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Technical information: 

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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION – FEBRUARY 2010

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate

held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction 

and information, while temporary help services added jobs. Severe winter weather in parts of the 

country may have affected payroll employment and hours; however, it is not possible to quantify precisely the net impact of the winter storms on these measures. For more information on the effects of 

the severe weather on employment estimates, see the box note at the end of the release.

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Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, February 2008 –

February 2010

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

February 2008 – February 2010

Household Survey Data

In February, the number of unemployed persons, at 14.9 million, was essentially unchanged, and the 

unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (10.0 percent), adult women 

(8.0 percent), whites (8.8 percent), blacks (15.8 percent), Hispanics (12.4 percent), and teenagers (25.0 

percent) showed little to no change in February. The jobless rate for Asians was 8.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 
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The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was 6.1 million in 

February and has been about that level since December. About 4 in 10 unemployed persons have been 

unemployed for 27 weeks or more. (See table A-12.) 

In February, the civilian labor force participation rate (64.8 percent) and the employment-population 

ratio (58.5 percent) were little changed. (See table A-1.) 

The number of persons working part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary 

part-time workers) increased from 8.3 to 8.8 million in February, partially offsetting a large decrease in 

the prior month. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See table A-8.) 

About 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in February, an increase of 

476,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the 

labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 

months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks 

preceding the survey. (See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 1.2 million discouraged workers in February, up by 

473,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons 

not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.3 

million persons marginally attached to the labor force had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. 

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed in February (-36,000). Job losses continued in 

construction and information, while employment continued to increase in temporary help services. Since 

the start of the recession in December 2007, payroll employment has fallen by 8.4 million. (See table 

B-1.) 

Construction employment fell by 64,000 in February, about in line with the average monthly job loss 

over the prior 6 months. Job losses were concentrated in nonresidential building (-10,000) and among 

nonresidential specialty trade contractors (-35,000). Since December 2007, employment in construction 

has fallen by 1.9 million. 

Employment in the information industry dropped by 18,000 in February. Since December 2007, job 

losses in information have totaled 297,000. In February, employment in transportation and warehousing continued to trend down. 

Employment in manufacturing was essentially unchanged in February. Small job gains in a number of 

component industries were offset by job losses in motor vehicles and parts and in chemicals. 

Retail trade employment was unchanged in February, after a sizeable increase in January. Over the 

month, job gains in building material and garden supply stores (7,000) and in department stores (6,000) 

were offset by declines in food and beverage stores (-9,000). 
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In February, temporary help services added 48,000 jobs. Since reaching a low point in September 

2009, temporary help services employment has risen by 284,000. Health care employment continued 

to trend upward in February. 

In February, employment in the federal government edged up. The hiring of 15,000 temporary workers 

for Census 2010 was partially offset by a decline in U.S. Postal Service employment.

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 hour to 33.8 

hours in February. The manufacturing workweek for all employees dropped by 0.4 hour to 39.5 hours, 

and factory overtime decreased by 0.2 hour over the month. In February, the average workweek for 

production or nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.2 hour to 33.1 hours; 

the workweek fell by 1.0 hour in construction, likely reflecting the unusually severe winter storms. 

(See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In February, average hourly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 3 

cents, or 0.1 percent, to $22.46. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 1.9 

percent. In February, average hourly earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees

rose by 3 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $18.93. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December was revised from -150,000 to -109,000, 

and the change for January was revised from -20,000 to -26,000. 

The Employment Situation for March is scheduled to be released on Friday, April 2, 2010, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EDT). 

Effect of Severe Winter Storms on Employment Estimates

Major winter storms affected parts of the country during the February reference periods 

for the establishment and household surveys. 

In the establishment survey, the reference period was the pay period including February 

12th. In order for severe weather conditions to reduce the estimate of payroll employment, employees have to be off work for an entire pay period and not be paid for the 

time missed. About half of all workers in the payroll survey have a 2-week, semimonthly, or monthly pay period. Workers who received pay for any part of the reference 

pay period, even one hour, are counted in the February payroll employment figures. 

While some persons may have been off payrolls during the survey reference period, some 

industries, such as those dealing with cleanup and repair activities, may have added 

workers. 

In the household survey, the reference period was the calendar week of February 7-13. 

People who miss work for weather-related events are counted as employed whether or 

not they are paid for the time off. 
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Corrections to Establishment Survey Data

With the release of February data on March 5, 2010, BLS has corrected April–July 2009 

establishment survey estimates for all employees and women employees for the federal 

government series. The changes result from corrections to initial counts for Census temporary and intermittent workers for Census 2010. The corrections affect the following 

industry series: other federal government; federal, except the U.S. Postal Service; federal 

government; government; service-providing; and total nonfarm. These corrections do not 

affect any employment data before April 2009 or after July 2009. No hours and earnings 

data are impacted.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Change from:

Jan. 2010-

Feb. 2010

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 234,913 236,924 236,832 236,998 166

Civilian labor force............................................................ 154,401 153,059 153,170 153,512 342

Participation rate........................................................... 65.7 64.6 64.7 64.8 0.1

Employed.................................................................... 141,687 137,792 138,333 138,641 308

Employment-population ratio........................................... 60.3 58.2 58.4 58.5 0.1

Unemployed................................................................. 12,714 15,267 14,837 14,871 34

Unemployment rate..................................................... 8.2 10.0 9.7 9.7 0.0

Not in labor force............................................................. 80,512 83,865 83,663 83,487 -176

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 8.2 10.0 9.7 9.7 0.0

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 8.4 10.2 10.0 10.0 0.0

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 6.8 8.2 7.9 8.0 0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 21.8 27.1 26.4 25.0 -1.4

White........................................................................... 7.5 9.0 8.7 8.8 0.1

Black or African American................................................... 13.5 16.2 16.5 15.8 -0.7

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 6.9 8.4 8.4 8.4 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 11.0 12.9 12.6 12.4 -0.2

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 7.0 8.5 8.2 8.3 0.1

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 13.0 15.3 15.2 15.6 0.4

High school graduates, no college......................................... 8.4 10.5 10.1 10.5 0.4

Some college or associate degree......................................... 7.1 9.0 8.5 8.0 -0.5

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 4.2 5.0 4.9 5.0 0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 7,878 9,701 9,323 9,550 227

Job leavers....................................................................... 820 932 914 866 -48

Reentrants........................................................................ 2,912 3,334 3,585 3,451 -134

New entrants..................................................................... 1,016 1,270 1,235 1,238 3

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 3,364 2,929 3,008 2,748 -260

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 3,961 3,486 3,362 3,412 50

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 2,405 2,840 2,632 2,696 64

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 2,964 6,130 6,313 6,133 -180

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 8,672 9,165 8,316 8,791 475

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 6,511 6,453 5,873 6,185 312

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 1,771 2,346 2,295 2,212 -83

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,861 18,364 18,563 18,360 -203

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,051 2,486 2,539 2,527 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 731 929 1,065 1,204 –

- Over-the-month changes are not displayed for not seasonally adjusted data.

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. 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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with

the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -726 -109 -26 -36

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -707 -83 -33 -18

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -296 -54 -53 -60

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -14 0 4 3

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -116 -36 -77 -64

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -166 -18 20 1

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -118 -11 19 1

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.1 -1.1 26.8 -9.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -48 -7 1 0

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -411 -29 20 42

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -49.4 -4.3 -16.4 -1.0

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -69.8 -14.5 41.8 -0.4

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -26.4 -4.0 -31.1 -12.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -15 -14 -4 -18

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -51 -9 -13 -10

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -171 22 30 51

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -49.5 49.7 50.2 47.5

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 37 23 32

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.1 21.8 15.8 20.4

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -26 -33 0 7

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -19 -7 0 -6

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -19 -26 7 -18

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 49.9 49.9 49.9

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.0 48.4 48.4 48.4

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.1 33.8 33.9 33.8

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.05 $ 22.38 $ 22.43 $ 22.46

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 751.91 $ 756.44 $760.38 $759.15

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.2 90.7 91.0 90.7

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.9 -0.4 0.3 -0.3

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.1 96.8 97.3 97.1

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.7 -0.4 0.5 -0.2

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.2 33.2 33.3 33.1

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 18.47 $ 18.85 $ 18.90 $ 18.93

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 613.20 $ 625.82 $629.37 $626.58

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.8 97.9 98.2 97.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1.0 0.0 0.3 -0.6

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.4 123.3 124.0 123.4

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.7 0.2 0.6 -0.5

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.1 39.6 44.2 48.0

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.4 41.5 40.9 54.9

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing

industries.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours.

4 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average

aggregate weekly payrolls.

5 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.

p = preliminary.
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates

Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates of employment 

and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey employment series has a smaller 

margin of error on the measurement of month-to-month change than the household survey because of its 

much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of about 100,000 is statistically 

significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change in the 

household survey is about 400,000. However, the household survey has a more expansive scope than the 

establishment survey because it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers, agricultural 

workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey. The household 

survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups.

Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys?

It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However, neither the 

establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal status of workers. Therefore, it 

is not possible to determine how many are counted in either survey. The establishment survey does not 

collect data on the legal status of workers. The household survey does include questions which identify 

the foreign and native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the foreign born. 

Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by incorporating 

additional information that was not available at the time of the initial publication of the estimates. 

The establishment survey revises its initial monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 

2 months, to incorporate additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit 

www.bls.gov/ces/cesrevinfo.htm. 

On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that re-anchors 

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax records.

The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. For more information on the annual benchmark revision, please visit www.bls.gov/web/cesbmart.htm. 

Does the establishment survey sample include small firms?

Yes; about 40 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business establishments with 

fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is designed to maximize the reliability of the 

total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all size classes and industries are appropriately sampled 

to achieve that goal. 

Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses?

Yes; monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for the net employment 

change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment comes from an econometric model that 

forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the 

net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The 

establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not 
immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth 

of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new 

businesses to the survey twice a year. 

Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment insurance 

benefits? 

No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who 

are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. 

(People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement 

or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. 

Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who have stopped looking for work? 

Yes; however, there are separate estimates of persons outside the labor force who want a job, including 

those who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged workers). In 

addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (discouraged workers and other groups not 

officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in The Employment Situation news release. 
Technical 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 information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment 

that appears in the "A" tables, marked HOUSEHOLD 

DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 households 

conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau 

of Labor Statistics (BLS). 

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm payrolls; the data appear in the "B" tables, marked 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of nonagricultural business establishments. The sample includes about 

140,000 businesses and government agencies representing 

approximately 410,000 worksites and is drawn from a sampling frame of roughly 8.9 million unemployment insurance 

tax accounts. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

particular week or pay period. In the household survey, the 

reference period is generally the calendar week that 

contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment 

survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 

12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the 

calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between 

surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or 

worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or 

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

reference week; they were available for work at that time; 

and they made specific efforts to find employment 

sometime during the 4-week period ending with the 

reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting 

recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the 

household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for 

or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those not classified as employed or 

unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment 

rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor 

force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force 

as a percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the employed as a percent of the population. 

Additional information about the household survey can be 

found at www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm. 

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

offices, and stores, as well as from 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 

produced for the private sector for all employees and for 

production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and 

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and 

logging, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in private service-providing industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal activity in accordance with the 2007 

version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

survey can be found at www.bls.gov/ces/#technical. 

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

the household and establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from 

the surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, the self-employed, unpaid family 

workers, and private household workers among the 

employed. These groups are excluded from the 

establishment survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 

years of age and older. The establishment survey is 

not limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

once, even if they hold more than one job. In the 

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are 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 regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, 

and the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a 

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

spot. For example, in the household survey, 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. Similarly, in the 

establishment survey, payroll employment in education 

declines by about 20 percent at the end of the spring term 

and later rises with the start of the fall term, obscuring the 

underlying employment trends in the industry. Because 

seasonal employment changes at the end and beginning of 

the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be 

adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more 

discernable. The seasonally adjusted figures provide a 

more useful tool with which to analyze changes in monthto-month economic activity. 

Many 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 

major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are 

computed by aggregating independently adjusted 

component series. For example, total unemployment is 

derived by summing the adjusted series for four major agesex components; this differs from the unemployment 

estimate that would be obtained by directly adjusting the 

total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more 

detailed age categories. 

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. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling 

error. When a sample rather than the entire population is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the "true" population values they represent. The 

exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the 

particular sample selected, and this variability is measured 

by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-

percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate 

based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 standard 

errors from the "true" population value because of sampling 

error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-

percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the 

establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 

100,000. Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment 

increases by 50,000 from one month to the next. The 90-

percent confidence interval on the monthly change would 

range from -50,000 to +150,000 (50,000 +/- 100,000). 

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 nonfarm 

employment had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, 

the reported nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, 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 nonfarm employment had, in fact, 

risen that month. At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 

percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly 

change in unemployment as measured by the household 

survey is about +/- 280,000, and for the monthly change in 

the unemployment rate it is about +/- 0.19 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

size of the estimate) than estimates which are based on a 

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, 

such as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which 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 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 excludes 

employment losses from business deaths from samplebased estimation in order to offset the missing employment 

gains from business births. This is incorporated into the 

sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting 

sample units going out of business, but imputing to them 

the same employment trend as the other firms in the 

sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net 

birth/death employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series 

model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death 

employment not accounted for by the imputation. The 

historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA 

model was derived from the unemployment insurance 

universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual 

residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 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, absolute benchmark revisions for total 

nonfarm employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a 

range from -0.7 to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

(202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,913 236,832 236,998 234,913 236,550 236,743 236,924 236,832 236,998

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,804 152,957 153,194 154,401 153,854 153,720 153,059 153,170 153,512

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 64.6 64.6 65.7 65.0 64.9 64.6 64.7 64.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,105 136,809 137,203 141,687 138,242 138,381 137,792 138,333 138,641

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 57.8 57.9 60.3 58.4 58.5 58.2 58.4 58.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,699 16,147 15,991 12,714 15,612 15,340 15,267 14,837 14,871

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9 10.6 10.4 8.2 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7 9.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,109 83,876 83,804 80,512 82,696 83,022 83,865 83,663 83,487

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,588 6,108 6,086 5,677 6,031 6,043 6,306 5,965 6,170

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,666 114,648 114,735 113,666 114,530 114,632 114,728 114,648 114,735

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,959 81,238 81,488 82,180 82,184 81,964 81,454 81,290 81,496

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 70.9 71.0 72.3 71.8 71.5 71.0 70.9 71.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,441 71,216 71,566 74,756 72,844 72,794 72,499 72,516 72,813

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.6 62.1 62.4 65.8 63.6 63.5 63.2 63.3 63.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,517 10,021 9,923 7,425 9,340 9,171 8,955 8,774 8,683

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.4 12.3 12.2 9.0 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8 10.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,707 33,410 33,247 31,486 32,346 32,667 33,274 33,358 33,239

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,999 105,998 106,100 104,999 105,906 106,018 106,125 105,998 106,100

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,879 78,451 78,678 78,859 79,024 78,901 78,402 78,225 78,471

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.1 74.0 74.2 75.1 74.6 74.4 73.9 73.8 74.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,217 69,337 69,606 72,266 70,662 70,662 70,391 70,390 70,623

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.8 65.4 65.6 68.8 66.7 66.7 66.3 66.4 66.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,662 9,113 9,072 6,593 8,362 8,239 8,011 7,835 7,848

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.7 11.6 11.5 8.4 10.6 10.4 10.2 10.0 10.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,120 27,548 27,422 26,140 26,882 27,117 27,723 27,774 27,628

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,247 122,185 122,263 121,247 122,020 122,111 122,197 122,185 122,263

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,846 71,719 71,706 72,220 71,669 71,756 71,605 71,880 72,015

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.3 58.7 58.6 59.6 58.7 58.8 58.6 58.8 58.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,664 65,593 65,638 66,931 65,398 65,587 65,293 65,817 65,828

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 53.7 53.7 55.2 53.6 53.7 53.4 53.9 53.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,182 6,126 6,068 5,290 6,271 6,169 6,312 6,064 6,187

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 8.5 8.5 7.3 8.8 8.6 8.8 8.4 8.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,401 50,466 50,557 49,027 50,350 50,355 50,591 50,305 50,247

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,824 113,796 113,886 112,824 113,636 113,737 113,832 113,796 113,886

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,738 68,991 68,940 68,914 68,687 68,742 68,620 68,949 69,069

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 60.6 60.5 61.1 60.4 60.4 60.3 60.6 60.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,106 63,437 63,459 64,238 63,133 63,269 62,998 63,527 63,538

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 55.7 55.7 56.9 55.6 55.6 55.3 55.8 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,632 5,553 5,481 4,676 5,554 5,473 5,622 5,422 5,531

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.7 8.0 8.0 6.8 8.1 8.0 8.2 7.9 8.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,086 44,806 44,947 43,910 44,949 44,994 45,212 44,848 44,818

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,090 17,038 17,012 17,090 17,008 16,988 16,967 17,038 17,012

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,187 5,515 5,577 6,628 6,143 6,077 6,037 5,996 5,972

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.2 32.4 32.8 38.8 36.1 35.8 35.6 35.2 35.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,783 4,034 4,139 5,183 4,448 4,450 4,403 4,416 4,480

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.0 23.7 24.3 30.3 26.1 26.2 25.9 25.9 26.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,405 1,481 1,438 1,445 1,696 1,627 1,634 1,580 1,491

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.7 26.9 25.8 21.8 27.6 26.8 27.1 26.4 25.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,903 11,522 11,436 10,462 10,865 10,911 10,930 11,041 11,041

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,331 191,454 191,552 190,331 191,394 191,516 191,628 191,454 191,552

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,528 124,498 124,790 125,835 125,567 125,258 124,605 124,579 124,847

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.0 65.0 65.1 66.1 65.6 65.4 65.0 65.1 65.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,182 112,546 112,712 116,427 113,754 113,669 113,339 113,797 113,865

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 58.8 58.8 61.2 59.4 59.4 59.1 59.4 59.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,346 11,952 12,079 9,408 11,813 11,589 11,266 10,782 10,982

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 9.6 9.7 7.5 9.4 9.3 9.0 8.7 8.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,803 66,956 66,762 64,496 65,827 66,258 67,024 66,875 66,705

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,342 64,877 65,128 65,285 65,540 65,387 64,804 64,682 64,889

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.6 74.5 74.7 75.5 75.3 75.0 74.3 74.3 74.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,471 57,937 58,183 60,333 59,077 58,996 58,782 58,813 59,021

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.8 66.5 66.7 69.8 67.8 67.7 67.4 67.5 67.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,872 6,940 6,945 4,952 6,463 6,390 6,022 5,869 5,868

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 10.7 10.7 7.6 9.9 9.8 9.3 9.1 9.0

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,995 55,135 55,087 54,978 54,932 54,908 54,822 55,017 55,061

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 60.4 60.3 60.6 60.2 60.1 60.0 60.2 60.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,585 51,202 51,032 51,599 50,861 50,852 50,753 51,248 51,048

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 56.1 55.8 56.8 55.7 55.6 55.5 56.1 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,411 3,933 4,055 3,379 4,071 4,056 4,069 3,769 4,014

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 7.1 7.4 6.1 7.4 7.4 7.4 6.8 7.3

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,190 4,486 4,575 5,571 5,095 4,963 4,978 4,880 4,897

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.7 34.5 35.2 42.6 39.2 38.2 38.4 37.5 37.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,126 3,406 3,497 4,494 3,816 3,820 3,804 3,736 3,797

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.5 26.2 26.9 34.4 29.3 29.4 29.3 28.7 29.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,064 1,080 1,078 1,077 1,279 1,142 1,174 1,145 1,100

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.5 24.1 23.6 19.3 25.1 23.0 23.6 23.5 22.5

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,085 28,526 28,559 28,085 28,369 28,404 28,437 28,526 28,559

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,534 17,702 17,599 17,692 17,516 17,660 17,600 17,749 17,748

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 62.1 61.6 63.0 61.7 62.2 61.9 62.2 62.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,108 14,643 14,752 15,296 14,763 14,904 14,758 14,820 14,936

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.8 51.3 51.7 54.5 52.0 52.5 51.9 52.0 52.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,426 3,059 2,847 2,396 2,754 2,757 2,843 2,929 2,812

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.8 17.3 16.2 13.5 15.7 15.6 16.2 16.5 15.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,551 10,824 10,960 10,393 10,853 10,744 10,837 10,777 10,811

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,904 8,017 7,971 7,945 7,899 7,915 7,907 7,970 7,985

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.0 69.6 69.1 70.3 69.0 69.0 68.8 69.2 69.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,632 6,451 6,448 6,744 6,553 6,584 6,591 6,566 6,561

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.7 56.0 55.9 59.7 57.2 57.4 57.4 57.0 56.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,273 1,565 1,523 1,201 1,346 1,331 1,316 1,405 1,424

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.1 19.5 19.1 15.1 17.0 16.8 16.6 17.6 17.8

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,944 8,998 8,995 9,002 8,911 9,001 8,959 9,034 9,074

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 62.8 62.7 63.9 62.5 63.1 62.7 63.1 63.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,052 7,803 7,934 8,096 7,800 7,946 7,788 7,836 7,975

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.1 54.5 55.3 57.4 54.8 55.7 54.5 54.7 55.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891 1,194 1,062 906 1,110 1,055 1,171 1,198 1,099

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.0 13.3 11.8 10.1 12.5 11.7 13.1 13.3 12.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 687 633 745 707 743 734 745 689

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.5 25.6 23.6 27.7 26.4 27.8 27.5 27.7 25.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 388 371 455 409 373 379 418 399

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.8 14.5 13.8 16.9 15.3 14.0 14.2 15.6 14.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 299 262 289 298 370 356 326 290

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.2 43.5 41.4 38.9 42.1 49.8 48.4 43.8 42.0

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,753 10,950 11,020 – – – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,086 7,020 7,074 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.9 64.1 64.2 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,597 6,431 6,483 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 58.7 58.8 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 589 592 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 8.4 8.4 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,667 3,930 3,946 – – – – – –

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

- 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. Updated population controls are introduced

annually with the release of January data.
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Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 32,501 33,251 33,335 32,501 33,202 33,291 33,379 33,251 33,335

Civilian labor force................................. 22,044 22,505 22,582 22,120 22,492 22,564 22,404 22,578 22,648

Participation rate................................. 67.8 67.7 67.7 68.1 67.7 67.8 67.1 67.9 67.9

Employed......................................... 19,388 19,373 19,554 19,687 19,553 19,692 19,513 19,730 19,848

Employment-population ratio................ 59.7 58.3 58.7 60.6 58.9 59.2 58.5 59.3 59.5

Unemployed...................................... 2,657 3,132 3,027 2,433 2,939 2,872 2,891 2,848 2,800

Unemployment rate........................... 12.1 13.9 13.4 11.0 13.1 12.7 12.9 12.6 12.4

Not in labor force................................... 10,457 10,746 10,753 10,382 10,710 10,727 10,976 10,674 10,687

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 12,557 12,769 12,863 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 83.1 82.6 83.0 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 11,027 11,003 11,128 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 72.9 71.2 71.8 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,530 1,766 1,735 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 12.2 13.8 13.5 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 8,438 8,776 8,743 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 59.0 60.2 59.9 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 7,578 7,767 7,759 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 53.0 53.3 53.1 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 860 1,009 984 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 10.2 11.5 11.3 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 1,050 960 976 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 34.0 29.8 30.2 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 782 602 667 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 25.3 18.7 20.7 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 267 357 308 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 25.5 37.2 31.6 – – – – – –

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

- Data not available.

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 11,898 12,014 11,415 12,015 12,155 12,003 11,977 11,835 11,518

Participation rate.................................... 46.1 46.1 45.8 46.6 47.2 46.3 45.6 45.4 46.2

Employed............................................ 10,097 9,898 9,369 10,450 10,272 10,202 10,144 10,033 9,722

Employment-population ratio................... 39.2 38.0 37.6 40.5 39.9 39.3 38.6 38.5 39.0

Unemployed......................................... 1,801 2,116 2,046 1,565 1,883 1,802 1,833 1,802 1,795

Unemployment rate.............................. 15.1 17.6 17.9 13.0 15.5 15.0 15.3 15.2 15.6

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 38,497 38,285 39,089 38,386 37,917 37,759 37,607 37,738 38,801

Participation rate.................................... 62.3 62.0 62.4 62.1 61.8 61.6 61.4 61.1 61.9

Employed............................................ 34,791 33,879 34,425 35,143 33,674 33,851 33,649 33,920 34,737

Employment-population ratio................... 56.3 54.8 54.9 56.9 54.9 55.2 55.0 54.9 55.4

Unemployed......................................... 3,706 4,406 4,664 3,242 4,243 3,908 3,958 3,818 4,064

Unemployment rate.............................. 9.6 11.5 11.9 8.4 11.2 10.4 10.5 10.1 10.5

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,267 36,584 36,793 37,039 36,899 36,946 36,892 36,761 36,575

Participation rate.................................... 71.9 71.1 70.6 71.5 70.9 70.4 70.6 71.5 70.2

Employed............................................ 34,421 33,292 33,685 34,407 33,596 33,629 33,560 33,629 33,660

Employment-population ratio................... 66.4 64.7 64.7 66.4 64.5 64.1 64.2 65.4 64.6

Unemployed......................................... 2,846 3,292 3,108 2,632 3,303 3,318 3,332 3,132 2,915

Unemployment rate.............................. 7.6 9.0 8.4 7.1 9.0 9.0 9.0 8.5 8.0

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 45,078 45,925 45,598 45,085 46,316 45,992 45,994 45,939 45,694

Participation rate.................................... 77.7 77.0 76.8 77.7 77.4 77.4 77.3 77.0 77.0

Employed............................................ 43,190 43,574 43,313 43,207 44,116 43,743 43,707 43,704 43,418

Employment-population ratio................... 74.5 73.1 73.0 74.5 73.7 73.6 73.4 73.3 73.1

Unemployed......................................... 1,888 2,351 2,285 1,878 2,200 2,249 2,288 2,235 2,276

Unemployment rate.............................. 4.2 5.1 5.0 4.2 4.7 4.9 5.0 4.9 5.0

1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

2 Includes persons with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
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Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service,

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,328 22,152 20,579 20,376 1,749 1,776

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,330 11,875 11,172 10,807 1,158 1,068

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 53.6 54.3 53.0 66.2 60.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,333 10,751 10,266 9,767 1,067 983

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.8 48.5 49.9 47.9 61.0 55.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997 1,124 906 1,040 91 85

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 9.5 8.1 9.6 7.9 7.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,998 10,277 9,407 9,569 591 708

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,804 2,078 1,497 1,747 308 331

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,513 1,696 1,288 1,464 225 232

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.9 81.6 86.1 83.8 73.1 70.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,344 1,484 1,149 1,283 194 201

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.5 71.4 76.8 73.4 63.2 60.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 212 139 181 31 31

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 12.5 10.8 12.4 13.6 13.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 382 208 283 83 99

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,850 2,927 2,439 2,507 411 420

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,481 2,548 2,148 2,226 333 322

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1 87.0 88.1 88.8 81.1 76.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,317 2,321 2,004 2,014 313 307

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.3 79.3 82.2 80.4 76.3 73.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 226 144 212 20 15

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 8.9 6.7 9.5 5.9 4.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 379 291 281 78 98

World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam-era veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,569 11,153 11,182 10,782 386 372

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,585 4,118 4,443 4,001 142 117

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.6 36.9 39.7 37.1 36.6 31.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,269 3,785 4,131 3,673 138 112

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.9 33.9 36.9 34.1 35.6 30.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 332 312 327 4 5

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 8.1 7.0 8.2 2.7 4.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,984 7,036 6,739 6,781 245 255

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,105 5,994 5,461 5,341 644 653

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,751 3,514 3,293 3,116 459 397

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 58.6 60.3 58.3 71.2 60.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,404 3,161 2,982 2,797 421 364

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.7 52.7 54.6 52.4 65.4 55.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 353 311 319 37 34

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 10.1 9.4 10.3 8.1 8.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,354 2,480 2,168 2,225 186 256

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,620 205,915 88,583 89,856 115,038 116,059

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,316 139,527 69,779 69,824 69,537 69,703

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 67.8 78.8 77.7 60.4 60.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,105 125,152 62,459 61,215 64,646 63,936

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 60.8 70.5 68.1 56.2 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,211 14,375 7,320 8,609 4,891 5,766

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8 10.3 10.5 12.3 7.0 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,305 66,389 18,804 20,032 45,501 46,357

NOTE: Veterans served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the U.S.

Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August

2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service periods (all other time

periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the selected wartime periods and

another period are classified only in the wartime period. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 26,738 26,899 208,175 210,100

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 6,141 5,887 147,663 147,308

Participation rate...................................................................... 23.0 21.9 70.9 70.1

Employed.............................................................................. 5,282 5,076 134,823 132,127

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 19.8 18.9 64.8 62.9

Unemployed........................................................................... 859 811 12,840 15,181

Unemployment rate................................................................ 14.0 13.8 8.7 10.3

Not in labor force........................................................................ 20,596 21,012 60,512 62,792

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,865 2,741 75,581 75,106

Participation rate...................................................................... 39.1 37.6 83.9 82.7

Employed.............................................................................. 2,362 2,294 67,833 65,913

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 32.2 31.5 75.3 72.6

Unemployed........................................................................... 503 447 7,748 9,193

Unemployment rate................................................................ 17.6 16.3 10.3 12.2

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,468 4,545 14,495 15,706

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,470 2,329 66,488 66,343

Participation rate...................................................................... 32.7 30.9 72.1 71.4

Employed.............................................................................. 2,172 2,022 61,772 60,809

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 28.7 26.9 67.0 65.4

Unemployed........................................................................... 299 306 4,716 5,534

Unemployment rate................................................................ 12.1 13.2 7.1 8.3

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,092 5,199 25,743 26,586

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 806 817 5,594 5,859

Participation rate...................................................................... 6.8 6.8 21.6 22.2

Employed.............................................................................. 748 760 5,218 5,405

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 6.3 6.3 20.2 20.5

Unemployed........................................................................... 57 58 376 454

Unemployment rate................................................................ 7.1 7.1 6.7 7.7

Not in labor force........................................................................ 11,036 11,267 20,274 20,500

NOTE: A person with a disability has at least one of the following conditions: is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing; is blind or has serious difficulty seeing

even when wearing glasses; has serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition;

has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or

shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status and nativity

Total Men Women

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 34,714 35,315 17,306 17,683 17,408 17,633

Civilian labor force................................................... 23,390 23,854 13,905 14,098 9,485 9,756

Participation rate................................................... 67.4 67.5 80.3 79.7 54.5 55.3

Employed........................................................... 20,976 21,102 12,337 12,365 8,639 8,737

Employment-population ratio.................................. 60.4 59.8 71.3 69.9 49.6 49.5

Unemployed........................................................ 2,414 2,752 1,568 1,734 846 1,019

Unemployment rate............................................. 10.3 11.5 11.3 12.3 8.9 10.4

Not in labor force..................................................... 11,324 11,461 3,401 3,584 7,923 7,877

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 200,199 201,683 96,360 97,053 103,839 104,630

Civilian labor force................................................... 130,414 129,341 68,053 67,390 62,361 61,950

Participation rate................................................... 65.1 64.1 70.6 69.4 60.1 59.2

Employed........................................................... 119,129 116,102 61,104 59,201 58,025 56,901

Employment-population ratio.................................. 59.5 57.6 63.4 61.0 55.9 54.4

Unemployed........................................................ 11,285 13,239 6,949 8,189 4,336 5,050

Unemployment rate............................................. 8.7 10.2 10.2 12.2 7.0 8.2

Not in labor force..................................................... 69,785 72,342 28,307 29,663 41,478 42,680

NOTE: The foreign born are those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. That is, they were born outside the United States or

one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The native born are persons who were born in the

United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam or who were born abroad of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen. Updated

population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-8. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

[In thousands]

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 1,961 1,974 2,132 2,148 2,041 2,086 2,056 2,115 2,313

Wage and salary workers......................... 1,126 1,218 1,261 1,228 1,263 1,331 1,308 1,342 1,362

Self-employed workers............................ 817 743 849 876 736 752 755 781 908

Unpaid family workers............................. 18 13 22 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 138,144 134,836 135,071 139,559 136,311 136,357 135,717 136,276 136,398

Wage and salary workers......................... 129,232 126,126 126,091 130,454 127,312 127,160 126,539 127,269 127,261

Government...................................... 21,158 21,144 21,297 21,185 21,161 21,233 21,110 21,227 21,292

Private industries................................ 108,075 104,982 104,794 109,271 106,173 105,856 105,428 106,031 105,942

Private households............................ 719 688 666 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 107,356 104,295 104,127 108,535 105,401 105,097 104,666 105,329 105,243

Self-employed workers............................ 8,859 8,643 8,900 8,978 8,960 9,111 9,135 9,007 9,029

Unpaid family workers............................. 53 66 80 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME1

All industries

Part time for economic reasons2................... 9,170 9,290 9,282 8,672 9,240 9,225 9,165 8,316 8,791

Slack work or business conditions............... 7,067 6,825 6,708 6,511 6,882 6,684 6,453 5,873 6,185

Could only find part-time work.................... 1,827 2,159 2,252 1,771 2,084 2,238 2,346 2,295 2,212

Part time for noneconomic reasons3

.............. 19,296 18,782 18,718 18,861 18,632 18,354 18,364 18,563 18,360

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons2

................... 9,053 9,161 9,108 8,584 9,158 9,137 9,055 8,193 8,651

Slack work or business conditions............... 6,989 6,739 6,584 6,455 6,797 6,616 6,378 5,792 6,079

Could only find part-time work.................... 1,822 2,149 2,237 1,771 2,033 2,241 2,349 2,288 2,199

Part time for noneconomic reasons3

.............. 18,977 18,444 18,387 18,556 18,317 18,066 18,056 18,218 18,043

1 Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week and excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs for the

entire week.

2 Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business conditions,

inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand.

3 Refers to persons who usually work part time for noneconomic reasons such as childcare problems, family or personal obligations, school or training,

retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during

the reference week for reasons such as vacations, holidays, illness, and bad weather.

- Data not available.

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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,105 136,809 137,203 141,687 138,242 138,381 137,792 138,333 138,641

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,783 4,034 4,139 5,183 4,448 4,450 4,403 4,416 4,480

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,667 1,318 1,301 1,866 1,417 1,409 1,425 1,484 1,456

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,116 2,716 2,838 3,342 3,041 3,036 2,987 2,938 3,043

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,323 132,775 133,064 136,504 133,795 133,931 133,389 133,916 134,161

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,823 12,132 12,273 13,134 12,414 12,446 12,389 12,435 12,539

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,500 120,643 120,792 123,224 121,440 121,539 121,012 121,404 121,471

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,530 93,348 93,348 96,195 94,272 94,318 93,791 94,004 94,001

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,003 29,680 29,831 30,333 29,811 29,793 29,794 30,022 30,123

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,844 30,473 30,375 31,994 30,966 31,031 30,744 30,683 30,560

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,683 33,194 33,142 33,867 33,495 33,494 33,254 33,299 33,318

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,970 27,295 27,444 27,029 27,168 27,221 27,221 27,399 27,470

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,441 71,216 71,566 74,756 72,844 72,794 72,499 72,516 72,813

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,224 1,879 1,960 2,490 2,182 2,131 2,108 2,126 2,190

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716 594 583 844 688 673 672 706 686

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,508 1,285 1,377 1,637 1,485 1,453 1,434 1,415 1,496

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,217 69,337 69,606 72,266 70,662 70,662 70,391 70,390 70,623

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,565 5,963 6,116 6,762 6,257 6,301 6,234 6,211 6,282

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,652 63,375 63,490 65,448 64,449 64,375 64,166 64,091 64,267

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,461 49,205 49,198 51,118 50,222 50,090 49,921 49,807 49,868

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,111 15,886 15,992 16,426 16,203 16,157 16,118 16,148 16,281

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,989 16,302 16,218 17,144 16,642 16,719 16,629 16,479 16,404

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,360 17,017 16,988 17,548 17,376 17,214 17,174 17,180 17,183

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,191 14,169 14,292 14,330 14,227 14,285 14,245 14,284 14,399

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,664 65,593 65,638 66,931 65,398 65,587 65,293 65,817 65,828

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,559 2,155 2,179 2,693 2,266 2,318 2,294 2,290 2,290

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951 724 718 1,022 728 736 753 777 770

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607 1,431 1,461 1,705 1,555 1,583 1,553 1,523 1,546

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,106 63,437 63,459 64,238 63,133 63,269 62,998 63,527 63,538

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,258 6,169 6,157 6,372 6,158 6,145 6,155 6,224 6,258

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,848 57,269 57,302 57,775 56,992 57,164 56,846 57,313 57,204

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,069 44,143 44,150 45,077 44,050 44,229 43,870 44,197 44,134

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,892 13,794 13,839 13,907 13,608 13,637 13,676 13,874 13,843

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,854 14,171 14,157 14,850 14,324 14,312 14,115 14,203 14,156

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,322 16,177 16,154 16,319 16,118 16,280 16,080 16,119 16,135

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,778 13,126 13,152 12,699 12,942 12,936 12,976 13,116 13,071

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,248 42,807 42,951 44,449 43,401 43,336 43,312 43,126 43,168

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,550 35,038 35,286 35,545 34,736 34,867 35,004 35,073 35,248

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,705 8,401 8,445 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,947 108,777 109,100 114,811 110,817 110,901 110,254 110,497 110,840

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,158 28,033 28,103 26,670 27,511 27,400 27,466 27,718 27,596

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,676 6,751 7,161 7,617 7,017 7,060 6,910 6,961 7,060

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 4.9 5.2 5.4 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0 5.1

1 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week.

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

- Data not available.

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. Updated

population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 12,714 14,837 14,871 8.2 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7 9.7

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,445 1,580 1,491 21.8 27.6 26.8 27.1 26.4 25.0

16 to 17 years.................................... 559 574 573 23.1 30.2 28.8 29.9 27.9 28.2

18 to 19 years.................................... 899 999 947 21.2 25.7 26.1 25.8 25.4 23.7

20 years and over.................................. 11,269 13,257 13,379 7.6 9.4 9.3 9.3 9.0 9.1

20 to 24 years.................................... 2,003 2,341 2,384 13.2 15.6 15.9 15.6 15.8 16.0

25 years and over............................... 9,262 10,876 11,004 7.0 8.7 8.5 8.5 8.2 8.3

25 to 54 years................................. 7,617 8,891 8,885 7.3 9.2 8.9 8.9 8.6 8.6

25 to 34 years.............................. 2,959 3,295 3,276 8.9 10.7 10.3 10.2 9.9 9.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,389 2,849 2,946 6.9 9.0 8.6 8.8 8.5 8.8

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,269 2,747 2,663 6.3 7.8 7.8 7.9 7.6 7.4

55 years and over............................. 1,634 1,989 2,107 5.7 7.0 7.1 7.2 6.8 7.1

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 7,425 8,774 8,683 9.0 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8 10.7

16 to 19 years...................................... 831 939 835 25.0 31.0 30.4 30.9 30.6 27.6

16 to 17 years.................................... 305 315 300 26.6 33.5 30.5 33.1 30.8 30.4

18 to 19 years.................................... 543 615 563 24.9 28.9 30.5 30.2 30.3 27.3

20 years and over.................................. 6,593 7,835 7,848 8.4 10.6 10.4 10.2 10.0 10.0

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,186 1,478 1,440 14.9 18.6 18.3 18.4 19.2 18.7

25 years and over............................... 5,423 6,342 6,432 7.7 9.7 9.5 9.2 9.0 9.1

25 to 54 years................................. 4,492 5,179 5,222 8.1 10.2 10.0 9.6 9.4 9.5

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,796 1,964 1,968 9.9 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8 10.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,364 1,626 1,709 7.4 10.1 9.3 8.9 9.0 9.4

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,332 1,589 1,545 7.1 9.2 9.5 9.0 8.5 8.2

55 years and over............................. 931 1,164 1,211 6.1 7.8 7.8 7.9 7.5 7.8

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 5,290 6,064 6,187 7.3 8.8 8.6 8.8 8.4 8.6

16 to 19 years...................................... 614 641 656 18.6 24.0 23.1 23.1 21.9 22.3

16 to 17 years.................................... 254 259 273 19.9 26.8 27.1 26.8 25.0 26.2

18 to 19 years.................................... 356 383 384 17.3 22.4 21.5 21.3 20.1 19.9

20 years and over.................................. 4,676 5,422 5,531 6.8 8.1 8.0 8.2 7.9 8.0

20 to 24 years.................................... 817 864 944 11.4 12.4 13.3 12.5 12.2 13.1

25 years and over............................... 3,839 4,534 4,572 6.2 7.6 7.3 7.6 7.3 7.4

25 to 54 years................................. 3,126 3,712 3,663 6.5 8.0 7.5 8.1 7.7 7.7

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,163 1,331 1,308 7.7 9.9 9.3 9.2 8.8 8.6

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,025 1,223 1,238 6.5 7.8 7.7 8.6 7.9 8.0

45 to 54 years.............................. 937 1,158 1,118 5.4 6.4 5.9 6.6 6.7 6.5

55 years and over1

........................... 717 851 911 5.3 6.1 6.2 5.8 6.1 6.5

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 2,660 3,059 3,149 5.6 7.5 7.5 7.3 6.6 6.8

Married women, spouse present.................... 1,936 2,177 2,278 5.2 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.8 6.1

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,003 1,181 1,112 10.3 12.9 11.4 13.0 12.3 11.6

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 11,082 12,879 13,053 8.8 11.1 11.0 10.9 10.4 10.5

Part-time workers3................................... 1,650 1,897 1,828 5.8 6.1 5.6 6.0 6.4 6.2

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

2 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.

3 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 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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 9,098 10,574 10,664 7,878 10,261 9,965 9,701 9,323 9,550

On temporary layoff................................ 2,052 2,192 2,100 1,519 1,671 1,548 1,558 1,454 1,558

Not on temporary layoff............................ 7,047 8,382 8,564 6,359 8,590 8,418 8,143 7,869 7,992

Permanent job losers............................ 5,466 6,732 7,129 5,063 6,922 6,920 6,773 6,424 6,666

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,581 1,650 1,435 1,423 1,569 1,439 1,448 1,445 1,326

Job leavers............................................. 841 926 874 820 909 929 932 914 866

Reentrants............................................. 2,929 3,625 3,449 2,912 3,461 3,221 3,334 3,585 3,451

New entrants.......................................... 830 1,022 1,005 1,016 1,114 1,270 1,270 1,235 1,238

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 66.4 65.5 66.7 62.4 65.2 64.8 63.7 61.9 63.2

On temporary layoff................................ 15.0 13.6 13.1 12.0 10.6 10.1 10.2 9.7 10.3

Not on temporary layoff............................ 51.4 51.9 53.6 50.4 54.6 54.7 53.4 52.3 52.9

Job leavers............................................. 6.1 5.7 5.5 6.5 5.8 6.0 6.1 6.1 5.7

Reentrants............................................. 21.4 22.4 21.6 23.1 22.0 20.9 21.9 23.8 22.8

New entrants.......................................... 6.1 6.3 6.3 8.0 7.1 8.3 8.3 8.2 8.2

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 5.9 6.9 7.0 5.1 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.1 6.2

Job leavers............................................. 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6

Reentrants............................................. 1.9 2.4 2.3 1.9 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.2

New entrants.......................................... 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 3,247 3,464 2,607 3,364 3,131 2,774 2,929 3,008 2,748

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 4,778 3,698 4,139 3,961 3,671 3,517 3,486 3,362 3,412

15 weeks and over.................................... 5,673 8,986 9,245 5,369 8,804 8,976 8,969 8,945 8,829

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 2,611 2,563 2,959 2,405 3,184 3,075 2,840 2,632 2,696

27 weeks and over................................. 3,063 6,423 6,286 2,964 5,620 5,901 6,130 6,313 6,133

Average (mean) duration, in weeks................ 19.9 28.9 29.3 20.0 27.2 28.6 29.1 30.2 29.7

Median duration, in weeks........................... 11.7 18.6 19.6 11.4 19.0 20.2 20.5 19.9 19.4

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 23.7 21.5 16.3 26.5 20.1 18.2 19.0 19.6 18.3

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 34.9 22.9 25.9 31.2 23.5 23.0 22.7 22.0 22.8

15 weeks and over.................................... 41.4 55.6 57.8 42.3 56.4 58.8 58.3 58.4 58.9

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 19.1 15.9 18.5 18.9 20.4 20.1 18.5 17.2 18.0

27 weeks and over................................. 22.4 39.8 39.3 23.4 36.0 38.7 39.8 41.2 40.9

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-13. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 140,105 137,203 13,699 15,991 8.9 10.4

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 52,196 52,324 2,137 2,637 3.9 4.8

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 21,668 21,573 1,018 1,165 4.5 5.1

Professional and related occupations........................... 30,528 30,752 1,119 1,471 3.5 4.6

Service occupations.................................................. 24,110 24,133 2,415 2,878 9.1 10.7

Sales and office occupations....................................... 34,161 33,118 2,983 3,465 8.0 9.5

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,676 15,081 1,438 1,704 8.4 10.2

Office and administrative support occupations................. 18,485 18,037 1,545 1,761 7.7 8.9

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 13,191 12,407 2,845 3,259 17.7 20.8

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 821 856 238 252 22.5 22.7

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 7,328 6,819 2,163 2,457 22.8 26.5

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 5,041 4,732 445 549 8.1 10.4

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,448 15,220 2,469 2,720 13.1 15.2

Production occupations........................................... 7,868 7,404 1,246 1,343 13.7 15.4

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,580 7,816 1,223 1,377 12.5 15.0

1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-14. Unemployed persons by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 13,699 15,991 8.9 10.4

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 11,469 13,142 9.6 11.1

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 63 79 7.6 10.7

Construction........................................................................... 2,025 2,440 21.4 27.1

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,822 1,814 11.5 12.1

Durable goods...................................................................... 1,219 1,276 11.9 13.6

Nondurable goods................................................................. 603 538 10.8 9.7

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 1,847 2,071 8.9 10.0

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 563 591 9.1 10.5

Information............................................................................ 224 300 7.1 10.0

Financial activities.................................................................... 637 708 6.7 7.5

Professional and business services................................................ 1,512 1,740 10.8 12.0

Education and health services...................................................... 847 1,200 4.1 5.6

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,477 1,597 11.4 12.7

Other services........................................................................ 453 603 7.3 9.9

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 251 285 18.8 18.8

Government workers.................................................................... 563 880 2.6 4.0

Self-employed and unpaid family workers........................................... 586 680 5.7 6.5

1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Feb.

2010

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 3.7 5.9 6.0 3.5 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.8 5.8

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 5.9 6.9 7.0 5.1 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.1 6.2

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 8.9 10.6 10.4 8.2 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7 9.7

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 9.3 11.2 11.1 8.7 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.3 10.4

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,

plus all other persons marginally attached to

the labor force, as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all persons marginally attached

to the labor force................................... 10.1 12.0 11.9 9.4 11.5 11.3 11.4 11.2 11.1

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic reasons,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all

persons marginally attached to the labor

force.................................................. 16.0 18.0 17.9 15.0 17.4 17.2 17.3 16.5 16.8

NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those 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 past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a

job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. 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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-16. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

Feb.

2009

Feb.

2010

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 81,109 83,804 31,707 33,247 49,401 50,557

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 5,588 6,086 2,633 2,974 2,956 3,113

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,051 2,527 1,051 1,433 1,000 1,094

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 731 1,204 450 762 281 442

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,320 1,323 601 671 719 652

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4............................................. 7,676 7,161 3,703 3,454 3,973 3,707

Percent of total employed........................................... 5.5 5.2 5.0 4.8 6.0 5.6

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 4,054 3,735 2,107 2,027 1,947 1,708

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,886 1,842 628 546 1,258 1,296

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 235 290 154 181 80 108

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,437 1,271 777 684 660 587

1 Data refer to persons who want a job, have searched for work during the prior 12 months, and were available to take a job during the reference week,

but had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks.

2 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as 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 number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined.

4 Includes a small number of persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Change

from:

Jan.2010 -

Feb.2010p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,314 130,448 127,606 128,079 132,823 129,588 129,562 129,526 -36

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,444 107,623 105,241 105,315 110,254 107,107 107,074 107,056 -18

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,998 17,871 17,371 17,263 19,559 17,906 17,853 17,793 -60

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732 676 666 671 747 676 680 683 3

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 47.5 46.1 46.4 53.4 46.9 46.8 46.8 0.0

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678.9 628.1 619.4 624.5 693.4 629.4 632.9 636.4 3.5

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.2 159.7 160.3 159.5 163.9 159.8 159.8 160.1 0.3

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.5 204.0 198.0 199.2 220.3 207.7 208.7 210.1 1.4

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.7 79.6 79.4 80.4 85.9 79.2 79.7 80.5 0.8

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307.2 264.4 261.1 265.8 309.2 261.9 264.4 266.2 1.8

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 5,615 5,254 5,146 6,435 5,696 5,619 5,555 -64

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,388.1 1,282.5 1,210.1 1,187.0 1,456.9 1,282.5 1,262.6 1,247.7 -14.9

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.1 600.5 558.9 551.7 693.6 599.9 591.4 586.1 -5.3

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735.0 682.0 651.2 635.3 763.3 682.6 671.2 661.6 -9.6

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 799.7 763.3 698.8 687.3 900.8 797.9 796.8 787.8 -9.0

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,812.2 3,568.9 3,344.8 3,272.0 4,077.7 3,615.1 3,559.7 3,519.5 -40.2

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,602.7 1,538.6 1,453.3 1,438.0 1,730.4 1,567.2 1,560.7 1,555.4 -5.3

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,209.5 2,030.5 1,891.5 1,834.0 2,347.3 2,047.9 1,999.0 1,964.1 -34.9

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,266 11,580 11,451 11,446 12,377 11,534 11,554 11,555 1

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,647 7,079 7,005 7,002 7,702 7,036 7,055 7,056 1

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.1 347.9 338.1 339.2 373.6 348.9 348.5 349.5 1.0

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397.0 379.4 365.3 363.1 416.3 383.9 382.1 382.1 0.0

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389.6 353.4 354.3 356.8 391.0 351.8 353.4 357.8 4.4

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,389.8 1,277.4 1,265.6 1,262.7 1,395.5 1,266.8 1,266.6 1,269.3 2.7

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,102.4 982.0 972.1 973.4 1,105.0 973.2 973.4 975.7 2.3

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,183.1 1,098.5 1,089.3 1,085.7 1,184.9 1,093.3 1,089.1 1,087.2 -1.9

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 175.4 159.3 158.3 157.2 176.1 158.3 158.0 157.8 -0.2

Communication equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.2 119.3 119.3 120.1 123.9 119.0 118.2 119.0 0.8

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399.7 361.9 358.2 357.9 400.7 359.7 358.6 358.5 -0.1

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428.8 409.6 406.6 404.2 430.0 408.9 407.4 405.7 -1.7

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 396.3 362.7 362.4 363.1 397.5 361.8 362.4 363.9 1.5

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,422.6 1,334.1 1,330.1 1,327.9 1,426.7 1,316.6 1,342.9 1,332.2 -10.7

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711.3 667.1 666.6 666.6 713.6 652.2 679.0 669.3 -9.7

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407.9 364.8 356.1 356.4 412.8 363.9 360.6 361.1 0.5

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594.7 579.1 571.6 574.0 598.4 575.6 575.5 576.8 1.3

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,619 4,501 4,446 4,444 4,675 4,498 4,499 4,499 0

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,426.5 1,459.9 1,423.5 1,422.7 1,455.1 1,455.6 1,450.7 1,453.0 2.3

Beverages and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . 183.8 180.8 177.4 177.3 189.1 183.6 182.5 183.3 0.8

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.4 123.8 121.1 122.9 130.7 124.2 121.4 123.7 2.3

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.5 123.3 121.5 121.3 133.4 122.1 121.8 122.2 0.4

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.0 164.5 165.0 166.6 178.4 166.0 169.1 168.4 -0.7

Leather and allied products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.8 28.4 28.4 28.2 30.4 28.4 28.5 28.6 0.1

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416.4 398.3 397.0 396.7 419.2 397.6 398.0 398.5 0.5

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 545.9 504.3 497.2 495.8 549.7 501.0 499.7 499.4 -0.3

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.4 108.9 107.8 108.7 115.6 112.3 113.3 113.2 -0.1

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817.9 792.0 789.0 785.7 819.6 791.2 790.8 786.9 -3.9

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649.6 616.7 617.9 617.6 654.2 616.4 622.8 622.1 -0.7

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,446 89,752 87,870 88,052 90,695 89,201 89,221 89,263 42

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,942 25,251 24,455 24,256 25,330 24,653 24,637 24,623 -14

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,661.8 5,581.9 5,502.8 5,494.1 5,710.3 5,564.0 5,547.6 5,546.6 -1.0

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,881.5 2,772.4 2,745.4 2,743.2 2,897.8 2,766.7 2,761.4 2,763.3 1.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,964.6 1,982.1 1,945.5 1,939.4 1,992.2 1,974.3 1,970.2 1,966.4 -3.8

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 815.7 827.4 811.9 811.5 820.3 823.0 816.0 816.9 0.9

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,433.8 14,871.1 14,304.8 14,136.4 14,722.6 14,360.0 14,401.8 14,401.4 -0.4

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650.0 1,611.2 1,590.8 1,593.5 1,676.0 1,624.0 1,622.2 1,618.9 -3.3

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,038.9 1,007.0 999.4 1,002.6 1,049.9 1,014.0 1,013.7 1,012.7 -1.0

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 459.0 464.9 443.3 434.6 465.4 439.0 439.2 440.8 1.6

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Change

from:

Jan.2010 -

Feb.2010p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 505.6 499.1 488.0 476.8 511.2 477.2 480.7 480.0 -0.7

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,142.1 1,121.5 1,099.1 1,113.7 1,192.0 1,150.0 1,151.7 1,158.7 7.0

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,812.4 2,827.0 2,801.2 2,776.6 2,838.7 2,799.8 2,812.5 2,803.2 -9.3

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 982.5 996.2 981.4 971.8 988.3 978.7 980.4 977.0 -3.4

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817.9 820.8 813.4 810.0 828.8 822.5 822.1 821.6 -0.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,341.9 1,495.2 1,370.7 1,326.8 1,393.6 1,360.9 1,369.3 1,370.3 1.0

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.1 659.5 624.6 606.2 625.5 606.9 611.8 615.4 3.6

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,901.2 3,125.1 2,917.6 2,861.3 2,977.1 2,911.8 2,927.2 2,934.3 7.1

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,441.0 1,623.1 1,482.1 1,438.7 1,484.7 1,458.7 1,470.2 1,476.4 6.2

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789.3 793.6 759.0 756.6 800.5 769.4 770.3 766.4 -3.9

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418.8 457.0 415.7 408.5 425.5 419.8 414.4 414.8 0.4

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,285.1 4,240.1 4,102.3 4,082.4 4,333.0 4,171.8 4,140.7 4,128.7 -12.0

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466.2 451.6 451.9 451.9 468.7 453.8 454.9 454.0 -0.9

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.6 213.7 213.1 213.0 227.4 213.7 213.2 213.1 -0.1

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 62.9 61.2 58.4 66.5 63.3 62.6 61.8 -0.8

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,274.4 1,234.5 1,201.7 1,193.5 1,307.6 1,231.3 1,231.1 1,226.8 -4.3

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434.9 429.0 426.4 426.2 421.9 414.6 416.2 414.3 -1.9

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 40.8 41.0 40.7 42.0 40.7 41.1 40.9 -0.2

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 20.5 24.4 20.1 19.6 27.2 28.1 26.8 26.4 -0.4

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 563.8 542.6 534.4 532.7 565.4 538.5 537.8 534.1 -3.7

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551.0 596.7 521.9 518.2 555.9 553.6 524.1 523.3 -0.8

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642.5 643.9 630.6 628.2 650.4 634.2 632.9 634.0 1.1

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561.6 557.6 544.7 543.5 563.6 557.2 547.0 546.2 -0.8

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,866 2,763 2,720 2,717 2,873 2,748 2,744 2,726 -18

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 827.2 774.5 766.4 761.5 829.2 769.3 770.7 763.4 -7.3

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.1 344.7 324.4 327.1 354.9 341.7 339.2 332.9 -6.3

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308.5 296.4 293.8 293.7 310.1 294.3 294.8 295.0 0.2

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996.2 960.0 953.7 951.1 993.3 956.9 952.8 949.0 -3.8

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248.6 250.6 246.0 248.9 251.0 250.2 250.4 251.0 0.6

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.7 136.3 135.6 135.1 134.7 135.3 135.7 135.1 -0.6

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,850 7,667 7,600 7,594 7,894 7,657 7,644 7,634 -10

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,846.9 5,704.2 5,674.0 5,672.0 5,852.9 5,693.7 5,683.0 5,674.5 -8.5

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 21.0 21.1 21.1 21.6 21.1 21.2 21.2 0.0

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,639.3 2,572.7 2,567.0 2,572.5 2,640.1 2,570.9 2,568.3 2,570.3 2.0

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,776.3 1,752.6 1,752.3 1,751.5 1,777.9 1,750.3 1,750.4 1,752.1 1.7

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,331.2 1,312.3 1,311.9 1,310.9 1,332.5 1,310.8 1,310.4 1,311.5 1.1

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831.7 799.6 793.1 791.1 831.9 795.9 793.3 790.8 -2.5

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,265.8 2,224.0 2,206.7 2,201.9 2,270.7 2,219.6 2,214.4 2,206.8 -7.6

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 88.7 86.9 86.1 85.4 88.6 86.2 85.8 85.4 -0.4

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,002.8 1,962.7 1,925.9 1,921.8 2,041.2 1,963.3 1,961.4 1,959.1 -2.3

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418.5 1,408.6 1,379.7 1,377.0 1,442.0 1,403.5 1,402.7 1,400.3 -2.4

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557.8 528.3 521.4 520.2 572.4 534.2 533.5 533.9 0.4

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 26.5 25.8 24.8 24.6 26.8 25.6 25.2 24.9 -0.3

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,625 16,569 16,215 16,287 16,920 16,488 16,518 16,569 51

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,708.8 7,471.5 7,456.5 7,500.5 7,628.6 7,431.5 7,418.5 7,418.5 0.0

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133.1 1,107.5 1,095.4 1,097.8 1,140.9 1,104.5 1,103.9 1,103.8 -0.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 1,064.0 925.4 1,026.2 1,056.3 925.2 915.8 920.4 916.8 -3.6

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,355.8 1,291.9 1,267.5 1,262.3 1,374.9 1,291.7 1,283.7 1,281.1 -2.6

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,428.0 1,435.4 1,430.9 1,439.6 1,431.6 1,428.3 1,435.5 1,443.5 8.0

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989.8 1,005.1 971.1 969.0 999.4 993.3 984.2 980.8 -3.4

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 1,883.6 1,828.4 1,812.0 1,807.9 1,892.0 1,819.8 1,816.2 1,813.5 -2.7

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,032.3 7,269.4 6,946.4 6,978.7 7,399.8 7,236.4 7,283.1 7,336.5 53.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Change

from:

Jan.2010 -

Feb.2010p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 6,688.5 6,922.8 6,605.7 6,640.4 7,049.0 6,888.7 6,937.2 6,989.9 52.7

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,460.9 2,659.7 2,475.5 2,520.3 2,636.1 2,575.0 2,632.0 2,681.8 49.8

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,789.2 1,981.8 1,842.0 1,875.5 1,932.5 1,911.0 1,961.2 2,008.7 47.5

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.2 826.7 800.7 798.2 829.6 805.3 801.6 797.0 -4.6

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,607.3 1,654.2 1,561.3 1,564.9 1,775.1 1,725.9 1,719.7 1,729.3 9.6

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343.8 346.6 340.7 338.3 350.8 347.7 345.9 346.6 0.7

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,187 19,520 19,263 19,510 19,085 19,350 19,373 19,405 32

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,227.3 3,226.3 3,039.0 3,269.1 3,090.6 3,107.3 3,114.6 3,126.4 11.8

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,960.1 16,294.1 16,224.0 16,240.5 15,993.9 16,242.5 16,258.3 16,278.7 20.4

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,414.2 13,675.3 13,618.6 13,619.9 13,455.3 13,640.6 13,653.4 13,665.4 12.0

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 5,708.6 5,866.4 5,839.5 5,845.1 5,726.8 5,847.2 5,857.2 5,863.9 6.7

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,259.2 2,318.5 2,309.6 2,307.0 2,266.1 2,306.5 2,312.3 2,313.2 0.9

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539.9 547.4 544.1 544.3 540.1 546.2 545.3 545.3 0.0

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994.9 1,053.2 1,045.0 1,044.1 1,000.5 1,051.0 1,050.3 1,050.8 0.5

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,659.6 4,701.2 4,696.0 4,692.5 4,670.7 4,694.4 4,702.1 4,703.4 1.3

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,046.0 3,107.7 3,083.1 3,082.3 3,057.8 3,099.0 3,094.1 3,098.1 4.0

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,626.2 1,653.2 1,637.1 1,634.7 1,632.8 1,648.2 1,642.8 1,643.6 0.8

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,545.9 2,618.8 2,605.4 2,620.6 2,538.6 2,601.9 2,604.9 2,613.3 8.4

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873.7 872.5 866.5 874.2 861.2 858.9 858.7 860.6 1.9

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,616 12,691 12,378 12,429 13,183 12,991 12,991 12,998 7

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,746.0 1,739.0 1,673.4 1,698.8 1,939.4 1,886.5 1,884.2 1,893.6 9.4

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 368.2 376.2 350.4 367.7 397.6 391.8 390.2 397.1 6.9

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. . . 118.5 121.9 117.1 117.1 130.3 129.0 128.7 129.1 0.4

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,259.3 1,240.9 1,205.9 1,214.0 1,411.5 1,365.7 1,365.3 1,367.4 2.1

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,870.1 10,951.5 10,704.6 10,730.0 11,243.7 11,104.5 11,106.8 11,104.5 -2.3

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,714.6 1,683.4 1,642.5 1,649.6 1,790.2 1,733.1 1,725.8 1,723.1 -2.7

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 9,155.5 9,268.1 9,062.1 9,080.4 9,453.5 9,371.4 9,381.0 9,381.4 0.4

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,360 5,291 5,239 5,259 5,410 5,314 5,314 5,308 -6

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,161.6 1,131.8 1,123.3 1,124.7 1,172.9 1,139.8 1,137.1 1,134.1 -3.0

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,283.2 1,268.1 1,245.3 1,255.2 1,299.7 1,269.6 1,267.4 1,271.3 3.9

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 2,915.3 2,890.9 2,870.8 2,878.9 2,937.3 2,904.4 2,909.5 2,903.0 -6.5

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,870 22,825 22,365 22,764 22,569 22,481 22,488 22,470 -18

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,772.0 2,816.0 2,834.0 2,835.0 2,792.0 2,824.0 2,851.0 2,858.0 7.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,050.5 2,148.8 2,149.7 2,173.1 2,068.0 2,160.1 2,174.8 2,190.9 16.1

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721.8 667.5 684.6 662.0 724.3 663.7 676.0 667.0 -9.0

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,302.0 5,281.0 5,082.0 5,294.0 5,188.0 5,178.0 5,173.0 5,179.0 6.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,493.5 2,502.3 2,307.7 2,517.2 2,368.7 2,383.7 2,384.0 2,391.0 7.0

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,808.9 2,778.9 2,773.9 2,776.8 2,819.2 2,794.5 2,788.9 2,788.1 -0.8

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,796.0 14,728.0 14,449.0 14,635.0 14,589.0 14,479.0 14,464.0 14,433.0 -31.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,413.3 8,363.1 8,136.6 8,334.5 8,091.1 8,040.0 8,036.2 8,012.1 -24.1

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,383.1 6,364.7 6,312.4 6,300.3 6,497.4 6,438.9 6,428.2 6,420.5 -7.7

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.

3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 34.1 33.8 33.9 33.8

Goods-producing..................................................................... 38.7 38.8 39.1 38.8

Mining and logging................................................................ 42.9 42.1 42.8 42.6

Construction........................................................................ 37.5 36.9 37.2 36.7

Manufacturing...................................................................... 39.1 39.6 39.9 39.5

Durable goods................................................................... 39.3 39.7 40.0 39.8

Nondurable goods............................................................... 38.8 39.3 39.7 39.1

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.1 32.8 32.9 32.8

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.3 34.0 34.0 33.9

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.2 37.6 37.6 37.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.3 31.2 31.2 31.2

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.3 37.9 37.8 37.6

Utilities............................................................................ 41.9 40.5 40.6 40.6

Information.......................................................................... 36.4 36.5 36.6 36.5

Financial activities................................................................. 36.5 36.7 36.7 36.7

Professional and business services............................................. 35.1 35.1 35.3 35.2

Education and health services................................................... 33.3 32.7 32.7 32.6

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 25.7 25.6 25.6 25.7

Other services...................................................................... 32.3 31.3 31.4 31.4

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 2.3 2.7 2.8 2.6

Durable goods........................................................................ 2.1 2.5 2.6 2.4

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 2.6 2.9 3.0 2.9

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Total private................................................. $22.05 $22.38 $22.43 $22.46 $ 751.91 $ 756.44 $ 760.38 $ 759.15

Goods-producing........................................ 23.65 23.84 23.93 23.99 915.26 924.99 935.66 930.81

Mining and logging................................... 27.41 26.97 26.97 27.18 1,175.89 1,135.44 1,154.32 1,157.87

Construction........................................... 24.62 25.03 25.20 25.30 923.25 923.61 937.44 928.51

Manufacturing......................................... 22.92 23.10 23.16 23.20 896.17 914.76 924.08 916.40

Durable goods...................................... 24.30 24.65 24.73 24.73 954.99 978.61 989.20 984.25

Nondurable goods................................. 20.62 20.65 20.68 20.77 800.06 811.55 821.00 812.11

Private service-providing............................... 21.65 22.03 22.07 22.10 716.62 722.58 726.10 724.88

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 19.18 19.53 19.58 19.62 657.87 664.02 665.72 665.12

Wholesale trade.................................... 24.91 25.91 26.10 26.23 951.56 974.22 981.36 986.25

Retail trade.......................................... 15.34 15.47 15.48 15.48 480.14 482.66 482.98 482.98

Transportation and warehousing................. 20.38 20.69 20.81 20.85 780.55 784.15 786.62 783.96

Utilities............................................... 32.85 32.93 32.69 32.73 1,376.42 1,333.67 1,327.21 1,328.84

Information............................................. 28.80 30.03 30.04 30.17 1,048.32 1,096.10 1,099.46 1,101.21

Financial activities.................................... 26.27 26.83 26.94 27.01 958.86 984.66 988.70 991.27

Professional and business services................ 26.80 27.09 27.12 27.21 940.68 950.86 957.34 957.79

Education and health services...................... 22.38 22.55 22.54 22.52 745.25 737.39 737.06 734.15

Leisure and hospitality............................... 12.86 13.10 13.08 13.07 330.50 335.36 334.85 335.90

Other services......................................... 18.93 20.04 20.06 20.07 611.44 627.25 629.88 630.20

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2010 -

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2010 -

Feb.

2010p

Total private....................................... 94.2 90.7 91.0 90.7 -0.3 99.1 96.8 97.3 97.1 -0.2

Goods-producing............................... 86.2 79.2 79.5 78.7 -1.0 92.2 85.3 86.0 85.3 -0.8

Mining and logging.......................... 100.7 89.4 91.5 91.4 -0.1 110.8 96.8 99.0 99.8 0.8

Construction.................................. 83.2 72.4 72.0 70.3 -2.4 89.0 78.8 78.9 77.2 -2.2

Manufacturing................................ 87.1 82.2 82.9 82.1 -1.0 92.8 88.3 89.3 88.6 -0.8

Durable goods............................ 85.2 78.6 79.5 79.1 -0.5 92.0 86.1 87.3 86.8 -0.6

Nondurable goods........................ 90.5 88.2 89.2 87.8 -1.6 94.7 92.4 93.5 92.5 -1.1

Private service-providing...................... 96.4 94.0 94.3 94.0 -0.3 101.1 100.3 100.8 100.7 -0.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 94.4 91.1 91.0 90.7 -0.3 97.5 95.8 95.9 95.8 -0.1

Wholesale trade........................... 95.2 91.3 91.0 91.0 0.0 98.9 98.7 99.1 99.6 0.5

Retail trade................................ 93.6 91.0 91.2 91.2 0.0 94.9 93.1 93.4 93.4 0.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 95.0 90.5 89.6 88.8 -0.9 98.2 95.0 94.6 94.0 -0.6

Utilities..................................... 102.1 97.6 96.1 95.9 -0.2 110.9 106.2 103.8 103.7 -0.1

Information................................... 95.5 91.6 91.7 90.9 -0.9 97.9 97.9 98.1 97.6 -0.5

Financial activities........................... 94.9 92.6 92.4 92.3 -0.1 97.4 97.0 97.2 97.3 0.1

Professional and business services....... 93.4 91.0 91.7 91.7 0.0 101.4 99.9 100.8 101.1 0.3

Education and health services............. 103.4 103.0 103.1 103.0 -0.1 108.4 108.8 108.9 108.6 -0.3

Leisure and hospitality...................... 96.7 94.9 94.9 95.3 0.4 100.3 100.3 100.1 100.5 0.4

Other services............................... 96.8 92.2 92.5 92.3 -0.2 104.0 104.8 105.2 105.2 0.0

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding

2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Total nonfarm............................................... 65,913 64,666 64,671 64,636 49.6 49.9 49.9 49.9

Total private.............................................. 52,962 51,842 51,851 51,823 48.0 48.4 48.4 48.4

Goods-producing...................................... 4,486 4,150 4,145 4,142 22.9 23.2 23.2 23.3

Mining and logging................................. 101 98 98 98 13.5 14.5 14.4 14.3

Construction........................................ 846 759 749 746 13.1 13.3 13.3 13.4

Manufacturing....................................... 3,539 3,293 3,298 3,298 28.6 28.6 28.5 28.5

Durable goods................................... 1,911 1,739 1,742 1,741 24.8 24.7 24.7 24.7

Nondurable goods............................... 1,628 1,554 1,556 1,557 34.8 34.5 34.6 34.6

Private service-providing............................. 48,476 47,692 47,706 47,681 53.4 53.5 53.5 53.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 10,428 10,062 10,066 10,053 41.2 40.8 40.9 40.8

Wholesale trade................................. 1,751.7 1,684.8 1,674.7 1,673.2 30.7 30.3 30.2 30.2

Retail trade....................................... 7,476.9 7,232.6 7,256.0 7,251.5 50.8 50.4 50.4 50.4

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,054.2 1,006.1 998.2 992.0 24.3 24.1 24.1 24.0

Utilities............................................ 145.0 138.3 136.7 136.3 25.7 24.8 25.0 25.0

Information.......................................... 1,211 1,133 1,126 1,117 42.2 41.2 41.0 41.0

Financial activities.................................. 4,676 4,533 4,523 4,514 59.2 59.2 59.2 59.1

Professional and business services............. 7,621 7,389 7,408 7,405 45.0 44.8 44.8 44.7

Education and health services................... 14,774 14,956 14,969 14,978 77.4 77.3 77.3 77.2

Leisure and hospitality............................. 6,930 6,823 6,814 6,815 52.6 52.5 52.5 52.4

Other services...................................... 2,836 2,796 2,800 2,799 52.4 52.6 52.7 52.7

Government.............................................. 12,951 12,824 12,820 12,813 57.4 57.0 57.0 57.0

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Total private................................................................................ 90,847 88,239 88,249 88,227

Goods-producing........................................................................ 14,225 12,886 12,884 12,832

Mining and logging................................................................... 561 490 497 499

Construction........................................................................... 4,930 4,307 4,278 4,224

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,734 8,089 8,109 8,109

Durable goods...................................................................... 5,312 4,801 4,821 4,819

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,422 3,288 3,288 3,290

Private service-providing............................................................... 76,622 75,353 75,365 75,395

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 21,501 20,876 20,859 20,858

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,619.3 4,470.8 4,463.2 4,460.9

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,653.2 12,329.1 12,368.7 12,378.3

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,774.3 3,630.7 3,593.0 3,586.2

Utilities............................................................................... 454.6 445.0 434.3 432.7

Information............................................................................ 2,301 2,192 2,188 2,183

Financial activities.................................................................... 6,101 5,937 5,918 5,910

Professional and business services................................................ 13,807 13,463 13,510 13,546

Education and health services...................................................... 16,739 16,971 16,984 17,005

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 11,655 11,464 11,462 11,457

Other services........................................................................ 4,518 4,450 4,444 4,436

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.2 33.2 33.3 33.1

Goods-producing..................................................................... 39.2 39.6 39.9 39.3

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.0 43.4 44.3 43.8

Construction........................................................................ 38.0 37.5 37.8 36.8

Manufacturing...................................................................... 39.5 40.5 40.7 40.3

Durable goods................................................................... 39.6 40.6 40.8 40.4

Nondurable goods............................................................... 39.5 40.4 40.7 40.0

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.1 32.1 32.1 32.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 32.9 32.9 33.0 33.0

Wholesale trade................................................................. 37.9 37.6 37.7 37.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 29.8 30.0 30.0 30.0

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 35.9 36.2 36.5 36.4

Utilities............................................................................ 43.1 41.4 41.3 41.4

Information.......................................................................... 36.8 36.5 36.6 36.5

Financial activities................................................................. 36.1 35.9 36.1 35.9

Professional and business services............................................. 34.8 34.8 34.9 34.8

Education and health services................................................... 32.2 32.3 32.3 32.2

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.9 24.8 24.8 24.8

Other services...................................................................... 30.6 30.5 30.7 30.6

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 2.7 3.4 3.5 3.4

Durable goods........................................................................ 2.5 3.3 3.4 3.3

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.1 3.6 3.7 3.6

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Total private................................................. $18.47 $18.85 $18.90 $18.93 $ 613.20 $ 625.82 $ 629.37 $ 626.58

Goods-producing........................................ 19.78 20.04 20.11 20.16 775.38 793.58 802.39 792.29

Mining and logging................................... 23.15 23.47 23.30 23.67 1,018.60 1,018.60 1,032.19 1,036.75

Construction........................................... 22.46 22.95 23.09 23.20 853.48 860.63 872.80 853.76

Manufacturing......................................... 18.09 18.38 18.44 18.48 714.56 744.39 750.51 744.74

Durable goods...................................... 19.12 19.57 19.64 19.69 757.15 794.54 801.31 795.48

Nondurable goods................................. 16.48 16.64 16.67 16.70 650.96 672.26 678.47 668.00

Private service-providing............................... 18.17 18.60 18.65 18.67 583.26 597.06 598.67 599.31

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 16.38 16.73 16.77 16.77 538.90 550.42 553.41 553.41

Wholesale trade.................................... 20.50 21.35 21.48 21.50 776.95 802.76 809.80 808.40

Retail trade.......................................... 12.94 13.16 13.17 13.19 385.61 394.80 395.10 395.70

Transportation and warehousing................. 18.70 19.00 19.14 19.07 671.33 687.80 698.61 694.15

Utilities............................................... 29.64 29.91 29.83 29.96 1,277.48 1,238.27 1,231.98 1,240.34

Information............................................. 25.13 25.64 25.63 25.76 924.78 935.86 938.06 940.24

Financial activities.................................... 20.59 21.11 21.34 21.26 743.30 757.85 770.37 763.23

Professional and business services................ 22.11 22.58 22.63 22.70 769.43 785.78 789.79 789.96

Education and health services...................... 19.25 19.76 19.77 19.82 619.85 638.25 638.57 638.20

Leisure and hospitality............................... 10.99 11.27 11.26 11.27 273.65 279.50 279.25 279.50

Other services......................................... 16.39 16.85 16.87 16.92 501.53 513.93 517.91 517.75

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2010 -

Feb.

2010p

Feb.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010p

Feb.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2010 -

Feb.

2010p

Total private....................................... 100.8 97.9 98.2 97.6 -0.6 124.4 123.3 124.0 123.4 -0.5

Goods-producing............................... 85.2 78.0 78.6 77.1 -1.9 103.2 95.7 96.7 95.1 -1.7

Mining and logging.......................... 131.2 113.0 117.0 116.1 -0.8 176.6 154.3 158.5 159.9 0.9

Construction.................................. 93.8 80.9 81.0 77.8 -4.0 113.8 100.2 100.9 97.5 -3.4

Manufacturing................................ 79.2 75.2 75.7 75.0 -0.9 93.7 90.4 91.3 90.6 -0.8

Durable goods............................ 79.0 73.2 73.9 73.1 -1.1 94.3 89.5 90.6 89.9 -0.8

Nondurable goods........................ 79.6 78.3 78.8 77.5 -1.6 92.7 92.0 92.9 91.5 -1.5

Private service-providing...................... 105.2 103.4 103.4 103.5 0.1 131.0 131.9 132.3 132.5 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 98.6 95.7 96.0 96.0 0.0 115.2 114.3 114.8 114.8 0.0

Wholesale trade........................... 103.1 99.0 99.1 98.8 -0.3 124.5 124.5 125.4 125.1 -0.2

Retail trade................................ 95.4 93.6 93.9 94.0 0.1 105.9 105.6 106.0 106.3 0.3

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 102.0 98.9 98.7 98.3 -0.4 121.0 119.2 119.9 118.9 -0.8

Utilities..................................... 100.2 94.2 91.7 91.6 -0.1 124.0 117.6 114.2 114.6 0.4

Information................................... 96.7 91.3 91.4 91.0 -0.4 120.3 115.9 116.0 116.0 0.0

Financial activities........................... 105.4 102.0 102.2 101.5 -0.7 134.2 133.1 134.9 133.5 -1.0

Professional and business services....... 107.7 105.0 105.7 105.6 -0.1 141.7 141.1 142.3 142.7 0.3

Education and health services............. 116.3 118.2 118.3 118.1 -0.2 147.1 153.6 153.8 153.9 0.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 106.4 104.2 104.2 104.1 -0.1 132.8 133.4 133.2 133.3 0.1

Other services............................... 97.0 95.2 95.7 95.2 -0.5 115.8 116.9 117.6 117.4 -0.2

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding

2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

p = preliminary.