879.2  2,873.2  2,873.6  2,874.8  2,878.3      3.5

Government......................  21,627   22,331   22,219   21,775   21,715   21,855   21,852   21,880   21,875   21,874       -1
 Federal........................   2,706    2,721    2,714    2,689    2,721    2,725    2,724    2,728    2,713    2,708       -5
  Federal, except U.S. Postal
   Service...................... 1,932.1  1,945.2  1,929.0  1,922.3  1,946.0  1,949.9  1,949.5  1,953.1  1,941.1  1,939.1     -2.0
  U.S. Postal Service...........   773.7    776.2    784.7    767.1    775.0    774.7    774.1    774.9    772.2    768.9     -3.3
 State government...............   4,926    5,185    5,136    4,956    5,013    5,026    5,022    5,032    5,039    5,041        2
  State government education.... 2,179.8  2,422.2  2,375.7  2,196.0  2,247.6  2,255.1  2,248.1  2,256.6  2,261.6  2,262.3       .7
  State government, excluding
   education.................... 2,746.6  2,762.7  2,760.5  2,759.9  2,765.5  2,771.1  2,773.5  2,775.8  2,777.6  2,778.5       .9
 Local government...............  13,995   14,425   14,369   14,130   13,981   14,104   14,106   14,120   14,123   14,125        2
  Local government education.... 7,934.7  8,253.2  8,218.6  8,015.0  7,816.3  7,891.9  7,894.9  7,899.3  7,903.0  7,902.6      -.4
  Local government, excluding
   education.................... 6,060.5  6,172.1  6,149.9  6,114.5  6,164.4  6,212.1  6,211.5  6,220.6  6,219.7  6,221.9      2.2


  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.
  NOTE:  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal
adjustment factors.








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                       Jan.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.    Jan.   Sept.  Oct.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.     from:
                                                 2005   2005   2005p  2006p   2005   2005   2005   2005   2005p  2006p  Dec. 2005-
                                                                                                                        Jan. 2006p


        Total private.........................   33.6   33.8   33.7   33.8    33.7   33.8   33.8   33.8   33.8   33.8       0.0

    Goods-producing...........................   39.5   40.6   40.4   40.1    39.8   40.0   40.3   40.4   40.2   40.4        .2

Natural resources and mining..................   45.1   45.2   45.5   45.7    45.8   45.9   46.0   45.0   45.8   46.2        .4

Construction..................................   36.8   39.2   38.1   38.3    37.8   38.2   38.5   39.2   38.7   39.2        .5

Manufacturing.................................   40.6   41.2   41.4   40.8    40.7   40.7   41.0   40.8   40.8   40.8        .0
   Overtime hours.............................    4.4    4.8    4.9    4.3     4.5    4.5    4.6    4.6    4.5    4.5        .0

 Durable goods................................   41.0   41.7   41.9   41.1    41.1   41.2   41.6   41.3   41.2   41.2        .0
   Overtime hours.............................    4.5    4.9    5.0    4.4     4.6    4.6    4.8    4.7    4.5    4.5        .0

  Wood products...............................   40.2   40.9   40.4   39.7    40.8   39.6   40.8   40.5   40.1   40.2        .1
  Nonmetallic mineral products................   40.9   44.2   42.6   42.0    42.0   41.9   42.6   43.5   42.7   42.9        .2
  Primary metals..............................   43.3   43.7   44.0   43.9    43.0   43.4   43.5   43.5   43.4   43.5        .1
  Fabricated metal products...................   41.0   41.5   41.8   41.4    40.9   40.8   41.6   41.2   41.1   41.3        .2
  Machinery...................................   42.2   42.3   42.8   41.7    42.0   42.1   42.2   42.0   41.9   41.6       -.3
  Computer and electronic products............   39.7   40.9   40.9   39.9    39.9   40.2   40.5   40.3   40.3   40.1       -.2
  Electrical equipment and appliances.........   40.2   41.6   41.5   41.2    40.2   41.3   41.4   41.0   41.0   41.1        .1
  Transportation equipment....................   42.3   42.9   43.6   42.5    42.3   42.7   43.0   42.7   42.6   42.6        .0
   Motor vehicles and parts(2)................   42.3   42.6   43.3   42.0    42.2   42.7   42.9   42.4   42.2   42.0       -.2
  Furniture and related products..............   39.4   38.7   39.2   37.8    39.5   39.3   39.2   38.5   38.2   38.0       -.2
  Miscellaneous manufacturing.................   38.6   38.8   38.9   38.6    38.6   38.8   39.0   38.6   38.6   38.6        .0

 Nondurable goods.............................   39.9   40.4   40.7   40.2    40.0   39.9   40.1   40.0   40.1   40.2        .1
   Overtime hours.............................    4.2    4.6    4.8    4.3     4.4    4.4    4.4    4.4    4.6    4.5       -.1

  Food manufacturing..........................   38.7   39.5   39.9   39.5    38.9   38.8   38.9   39.0   39.3   39.6        .3
  Beverages and tobacco products..............   39.9   40.4   39.7   38.8    40.4   39.5   40.8   40.1   40.0   39.7       -.3
  Textile mills...............................   40.4   41.0   41.4   40.5    40.3   39.9   40.2   40.6   41.0   40.4       -.6
  Textile product mills.......................   39.4   39.9   40.6   40.2    39.5   38.7   38.8   39.6   39.9   40.1        .2
  Apparel.....................................   35.7   36.1   36.4   35.7    35.9   35.8   36.1   35.9   35.9   35.9        .0
  Leather and allied products.................   37.0   39.8   39.8   39.0    37.2   38.5   38.7   39.5   39.4   39.2       -.2
  Paper and paper products....................   42.7   42.9   43.4   42.6    42.5   42.8   42.9   42.5   42.5   42.4       -.1
  Printing and related support activities.....   38.5   38.7   38.8   38.5    38.6   38.6   38.5   38.3   38.3   38.5        .2
  Petroleum and coal products.................   44.3   46.6   44.5   44.6    44.6   47.4   47.3   45.8   44.6   45.2        .6
  Chemicals...................................   42.8   42.6   43.0   43.1    42.8   42.0   42.9   42.3   42.5   42.8        .3
  Plastics and rubber products................   40.0   40.4   41.1   40.2    40.0   40.0   40.0   40.1   40.4   40.2       -.2

     Private service-providing................   32.4   32.3   32.3   32.4    32.4   32.4   32.4   32.4   32.4   32.4        .0

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........   33.2   33.2   33.4   33.0    33.5   33.3   33.3   33.4   33.4   33.3       -.1

 Wholesale trade..............................   37.8   37.8   37.8   38.0    37.7   37.7   37.8   37.8   37.9   37.9        .0

 Retail trade.................................   30.2   30.3   30.7   30.0    30.7   30.5   30.4   30.6   30.5   30.5        .0

 Transportation and warehousing...............   37.4   37.0   37.0   36.1    37.5   36.6   36.7   36.8   36.7   36.4       -.3

 Utilities....................................   40.8   41.7   41.3   40.8    41.0   41.2   41.3   41.2   41.4   41.0       -.4

Information...................................   36.6   36.6   36.6   36.8    36.4   36.6   36.7   36.5   36.7   36.6       -.1

Financial activities..........................   36.4   35.7   35.7   36.5    35.9   36.0   36.1   35.9   35.9   36.0        .1

Professional and business services............   34.1   34.3   34.2   34.5    34.2   34.3   34.3   34.3   34.3   34.5        .2

Education and health services.................   32.9   32.5   32.5   32.9    32.6   32.7   32.7   32.5   32.6   32.6        .0

Leisure and hospitality.......................   25.3   25.4   25.2   25.3    25.7   25.8   25.7   25.7   25.6   25.7        .1

Other services................................   30.9   30.8   30.8   31.0    30.9   30.9   30.9   30.9   30.9   31.0        .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.
  NOTE:  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal
adjustment factors.








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                         Jan.      Nov.     Dec.      Jan.       Jan.      Nov.     Dec.      Jan.
                                                   2005      2005     2005p     2006p      2005      2005     2005p     2006p

        Total private........................... $15.99    $16.30    $16.36    $16.52    $537.26   $550.94   $551.33   $558.38
         Seasonally adjusted....................  15.88     16.28     16.34     16.41     535.16    550.26    552.29    554.66

    Goods-producing.............................  17.31     17.76     17.81     17.73     683.75    721.06    719.52    710.97

Natural resources and mining....................  18.52     18.90     18.90     19.24     835.25    854.28    859.95    879.27

Construction....................................  19.10     19.61     19.67     19.51     702.88    768.71    749.43    747.23

Manufacturing...................................  16.42     16.70     16.81     16.77     666.65    688.04    695.93    684.22

 Durable goods..................................  17.14     17.54     17.67     17.58     702.74    731.42    740.37    722.54
  Wood products.................................  13.14     13.32     13.20     13.17     528.23    544.79    533.28    522.85
  Nonmetallic mineral products..................  16.29     16.55     16.51     16.44     666.26    731.51    703.33    690.48
  Primary metals................................  18.84     19.21     19.17     19.36     815.77    839.48    843.48    849.90
  Fabricated metal products.....................  15.55     16.01     16.18     16.08     637.55    664.42    676.32    665.71
  Machinery.....................................  17.03     17.01     17.12     17.23     718.67    719.52    732.74    718.49
  Computer and electronic products..............  18.01     18.60     18.76     18.80     715.00    760.74    767.28    750.12
  Electrical equipment and appliances...........  15.08     15.42     15.52     15.42     606.22    641.47    644.08    635.30
  Transportation equipment......................  21.88     22.55     22.73     22.39     925.52    967.40    991.03    951.58
  Furniture and related products................  13.40     13.45     13.52     13.47     527.96    520.52    529.98    509.17
  Miscellaneous manufacturing...................  14.06     14.12     14.19     14.07     542.72    547.86    551.99    543.10

 Nondurable goods...............................  15.24     15.28     15.35     15.40     608.08    617.31    624.75    619.08
  Food manufacturing............................  13.06     13.06     13.11     13.14     505.42    515.87    523.09    519.03
  Beverages and tobacco products................  18.48     18.76     18.50     18.47     737.35    757.90    734.45    716.64
  Textile mills.................................  12.33     12.48     12.46     12.61     498.13    511.68    515.84    510.71
  Textile product mills.........................  11.32     11.78     11.89     11.90     446.01    470.02    482.73    478.38
  Apparel.......................................  10.16     10.41     10.43     10.56     362.71    375.80    379.65    376.99
  Leather and allied products...................  11.61     11.57     11.36     11.61     429.57    460.49    452.13    452.79
  Paper and paper products......................  18.03     17.87     17.95     17.88     769.88    766.62    779.03    761.69
  Printing and related support activities.......  15.75     15.73     15.98     16.02     606.38    608.75    620.02    616.77
  Petroleum and coal products...................  24.77     24.64     24.62     24.85    1097.31   1148.22   1095.59   1108.31
  Chemicals.....................................  19.53     19.68     19.83     19.85     835.88    838.37    852.69    855.54
  Plastics and rubber products..................  14.81     14.78     14.84     14.95     592.40    597.11    609.92    600.99

     Private service-providing..................  15.65     15.90     15.97     16.20     507.06    513.57    515.83    524.88

Trade, transportation, and utilities............  14.85     15.00     14.96     15.19     493.02    498.00    499.66    501.27

 Wholesale trade................................  18.00     18.46     18.60     18.67     680.40    697.79    703.08    709.46

 Retail trade...................................  12.34     12.28     12.25     12.46     372.67    372.08    376.08    373.80

 Transportation and warehousing.................  16.57     16.88     16.87     16.91     619.72    624.56    624.19    610.45

 Utilities......................................  26.13     27.37     27.32     27.08    1066.10   1141.33   1128.32   1104.86

Information.....................................  21.77     22.45     22.68     23.09     796.78    821.67    830.09    849.71

Financial activities............................  17.81     18.17     18.21     18.42     648.28    648.67    650.10    672.33

Professional and business services..............  18.11     18.25     18.43     18.88     617.55    625.98    630.31    651.36

Education and health services...................  16.46     16.94     17.03     17.09     541.53    550.55    553.48    562.26

Leisure and hospitality.........................   9.12      9.29      9.38      9.34     230.74    235.97    236.38    236.30

Other services..................................  14.22     14.46     14.52     14.57     439.40    445.37    447.22    451.67


  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.
  NOTE:  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal
adjustment factors.








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                         Jan.     Sept.    Oct.     Nov.    Dec.     Jan.  change from:
                                                   2005     2005     2005     2005    2005p    2006p  Dec. 2005-
                                                                                                      Jan. 2006p
        Total private:
         Current dollars........................ $15.88   $16.19   $16.28   $16.28   $16.34   $16.41      0.4
         Constant (1982) dollars(2).............   8.23     8.06     8.10     8.16     8.19     N.A.     (3)

    Goods-producing.............................  17.37    17.66    17.74    17.74    17.77    17.81       .2

Natural resources and mining....................  18.43    19.03    19.04    18.95    18.88    19.12      1.3

Construction....................................  19.23    19.54    19.58    19.59    19.64    19.65       .1

Manufacturing...................................  16.38    16.60    16.71    16.68    16.71    16.74       .2
   Excluding overtime(4)........................  15.52    15.73    15.82    15.79    15.84    15.87       .2

 Durable goods..................................  17.11    17.38    17.51    17.50    17.53    17.56       .2

 Nondurable goods...............................  15.19    15.30    15.35    15.29    15.32    15.36       .3

     Private service-providing..................  15.49    15.80    15.89    15.89    15.96    16.03       .4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............  14.78    14.98    15.05    15.04    15.10    15.11       .1

 Wholesale trade................................  17.88    18.26    18.32    18.45    18.58    18.56      -.1

 Retail trade...................................  12.31    12.35    12.43    12.35    12.39    12.42       .2

 Transportation and warehousing.................  16.55    16.82    16.82    16.85    16.85    16.90       .3

 Utilities......................................  26.13    26.95    27.17    27.15    27.21    27.18      -.1

Information.....................................  21.73    22.32    22.65    22.40    22.65    22.99      1.5

Financial activities............................  17.69    18.01    18.09    18.20    18.24    18.29       .3

Professional and business services..............  17.81    18.15    18.30    18.29    18.40    18.55       .8

Education and health services...................  16.41    16.84    16.90    16.95    16.99    17.05       .4

Leisure and hospitality.........................   9.04     9.22     9.22     9.24     9.26     9.26       .0

Other services..................................  14.17    14.40    14.46    14.46    14.49    14.52       .2


  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  2 The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate this series.
  3 Change was 0.4 percent from Nov. 2005 to Dec. 2005, 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.
  NOTE:  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal
adjustment factors.








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                      Jan.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.    Jan.   Sept.  Oct.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.   change from:
                                                2005   2005   2005p  2006p   2005   2005   2005   2005   2005p  2006p   Dec. 2006-
                                                                                                                        Jan. 2005p

        Total private.........................   98.9  104.2  103.8  101.8   101.3  103.1  103.1  103.5  103.7  103.9       0.2

    Goods-producing...........................   93.0  101.9  100.0   97.2    96.9   98.6   99.6  100.5  100.0  101.0       1.0

Natural resources and mining..................  105.7  117.5  117.8  116.3   110.3  116.3  117.6  116.0  118.8  120.3       1.3

Construction..................................   92.6  113.9  106.3  102.4   102.6  107.2  108.5  111.7  110.0  112.4       2.2

Manufacturing.................................   92.7   95.8   96.3   94.0    93.9   93.9   94.7   94.6   94.7   94.9        .2

 Durable goods................................   94.2   98.5   99.4   96.8    95.3   96.3   97.7   97.4   97.5   97.8        .3
  Wood products...............................   98.9  103.4  102.3   99.6   102.6   99.5  102.4  102.4  102.1  102.9        .8
  Nonmetallic mineral products................   90.9  102.1   96.4   93.4    97.5   95.7   97.2   99.5   97.7   99.5       1.8
  Primary metals..............................   93.7   95.5   96.8   96.5    93.2   94.5   95.0   95.2   95.0   95.7        .7
  Fabricated metal products...................   98.0  101.1  102.1  100.8    98.5   98.8  100.5  100.3  100.4  101.3        .9
  Machinery...................................   97.3   99.7  101.5   98.5    96.8   99.1  100.3   99.0   99.0   98.2       -.8
  Computer and electronic products............   89.7  102.3  103.1   99.4    90.2   97.9   99.8  100.3  100.8   99.7      -1.1
  Electrical equipment and appliances.........   87.0   89.0   89.6   89.4    87.0   87.8   88.1   87.7   88.1   89.0       1.0
  Transportation equipment....................   95.2   99.5  102.4   98.6    96.1   96.7   98.8   98.8   99.3   99.5        .2
   Motor vehicles and parts(2)................   94.8   96.2   98.6   94.2    95.6   96.7   96.4   95.4   95.1   94.8       -.3
  Furniture and related products..............   92.7   89.7   91.1   87.2    93.5   91.3   91.0   89.2   88.6   88.2       -.5
  Miscellaneous manufacturing.................   90.5   91.7   92.0   90.5    91.3   91.0   91.5   90.7   90.7   91.2        .6

 Nondurable goods.............................   90.0   91.5   91.4   89.3    91.5   90.0   90.2   90.2   90.2   90.5        .3
  Food manufacturing..........................   93.7   97.4   97.6   94.9    96.0   94.5   94.5   95.2   95.9   96.8        .9
  Beverages and tobacco products..............   88.1   99.5   97.0   93.9    91.9   94.9  100.3   98.9   98.2   98.8        .6
  Textile mills...............................   74.2   69.6   68.8   67.9    75.1   69.4   69.3   69.2   69.1   68.8       -.4
  Textile product mills.......................   88.9   93.8   94.4   96.6    90.4   91.2   92.2   94.2   94.3   97.7       3.6
  Apparel.....................................   67.5   65.1   64.0   62.2    70.3   64.8   64.0   64.5   64.1   64.6        .8
  Leather and allied products.................   75.8   82.1   82.6   77.8    77.7   79.6   79.6   81.0   81.5   79.8      -2.1
  Paper and paper products....................   89.0   88.1   88.8   86.4    88.8   88.1   87.9   87.1   86.8   86.3       -.6
  Printing and related support activities.....   91.6   92.0   91.8   89.0    92.6   91.2   90.8   90.5   90.0   89.7       -.3
  Petroleum and coal products.................   98.5  102.7   94.3   92.2   103.2  105.3  105.3  100.6   97.2   97.4        .2
  Chemicals...................................   97.6   97.5   98.6   98.1    98.2   96.4   97.9   96.9   97.4   98.0        .6
  Plastics and rubber products................   91.9   93.1   94.0   91.3    92.7   91.9   91.9   92.1   92.6   92.1       -.5

     Private service-providing................  100.8  104.8  104.9  102.9   102.6  104.1  104.1  104.5  104.6  104.8        .2

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........   99.0  103.4  104.9  100.1   100.8  101.3  101.3  102.0  102.1  101.9       -.2

 Wholesale trade..............................   99.4  102.9  103.1  102.8   100.1  102.0  102.3  102.8  103.2  103.5        .3

 Retail trade.................................   97.9  103.0  105.9   98.4   100.3  100.4  100.0  101.1  100.8  100.9        .1

 Transportation and warehousing...............  103.8  106.8  106.5  102.2   105.2  103.9  104.3  105.0  104.6  104.1       -.5

 Utilities....................................   92.2   96.0   94.8   93.2    93.1   94.5   94.9   95.1   95.3   94.1      -1.3

Information...................................   98.6  100.6  101.1  100.6    98.6  100.5  100.5  100.3  100.8  100.6       -.2

Financial activities..........................  104.5  104.8  105.2  107.1   103.8  105.1  105.8  105.6  105.8  106.4        .6

Professional and business services............  100.7  108.5  107.8  106.0   103.8  106.9  106.9  107.6  108.0  108.9        .8

Education and health services.................  105.6  108.0  107.7  107.6   105.2  107.2  107.0  106.6  107.0  107.3        .3

Leisure and hospitality.......................   97.8  103.0  102.0  100.0   104.9  106.6  106.2  106.7  106.5  107.2        .7

Other services................................   94.9   95.1   95.3   95.2    96.2   96.0   95.8   95.8   95.9   96.4        .5


  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  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.  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark
levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.








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                      Jan.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.    Jan.   Sept.  Oct.   Nov.   Dec.   Jan.   change from:
                                                2005   2005   2005p  2006p   2005   2005   2005   2005   2005p  2006p   Dec. 2005-
                                                                                                                        Jan. 2006p

        Total private.........................  105.9  113.7  113.6  112.6   107.7  111.6  112.3  112.8  113.3  114.1       0.7

    Goods-producing...........................   98.6  110.8  109.0  105.5   103.0  106.6  108.2  109.2  108.8  110.1       1.2

Natural resources and mining..................  113.8  129.1  129.4  130.2   118.2  128.8  130.2  127.8  130.4  133.8       2.6

Construction..................................   95.5  120.6  112.9  107.8   106.6  113.1  114.7  118.1  116.6  119.2       2.2

Manufacturing.................................   99.5  104.6  105.8  103.1   100.6  101.9  103.5  103.2  103.5  103.9        .4

 Durable goods................................  100.8  107.9  109.7  106.2   101.8  104.4  106.8  106.4  106.7  107.2        .5

 Nondurable goods.............................   96.9   98.8   99.2   97.2    98.2   97.3   97.9   97.5   97.6   98.2        .6

     Private service-providing................  108.3  114.4  115.1  114.6   109.2  113.0  113.6  114.0  114.7  115.5        .7

Trade, transportation, and utilities..........  104.9  110.6  111.9  108.5   106.3  108.3  108.8  109.4  109.9  109.8       -.1

 Wholesale trade..............................  105.4  111.9  113.0  113.0   105.4  109.7  110.4  111.7  112.9  113.1        .2

 Retail trade.................................  103.5  108.4  111.1  105.1   105.8  106.3  106.6  107.0  107.1  107.4        .3

 Transportation and warehousing...............  109.1  114.4  114.0  109.6   110.5  110.9  111.3  112.3  111.9  111.6       -.3

 Utilities....................................  100.6  109.7  108.1  105.4   101.5  106.3  107.6  107.7  108.2  106.7      -1.4

Information...................................  106.3  111.8  113.5  115.0   106.1  111.0  112.7  111.2  113.1  114.5       1.2

Financial activities..........................  115.1  117.8  118.4  122.0   113.5  117.0  118.4  118.9  119.3  120.3        .8

Professional and business services............  108.5  117.8  118.2  119.0   110.0  115.4  116.4  117.1  118.2  120.2       1.7

Education and health services.................  114.2  120.3  120.6  120.9   113.5  118.6  118.8  118.8  119.5  120.2        .6

Leisure and hospitality.......................  104.0  111.5  111.6  108.9   110.5  114.6  114.2  114.9  114.9  115.7        .7

Other services................................   98.3  100.2  100.8  101.0    99.3  100.7  100.9  100.9  101.3  102.0        .7


  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.  Data have been revised
to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.








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    p57.6
     2006 ..............  p60.6


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    p63.3
     2006 ..............  p67.6


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    p57.0
     2006 ..............  p57.9


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    p59.9
     2006 ..............  p61.7

                                                        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    p47.6
     2006 ..............  p52.4


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    p46.4
     2006 ..............  p56.5


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    p41.1
     2006 ..............  p35.7


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    p38.1
     2006 ..............  p40.5


  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.  Data have been revised to reflect March 2005 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.