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                 THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  FEBRUARY 2003


   Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 308,000 in February, while the
unemployment rate was about unchanged at 5.8 percent, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.  Job losses were
widespread, with retail trade and services posting especially large
declines.
   
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
   
   The unemployment rate was little changed in February, at 5.8 percent;
the number of unemployed persons was 8.5 million.  Since November 2001, the
unemployment rate has ranged from 5.6 to 6.0 percent.  The jobless rates
for the major worker groups in February were:  adult men (5.3 percent),
adult women (5.0 percent), teenagers (17.1 percent), whites (5.0 percent),
blacks or African Americans (10.5 percent), Asians (6.0 percent, not sea-
sonally adjusted), and Hispanics or Latinos (7.7 percent).  (See tables
A-1, A-2, and A-3.)  

   In February, nearly 1.9 million persons had been unemployed for 27 weeks 
or more.  They made up about 22 percent of all unemployed persons, compared 
with about 15 percent a year earlier.  (See table A-9.)

Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   Total employment in February was 137.4 million and the employment-
population ratio was 62.4 percent.  The civilian labor force was 145.9
million.  The labor force participation rate--the proportion of the
population age 16 and older who are either working or looking for work--
was 66.3 percent.  (See table A-1.)
   
   The number of persons working part time for economic reasons was 4.8
million in February.  These persons indicated that they would like to work
full time but worked part time because their hours had been cut back or
they were unable to find a full-time job.  (See table A-5.)
   
Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   About 1.6 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally
attached to the labor force in February.  These people wanted and were
available to work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months.
They were not counted as unemployed, however, because they had not actively
searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.  The number of
discouraged workers was 450,000 in February, somewhat higher than a year
earlier.  Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, were
not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs
were available for them.  (See table A-13.)
   
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Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
___________________________________________________________________________
                      |    Quarterly    |                          |
                      |    averages     |       Monthly data       |
                      |_________________|__________________________| Jan.-
      Category        |       2002      |  2002  |      2003 1/    | Feb.
                      |_________________|________|_________________|change
                      |   III  |   IV   |  Dec.  |  Jan.  |  Feb.  |
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    HOUSEHOLD DATA    |                 Labor force status
                      |____________________________________________________
Civilian labor force..| 145,181| 145,241| 145,150| 145,838| 145,857|  (2)
  Employment..........| 136,804| 136,657| 136,439| 137,536| 137,408|  (2)
  Unemployment........|   8,377|   8,584|   8,711|   8,302|   8,450|  (2)
Not in labor force....|  72,686|  73,302|  73,591|  74,059|  74,257|  (2)
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                 Unemployment rates
                      |____________________________________________________
All workers...........|     5.8|     5.9|     6.0|     5.7|     5.8|  (2)
  Adult men...........|     5.3|     5.5|     5.6|     5.4|     5.3|  (2)
  Adult women.........|     5.0|     5.2|     5.2|     4.7|     5.0|  (2)
  Teenagers...........|    16.7|    16.1|    16.4|    16.8|    17.1|  (2)
  White 3/............|     5.1|     5.1|     5.1|     5.1|     5.0|  (2)
  Black or African    |        |        |        |        |        |
    American 3/.......|     9.9|    10.7|    11.2|    10.3|    10.5|  (2)
  Hispanic or Latino  |        |        |        |        |        |
    ethnicity ........|     7.5|     7.8|     7.9|     7.8|     7.7|  (2)
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
 ESTABLISHMENT DATA   |                     Employment
                      |____________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment....| 130,844| 130,795| 130,670|p130,855|p130,547|  p-308
  Goods-producing 4/..|  23,787|  23,623|  23,551| p23,570| p23,466|  p-104
    Construction......|   6,544|   6,544|   6,544|  p6,570|  p6,522|   p-48
    Manufacturing.....|  16,691|  16,528|  16,454| p16,450| p16,397|   p-53
  Service-producing 4/| 107,057| 107,172| 107,119|p107,285|p107,081|  p-204
    Retail trade......|  23,308|  23,229|  23,152| p23,268| p23,176|   p-92
    Services..........|  41,299|  41,419|  41,469| p41,513| p41,427|   p-86
    Government........|  21,270|  21,357|  21,359| p21,370| p21,383|    p13
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                  Hours of work 5/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|    34.1|    34.2|    34.1|   p34.3|   p34.1|  p-0.2
  Manufacturing.......|    40.8|    40.7|    40.9|   p40.8|   p40.8|    p.0
    Overtime..........|     4.1|     4.1|     4.2|    p4.1|    p4.2|    p.1
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |    Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (1982=100) 5/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|   147.9|   147.9|   147.7|  p148.5|  p147.0|  p-1.5
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                      Earnings 5/
                      |____________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  $14.81|  $14.94|  $14.98| p$14.97| p$15.08| p$0.11
Avg. weekly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  505.14|  510.45|  510.82| p513.47| p514.23|   p.76
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
   1  Beginning in January 2003, household data reflect revised population
controls used in the Current Population Survey.
   2  Household data for February 2003 are not directly comparable with
data for January 2003 because of slightly different weighting procedures in 
the 2 months.
   3  Beginning in 2003, persons who selected this race group only were
included in this category.  Persons who selected more than one race group are
included only in the "all workers" total.  Prior to 2003, persons who reported 
more than one race were included in the group they identified as the main race.
   4  Includes other industries, not shown separately.
   5  Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
   p=preliminary.

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Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)

   Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 308,000 in February to 130.5
million, seasonally adjusted.  Job losses were widespread in February, with
the largest decreases in services and retail trade.  Employment also fell
sharply in construction and declines continued in manufacturing and in
transportation and public utilities.  (See table B-1.)

   Services employment fell by 86,000 in February; despite this decline,
the industry has added more than half a million jobs since January 2002.
Employment in amusement and recreation and in hotels decreased by 21,000
and 17,000, respectively, in February.  Business services lost 26,000 jobs
over the month, with decreases in services to buildings and in miscellaneous 
business services.  Employment in help supply services and computer and data 
processing services was essentially unchanged over the month.  Health services 
employment also was little changed in February; the industry had added an 
average of 21,000 jobs a month during 2002.
   
   Retail trade employment decreased by 92,000 in February.  This was the
third month in a row with a large swing in retail employment; eating and
drinking places accounted for a large share of the change in each of these
months.  From a longer-term perspective, employment in eating and drinking
places has been on a downward trend since July 2001.  Apparel and accessory
stores lost 15,000 jobs in February, while department stores gained 27,000,
after seasonal adjustment.  Employment in both industries generally has
been trending down since mid-2001.
   
   In February, transportation and public utilities lost 41,000 jobs.
Since its peak 2 years ago, this industry has lost over half a million
jobs.  Much of this decline occurred in air transportation and in communi-
cations, where employment decreased by 12,000 and 7,000, respectively, in 
February.  In addition, the trucking industry lost 17,000 jobs over the month.
   
   Employment in finance was little changed in February, despite continuing
gains in mortgage banking.  Low mortgage rates have driven employment growth 
in this industry.  Since January 2001, mortgage bankers have increased employ-
ment by 41 percent (122,000 jobs).
   
   In the goods-producing sector, construction employment dropped by 48,000
in February, following an increase of 26,000 in January.  Since April 2002,
construction employment has held at about 6.5 million.
   
   Employment in the manufacturing industry continued its downward trend.
In February, 53,000 factory jobs were lost--about in line with the average
monthly decline for the prior 6 months.  Over the month, industrial machinery 
and electronics had the largest job losses (10,000 each), while fabricated 
metals employment declined by 9,000.
   
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private
nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.2 hour in February to 34.1 hours, seasonally
adjusted.  This followed an increase of the same size in January.  The
manufacturing workweek held steady at 40.8 hours.  Manufacturing overtime
was up by 0.1 hour to 4.2 hours.  (See table B-2.)
   
   The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory
workers on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 1.0 percent in February to
147.0 (1982=100), seasonally adjusted.  The manufacturing index fell by 
0.8 percent to 90.3 over the month.  (See table B-5.)
                                     
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Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private 
nonfarm payrolls increased by 11 cents in February to $15.08, seasonally ad-
justed.  This followed a loss of 1 cent (as revised) in January.  The average 
increase for the 2 months (5 cents) is in line with the average monthly gain 
(4 cents) for 2002.  Average weekly earnings rose by 0.1 percent in February 
to $514.23.  Over the year, average hourly earnings increased by 3.2 percent 
and average weekly earnings grew by 2.9 percent.  (See table B-3.)

                      ______________________________
   
   The Employment Situation for March 2002 is scheduled to be released on
Friday, April 4, at 8:30 A.M. (EST).

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 |                   March 2002 National Benchmarks                  |
 |                                                                   |
 |   In accordance with standard practice, BLS will release the March|
 | 2002 nonfarm payroll employment benchmark revisions with the May  |
 | data on June 6, 2003.  With this release, BLS will convert the    |
 | nonfarm payroll survey data from the 1987 Standard Industrial     |
 | Classification (SIC) system to the 2002 North American Industry   |
 | Classification System (NAICS), and will implement several other   |
 | methodological changes, including completion of the final phase   |
 | of the survey's sample redesign.  All of the current and histori- |
 | cal nonfarm payroll employment series will be revised to incorpo- |
 | rate these changes.  The net effect of benchmarking and the other |
 | changes will be a downward adjustment to the currently published  |
 | over-the-year change for March 2001 to March 2002 of 313,000 or   |
 | 0.2 percent, not seasonally adjusted.  Additional information on  |
 | the upcoming changes to the nonfarm payroll survey data is provid-|
 | ed on page 5.                                                     |
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         Upcoming Changes to National Nonfarm Payroll Data Series
                                     
   NAICS conversion.  The nonfarm payroll series, produced from the
Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, will be converted from the
1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) basis to the 2002 North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS) basis with the June 6,
2003, release of May 2003 estimates.  The NAICS conversion involves
major definitional changes to many of the currently published SIC-based
series.  After the conversion to NAICS, SIC-based series will no longer
be produced or published.  Historical time series will be reconstructed
as part of the NAICS conversion process.  All published series will
have a NAICS-based history extending back to at least January 1990.
For total nonfarm and other high-level aggregates, NAICS history will
begin in January 1939, the current starting date for these series.  For
more detailed series, the starting date will vary depending on the
scope of the definitional changes between SIC and NAICS.  The NAICS-
based reconstruction effort will cover all CES published data types:
all employees, women workers, production workers, average weekly hours,
average hourly earnings, and derivative series (for example, indexes of
aggregate weekly hours).
   
   Completion of the CES sample redesign.  June 6, 2003, also will mark
the completion of the CES sample redesign phase-in.  The redesign converts 
the CES from a quota-based sample to a probability-based sample.  In June 
2003, the services industries will be converted to the new sample design; 
all other private sector industries have already been converted.  The 
final stage of sample redesign phase-in may result in level shifts for 
average weekly hours, average hourly earnings, production worker, and 
women worker series.  New levels for these series are being recomputed 
from the NAICS-based probability sample.
   
   Concurrent seasonal adjustment.  Also beginning in June 2003, the
CES program will convert to concurrent seasonal adjustment, which uses
all available monthly estimates, including those for the current month,
in developing seasonal factors.  Currently, the CES program projects
seasonal factors twice a year. With the introduction of concurrent
seasonal adjustment, BLS will no longer publish seasonal factors for
CES national estimates.
   
   Change to federal government series.  Beginning in June 2003, the
CES series for federal government employment will be revised slightly
in scope and definition due to a change in source data and estimation
methods.  The current national series is an end-of-month federal em-
ployee count produced by the Office of Personnel Management, and it
excludes some workers, mostly employees who work in Department of
Defense-owned establishments such as military base commissaries.  The
CES national series will include these workers starting in June.  Also,
federal government employment will be estimated from a sample of federal 
establishments, will be benchmarked annually to counts from unemployment 
insurance tax records, and will reflect employee counts as of the pay 
period including the 12th of the month, consistent with other CES industry 
series.  The historical time series for federal government employment will 
be revised to reflect these changes.
   
   Further information on upcoming changes to CES data series is avail-
able through the BLS public database on the Internet, via the CES homepage 
at http://www.bls.gov/ces/, or by calling 202-691-6555.
 
 
 
 

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Explanatory Note


 This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current
Population Survey (household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics
survey (establishment survey).  The household survey provides the
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 Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS).
 
 The establishment survey provides the information on the employment,
hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that appears in the B
tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA.  This information is collected from
payroll records by BLS in cooperation with State agencies.  In June 2002,
the sample included over 300,000 establishments employing about 37 million
people.
 
 For both surveys, the data for a given month  relate to a particular week
or pay period.  In the household survey,  the reference week is generally
the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month.  In the
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.
 
 Establishment survey.  The sample establishments are drawn from private
nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as
Federal, State, and local government entities.  Employees on nonfarm
payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay
period, including persons on paid leave.  Persons are counted in each job
they hold.  Hours and earnings data are for private businesses and relate
only to production workers in the goods-producing sector and nonsupervisory
workers in the service-producing sector.

                                  - 7 -
 
 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 would be counted separately for each
appearance.
 
Seasonal adjustment
 
 Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the
levels of employment and unemployment undergo sharp fluctuations due to
such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded production,
harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of schools.  The
effect of such seasonal  variation can  be  very large; seasonal
fluctuations may account for as much as 95 percent of the month-to-month
changes in unemployment.
 
 Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each
year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by adjusting
the statistics from month to month.  These adjustments make nonseasonal
developments, such as declines in economic activity or increases in the
participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot.  For example,
the large number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to
obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to May, making it
difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen or
declined.  However, because the effect of students finishing school in
previous years is known, the statistics for the current year can be
adjusted to allow for a comparable change.  Insofar as the seasonal
adjustment is made correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful
tool with which to analyze changes in economic activity.
 
 In both the household and establishment surveys, most seasonally adjusted
series are independently adjusted.  However, the adjusted series for many
major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most major
industry divisions, 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 age-
sex 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.
 
 The numerical factors used to make the seasonal adjustments are
recalculated twice a year.  For the household survey, the factors are
calculated for the January-June period and again for the July-December

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period.  For the establishment survey, updated factors for seasonal
adjustment are calculated for the May-October period and introduced along
with new benchmarks, and again for the November-April period.  In both
surveys, revisions to historical data are made once a year.

Reliability of the estimates
 
 Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject
to both sampling and nonsampling error.  When a sample rather than the
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
employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or minus
290,000.  Suppose the estimate of total employment increases by 100,000
from one month to the next.  The 90-percent confidence interval on the
monthly change would range from -190,000 to 390,000 (100,000 +/- 290,000).
These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these
magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent chance that the
"true" over-the-month change lies within this interval.  Since this range
includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that
employment had, in fact, increased.  If, however, the reported employment
rise was half a million, then all of the values within the 90-percent
confidence interval would be greater than zero.  In this case, it is likely
(at least a 90-percent chance) that an employment rise had, in fact,
occurred.  At an unemployment rate of around 4 percent, the 90-percent con-
fidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 270,000, 
and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 
percentage point.
 
 In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have
lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates
which are based on a small number of observations.  The precision of
estimates is also improved when the data are cumulated over time such as
for quarterly and annual averages.  The seasonal adjustment process can
also improve the stability of the monthly estimates.
 
 The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling
error.  Nonsampling errors can occur for many reasons, including the
failure to sample a segment of the population, inability to obtain
information for all respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness
of respondents to provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes
made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or processing of the
data.
 
 For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2
months are based on substantially incomplete returns; for this reason,
these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables.  It is only after
two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample
reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final.
 
 Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is
the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new
firms.  To correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth
(and other sources of error), a process known as bias adjustment is
included in the survey's estimating procedures, whereby a specified number
of jobs is added to the monthly sample-based change.  The size of the

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monthly bias adjustment is based largely on past relationships between the
sample-based estimates of employment and the total counts of employment
described below.
 
 The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted
once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment
obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program.
The difference between the March sample-based employment estimates and the
March universe counts is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a
rough proxy for total survey error.  The new benchmarks also incorporate
changes in the classification of industries.  Over the past decade, the
benchmark revision for total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.3 percent,
ranging from zero to 0.7 percent.

Additional statistics and other information
 
 More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and Earnings,
published each month by BLS.  It is available for $27.00 per issue or
$53.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
20402.  All orders must be prepaid by sending a check or money order
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Visa.
 
 Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error for the
household survey data published in this release.  For unemployment and
other labor force categories, these measures appear in tables 1-B through
1-D of its "Explanatory Notes."  Measures of the reliability of the data
drawn from the establishment survey and the actual amounts of revision due
to benchmark adjustments are provided in tables 2-B through 2-H of that
publication.
 
 Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired
individuals upon request.  Voice phone:  202-691-5200; TDD message referral
phone:  1-800-877-8339.
 
 
 
 

  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted             Seasonally adjusted (1)            
                                                                                                                            
           Employment status, sex, and age                                                                                  
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
                        TOTAL                                                                                               
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 216,663 219,897 220,114 216,663 218,340 218,548 218,741 219,897 220,114
    Civilian labor force............................ 144,266 145,301 145,693 144,510 145,393 145,180 145,150 145,838 145,857
          Participation rate........................    66.6    66.1    66.2    66.7    66.6    66.4    66.4    66.3    66.3
      Employed...................................... 135,443 135,907 136,433 136,450 136,988 136,542 136,439 137,536 137,408
          Employment-population ratio...............    62.5    61.8    62.0    63.0    62.7    62.5    62.4    62.5    62.4
      Unemployed....................................   8,823   9,395   9,260   8,060   8,405   8,637   8,711   8,302   8,450
          Unemployment rate.........................     6.1     6.5     6.4     5.6     5.8     5.9     6.0     5.7     5.8
    Not in labor force..............................  72,397  74,596  74,421  72,153  72,947  73,369  73,591  74,059  74,257
      Persons who currently want a job..............   4,491   4,779   4,495   4,455   4,542   4,727   4,546   4,676   4,462
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 16 years and over                                                                                      
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 104,114 105,767 105,895 104,114 104,985 105,094 105,195 105,767 105,895
    Civilian labor force............................  76,846  77,306  77,658  77,175  77,727  77,618  77,492  77,693  77,927
          Participation rate........................    73.8    73.1    73.3    74.1    74.0    73.9    73.7    73.5    73.6
      Employed......................................  71,792  71,716  72,237  72,821  73,151  72,773  72,690  72,994  73,249
          Employment-population ratio...............    69.0    67.8    68.2    69.9    69.7    69.2    69.1    69.0    69.2
      Unemployed....................................   5,055   5,590   5,421   4,355   4,575   4,845   4,801   4,699   4,678
          Unemployment rate.........................     6.6     7.2     7.0     5.6     5.9     6.2     6.2     6.0     6.0
    Not in labor force..............................  27,267  28,461  28,237  26,938  27,258  27,476  27,703  28,074  27,968
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  95,929  97,635  97,762  95,929  96,860  97,022  97,139  97,635  97,762
    Civilian labor force............................  73,186  73,896  74,206  73,269  73,883  73,770  73,744  73,993  74,254
          Participation rate........................    76.3    75.7    75.9    76.4    76.3    76.0    75.9    75.8    76.0
      Employed......................................  68,822  69,001  69,518  69,591  69,921  69,617  69,600  69,967  70,293
          Employment-population ratio...............    71.7    70.7    71.1    72.5    72.2    71.8    71.6    71.7    71.9
      Unemployed....................................   4,364   4,895   4,688   3,678   3,962   4,153   4,145   4,026   3,962
          Unemployment rate.........................     6.0     6.6     6.3     5.0     5.4     5.6     5.6     5.4     5.3
    Not in labor force..............................  22,744  23,739  23,556  22,660  22,977  23,252  23,394  23,642  23,508
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 16 years and over                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 112,549 114,130 114,219 112,549 113,355 113,455 113,546 114,130 114,219
    Civilian labor force............................  67,420  67,995  68,036  67,334  67,667  67,562  67,658  68,144  67,930
          Participation rate........................    59.9    59.6    59.6    59.8    59.7    59.5    59.6    59.7    59.5
      Employed......................................  63,652  64,191  64,196  63,629  63,837  63,769  63,749  64,542  64,159
          Employment-population ratio...............    56.6    56.2    56.2    56.5    56.3    56.2    56.1    56.6    56.2
      Unemployed....................................   3,768   3,804   3,839   3,706   3,829   3,792   3,909   3,603   3,772
          Unemployment rate.........................     5.6     5.6     5.6     5.5     5.7     5.6     5.8     5.3     5.6
    Not in labor force..............................  45,130  46,135  46,184  45,215  45,689  45,893  45,888  45,985  46,289
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 104,668 106,235 106,322 104,668 105,509 105,594 105,678 106,235 106,322
    Civilian labor force............................  63,897  64,578  64,622  63,603  63,975  63,921  64,036  64,479  64,310
          Participation rate........................    61.0    60.8    60.8    60.8    60.6    60.5    60.6    60.7    60.5
      Employed......................................  60,636  61,294  61,278  60,441  60,668  60,697  60,676  61,443  61,073
          Employment-population ratio...............    57.9    57.7    57.6    57.7    57.5    57.5    57.4    57.8    57.4
      Unemployed....................................   3,261   3,284   3,344   3,163   3,308   3,224   3,360   3,035   3,237
          Unemployment rate.........................     5.1     5.1     5.2     5.0     5.2     5.0     5.2     4.7     5.0
    Not in labor force..............................  40,771  41,657  41,701  41,065  41,533  41,673  41,642  41,757  42,013
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  16,065  16,027  16,030  16,065  15,971  15,933  15,925  16,027  16,030
    Civilian labor force............................   7,184   6,828   6,866   7,637   7,535   7,489   7,369   7,366   7,293
          Participation rate........................    44.7    42.6    42.8    47.5    47.2    47.0    46.3    46.0    45.5
      Employed......................................   5,986   5,612   5,637   6,418   6,400   6,228   6,164   6,125   6,042
          Employment-population ratio...............    37.3    35.0    35.2    40.0    40.1    39.1    38.7    38.2    37.7
      Unemployed....................................   1,198   1,216   1,229   1,219   1,135   1,261   1,206   1,241   1,251
          Unemployment rate.........................    16.7    17.8    17.9    16.0    15.1    16.8    16.4    16.8    17.1
    Not in labor force..............................   8,882   9,200   9,164   8,428   8,436   8,444   8,555   8,661   8,736

    1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted
  and seasonally adjusted columns.
    NOTE:  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
 
 
 


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  Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted             Seasonally adjusted (1)            
                                                                                                                            
        Employment status, race, sex, and age                                                                               
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
                      WHITE (2)                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 179,178 180,460 180,599 179,178 180,306 180,450 180,580 180,460 180,599
    Civilian labor force............................ 119,925 119,712 120,128 120,020 120,479 120,345 120,093 120,084 120,166
        Participation rate..........................    66.9    66.3    66.5    67.0    66.8    66.7    66.5    66.5    66.5
      Employed...................................... 113,307 112,735 113,376 114,092 114,294 114,128 113,910 113,995 114,135
        Employment-population ratio.................    63.2    62.5    62.8    63.7    63.4    63.2    63.1    63.2    63.2
      Unemployed....................................   6,618   6,978   6,752   5,928   6,184   6,218   6,184   6,089   6,031
        Unemployment rate...........................     5.5     5.8     5.6     4.9     5.1     5.2     5.1     5.1     5.0
    Not in labor force..............................  59,252  60,748  60,470  59,157  59,828  60,104  60,487  60,376  60,432
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
    Civilian labor force............................  61,862  61,915  62,210  61,914  62,243  62,229  62,112  62,003  62,235
        Participation rate..........................    76.8    76.0    76.3    76.8    76.6    76.6    76.3    76.2    76.4
      Employed......................................  58,475  58,164  58,652  59,164  59,246  59,127  59,053  58,994  59,342
        Employment-population ratio.................    72.6    71.4    72.0    73.4    73.0    72.7    72.6    72.5    72.8
      Unemployed....................................   3,388   3,752   3,558   2,750   2,997   3,102   3,059   3,009   2,893
        Unemployment rate...........................     5.5     6.1     5.7     4.4     4.8     5.0     4.9     4.9     4.6
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
    Civilian labor force............................  52,080  52,078  52,210  51,719  51,909  51,785  51,752  51,909  51,840
        Participation rate..........................    60.6    60.2    60.3    60.1    60.0    59.8    59.7    60.0    59.9
      Employed......................................  49,745  49,783  49,944  49,449  49,601  49,586  49,488  49,768  49,645
        Employment-population ratio.................    57.9    57.5    57.7    57.5    57.3    57.3    57.1    57.5    57.3
      Unemployed....................................   2,336   2,295   2,265   2,269   2,308   2,199   2,264   2,141   2,194
        Unemployment rate...........................     4.5     4.4     4.3     4.4     4.4     4.2     4.4     4.1     4.2
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
    Civilian labor force............................   5,983   5,719   5,709   6,388   6,328   6,332   6,230   6,172   6,091
        Participation rate..........................    47.5    45.8    45.7    50.7    50.2    50.3    49.4    49.4    48.8
      Employed......................................   5,088   4,788   4,780   5,479   5,448   5,415   5,369   5,232   5,147
        Employment-population ratio.................    40.4    38.3    38.3    43.5    43.3    43.0    42.6    41.9    41.2
      Unemployed....................................     895     930     929     909     880     917     861     940     944
        Unemployment rate...........................    15.0    16.3    16.3    14.2    13.9    14.5    13.8    15.2    15.5
                                                                                                                            
            BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN (2)                                                                                   
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  25,414  25,484  25,519  25,414  25,717  25,751  25,784  25,484  25,519
    Civilian labor force............................  16,358  16,270  16,294  16,473  16,682  16,540  16,706  16,374  16,395
        Participation rate..........................    64.4    63.8    63.8    64.8    64.9    64.2    64.8    64.3    64.2
      Employed......................................  14,689  14,496  14,491  14,876  15,027  14,754  14,827  14,684  14,669
        Employment-population ratio.................    57.8    56.9    56.8    58.5    58.4    57.3    57.5    57.6    57.5
      Unemployed....................................   1,669   1,774   1,803   1,597   1,656   1,786   1,879   1,690   1,726
        Unemployment rate...........................    10.2    10.9    11.1     9.7     9.9    10.8    11.2    10.3    10.5
    Not in labor force..............................   9,056   9,214   9,225   8,940   9,034   9,211   9,078   9,110   9,124
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
    Civilian labor force............................   7,276   7,258   7,298   7,283   7,413   7,250   7,311   7,233   7,296
        Participation rate..........................    71.9    71.3    71.5    72.0    72.2    70.5    71.0    71.0    71.5
      Employed......................................   6,571   6,419   6,479   6,653   6,682   6,480   6,543   6,489   6,560
        Employment-population ratio.................    64.9    63.0    63.5    65.8    65.1    63.0    63.6    63.7    64.3
      Unemployed....................................     705     840     818     630     731     770     768     744     736
        Unemployment rate...........................     9.7    11.6    11.2     8.7     9.9    10.6    10.5    10.3    10.1
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
    Civilian labor force............................   8,254   8,299   8,260   8,289   8,390   8,442   8,540   8,327   8,296
        Participation rate..........................    64.0    64.2    63.8    64.3    64.4    64.7    65.4    64.4    64.1
      Employed......................................   7,533   7,575   7,502   7,580   7,676   7,685   7,712   7,629   7,548
        Employment-population ratio.................    58.4    58.6    57.9    58.8    58.9    58.9    59.0    59.0    58.3
      Unemployed....................................     721     724     758     709     715     757     827     698     748
        Unemployment rate...........................     8.7     8.7     9.2     8.6     8.5     9.0     9.7     8.4     9.0
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
    Civilian labor force............................     828     712     736     901     879     849     855     813     803
        Participation rate..........................    34.4    30.1    31.1    37.4    36.3    35.0    35.2    34.4    33.9
      Employed......................................     585     503     510     643     669     590     571     566     560
        Employment-population ratio.................    24.3    21.3    21.6    26.7    27.6    24.3    23.5    23.9    23.7
      Unemployed....................................     243     210     226     258     210     259     284     247     242
        Unemployment rate...........................    29.3    29.4    30.7    28.7    23.9    30.5    33.2    30.4    30.2
                                                                                                                            
                      ASIAN (2)                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstutional population................   9,619   8,992   9,036   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
    Civilian labor force............................   6,424   6,036   6,006   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
        Participation rate..........................    66.8    67.1    66.5   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
      Employed......................................   6,066   5,698   5,645   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
        Employment-population ratio.................    63.1    63.4    62.5   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
      Unemployed....................................     358     338     361   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
        Unemployment rate...........................     5.6     5.6     6.0   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  
    Not in labor force..............................   3,195   2,956   3,031   (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)     (3)  

    1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted
  and seasonally adjusted columns.
    2 Beginning in 2003, persons who selected this race group only; persons who selected more than one race group are not
  included.  Prior to 2003, persons who reported more than one race were included in the group they identified as the main
  race.
    3 Data not available.
    NOTE:  Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for
  all races.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

 
 
 

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  Table A-3.  Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted             Seasonally adjusted (1)            
                                                                                                                            
           Employment status, sex, and age                                                                                  
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
             HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY                                                                                   
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  25,574  26,994  27,095  25,574  26,272  26,355  26,436  26,994  27,095
    Civilian labor force............................  17,743  18,540  18,638  17,773  18,049  18,169  18,134  18,614  18,658
        Participation rate..........................    69.4    68.7    68.8    69.5    68.7    68.9    68.6    69.0    68.9
      Employed......................................  16,390  16,908  17,083  16,522  16,637  16,755  16,708  17,155  17,223
        Employment-population ratio.................    64.1    62.6    63.0    64.6    63.3    63.6    63.2    63.5    63.6
      Unemployed....................................   1,353   1,632   1,555   1,251   1,412   1,414   1,425   1,459   1,436
        Unemployment rate...........................     7.6     8.8     8.3     7.0     7.8     7.8     7.9     7.8     7.7
    Not in labor force..............................   7,831   8,454   8,456   7,801   8,223   8,186   8,303   8,380   8,436
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
    Civilian labor force............................   9,831  10,488  10,629   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Participation rate..........................    83.9    83.8    84.6   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Employed......................................   9,172   9,703   9,854   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Employment-population ratio.................    78.2    77.6    78.4   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Unemployed....................................     659     785     775   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Unemployment rate...........................     6.7     7.5     7.3   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
    Civilian labor force............................   6,853   7,110   7,068   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Participation rate..........................    60.4    59.4    58.9   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Employed......................................   6,328   6,509   6,491   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Employment-population ratio.................    55.8    54.4    54.0   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Unemployed....................................     526     601     577   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Unemployment rate...........................     7.7     8.4     8.2   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
    Civilian labor force............................   1,060     943     941   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Participation rate..........................    42.3    37.5    37.4   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Employed......................................     891     696     738   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Employment-population ratio.................    35.6    27.6    29.3   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Unemployed....................................     169     247     203   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Unemployment rate...........................    15.9    26.2    21.6   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  

    1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted
  and seasonally adjusted columns.
    2 Data not available.
    NOTE:  Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race.  Beginning in January 2003, data
  reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

 
 
 

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  Table A-4.  Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                               Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted                 
                                                                                                                             
            Educational attainment                                                                                           
                                                Feb.     Jan.     Feb.     Feb.     Oct.     Nov.     Dec.     Jan.     Feb.  
                                                2002     2003     2003     2002     2002     2002     2002     2003     2003  
                                                                                                                             
       Less than a high school diploma                                                                                       
  Civilian labor force......................   12,346   12,631   12,299   12,703   12,461   12,541   12,607   12,542   12,638
      Participation rate....................     43.6     44.0     43.7     44.9     44.9     44.9     44.6     43.7     44.9
    Employed................................   11,157   11,305   11,028   11,654   11,375   11,417   11,470   11,471   11,522
      Employment-population ratio...........     39.4     39.4     39.2     41.2     40.9     40.9     40.6     40.0     40.9
    Unemployed..............................    1,189    1,326    1,271    1,049    1,086    1,124    1,136    1,071    1,116
      Unemployment rate.....................      9.6     10.5     10.3      8.3      8.7      9.0      9.0      8.5      8.8
                                                                                                                             
    High school graduates, no college (1)                                                                                    
  Civilian labor force......................   37,899   38,224   37,886   37,834   37,966   37,967   37,797   37,856   37,816
      Participation rate....................     64.7     64.1     63.8     64.5     64.0     63.5     63.6     63.5     63.7
    Employed................................   35,621   35,895   35,525   35,863   36,090   35,963   35,775   35,923   35,779
      Employment-population ratio...........     60.8     60.2     59.8     61.2     60.9     60.2     60.2     60.2     60.2
    Unemployed..............................    2,278    2,330    2,361    1,970    1,876    2,004    2,021    1,933    2,037
      Unemployment rate.....................      6.0      6.1      6.2      5.2      4.9      5.3      5.3      5.1      5.4
                                                                                                                             
      Less than a bachelor's degree (2)                                                                                      
  Civilian labor force......................   33,658   34,100   34,519   33,433   33,884   33,890   33,831   34,186   34,335
      Participation rate....................     73.2     73.1     73.6     72.7     72.8     72.7     72.4     73.3     73.2
    Employed................................   32,139   32,343   32,799   32,022   32,299   32,260   32,154   32,556   32,730
      Employment-population ratio...........     69.9     69.3     70.0     69.7     69.4     69.2     68.8     69.8     69.8
    Unemployed..............................    1,519    1,756    1,719    1,411    1,585    1,630    1,677    1,630    1,605
      Unemployment rate.....................      4.5      5.2      5.0      4.2      4.7      4.8      5.0      4.8      4.7
                                                                                                                             
       Bachelor's degree and higher (3)                                                                                      
  Civilian labor force......................   38,557   38,787   39,370   38,256   38,622   38,476   38,652   38,778   39,046
      Participation rate....................     79.6     78.8     78.8     78.9     78.5     79.0     79.2     78.8     78.2
    Employed................................   37,452   37,553   38,201   37,167   37,458   37,344   37,530   37,626   37,892
      Employment-population ratio...........     77.3     76.3     76.5     76.7     76.1     76.6     76.9     76.4     75.9
    Unemployed..............................    1,105    1,234    1,169    1,090    1,165    1,132    1,121    1,152    1,154
      Unemployment rate.....................      2.9      3.2      3.0      2.8      3.0      2.9      2.9      3.0      3.0

    1 Includes high school diploma or equivalent.
    2 Includes the categories, some college, no degree; and associate degree.
    3 Includes persons with bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees. 
    NOTE:  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

 



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  Table A-5.  Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

  (In thousands)
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                            Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                   
                  Category                                                                                         
                                                                                                                   
                                              Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                              2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                   
               CLASS OF WORKER                                                                                     
                                                                                                                   
  Agriculture and related industries.......   2,133   2,134   1,983   2,349   2,483   2,314   2,342   2,314   2,178
    Wage and salary workers................   1,133   1,091   1,038   1,282   1,394   1,219   1,260   1,195   1,174
    Self-employed workers..................     988   1,014     924   1,022   1,040   1,060   1,038   1,071     953
    Unpaid family workers..................      12      29      21   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
                                                                                                                   
  Nonagricultural industries............... 133,311 133,773 134,451 134,161 134,537 134,206 134,080 135,142 135,317
    Wage and salary workers................ 124,774 124,501 125,402   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
      Government...........................  19,909  19,924  19,850  19,476  19,692  19,647  19,551  19,868  19,418
      Private industries................... 104,864 104,578 105,552   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
        Private households.................     751     692     639   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
        Other industries................... 104,114 103,886 104,913 104,966 104,947 104,365 104,673 105,192 105,773
    Self-employed workers..................   8,437   9,216   8,959   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
    Unpaid family workers..................     100      56      90   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
                                                                                                                   
        PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME (3)                                                                              
                                                                                                                   
  All industries:                                                                                                  
    Part time for economic reasons.........   4,514   5,135   5,061   4,289   4,343   4,329   4,273   4,643   4,807
      Slack work or business conditions....   3,039   3,566   3,396   2,818   2,888   2,855   2,893   3,027   3,152
      Could only find part-time work.......   1,169   1,245   1,328   1,122   1,133   1,159   1,110   1,297   1,275
    Part time for noneconomic reasons......  19,529  19,374  19,360  18,582  18,685  18,727  18,555  19,314  18,421
                                                                                                                   
  Nonagricultural industries:                                                                                      
    Part time for economic reasons.........   4,394   5,003   4,931   4,166   4,274   4,272   4,219   4,496   4,675
      Slack work or business conditions....   2,961   3,494   3,317   2,730   2,857   2,816   2,854   2,947   3,062
      Could only find part-time work.......   1,159   1,224   1,309   1,114   1,122   1,158   1,097   1,267   1,257
    Part time for noneconomic reasons......  19,115  19,005  19,032  18,181  18,347  18,361  18,197  18,984  18,134

    1 Data not available.
    2 Data not currently available due to an editing error when reconstructing revised series.
    3 Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during the entire reference week
  for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute.  Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons
  who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays,
  illness, and bad weather.
    NOTE:  Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because
  of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series.  Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002
  Census industry classification system derived from the 2002 North American Industry Classification System into
  the Current Population Survey.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the
  household survey.

 



  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-6.  Selected employment indicators

  (In thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                    Characteristic                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
  Total, 16 years and over.......................... 135,443 135,907 136,433 136,450 136,988 136,542 136,439 137,536 137,408
    16 to 19 years..................................   5,986   5,612   5,637   6,418   6,400   6,228   6,164   6,125   6,042
      16 to 17 years................................   2,126   2,138   2,103   2,375   2,347   2,256   2,258   2,446   2,352
      18 to 19 years................................   3,860   3,473   3,533   4,067   4,045   3,960   3,921   3,694   3,722
    20 years and over............................... 129,458 130,295 130,796 130,031 130,589 130,314 130,275 131,410 131,365
      20 to 24 years................................  13,088  13,200  13,243  13,351  13,303  13,387  13,372  13,568  13,510
      25 years and over............................. 116,369 117,095 117,553 116,751 117,271 116,856 116,892 117,876 117,932
        25 to 54 years..............................  96,863  96,361  96,644  97,173  96,840  96,356  96,491  96,957  96,942
          25 to 34 years............................  30,062  30,025  30,317  30,306  30,323  29,961  30,139  30,369  30,563
          35 to 44 years............................  35,603  34,955  34,769  35,651  35,005  34,973  34,942  35,125  34,803
          45 to 54 years............................  31,197  31,382  31,558  31,215  31,512  31,422  31,411  31,463  31,577
        55 years and over...........................  19,506  20,734  20,909  19,578  20,430  20,499  20,400  20,918  20,990
                                                                                                                            
  Men, 16 years and over............................  71,792  71,716  72,237  72,821  73,151  72,773  72,690  72,994  73,249
    16 to 19 years..................................   2,970   2,715   2,719   3,230   3,230   3,156   3,091   3,027   2,956
      16 to 17 years................................     984   1,002   1,016   1,118   1,142   1,113   1,102   1,203   1,157
      18 to 19 years................................   1,986   1,713   1,702   2,124   2,081   2,040   1,986   1,838   1,820
    20 years and over...............................  68,822  69,001  69,518  69,591  69,921  69,617  69,600  69,967  70,293
      20 to 24 years................................   6,703   6,936   7,003   6,902   6,975   7,014   7,024   7,183   7,215
      25 years and over.............................  62,119  62,066  62,515  62,749  62,938  62,562  62,579  62,814  63,151
        25 to 54 years..............................  51,638  51,073  51,411  52,154  51,873  51,569  51,566  51,687  51,925
          25 to 34 years............................  16,377  16,284  16,489  16,615  16,569  16,384  16,445  16,528  16,730
          35 to 44 years............................  18,966  18,624  18,584  19,120  18,804  18,748  18,749  18,824  18,729
          45 to 54 years............................  16,295  16,165  16,338  16,419  16,500  16,437  16,371  16,334  16,466
        55 years and over...........................  10,481  10,993  11,104  10,595  11,065  10,993  11,013  11,127  11,227
                                                                                                                            
  Women, 16 years and over..........................  63,652  64,191  64,196  63,629  63,837  63,769  63,749  64,542  64,159
    16 to 19 years..................................   3,016   2,897   2,918   3,188   3,169   3,072   3,073   3,098   3,086
      16 to 17 years................................   1,143   1,137   1,087   1,257   1,204   1,143   1,156   1,243   1,195
      18 to 19 years................................   1,873   1,760   1,831   1,943   1,964   1,921   1,935   1,856   1,902
    20 years and over...............................  60,636  61,294  61,278  60,441  60,668  60,697  60,676  61,443  61,073
      20 to 24 years................................   6,386   6,264   6,240   6,449   6,328   6,373   6,348   6,385   6,295
      25 years and over.............................  54,250  55,030  55,038  54,002  54,332  54,293  54,313  55,062  54,781
        25 to 54 years..............................  45,225  45,289  45,233  45,019  44,967  44,787  44,926  45,270  45,018
          25 to 34 years............................  13,685  13,741  13,828  13,691  13,754  13,577  13,693  13,841  13,834
          35 to 44 years............................  16,637  16,331  16,185  16,532  16,201  16,225  16,193  16,301  16,073
          45 to 54 years............................  14,902  15,216  15,220  14,796  15,012  14,985  15,039  15,129  15,111
        55 years and over...........................   9,025   9,741   9,805   8,984   9,365   9,506   9,387   9,792   9,763
                                                                                                                            
  Married men, spouse present.......................  43,818  43,964  44,199  44,210  44,245  44,093  44,005  44,401  44,587
  Married women, spouse present.....................  34,430  34,706  34,782  34,291  34,322  34,264  34,189  34,525  34,620
  Women who maintain families.......................   8,478   8,577   8,461   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
                                                                                                                            
  Full-time workers (2)............................. 111,164 111,077 111,856 112,804 113,458 112,828 112,856 112,823 113,442
  Part-time workers (3).............................  24,280  24,830  24,577  23,558  23,635  23,765  23,629  24,400  23,830

    1 Data not available.
    2 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week.
    3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week.
    NOTE:  Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the
  independent seasonal adjustment of the various series.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population
  controls used in the household survey.

 



  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-7.  Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                            Number of                                                       
                                                        unemployed persons                Unemployment rates (1)            
                                                          (in thousands)                                                    
                    Characteristic                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
  Total, 16 years and over..........................   8,060   8,302   8,450    5.6     5.8     5.9     6.0     5.7     5.8 
    16 to 19 years..................................   1,219   1,241   1,251   16.0    15.1    16.8    16.4    16.8    17.1 
      16 to 17 years................................     488     546     514   17.1    16.2    19.4    17.6    18.3    17.9 
      18 to 19 years................................     698     697     702   14.7    14.3    15.3    15.5    15.9    15.9 
    20 years and over...............................   6,841   7,061   7,199    5.0     5.3     5.4     5.4     5.1     5.2 
      20 to 24 years................................   1,401   1,392   1,390    9.5    10.1     9.8     9.7     9.3     9.3 
      25 years and over.............................   5,463   5,675   5,828    4.5     4.7     4.8     4.8     4.6     4.7 
        25 to 54 years..............................   4,700   4,833   5,011    4.6     4.9     5.1     5.0     4.7     4.9 
          25 to 34 years............................   1,817   1,921   1,809    5.7     5.8     6.2     6.2     5.9     5.6 
          35 to 44 years............................   1,630   1,657   1,905    4.4     4.9     4.9     4.8     4.5     5.2 
          45 to 54 years............................   1,253   1,256   1,296    3.9     4.0     4.1     4.1     3.8     3.9 
        55 years and over...........................     759     890     822    3.7     3.9     3.7     4.2     4.1     3.8 
                                                                                                                            
  Men, 16 years and over............................   4,355   4,699   4,678    5.6     5.9     6.2     6.2     6.0     6.0 
    16 to 19 years..................................     676     673     716   17.3    16.0    18.0    17.5    18.2    19.5 
      16 to 17 years................................     285     287     273   20.3    17.2    21.2    18.5    19.3    19.1 
      18 to 19 years................................     385     392     436   15.3    15.2    16.1    16.7    17.6    19.3 
    20 years and over...............................   3,678   4,026   3,962    5.0     5.4     5.6     5.6     5.4     5.3 
      20 to 24 years................................     779     775     731   10.1    10.4    10.2    10.2     9.7     9.2 
      25 years and over.............................   2,911   3,256   3,238    4.4     4.8     5.1     5.0     4.9     4.9 
        25 to 54 years..............................   2,465   2,748   2,749    4.5     4.9     5.3     5.2     5.0     5.0 
          25 to 34 years............................     938   1,091     969    5.3     5.8     6.3     6.1     6.2     5.5 
          35 to 44 years............................     841     932     997    4.2     4.9     5.1     4.8     4.7     5.1 
          45 to 54 years............................     686     725     784    4.0     4.1     4.4     4.6     4.2     4.5 
        55 years and over...........................     446     507     488    4.0     4.0     4.0     4.4     4.4     4.2 
                                                                                                                            
  Women, 16 years and over..........................   3,706   3,603   3,772    5.5     5.7     5.6     5.8     5.3     5.6 
    16 to 19 years..................................     543     567     534   14.6    14.1    15.6    15.2    15.5    14.8 
      16 to 17 years................................     203     259     241   13.9    15.2    17.4    16.6    17.3    16.8 
      18 to 19 years................................     313     304     266   13.9    13.3    14.4    14.2    14.1    12.3 
    20 years and over...............................   3,163   3,035   3,237    5.0     5.2     5.0     5.2     4.7     5.0 
      20 to 24 years................................     622     617     658    8.8     9.8     9.4     9.3     8.8     9.5 
      25 years and over.............................   2,551   2,420   2,590    4.5     4.6     4.5     4.6     4.2     4.5 
        25 to 54 years..............................   2,235   2,085   2,261    4.7     4.8     4.8     4.8     4.4     4.8 
          25 to 34 years............................     879     830     840    6.0     5.7     5.9     6.3     5.7     5.7 
          35 to 44 years............................     789     725     908    4.6     4.8     4.7     4.8     4.3     5.3 
          45 to 54 years............................     567     531     513    3.7     3.8     3.9     3.6     3.4     3.3 
        55 years and over (2).......................     313     413     337    3.3     3.5     3.2     3.8     4.1     3.3 
                                                                                                                            
  Married men, spouse present.......................   1,564   1,622   1,667    3.4     3.6     3.6     3.7     3.5     3.6 
  Married women, spouse present.....................   1,342   1,176   1,282    3.8     3.8     3.8     3.8     3.3     3.6 
  Women who maintain families (2)...................     771     746     837    8.3     7.7     8.0     7.9     8.0     9.0 
                                                                                                                            
  Full-time workers (3).............................   6,877   6,940   7,075    5.7     5.9     6.1     6.1     5.8     5.9 
  Part-time workers (4).............................   1,232   1,380   1,396    5.0     5.2     5.1     5.3     5.4     5.5 

    1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
    2 Not seasonally adjusted.
    3 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or
  are on layoff from full-time jobs.
    4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week)
  or are on layoff from part-time jobs.
    NOTE:  Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of
  the various series.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

 



  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-8.  Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                        Reason                                                                                              
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
                 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                            
     jobs...........................................   5,105   5,641   5,487   4,425   4,828   4,833   4,863   4,583   4,756
    On temporary layoff.............................   1,535   1,698   1,543   1,133   1,098   1,069   1,110   1,080   1,142
    Not on temporary layoff.........................   3,570   3,943   3,944   3,293   3,729   3,764   3,753   3,503   3,614
      Permanent job losers..........................   2,718   2,884   2,950   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
      Persons who completed temporary jobs..........     852   1,059     994   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
  Job leavers.......................................     901     841     792     880     850     834     862     825     772
  Reentrants........................................   2,396   2,392   2,499   2,294   2,386   2,394   2,462   2,331   2,395
  New entrants......................................     420     521     482     499     494     586     534     616     579
                                                                                                                            
                 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Total unemployed..................................   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0
   Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                           
     jobs...........................................    57.9    60.0    59.3    54.6    56.4    55.9    55.8    54.9    55.9
     On temporary layoff............................    17.4    18.1    16.7    14.0    12.8    12.4    12.7    12.9    13.4
     Not on temporary layoff........................    40.5    42.0    42.6    40.7    43.6    43.5    43.0    41.9    42.5
   Job leavers......................................    10.2     9.0     8.6    10.9     9.9     9.6     9.9     9.9     9.1
   Reentrants.......................................    27.2    25.5    27.0    28.3    27.9    27.7    28.2    27.9    28.2
   New entrants.....................................     4.8     5.5     5.2     6.2     5.8     6.8     6.1     7.4     6.8
                                                                                                                            
            UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE                                                                                  
                   CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
   Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                           
     jobs...........................................     3.5     3.9     3.8     3.1     3.3     3.3     3.4     3.1     3.3
   Job leavers......................................      .6      .6      .5      .6      .6      .6      .6      .6      .5
   Reentrants.......................................     1.7     1.6     1.7     1.6     1.6     1.6     1.7     1.6     1.6
   New entrants.....................................      .3      .4      .3      .3      .3      .4      .4      .4      .4

    1 Data not available.
    NOTE:  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA

  Table A-9.  Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                       Duration                                                                                             
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                       2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                            
                 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Less than 5 weeks.................................   2,863   3,269   2,679   2,932   2,797   2,912   2,860   2,772   2,749
  5 to 14 weeks.....................................   3,107   2,806   3,132   2,540   2,515   2,532   2,547   2,577   2,565
  15 weeks and over.................................   2,852   3,320   3,450   2,609   3,099   3,143   3,296   3,140   3,155
     15 to 26 weeks.................................   1,602   1,492   1,507   1,403   1,374   1,317   1,392   1,457   1,281
     27 weeks and over..............................   1,250   1,828   1,943   1,206   1,724   1,826   1,904   1,683   1,874
                                                                                                                            
  Average (mean) duration, in weeks.................    15.0    17.8    18.6    15.0    17.6    17.9    18.4    18.4    18.6
  Median duration, in weeks.........................     8.9     9.3    10.2     8.2     9.6     9.4     9.6     9.8     9.4
                                                                                                                            
                 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Total unemployed..................................   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0
    Less than 5 weeks...............................    32.5    34.8    28.9    36.3    33.2    33.9    32.9    32.6    32.5
    5 to 14 weeks...................................    35.2    29.9    33.8    31.4    29.9    29.5    29.3    30.4    30.3
    15 weeks and over...............................    32.3    35.3    37.3    32.3    36.8    36.6    37.9    37.0    37.3
      15 to 26 weeks................................    18.2    15.9    16.3    17.4    16.3    15.3    16.0    17.2    15.1
      27 weeks and over.............................    14.2    19.5    21.0    14.9    20.5    21.3    21.9    19.8    22.1

     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.



 

  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                       HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-10.  Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                     Unemployment    
                                                                           Employed             Unemployed              rates        
                                                                                                                                     
                             Occupation                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                     
                                                                       Feb.       Feb.        Feb.       Feb.        Feb.       Feb.   
                                                                       2002       2003        2002       2003        2002       2003   
                                                                                                                                     
       Total, 16 years and over (1)................................   135,443    136,433      8,823      9,260        6.1        6.4 
  Management, professional, and related occupations................    47,333     48,348      1,384      1,534        2.8        3.1 
    Management, business, and financial operations occupations.....    19,903     20,058        539        603        2.6        2.9 
    Professional and related occupations...........................    27,430     28,290        846        930        3.0        3.2 
  Service occupations..............................................    21,034     21,173      1,648      1,800        7.3        7.8 
  Sales and office occupations.....................................    35,339     35,577      2,242      2,087        6.0        5.5 
    Sales and related occupations..................................    15,386     15,614      1,046      1,046        6.4        6.3 
    Office and administrative support occupations..................    19,953     19,963      1,196      1,041        5.7        5.0 
  Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations.....    12,976     13,335      1,412      1,653        9.8       11.0 
    Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.....................       895        878        190        172       17.5       16.4 
    Construction and extraction occupations........................     7,538      7,391      1,001      1,169       11.7       13.7 
    Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations..............     4,542      5,067        221        312        4.6        5.8 
  Production, transportation, and material moving occupations......    18,761     18,001      1,685      1,681        8.2        8.5 
    Production occupations.........................................    10,276      9,654        882        860        7.9        8.2 
    Transportation and material moving occupations.................     8,485      8,347        803        821        8.6        9.0 

    1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces are included in the unemployed
  total.
    NOTE:  Occupations reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census occupation classification system derived from the 2000 Standard
  Occupational Classification system into the Current Population Survey.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population
  controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA

  Table A-11.  Unemployed persons by industry, not seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                    Number of                                                       
                                                                    unemployed                             Unemployment             
                                                                     persons                                  rates                 
                       Industry                                   (in thousands)                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                             Feb.                Feb.                 Feb.                Feb.       
                                                           2002 (1)              2003                 2002                2003       
                                                                                                                                    
         Total, 16 years and over (2)...............         8,823               9,260                 6.1                 6.4      
  Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers...         7,457               7,820                 6.6                 6.9      
    Mining..........................................            35                  41                 7.5                 7.1      
    Construction....................................         1,060               1,173                12.2                14.0      
    Manufacturing...................................         1,296               1,229                 7.0                 6.7      
      Durable goods.................................           882                 791                 7.6                 6.9      
      Nondurable goods..............................           414                 438                 6.0                 6.5      
    Wholesale and retail trade......................         1,264               1,238                 6.6                 6.1      
    Transportation and utilities....................           331                 316                 5.7                 5.8      
    Information.....................................           277                 321                 7.7                 8.6      
    Financial activities............................           318                 310                 3.5                 3.4      
    Professional and business services..............           973               1,140                 7.7                 8.9      
    Education and health services...................           590                 576                 3.5                 3.2      
    Leisure and hospitality.........................           973               1,145                 8.7                10.0      
    Other services..................................           339                 331                 5.6                 5.7      
  Agriculture and related private wage and salary                                                                                   
     workers........................................           187                 172                14.8                14.7      
  Government workers................................           508                 483                 2.5                 2.4      
  Self employed and unpaid family workers...........           250                 304                 2.6                 3.0      

    1 Industry detail will not sum to total because of minor changes in the industry classification system between 2002 and 2003.
    2 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total.
    NOTE:  Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census industry classification system derived from the 2002 North
  American Industry Classification System into the Current Population Survey.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised
  population controls used in the household survey.



 

  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                        HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-12.  Alternative measures of labor underutilization

  (Percent)
                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                      
                                                               Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                                      
                            Measure                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                      
                                                                 Feb.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                                                 2002    2003    2003    2002    2002    2002    2002    2003    2003 
                                                                                                                                      
  U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of                                                                          
      the civilian labor force................................    2.0     2.3     2.4     1.8     2.1     2.2     2.3     2.2     2.2                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                      
  U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as                                                                         
      a percent of the civilian labor force...................    3.5     3.9     3.8     3.1     3.3     3.3     3.4     3.1     3.3                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                           
  U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor                                                                            
      force (official unemployment rate)......................    6.1     6.5     6.4     5.6     5.8     5.9     6.0     5.7     5.8                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                      
  U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent                                                                         
      of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers....    6.4     6.8     6.6    (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                      
  U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all                                                                            
      other marginally attached workers, as a percent of the                                                                                                                  
      civilian labor force plus all marginally attached                                                                 
      workers.................................................    7.1     7.5     7.4    (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
                                                                                                                                      
  U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers,                                                                         
      plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a                                                                                                        
      percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally                                                                                                                                                                                   
      attached workers........................................   10.1    11.0    10.8    (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  

    1 Data not available.
    NOTE:  Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want
  and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.  Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally
  attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job.  Persons employed part time for economic
  reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.  For further
  information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor
  Review.  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised populationcontrols used in the household survey.




  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA

  Table A-13.  Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                                                            Total                Men                Women       
                                                                                                                                
                               Category                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
                                                                        Feb.      Feb.      Feb.      Feb.      Feb.      Feb.  
                                                                        2002      2003      2002      2003      2002      2003  
                                                                                                                                
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
  Total not in the labor force......................................   72,397    74,421    27,267    28,237    45,130    46,184 
    Persons who currently want a job................................    4,491     4,495     1,984     1,948     2,507     2,547 
     Searched for work and available to work now (1)................    1,423     1,590       728       819       695       770 
          Reason not currently looking:                                                                                         
            Discouragement over job prospects (2)...................      375       450       226       269       149       181 
               Reasons other than discouragement (3)................    1,048     1,139       502       550       546       589 
                                                                                                                                
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
  Total multiple jobholders (4).....................................    7,463     7,620     3,726     3,808     3,738     3,812 
      Percent of total employed.....................................      5.5       5.6       5.2       5.3       5.9       5.9 
                                                                                                                                
      Primary job full time, secondary job part time................    4,111     4,122     2,281     2,292     1,830     1,830 
      Primary and secondary jobs both part time.....................    1,636     1,720       492       518     1,144     1,202 
      Primary and secondary jobs both full time.....................      259       220       169       141        90        79 
      Hours vary on primary or secondary job........................    1,401     1,523       758       836       644       687 

    1 Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and were available to take a job during the
  reference week.
    2 Includes thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and
  other types of discrimination.
    3 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as child-care and transportation
  problems, as well as a small number for which reason for nonparticipation was not determined.
    4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.
    NOTE:  Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                    ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-1.  Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry

(In thousands)
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                             Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                        
                Industry                                                                                                
                                           Feb.    Dec.   Jan.    Feb.     Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.   Jan.    Feb. 
                                           2002    2002   2003p   2003p    2002    2002    2002    2002   2003p   2003p 
                                                                                                                        
          Total......................... 129,310 131,473 128,789 129,104 130,706 130,898 130,817 130,670 130,855 130,547
                                                                                                                        
       Total private.................... 107,826 109,770 107,506 107,409 109,544 109,549 109,453 109,311 109,485 109,164
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................  23,473  23,474  23,020  22,893  24,041  23,688  23,631  23,551  23,570  23,466
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................     551     551     538     535     564     552     551     553     550     547
    Metal mining........................    31.4    31.9    31.2    31.1      32      32      32      32      32      32
    Coal mining.........................    81.2    78.5    76.7    76.2      82      78      78      78      76      76
    Oil and gas extraction..............   334.9   334.4   331.3   329.5     339     331     332     335     335     334
    Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels..   103.4   105.8    98.4    97.7     111     111     109     108     107     105
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   6,130   6,449   6,131   6,065   6,597   6,544   6,543   6,544   6,570   6,522
    General building contractors........ 1,386.5 1,467.6 1,404.5 1,393.5   1,458   1,475   1,480   1,476   1,470   1,464
    Heavy construction, except building.   788.6   844.0   769.7   759.8     914     893     885     880     896     877
    Special trade contractors........... 3,954.7 4,137.6 3,956.7 3,911.2   4,225   4,176   4,178   4,188   4,204   4,181
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................  16,792  16,474  16,351  16,293  16,880  16,592  16,537  16,454  16,450  16,397
      Production workers................  11,235  11,038  10,947  10,901  11,305  11,134  11,088  11,030  11,043  10,985
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   9,986   9,714   9,638   9,598  10,023   9,800   9,757   9,699   9,695   9,653
      Production workers................   6,626   6,455   6,398   6,364   6,653   6,522   6,487   6,445   6,455   6,406
    Lumber and wood products............   755.1   757.0   746.4   741.6     771     764     761     758     761     756
    Furniture and fixtures..............   491.8   477.9   474.1   471.0     491     488     486     480     478     473
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   535.2   550.1   535.7   535.2     551     557     556     553     556     552
    Primary metal industries............   602.5   580.5   579.1   575.2     601     582     582     579     581     577
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   188.4   186.4   184.5   183.1   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
    Fabricated metal products........... 1,424.3 1,395.5 1,384.1 1,374.8   1,425   1,409   1,400   1,391   1,388   1,379
    Industrial machinery and equipment.. 1,856.7 1,780.5 1,773.0 1,764.2   1,855   1,797   1,790   1,781   1,775   1,765
      Computer and office equipment.....   315.4   291.1   289.6   286.4     315     295     293     291     290     287
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................ 1,461.3 1,364.3 1,355.5 1,344.2   1,459   1,381   1,368   1,360   1,354   1,344
      Electronic components and                                                                                         
         accessories....................   577.1   533.0   528.4   525.1     571     544     536     532     528     525
    Transportation equipment............ 1,675.7 1,647.9 1,632.9 1,636.7   1,682   1,659   1,648   1,638   1,640   1,648
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   911.7   910.4   899.9   906.2     913     914     909     900     911     908
      Aircraft and parts................   425.4   393.7   388.7   386.0     427     396     392     392     389     388
    Instruments and related products....   813.9   789.4   791.5   790.1     816     793     792     790     793     792
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   369.2   371.1   365.4   364.8     372     370     374     369     369     367
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   6,806   6,760   6,713   6,695   6,857   6,792   6,780   6,755   6,755   6,744
      Production workers................   4,609   4,583   4,549   4,537   4,652   4,612   4,601   4,585   4,588   4,579
    Food and kindred products........... 1,656.4 1,683.2 1,673.7 1,662.6   1,686   1,690   1,687   1,689   1,695   1,692
    Tobacco products....................    33.9    37.5    35.4    34.2      33      37      36      36      34      34
    Textile mill products...............   438.3   421.8   417.7   414.3     441     426     422     422     419     417
    Apparel and other textile products..   526.9   504.5   497.7   497.6     531     510     509     507     504     503
    Paper and allied products...........   617.3   609.7   604.9   602.6     621     614     613     607     606     604
    Printing and publishing............. 1,425.0 1,403.8 1,395.1 1,396.1   1,428   1,401   1,400   1,393   1,396   1,398
    Chemicals and allied products....... 1,009.5 1,005.7 1,001.0   999.2   1,011   1,006   1,007   1,007   1,005   1,001
    Petroleum and coal products.........   121.6   123.7   120.5   121.3     126     125     126     125     125     125
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..   921.3   916.5   914.2   915.9     924     926     925     916     917     918
    Leather and leather products........    56.0    53.3    52.9    51.6      56      57      55      53      54      52
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing....................... 105,837 107,999 105,769 106,211 106,665 107,210 107,186 107,119 107,285 107,081
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   6,772   6,734   6,617   6,573   6,837   6,727   6,721   6,686   6,684   6,643
    Transportation......................   4,287   4,321   4,239   4,208   4,341   4,300   4,300   4,273   4,297   4,268
      Railroad transportation...........   232.0   225.2   222.3   222.8     234     225     225     225     224     224
      Local and interurban passenger                                                                                    
         transit........................   488.7   482.5   473.8   476.8     479     471     467     466     464     467
      Trucking and warehousing.......... 1,791.1 1,826.5 1,787.2 1,770.8   1,826   1,826   1,829   1,827   1,825   1,808
      Water transportation..............   175.4   184.4   177.7   178.2     187     189     192     191     191     190
      Transportation by air............. 1,157.7 1,167.3 1,147.6 1,128.0   1,171   1,156   1,151   1,127   1,156   1,144
      Pipelines, except natural gas.....    15.1    15.3    15.4    15.7      15      15      15      15      15      16
      Transportation services...........   426.8   420.0   415.3   415.2     429     418     421     422     422     419
    Communications and public utilities.   2,485   2,413   2,378   2,365   2,496   2,427   2,421   2,413   2,387   2,375
      Communications.................... 1,645.6 1,576.0 1,547.5 1,540.9   1,652   1,585   1,583   1,576   1,553   1,546
      Electric, gas, and sanitary                                                                                       
         services.......................   839.7   837.1   830.8   824.5     844     842     838     837     834     829
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   6,639   6,646   6,588   6,584   6,689   6,657   6,643   6,637   6,638   6,637
    Durable goods.......................   3,905   3,883   3,856   3,852   3,924   3,893   3,885   3,880   3,877   3,876
    Nondurable goods....................   2,734   2,763   2,732   2,732   2,765   2,764   2,758   2,757   2,761   2,761
  Retail trade..........................  22,804  23,796  22,837  22,630  23,331  23,289  23,247  23,152  23,268  23,176
    Building materials and garden                                                                                       
       supplies.........................   989.2 1,061.1 1,022.4 1,018.4   1,048   1,071   1,078   1,077   1,084   1,081
    General merchandise stores.......... 2,794.2 3,120.7 2,829.8 2,762.7   2,892   2,851   2,828   2,821   2,831   2,859
      Department stores................. 2,463.8 2,745.9 2,488.4 2,429.2   2,550   2,506   2,491   2,488   2,499   2,526
    Food stores......................... 3,368.1 3,433.0 3,364.4 3,331.8   3,402   3,386   3,382   3,365   3,372   3,363
    Automotive dealers and service                                                                                      
       stations......................... 2,399.2 2,411.3 2,388.0 2,384.8   2,430   2,438   2,430   2,420   2,415   2,413
      New and used car dealers.......... 1,128.5 1,119.8 1,112.3 1,112.1   1,134   1,131   1,128   1,123   1,118   1,117
    Apparel and accessory stores........ 1,131.3 1,272.8 1,171.5 1,118.1   1,172   1,174   1,172   1,174   1,173   1,158
    Furniture and home furnishings                                                                                      
       stores........................... 1,135.9 1,226.2 1,175.6 1,153.4   1,143   1,156   1,165   1,175   1,165   1,156
    Eating and drinking places.......... 7,932.4 8,018.9 7,798.4 7,811.8   8,161   8,140   8,129   8,063   8,145   8,060
    Miscellaneous retail establishments. 3,053.7 3,252.3 3,086.5 3,048.9   3,083   3,073   3,063   3,057   3,083   3,086
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   7,698   7,811   7,773   7,773   7,745   7,803   7,807   7,816   7,812   7,815
    Finance.............................   3,806   3,868   3,860   3,863   3,812   3,853   3,854   3,861   3,864   3,868
      Depository institutions........... 2,067.7 2,080.7 2,078.4 2,074.2   2,072   2,080   2,082   2,079   2,078   2,078
        Commercial banks................ 1,442.2 1,450.0 1,448.0 1,444.4   1,446   1,452   1,451   1,449   1,448   1,448
        Savings institutions............   262.7   261.5   261.4   261.5     263     263     261     261     260     261
      Nondepository institutions........   755.3   814.3   817.7   825.3     754     797     801     809     816     822
        Mortgage bankers and brokers....   358.2   409.1   413.6   421.1     359     396     400     408     414     422
      Security and commodity brokers....   722.1   707.6   706.3   705.7     726     713     709     709     711     711
      Holding and other investment                                                                                      
         offices........................   260.8   265.0   257.5   258.1     260     263     262     264     259     257
    Insurance...........................   2,371   2,376   2,374   2,373   2,376   2,371   2,373   2,375   2,379   2,377
      Insurance carriers................ 1,589.6 1,576.7 1,580.6 1,580.2   1,593   1,578   1,578   1,578   1,583   1,583
      Insurance agents, brokers, and                                                                                    
         service........................   781.0   798.8   793.2   792.9     783     793     795     797     796     794
    Real estate.........................   1,521   1,567   1,539   1,537   1,557   1,579   1,580   1,580   1,569   1,570
                                                                                                                        
  Services2.............................  40,440  41,309  40,671  40,956  40,901  41,385  41,404  41,469  41,513  41,427
    Agricultural services...............   739.7   816.1   761.8   759.4     868     874     880     880     884     884
    Hotels and other lodging places..... 1,713.6 1,722.6 1,698.6 1,703.4   1,811   1,791   1,792   1,807   1,813   1,796
    Personal services................... 1,357.8 1,279.0 1,329.3 1,346.2   1,282   1,288   1,283   1,292   1,279   1,273
    Business services................... 9,029.7 9,353.1 9,083.1 9,075.5   9,207   9,324   9,309   9,311   9,298   9,272
      Services to buildings............. 1,005.6 1,038.9 1,025.7 1,020.5   1,018   1,041   1,045   1,044   1,040   1,034
      Personnel supply services......... 2,918.0 3,199.4 2,984.1 2,988.3   3,070   3,178   3,152   3,175   3,181   3,172
        Help supply services............ 2,615.3 2,883.5 2,679.8 2,684.8   2,758   2,865   2,838   2,866   2,876   2,879
      Computer and data processing                                                                                      
         services....................... 2,212.3 2,191.7 2,189.7 2,187.8   2,208   2,196   2,195   2,187   2,186   2,185
    Auto repair, services, and parking.. 1,258.1 1,261.0 1,262.9 1,259.1   1,262   1,262   1,263   1,268   1,274   1,262
    Miscellaneous repair services.......   375.1   375.9   374.4   371.2     379     378     378     376     378     375
    Motion pictures.....................   571.4   584.8   578.0   571.8     574     591     590     583     581     575
    Amusement and recreation services... 1,448.1 1,483.0 1,437.9 1,443.1   1,649   1,640   1,630   1,653   1,663   1,642
    Health services..................... 10548.8 10803.2 10779.1 10786.0  10,575  10,755  10,777  10,787  10,806  10,811
      Offices and clinics of medical                                                                                    
         doctors........................ 2,035.1 2,096.6 2,085.3 2,087.7   2,041   2,085   2,088   2,092   2,089   2,093
      Nursing and personal care                                                                                         
         facilities..................... 1,869.8 1,906.8 1,900.8 1,899.6   1,875   1,899   1,905   1,904   1,906   1,905
      Hospitals......................... 4,178.7 4,273.8 4,271.2 4,277.2   4,184   4,256   4,267   4,269   4,276   4,283
      Home health care services.........   638.3   659.3   657.1   658.6     642     655     656     657     659     663
    Legal services...................... 1,048.0 1,082.8 1,081.5 1,083.8   1,054   1,077   1,079   1,081   1,086   1,091
    Educational services................ 2,623.3 2,710.7 2,507.2 2,726.4   2,485   2,560   2,574   2,582   2,591   2,584
    Social services..................... 3,156.9 3,223.1 3,208.0 3,222.3   3,155   3,201   3,208   3,209   3,222   3,219
      Child day care services...........   735.2   739.4   738.0   740.5     722     730     728     725     729     728
      Residential care..................   894.1   914.4   909.0   912.4     899     909     912     915     912     916
    Museums and botanical and zoological                                                                                
      gardens...........................   100.0   103.3    97.3    97.3     109     107     107     106     107     107
    Membership organizations............ 2,451.5 2,466.0 2,438.6 2,451.9   2,471   2,480   2,478   2,476   2,473   2,472
    Engineering and management services. 3,626.9 3,656.1 3,645.3 3,671.3   3,629   3,666   3,667   3,669   3,670   3,676
      Engineering and architectural                                                                                     
         services....................... 1,030.0 1,021.4 1,010.6 1,006.5   1,044   1,027   1,028   1,028   1,020   1,019
      Management and public relations... 1,185.7 1,232.7 1,227.2 1,230.0   1,193   1,226   1,228   1,232   1,238   1,238
    Services, nec.......................    47.1    44.9    43.9    43.9   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
                                                                                                                        
  Government............................  21,484  21,703  21,283  21,695  21,162  21,349  21,364  21,359  21,370  21,383
    Federal.............................   2,596   2,652   2,641   2,648   2,608   2,649   2,661   2,664   2,665   2,661
      Federal, except Postal Service.... 1,767.3 1,840.7 1,839.1 1,848.6   1,777   1,840   1,853   1,856   1,855   1,859
    State...............................   5,035   5,049   4,864   5,063   4,937   4,955   4,961   4,953   4,933   4,959
      Education......................... 2,248.6 2,284.6 2,098.9 2,291.1   2,130   2,160   2,165   2,166   2,146   2,168
      Other State government............ 2,785.9 2,763.9 2,764.8 2,771.8   2,807   2,795   2,796   2,787   2,787   2,791
    Local...............................  13,853  14,002  13,778  13,984  13,617  13,745  13,742  13,742  13,772  13,763
      Education......................... 8,107.9 8,170.5 7,986.9 8,186.9   7,746   7,829   7,820   7,813   7,842   7,836
      Other local government............ 5,744.6 5,831.9 5,791.5 5,796.8   5,871   5,916   5,922   5,929   5,930   5,927

  1 These series are not published seasonally adjusted because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the
trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.
  2 Includes other industries, not shown separately.
  p = preliminary.
   
 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                    ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-2.  Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                             Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                        
                Industry                                                                                                
                                           Feb.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Feb.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb. 
                                           2002    2002    2003p   2003p   2002    2002    2002    2002    2003p   2003p 
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................   33.9    34.4    33.7    34.0    34.2    34.2    34.2    34.1    34.3    34.1 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................   39.9    40.4    39.8    39.3    40.4    40.1    39.9    40.2    40.5    39.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   42.9    42.3    41.9    42.1    43.4    42.7    43.1    42.1    42.7    42.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   38.5    37.8    38.1    36.6    39.4    38.4    38.2    38.4    39.5    37.4 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................   40.3    41.5    40.5    40.4    40.7    40.7    40.6    40.9    40.8    40.8 
      Overtime hours....................    3.7     4.5     3.9     3.8     3.9     4.1     4.0     4.2     4.1     4.2 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   40.8    41.9    41.0    40.8    41.1    41.2    41.0    41.3    41.4    41.2 
      Overtime hours....................    3.7     4.5     3.9     3.9     3.9     4.2     4.0     4.2     4.1     4.2 
                                                                                                                        
    Lumber and wood products............   40.0    41.1    40.1    40.3    40.9    41.0    40.6    41.2    41.1    41.0 
    Furniture and fixtures..............   39.8    41.3    39.7    39.4    40.3    39.6    39.5    40.7    40.2    39.7 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   42.6    42.7    42.2    41.9    44.1    43.4    42.9    43.1    43.6    43.1 
    Primary metal industries............   43.5    45.4    44.3    44.3    43.8    44.7    44.3    44.7    44.3    44.7 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   44.4    46.3    44.7    44.5    44.8    46.2    45.4    46.5    44.8    44.9 
    Fabricated metal products...........   41.2    42.2    41.3    41.0    41.6    41.6    41.3    41.2    41.6    41.4 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..   40.3    41.3    40.7    40.9    40.1    40.5    40.3    40.6    40.8    41.0 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................   38.7    39.9    38.6    38.7    38.9    38.3    38.7    39.0    38.6    38.9 
    Transportation equipment............   41.9    43.4    42.6    41.6    42.3    42.6    42.2    42.5    43.0    42.0 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   43.3    45.3    44.4    43.1    43.7    44.4    44.0    44.4    45.2    43.5 
    Instruments and related products....   40.5    41.6    40.6    40.7    40.4    40.7    40.6    40.9    40.8    40.7 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   38.1    39.2    38.3    37.9    38.4    38.9    38.5    38.8    39.0    38.1 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   39.7    40.9    39.9    39.8    40.2    40.1    40.1    40.4    40.1    40.2 
      Overtime hours....................    3.7     4.4     3.8     3.7     3.9     4.1     4.0     4.2     4.0     4.1 
                                                                                                                        
    Food and kindred products...........   40.0    41.9    40.4    39.9    41.0    40.8    41.0    41.4    40.8    40.7 
    Tobacco products....................   40.6    40.1    40.2    39.8    41.4    40.4    39.6    39.5    40.7    41.0 
    Textile mill products...............   40.5    41.6    40.4    40.4    40.9    40.9    40.9    41.2    40.5    40.7 
    Apparel and other textile products..   36.6    37.1    36.2    36.6    36.7    36.6    36.6    36.7    36.6    36.7 
    Paper and allied products...........   41.1    42.5    42.0    41.7    41.5    41.3    41.5    41.8    42.0    42.3 
    Printing and publishing.............   37.1    38.3    37.4    37.4    37.4    37.4    37.1    37.7    37.8    37.8 
    Chemicals and allied products.......   41.7    42.6    41.7    42.3    41.9    42.2    42.2    42.1    41.7    42.5 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   41.8    41.4    42.1    43.5    (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..   40.8    41.5    40.3    40.2    40.9    40.9    40.7    40.8    40.5    40.4 
    Leather and leather products........   36.8    37.1    36.6    36.5    37.2    36.3    37.0    37.1    37.0    36.7 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................   32.5    33.1    32.3    32.9    32.7    32.8    32.9    32.8    32.9    32.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   37.9    38.8    37.8    38.2    38.1    38.4    38.5    38.3    38.3    38.3 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   38.0    38.9    38.0    38.7    38.3    38.6    38.5    38.5    38.4    38.6 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................   28.6    29.5    28.4    28.9    29.0    29.1    29.2    29.2    29.3    29.1 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   36.1    36.7    36.0    36.9    36.2    36.0    36.2    36.0    36.3    36.2 
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................   32.5    32.8    32.3    32.8    32.6    32.7    32.7    32.6    32.7    32.6 

  1 Data relate to production workers in mining and manufacturing; construction workers in construction; and
nonsupervisory workers in transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real
estate; and services.  These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employees on private nonfarm
payrolls.
  2 This series is not published seasonally adjusted because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the
trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.
  p = preliminary.
   
 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                    ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-3.  Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by
industry
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                 Average hourly earnings                 Average weekly earnings        
                                                                                                                        
                Industry                                                                                                
                                            Feb.      Dec.     Jan.      Feb.       Feb.      Dec.     Jan.      Feb.  
                                            2002      2002     2003p     2003p      2002      2002     2003p     2003p  
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................  $14.66    $15.04    $15.06    $15.16    $496.97   $517.38   $507.52   $515.44 
        Seasonally adjusted.............   14.61     14.98     14.97     15.08     499.66    510.82    513.47    514.23 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................   16.18     16.67     16.57     16.55     645.58    673.47    659.49    650.42 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   17.76     17.85     18.02     18.24     761.90    755.06    755.04    767.90 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   18.62     19.23     19.01     18.99     716.87    726.89    724.28    695.03 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................   15.16     15.58     15.55     15.56     610.95    646.57    629.78    628.62 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   15.63     16.09     16.06     16.05     637.70    674.17    658.46    654.84 
    Lumber and wood products............   12.39     12.66     12.62     12.68     495.60    520.33    506.06    511.00 
    Furniture and fixtures..............   12.59     12.83     12.78     12.82     501.08    529.88    507.37    505.11 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   15.17     15.75     15.76     15.70     646.24    672.53    665.07    657.83 
    Primary metal industries............   17.15     17.64     17.70     17.60     746.03    800.86    784.11    779.68 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   20.63     21.09     21.34     21.28     915.97    976.47    953.90    946.96 
    Fabricated metal products...........   14.51     14.98     14.97     14.97     597.81    632.16    618.26    613.77 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..   16.33     16.66     16.66     16.69     658.10    688.06    678.06    682.62 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................   14.90     15.19     15.12     15.22     576.63    606.08    583.63    589.01 
    Transportation equipment............   19.69     20.55     20.39     20.26     825.01    891.87    868.61    842.82 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   20.05     21.40     21.10     20.87     868.17    969.42    936.84    899.50 
    Instruments and related products....   15.10     15.53     15.48     15.46     611.55    646.05    628.49    629.22 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   12.42     12.54     12.56     12.55     473.20    491.57    481.05    475.65 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   14.47     14.84     14.81     14.87     574.46    606.96    590.92    591.83 
    Food and kindred products...........   13.08     13.40     13.31     13.29     523.20    561.46    537.72    530.27 
    Tobacco products....................   21.71     20.70     21.05     21.25     881.43    830.07    846.21    845.75 
    Textile mill products...............   11.64     11.84     11.91     11.88     471.42    492.54    481.16    479.95 
    Apparel and other textile products..    9.77     10.11     10.08     10.05     357.58    375.08    364.90    367.83 
    Paper and allied products...........   17.17     17.83     17.71     17.77     705.69    757.78    743.82    741.01 
    Printing and publishing.............   15.06     15.45     15.34     15.46     558.73    591.74    573.72    578.20 
    Chemicals and allied products.......   18.95     19.44     19.45     19.50     790.22    828.14    811.07    824.85 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   22.45     22.75     22.58     23.17     938.41    941.85    950.62   1007.90 
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..   13.65     13.97     14.01     14.04     556.92    579.76    564.60    564.41 
    Leather and leather products........   10.35     10.51     10.41     10.38     380.88    389.92    381.01    378.87 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................   14.24     14.60     14.64     14.79     462.80    483.26    472.87    486.59 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   17.12     17.48     17.48     17.69     648.85    678.22    660.74    675.76 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   16.21     16.48     16.40     16.54     615.98    641.07    623.20    640.10 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................    9.95     10.18     10.23     10.26     284.57    300.31    290.53    296.51 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   16.13     16.82     16.77     16.93     582.29    617.29    603.72    624.72 
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................   15.17     15.68     15.63     15.81     493.03    514.30    504.85    518.57 

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.
 
 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                              ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-4.  Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm
payrolls by industry, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                  
                                                                                                  
                                                                                          Percent  
                                    Feb.     Oct.     Nov.     Dec.     Jan.     Feb.      change  
            Industry                2002     2002     2002     2002     2003p    2003p     from:   
                                                                                         Jan. 2003-
                                                                                         Feb. 2003 
                                                                                                  
Total private:                                                                                    
   Current dollars..............   $14.61   $14.90   $14.94   $14.98   $14.97   $15.08      0.7   
   Constant (1982) dollars2.....     8.14     8.15     8.16     8.18     8.14     N.A.      (3)    
                                                                                                  
  Goods-producing...............    16.28    16.54    16.54    16.61    16.63    16.66       .2   
    Mining......................    17.66    17.83    17.89    17.78    17.89    18.20      1.7   
    Construction................    18.68    19.00    19.00    19.14    19.02    19.11       .5   
    Manufacturing...............    15.17    15.44    15.44    15.48    15.53    15.58       .3   
      Excluding overtime4.......    14.46    14.70    14.71    14.72    14.79    14.84       .3   
                                                                                                  
  Service-producing.............    14.13    14.44    14.50    14.53    14.51    14.65      1.0   
    Transportation and public                                                                     
       utilities................    17.11    17.38    17.51    17.45    17.42    17.64      1.3   
    Wholesale trade.............    16.19    16.31    16.32    16.37    16.36    16.51       .9   
    Retail trade................     9.92    10.12    10.14    10.18    10.15    10.22       .7   
    Finance, insurance, and real                                                                  
       estate...................    16.08    16.57    16.71    16.73    16.76    16.76       .0   
    Services....................    15.04    15.40    15.46    15.49    15.49    15.65      1.0   

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  2 The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to
deflate this series. 
  3 Change was -.5 percent from December 2002 to January 2003, the latest month available.
  4 Derived by assuming that overtime hours are paid at the rate of time and one-half.
  N.A. = not available.
  p = preliminary.
   
 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                    ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-5.  Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by
industry

(1982=100)
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                             Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                        
                Industry                                                                                                
                                          Feb.   Dec.    Jan.     Feb.    Feb.   Oct.    Nov.    Dec.    Jan.     Feb.  
                                          2002   2002    2003p    2003p   2002   2002    2002    2002    2003p    2003p 
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................  144.2  149.5   142.9    144.1   148.1  148.1   147.9   147.7   148.5    147.0 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................  101.4  103.3    99.3     97.3   106.1  103.7   103.0   103.3   104.1    101.7 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   52.3   51.3    49.4     49.6    54.6   52.3    52.3    51.3    51.8     52.3 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................  162.4  168.9   159.7    151.1   182.3  175.2   174.4   175.4   180.2    168.6 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................   91.4   92.4    89.4     88.8    92.8   91.5    90.8    91.0    91.0     90.3 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   94.2   94.4    91.5     90.5    95.4   93.7    92.7    92.8    93.2     92.0 
    Lumber and wood products............  128.1  132.7   127.6    127.0   134.1  133.8   131.8   133.5   133.6    132.5 
    Furniture and fixtures..............  120.5  122.1   116.2    114.1   121.9  119.2   118.9   120.9   118.5    115.8 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....  107.1  109.7   105.1    104.6   114.6  113.9   112.3   112.0   113.3    111.5 
    Primary metal industries............   75.9   76.9    74.6     74.1    76.4   75.7    75.1    75.4    74.7     74.9 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   57.2   59.9    57.2     56.4    57.9   59.3    57.9    59.3    57.5     57.6 
    Fabricated metal products...........  107.9  108.7   105.3    103.8   109.0  108.3   106.5   105.7   106.4    105.1 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..   83.2   81.6    80.1     79.9    82.6   81.0    80.2    80.1    80.3     80.1 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................   82.7   78.7    75.6     74.7    82.5   76.5    76.4    76.5    75.6     75.1 
    Transportation equipment............  105.0  107.0   104.3    102.1   106.2  105.5   103.7   104.0   106.8    103.7 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......  141.3  147.4   142.7    139.5   142.8  144.6   142.3   142.5   147.7    141.1 
    Instruments and related products....   68.9   67.9    66.5     66.4    68.7   67.0    66.7    66.6    67.0     66.5 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   87.7   91.0    87.3     86.3    89.3   90.8    90.6    89.8    90.3     87.5 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   87.5   89.6    86.6     86.3    89.3   88.4    88.2    88.5    87.9     88.1 
    Food and kindred products...........  109.7  117.1   112.3    110.4   114.8  114.2   114.9   116.3   115.3    114.6 
    Tobacco products....................   50.5   56.0    53.2     50.5    51.3   54.0    52.9    50.9    50.4     50.8 
    Textile mill products...............   60.6   60.4    58.1     57.3    62.0   59.8    59.5    59.9    58.9     58.3 
    Apparel and other textile products..   43.4   42.0    40.7     41.2    43.7   42.2    42.1    41.9    41.7     41.8 
    Paper and allied products...........   93.9   95.5    93.3     92.6    95.5   93.6    94.1    93.5    93.6     94.2 
    Printing and publishing.............  106.3  108.3   104.3    104.7   107.4  105.7   104.3   105.4   105.8    106.2 
    Chemicals and allied products.......   94.1   95.5    93.4     94.4    94.2   94.8    94.7    94.6    93.7     94.8 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   68.8   69.5    68.9     71.6    71.8   72.0    71.2    70.5    70.8     75.1 
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..  131.9  133.1   128.9    128.9   132.6  132.8   131.6   131.0   130.1    130.1 
    Leather and leather products........   23.4   23.0    22.4     21.5    23.4   24.5    23.9    23.4    22.7     21.4 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................  163.4  170.2   162.5    165.1   167.0  168.0   168.0   167.6   168.4    167.4 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...  130.3  132.7   126.9    127.0   132.7  130.9   131.1   130.0   129.7    128.9 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................  123.7  127.1   122.6    124.8   125.6  126.3   125.6   125.6   125.0    125.7 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................  141.1  152.7   140.0    141.1   146.8  147.0   146.9   146.3   147.6    146.0 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...  139.2  144.4   141.0    144.4   140.8  141.6   142.8   141.9   143.2    142.7 
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................  207.7  213.9   207.3    211.6   211.1  213.9   213.8   213.6   214.7    213.5 

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.
   
 
 
 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                               ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-6.  Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted

(Percent)
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
       Time span          Jan.     Feb.      Mar.     Apr.     May      June     July     Aug.     Sept.    Oct.     Nov.     Dec.  
                                                                                                                                   
                        
                                                         Private nonfarm payrolls, 347 industries1
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 1-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    55.3     58.6     53.6     58.4     55.5     57.8     57.1     54.8     57.1     57.2     60.4     58.1 
     2000..............    55.9     57.5     57.9     51.2     50.1     55.8     57.8     51.4     52.4     52.4     53.2     52.7 
     2001..............    49.4     45.7     50.3     42.4     47.3     43.2     44.5     42.5     42.4     40.5     39.3     44.1 
     2002..............    47.3     41.4     49.7     47.8     50.9     49.4     48.6     48.8     49.3     48.3     45.8     44.4 
     2003..............   p49.6    p41.1                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 3-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    59.2     57.6     59.5     55.2     60.2     57.2     59.4     59.2     59.7     58.9     61.2     60.7 
     2000..............    60.4     61.4     58.4     53.2     52.4     55.5     56.6     56.2     51.2     51.0     53.2     51.6 
     2001..............    45.5     46.1     40.8     43.4     37.8     43.2     39.3     38.0     35.3     33.7     36.3     38.9 
     2002..............    40.1     43.2     42.5     46.5     48.0     50.1     47.1     45.1     47.3     45.1     43.1    p45.0 
     2003..............   p40.3                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 6-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    60.2     58.9     58.5     59.7     57.2     60.8     61.2     62.5     62.7     61.8     61.2     62.8 
     2000..............    61.1     59.4     58.1     57.9     54.2     52.4     52.9     54.2     52.4     48.7     45.7     46.5 
     2001..............    44.7     42.7     39.5     40.1     40.8     35.6     37.0     32.4     34.3     33.1     34.1     35.6 
     2002..............    37.0     41.6     43.4     44.4     46.5     46.0     46.5     43.1     40.8    p43.9    p39.2          
     2003..............                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 12-month span:                                                                                                                
     1999..............    61.2     60.1     58.2     61.0     60.7     61.5     62.2     61.1     63.8     62.2     59.7     60.5 
     2000..............    61.4     59.9     58.8     56.2     55.3     53.6     53.0     51.0     47.7     45.2     44.5     42.9 
     2001..............    41.5     41.5     38.9     37.5     37.3     36.2     34.1     33.6     34.4     33.9     33.3     34.0 
     2002..............    35.2     36.0     37.3     38.3     40.5     39.9    p40.9    p38.0                                     
     2003..............                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
                        
                                                          Manufacturing payrolls, 136 industries1
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 1-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    47.4     41.2     42.6     46.0     46.3     43.4     50.0     42.6     46.0     45.6     51.5     49.3 
     2000..............    44.9     52.2     49.3     46.0     49.3     50.7     57.4     36.8     39.0     42.3     47.1     40.8 
     2001..............    34.9     26.8     38.2     29.0     28.3     30.5     34.9     25.7     31.6     31.3     25.0     30.9 
     2002..............    35.3     37.9     40.4     47.4     47.1     40.4     48.9     41.9     40.1     40.4     40.1     37.1 
     2003..............   p46.7    p39.0                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 3-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    39.3     39.3     39.7     40.1     41.2     43.8     44.1     46.3     42.3     44.1     47.8     45.2 
     2000..............    48.2     48.9     48.9     44.5     46.7     52.2     46.0     38.6     29.0     34.2     39.0     36.0 
     2001..............    21.3     21.3     18.4     23.5     19.9     23.2     17.3     19.1     16.2     18.0     18.4     18.0 
     2002..............    24.6     30.1     37.1     38.6     40.1     41.2     38.6     34.6     32.4     32.0     28.3    p32.0 
     2003..............   p29.0                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 6-month span:                                                                                                                 
     1999..............    36.4     36.0     37.5     40.4     37.5     42.3     43.0     44.5     48.2     43.0     44.5     47.4 
     2000..............    47.8     45.2     44.5     50.0     41.9     37.9     36.0     35.3     32.4     26.1     21.3     21.7 
     2001..............    20.2     16.9     14.0     16.2     16.5     13.2     14.7     11.8     14.0     13.2     17.6     16.5 
     2002..............    19.9     26.8     29.8     38.2     36.4     34.2     31.6     26.8     24.6    p26.8    p24.3          
     2003..............                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   
Over 12-month span:                                                                                                                
     1999..............    38.6     34.6     32.4     36.0     37.9     39.0     40.1     40.4     44.5     44.5     43.4     44.5 
     2000..............    49.3     44.1     39.3     36.8     35.3     34.2     33.8     28.7     22.1     19.1     17.6     14.0 
     2001..............    13.6     13.6     13.6     15.4     12.1     11.0     11.0     11.0     12.9     12.9     14.0     13.6 
     2002..............    18.0     18.0     20.2     20.2     24.6     22.1    p25.0    p22.1                                     
     2003..............                                                                                                            

  1 Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, and 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span.  Data are centered
within the span. 
  p = preliminary.
  NOTE:  Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged
employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.