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                   THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  APRIL 2000


   Employment rose in April, and the unemployment rate edged down to 
3.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of 
Labor reported today.  Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 340,000; 
this includes 73,000 temporary workers added to assist with the decennial
census.  Average hourly earnings rose by 6 cents in April and by 3.8 percent
over the year.
   
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
   
   The unemployment rate, which has been below 4.2 percent since October,
edged down to 3.9 percent in April.  This is the first time the rate has
been below 4.0 percent since January 1970.  The jobless rate for Hispanics
decreased to 5.4 percent in April.  The unemployment rates for the other
major worker groups--adult men (3.2 percent), adult women (3.5 percent),
teenagers (12.7 percent), whites (3.5 percent), and blacks (7.2 percent)--
were about unchanged over the month.  The number of unemployed persons was 
5.5 million.  (See tables A-1 and A-2.)
   
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   The civilian labor force increased by 363,000 over the month to 141.2
million.  The labor force participation rate was 67.5 percent, little
changed from March.  (See table A-1.)
   
   Total employment rose by 547,000 in April to 135.7 million.  The
employment-population ratio--the proportion of the population age 16 and
older with jobs--increased to 64.9 percent, a record high.

   About 7.7 million workers (not seasonally adjusted) held more than one
job in April, about the same as a year earlier.  These multiple jobholders
represented 5.7 percent of total employment.  (See table A-10.)

Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
   
   About 1.2 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally
attached to the labor force in April.  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 330,000, up from 245,000 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-10.)

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Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
___________________________________________________________________________
                      |    Quarterly    |       Monthly data       |
                      |    averages     |                          |
                      |_________________|__________________________| Mar.-
      Category        |  1999  | 2000 1/|           2000           | Apr.
                      |_________________|_________________ ________|change
                      |   IV   |   I    |  Feb.  |  Mar.  |  Apr.  |
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    HOUSEHOLD DATA    |                 Labor force status
                      |____________________________________________________
Civilian labor force..| 139,880| 140,981| 141,165| 140,867| 141,230|    363
  Employment..........| 134,153| 135,247| 135,362| 135,159| 135,706|    547
  Unemployment........|   5,727|   5,733|   5,804|   5,708|   5,524|   -184
Not in labor force....|  68,780|  67,933|  67,742|  68,187|  67,986|   -201
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                 Unemployment rates
                      |____________________________________________________
All workers...........|     4.1|     4.1|     4.1|     4.1|     3.9|   -0.2
  Adult men...........|     3.4|     3.3|     3.4|     3.3|     3.2|    -.1
  Adult women.........|     3.6|     3.6|     3.5|     3.6|     3.5|    -.1
  Teenagers...........|    13.8|    13.4|    14.1|    13.3|    12.7|    -.6
  White...............|     3.5|     3.5|     3.6|     3.6|     3.5|    -.1
  Black...............|     8.1|     7.8|     7.8|     7.3|     7.2|    -.1
  Hispanic origin.....|     6.1|     5.9|     5.7|     6.3|     5.4|    -.9
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
 ESTABLISHMENT DATA   |                     Employment
                      |____________________________________________________
Nonfarm employment....| 129,606|p130,463| 130,319|p130,777|p131,117|   p340
  Goods-producing 2/..|  25,246| p25,421|  25,382| p25,471| p25,431|   p-40
    Construction......|   6,359|  p6,521|   6,484|  p6,574|  p6,519|   p-55
    Manufacturing.....|  18,359| p18,368|  18,366| p18,361| p18,372|    p11
  Service-producing 2/| 104,360|p105,042| 104,937|p105,306|p105,686|   p380
    Retail trade......|  22,922| p23,025|  23,016| p23,041| p23,160|   p119
    Services..........|  39,548| p39,869|  39,822| p39,980| p40,101|   p121
    Government........|  20,274| p20,429|  20,382| p20,540| p20,647|   p107
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                  Hours of work 3/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|    34.5|   p34.5|    34.5|   p34.5|   p34.6|   p0.1
  Manufacturing.......|    41.7|   p41.7|    41.8|   p41.7|   p42.1|    p.4
    Overtime..........|     4.6|    p4.7|     4.8|    p4.6|    p4.9|    p.3
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |    Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (1982=100) 3/
                      |____________________________________________________
Total private.........|   149.1|  p150.4|   150.1|  p150.7|  p151.5|   p0.8
                      |________|________|________|________|________|_______
                      |                      Earnings 3/
                      |____________________________________________________
Avg. hourly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  $13.41| p$13.54|  $13.54| p$13.58| p$13.64| p$0.06
Avg. weekly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  462.65| p467.46|  467.13| p468.51| p471.94|  p3.43
______________________|________|________|________|________|________|_______
    1/  Beginning in January 2000, household data reflect revised popula-
tion controls used in the Current Population Survey.
    2/  Includes other industries, not shown separately.
    3/  Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
    p=preliminary.

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Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)

   Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 340,000 in April to 131.1 million.
This follows an increase of 458,000 (as revised) in March.  Job gains in
both months reflect, in part, the hiring of temporary workers for Census
2000--117,000 in March and 73,000 in April.  Among private-sector
industries, large job gains occurred in services and retail trade in April,
while construction employment declined.  (See table B-1.)
   
   Employment in the services industry grew by 121,000 in April, in line
with its average monthly gain for the prior 12 months.  Business services
added 55,000 jobs in April, following a similarly strong gain in March.
Within business services, help supply services added 46,000 jobs over the
month, bringing its total gain since January to 94,000.  Employment in
computer services grew by 8,000; while still adding jobs at a rapid pace,
the industry has experienced smaller employment gains since August 1999.
Motion pictures rebounded from losses in the prior 2 months by adding 9,000
jobs.  Employment also rose over the month in amusement and recreation
services and in hotels.  Engineering and management services employment
showed little change in April.
   
   Retail trade added 119,000 jobs in April.  The largest employment gains
were in eating and drinking places (80,000) and food stores (20,000).
Eating and drinking places had shown virtually no change in employment
during the first quarter of the year; employment in food stores has had
almost no growth for several years.  Building materials and garden supplies
stores lost 8,000 jobs in April, following an above-average gain in March.
Employment in wholesale trade was little changed in April.
   
   Transportation added 27,000 jobs over the month, with the largest
increases in trucking and warehousing, local and interurban transit, and
transportation services.  The gain of 10,000 jobs in trucking follows
relatively weak growth in the first quarter.
   
   Finance, insurance, and real estate employment was up by 7,000 in
April.  In finance, security brokerages added 8,000 jobs, while employment
declines continued in mortgage brokerages.  Since May 1999, mortgage 
brokerages have lost 33,000 jobs.  In April, employment in both insurance
and real estate was about unchanged.
   
   Government added 107,000 jobs in April, largely due to the hiring of an
additional 73,000 temporary workers by the federal government for Census
2000.  Employment in local education increased by 33,000 in April, after
seasonal adjustment, following little growth in the first quarter.

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   In the goods-producing sector, construction employment declined by
55,000 in April, seasonally adjusted, following a substantial rise in
March.  Because the March survey reference period was relatively late in
the month, some of the spring hiring that usually occurs between March and
April was captured in March this year instead of April.  Taking March and
April together, construction employment rose by an average of 18,000 a
month.
   
   Manufacturing employment was up by 11,000 in April, following a
somewhat larger loss in March (after adjustment for the return of 15,000
workers from strike).  In April, the largest employment increase was in
electrical equipment (8,000), which has added 21,000 jobs thus far in 2000.
Fabricated metals and food products each added 5,000 jobs in April.
Aircraft manufacturing employment continued on its downward trend with the
loss of 4,000 jobs.
   
   Mining added 4,000 jobs, as employment in oil and gas extraction
continued to rise.  Since its most recent low point in August 1999, oil and
gas employment has grown by 20,000.
   
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on
private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour in April to 34.6 hours,
seasonally adjusted.  The manufacturing workweek increased by 0.4 hour to
42.1 hours.  Manufacturing overtime rose by 0.3 hour to 4.9 hours.  
(See table B-2.)
   
   The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory
workers on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.5 percent to 151.5
(1982=100), seasonally adjusted.  The manufacturing index was up by 1.1
percent to 107.2.  (See table B-5.)
   
Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
   
   Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on
private nonfarm payrolls rose by 6 cents in April to $13.64, seasonally
adjusted.  Over the month, average weekly earnings increased by 0.7 percent
to $471.94.  Over the year, average hourly earnings rose by 3.8 percent and
average weekly earnings grew by 4.4 percent.  (See table B-3.)
   
                      ______________________________
   
   The Employment Situation for May 2000 is scheduled to be released on
Friday, June 2, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT).

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 |             Revisions in the Establishment Survey Data            |
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 |   With the release of May data in June, BLS will introduce        |
 |revisions in the establishment-based series on nonfarm payroll     |
 |employment, hours, and earnings to reflect the annual benchmark    |
 |adjustments for March 1999 and updated seasonal adjustment factors.|
 |Unadjusted data since April 1998 and seasonally adjusted data since|
 |January 1995 are subject to revision.  Seasonal adjustment factors |
 |for March through October 2000 will be available on the Internet   |
 |on May 26, one week prior to the release of the May estimates      |
 |(http://stats.bls.gov/ceshome.htm).                                |
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 |    Concurrent with the release of the March 1999 benchmark revi-  |
 |sions, BLS also will begin implementation of a new probability-    |
 |based sample design for the establishment survey.  Only wholesale  |
 |trade will incorporate the new sample design with this release.    |
 |Further information on these revisions is available by calling     |
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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
50,000 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 1999,
the sample included about 390,000 establishments employing about 48 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.

                                  - 6 -
 
 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.
 
 Other differences between the two surveys are described in   "Comparing
Employment Estimates from Household and Payroll Surveys," which may be
obtained from BLS upon request.

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
376,000.  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 -276,000 to 476,000 (100,000 +/- 376,000).
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.  The 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly change in
unemployment is +/- 258,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment
rate it is +/- .21 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 $16.00 per issue or
$40.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
20402.  All orders must be prepaid by sending a check or money order
payable to the Superintendent of Documents, or by charging to Mastercard or
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-H 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-G 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                                                                                  
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                        TOTAL                                                                                               
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 207,236 209,053 209,216 207,236 208,832 208,782 208,907 209,053 209,216
    Civilian labor force............................ 138,240 140,501 140,403 139,086 140,108 140,910 141,165 140,867 141,230
          Participation rate........................    66.7    67.2    67.1    67.1    67.1    67.5    67.6    67.4    67.5
      Employed...................................... 132,552 134,494 135,215 133,054 134,420 135,221 135,362 135,159 135,706
          Employment-population ratio...............    64.0    64.3    64.6    64.2    64.4    64.8    64.8    64.7    64.9
        Agriculture.................................   3,320   3,079   3,330   3,341   3,279   3,371   3,408   3,359   3,355
        Nonagricultural industries.................. 129,232 131,415 131,885 129,713 131,141 131,850 131,954 131,801 132,351
      Unemployed....................................   5,688   6,007   5,188   6,032   5,688   5,689   5,804   5,708   5,524
          Unemployment rate.........................     4.1     4.3     3.7     4.3     4.1     4.0     4.1     4.1     3.9
    Not in labor force..............................  68,996  68,552  68,813  68,150  68,724  67,872  67,742  68,187  67,986
      Persons who currently want a job..............   4,797   4,461   4,422   4,740   4,467   4,252   4,374   4,594   4,352
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 16 years and over                                                                                      
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  99,465 100,405 100,487  99,465 100,264 100,266 100,330 100,405 100,487
    Civilian labor force............................  73,837  74,790  74,747  74,270  74,930  75,304  75,594  75,198  75,189
          Participation rate........................    74.2    74.5    74.4    74.7    74.7    75.1    75.3    74.9    74.8
      Employed......................................  70,877  71,613  71,979  71,208  71,927  72,358  72,473  72,313  72,307
          Employment-population ratio...............    71.3    71.3    71.6    71.6    71.7    72.2    72.2    72.0    72.0
      Unemployed....................................   2,959   3,177   2,768   3,062   3,003   2,946   3,121   2,885   2,882
          Unemployment rate.........................     4.0     4.2     3.7     4.1     4.0     3.9     4.1     3.8     3.8
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  91,302  92,145  92,303  91,302  92,052  92,057  92,092  92,145  92,303
    Civilian labor force............................  69,848  70,689  70,616  69,992  70,529  70,917  71,120  70,822  70,761
          Participation rate........................    76.5    76.7    76.5    76.7    76.6    77.0    77.2    76.9    76.7
      Employed......................................  67,463  68,057  68,389  67,562  68,197  68,585  68,691  68,480  68,481
          Employment-population ratio...............    73.9    73.9    74.1    74.0    74.1    74.5    74.6    74.3    74.2
        Agriculture.................................   2,339   2,073   2,252   2,305   2,227   2,303   2,309   2,232   2,213
        Nonagricultural industries..................  65,124  65,984  66,136  65,257  65,970  66,282  66,382  66,249  66,269
      Unemployed....................................   2,385   2,632   2,227   2,430   2,332   2,332   2,429   2,342   2,280
          Unemployment rate.........................     3.4     3.7     3.2     3.5     3.3     3.3     3.4     3.3     3.2
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 16 years and over                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 107,771 108,649 108,729 107,771 108,569 108,516 108,577 108,649 108,729
    Civilian labor force............................  64,403  65,711  65,656  64,816  65,178  65,606  65,572  65,668  66,041
          Participation rate........................    59.8    60.5    60.4    60.1    60.0    60.5    60.4    60.4    60.7
      Employed......................................  61,675  62,881  63,236  61,846  62,493  62,863  62,889  62,846  63,399
          Employment-population ratio...............    57.2    57.9    58.2    57.4    57.6    57.9    57.9    57.8    58.3
      Unemployed....................................   2,729   2,830   2,420   2,970   2,685   2,743   2,683   2,823   2,642
          Unemployment rate.........................     4.2     4.3     3.7     4.6     4.1     4.2     4.1     4.3     4.0
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  99,923 100,713 100,809  99,923 100,666 100,579 100,666 100,713 100,809
    Civilian labor force............................  60,604  61,892  61,790  60,765  61,154  61,576  61,575  61,671  61,920
          Participation rate........................    60.7    61.5    61.3    60.8    60.7    61.2    61.2    61.2    61.4
      Employed......................................  58,354  59,593  59,785  58,336  58,958  59,280  59,398  59,422  59,757
          Employment-population ratio...............    58.4    59.2    59.3    58.4    58.6    58.9    59.0    59.0    59.3
        Agriculture.................................     777     831     867     803     791     826     871     894     899
        Nonagricultural industries..................  57,577  58,762  58,917  57,533  58,167  58,454  58,526  58,528  58,858
      Unemployed....................................   2,250   2,298   2,005   2,429   2,196   2,297   2,178   2,249   2,163
          Unemployment rate.........................     3.7     3.7     3.2     4.0     3.6     3.7     3.5     3.6     3.5
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
  Civilian  noninstitutional population.............  16,011  16,196  16,104  16,011  16,114  16,147  16,149  16,196  16,104
    Civilian labor force............................   7,787   7,921   7,998   8,329   8,425   8,416   8,470   8,374   8,549
          Participation rate........................    48.6    48.9    49.7    52.0    52.3    52.1    52.4    51.7    53.1
      Employed......................................   6,735   6,844   7,042   7,156   7,265   7,356   7,273   7,257   7,467
          Employment-population ratio...............    42.1    42.3    43.7    44.7    45.1    45.6    45.0    44.8    46.4
        Agriculture.................................     204     175     210     233     261     242     228     233     243
        Nonagricultural industries..................   6,531   6,669   6,832   6,923   7,004   7,114   7,046   7,024   7,224
      Unemployed....................................   1,052   1,077     956   1,173   1,160   1,060   1,197   1,117   1,082
          Unemployment rate.........................    13.5    13.6    12.0    14.1    13.8    12.6    14.1    13.3    12.7

    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 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted              Seasonally adjusted(1)            
                                                                                                                            
        Employment status, race, sex, age, and                                                                              
                   Hispanic origin                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                        WHITE                                                                                               
  Civilian noninstitutional population.............. 172,730 173,983 174,092 172,730 173,821 173,812 173,886 173,983 174,092
    Civilian labor force............................ 115,633 117,451 117,281 116,344 117,008 117,716 117,821 117,832 117,988
        Participation rate..........................    66.9    67.5    67.4    67.4    67.3    67.7    67.8    67.7    67.8
      Employed...................................... 111,439 113,006 113,458 111,886 112,951 113,704 113,634 113,630 113,915
        Employment-population ratio.................    64.5    65.0    65.2    64.8    65.0    65.4    65.3    65.3    65.4
      Unemployed....................................   4,194   4,446   3,823   4,458   4,057   4,011   4,187   4,202   4,073
        Unemployment rate...........................     3.6     3.8     3.3     3.8     3.5     3.4     3.6     3.6     3.5
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
    Civilian labor force............................  59,548  60,123  59,958  59,651  59,889  60,179  60,387  60,282  60,048
        Participation rate..........................    77.1    77.2    76.9    77.2    77.0    77.3    77.6    77.4    77.0
      Employed......................................  57,758  58,131  58,327  57,834  58,221  58,487  58,631  58,541  58,386
        Employment-population ratio.................    74.8    74.6    74.8    74.9    74.8    75.2    75.3    75.1    74.9
      Unemployed....................................   1,790   1,993   1,631   1,817   1,668   1,693   1,756   1,742   1,662
        Unemployment rate...........................     3.0     3.3     2.7     3.0     2.8     2.8     2.9     2.9     2.8
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
    Civilian labor force............................  49,486  50,622  50,532  49,674  50,011  50,404  50,335  50,448  50,726
        Participation rate..........................    59.8    60.7    60.6    60.0    60.1    60.5    60.4    60.5    60.8
      Employed......................................  47,862  48,966  49,101  47,885  48,486  48,857  48,792  48,820  49,150
        Employment-population ratio.................    57.8    58.7    58.9    57.8    58.2    58.7    58.6    58.6    58.9
      Unemployed....................................   1,624   1,656   1,431   1,789   1,525   1,547   1,544   1,628   1,576
        Unemployment rate...........................     3.3     3.3     2.8     3.6     3.0     3.1     3.1     3.2     3.1
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
    Civilian labor force............................   6,599   6,706   6,791   7,019   7,108   7,132   7,099   7,102   7,214
        Participation rate..........................    52.1    52.7    53.4    55.4    55.8    56.0    55.8    55.8    56.7
      Employed......................................   5,819   5,909   6,030   6,167   6,244   6,360   6,211   6,270   6,379
        Employment-population ratio.................    45.9    46.5    47.4    48.7    49.0    50.0    48.8    49.3    50.2
      Unemployed....................................     780     797     761     852     864     772     888     832     835
        Unemployment rate...........................    11.8    11.9    11.2    12.1    12.2    10.8    12.5    11.7    11.6
          Men.......................................    12.2    12.1    12.6    12.6    13.3    12.4    14.4    11.3    13.0
          Women.....................................    11.4    11.7     9.7    11.6    10.9     9.1    10.4    12.1    10.0
                                                                                                                            
                        BLACK                                                                                               
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  24,765  25,105  25,135  24,765  25,051  25,047  25,076  25,105  25,135
    Civilian labor force............................  16,159  16,466  16,504  16,288  16,513  16,622  16,785  16,572  16,636
        Participation rate..........................    65.2    65.6    65.7    65.8    65.9    66.4    66.9    66.0    66.2
      Employed......................................  14,979  15,231  15,412  15,011  15,204  15,254  15,471  15,356  15,444
        Employment-population ratio.................    60.5    60.7    61.3    60.6    60.7    60.9    61.7    61.2    61.4
      Unemployed....................................   1,180   1,236   1,092   1,277   1,309   1,368   1,314   1,216   1,191
        Unemployment rate...........................     7.3     7.5     6.6     7.8     7.9     8.2     7.8     7.3     7.2
                                                                                                                            
                Men, 20 years and over                                                                                      
    Civilian labor force............................   7,092   7,252   7,324   7,118   7,273   7,386   7,441   7,300   7,351
        Participation rate..........................    71.7    72.2    72.8    72.0    72.6    73.7    74.2    72.6    73.0
      Employed......................................   6,661   6,762   6,858   6,670   6,766   6,839   6,910   6,830   6,864
        Employment-population ratio.................    67.4    67.3    68.1    67.5    67.5    68.2    68.9    68.0    68.2
      Unemployed....................................     431     490     467     448     507     547     532     469     487
        Unemployment rate...........................     6.1     6.8     6.4     6.3     7.0     7.4     7.1     6.4     6.6
                                                                                                                            
               Women, 20 years and over                                                                                     
    Civilian labor force............................   8,222   8,333   8,293   8,223   8,260   8,315   8,344   8,314   8,291
        Participation rate..........................    66.3    66.2    65.8    66.3    65.8    66.3    66.4    66.1    65.8
      Employed......................................   7,681   7,815   7,830   7,657   7,706   7,715   7,805   7,808   7,807
        Employment-population ratio.................    61.9    62.1    62.2    61.7    61.4    61.5    62.1    62.1    62.0
      Unemployed....................................     541     518     463     566     554     600     539     506     484
        Unemployment rate...........................     6.6     6.2     5.6     6.9     6.7     7.2     6.5     6.1     5.8
                                                                                                                            
              Both sexes, 16 to 19 years                                                                                    
    Civilian labor force............................     845     881     886     947     980     921     999     958     993
        Participation rate..........................    34.1    35.6    35.8    38.3    39.5    37.2    40.4    38.7    40.2
      Employed......................................     637     653     724     684     732     701     756     718     773
        Employment-population ratio.................    25.7    26.4    29.3    27.6    29.5    28.3    30.6    29.0    31.3
      Unemployed....................................     208     228     162     263     248     220     243     240     220
        Unemployment rate...........................    24.6    25.9    18.3    27.8    25.3    23.9    24.3    25.1    22.2
          Men.......................................    30.2    22.6    18.4    32.0    27.5    24.0    22.3    21.3    22.0
          Women.....................................    19.7    29.3    18.2    23.8    23.0    23.8    26.6    28.9    22.4
                   HISPANIC ORIGIN                                                                                          
  Civilian noninstitutional population..............  21,483  22,166  22,231  21,483  22,008  22,047  22,108  22,166  22,231
    Civilian labor force............................  14,434  15,304  15,268  14,535  14,984  15,251  15,249  15,313  15,355
        Participation rate..........................    67.2    69.0    68.7    67.7    68.1    69.2    69.0    69.1    69.1
      Employed......................................  13,474  14,283  14,466  13,541  14,095  14,395  14,382  14,355  14,524
        Employment-population ratio.................    62.7    64.4    65.1    63.0    64.0    65.3    65.1    64.8    65.3
      Unemployed....................................     960   1,021     802     994     889     856     868     958     831
        Unemployment rate...........................     6.7     6.7     5.3     6.8     5.9     5.6     5.7     6.3     5.4

    1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted
  and seasonally adjusted columns.
      NOTE:  Detail for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to totals because data for the "other races"
  group are not presented and Hispanics are included in both the white and black population groups.  Beginning in January
  2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                               HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-3. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment, seasonally adjusted

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                               Not seasonally adjusted                  Seasonally adjusted(1)               
                                                                                                                             
            Educational attainment                                                                                           
                                                                                                                             
                                               Apr.     Mar.     Apr.     Apr.     Dec.     Jan.     Feb.     Mar.     Apr.  
                                               1999     2000     2000     1999     1999     2000     2000     2000     2000  
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
       Less than a high school diploma                                                                                       
                                                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstitutional population......   27,991   27,523   28,069   27,991   28,144   27,995   27,376   27,523   28,069
    Civilian labor force....................   11,971   11,801   12,007   11,896   11,956   11,895   11,971   11,726   11,945
        Percent of population...............     42.8     42.9     42.8     42.5     42.5     42.5     43.7     42.6     42.6
      Employed..............................   11,170   10,896   11,286   11,092   11,243   11,106   11,257   10,918   11,218
        Employment-population ratio.........     39.9     39.6     40.2     39.6     39.9     39.7     41.1     39.7     40.0
      Unemployed............................      802      905      721      804      713      789      714      808      727
        Unemployment rate...................      6.7      7.7      6.0      6.8      6.0      6.6      6.0      6.9      6.1
                                                                                                                             
     High school graduates, no college(2)                                                                                    
                                                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstitutional population......   57,945   58,033   58,015   57,945   57,590   57,768   57,471   58,033   58,015
    Civilian labor force....................   37,551   37,742   37,699   37,508   37,362   37,617   37,603   37,671   37,666
        Percent of population...............     64.8     65.0     65.0     64.7     64.9     65.1     65.4     64.9     64.9
      Employed..............................   36,253   36,364   36,474   36,173   36,071   36,305   36,294   36,401   36,401
        Employment-population ratio.........     62.6     62.7     62.9     62.4     62.6     62.8     63.2     62.7     62.7
      Unemployed............................    1,297    1,377    1,226    1,335    1,291    1,311    1,309    1,270    1,265
        Unemployment rate...................      3.5      3.6      3.3      3.6      3.5      3.5      3.5      3.4      3.4
                                                                                                                             
       Less than a bachelor's degree(3)                                                                                      
                                                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstitutional population......   43,059   44,225   43,896   43,059   44,069   43,689   44,486   44,225   43,896
    Civilian labor force....................   31,889   32,898   32,522   32,051   32,404   32,397   32,544   32,967   32,684
        Percent of population...............     74.1     74.4     74.1     74.4     73.5     74.2     73.2     74.5     74.5
      Employed..............................   30,953   31,929   31,684   31,111   31,586   31,564   31,595   32,090   31,843
        Employment-population ratio.........     71.9     72.2     72.2     72.3     71.7     72.2     71.0     72.6     72.5
      Unemployed............................      936      969      838      940      818      833      949      878      841
        Unemployment rate...................      2.9      2.9      2.6      2.9      2.5      2.6      2.9      2.7      2.6
                                                                                                                             
              College graduates                                                                                              
                                                                                                                             
  Civilian noninstitutional population......   44,289   44,838   44,864   44,289   44,821   45,058   45,247   44,838   44,864
    Civilian labor force....................   35,418   36,017   36,074   35,467   35,824   36,205   36,265   36,060   36,099
        Percent of population...............     80.0     80.3     80.4     80.1     79.9     80.4     80.1     80.4     80.5
      Employed..............................   34,776   35,446   35,581   34,745   35,186   35,540   35,678   35,481   35,545
        Employment-population ratio.........     78.5     79.1     79.3     78.5     78.5     78.9     78.9     79.1     79.2
      Unemployed............................      642      572      493      722      638      665      587      579      553
        Unemployment rate...................      1.8      1.6      1.4      2.0      1.8      1.8      1.6      1.6      1.5

    1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation, therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted
  and seasonally adjusted columns.
    2 Includes high school diploma or equivalent.
    3 Includes the categories, some college, no degree; and associate degree.
     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-4. Selected employment indicators

  (In thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                       Category                                                                                             
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                    CHARACTERISTIC                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
  Total employed, 16 years and over................. 132,552 134,494 135,215 133,054 134,420 135,221 135,362 135,159 135,706
    Married men, spouse present.....................  43,104  43,081  43,186  43,210  43,283  43,951  43,535  43,297  43,272
    Married women, spouse present...................  33,351  33,915  33,944  33,284  33,762  34,166  33,882  33,780  33,877
    Women who maintain families.....................   8,163   8,187   8,382   8,081   8,375   8,362   8,220   8,082   8,307
                                                                                                                            
                      OCCUPATION                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
    Managerial and professional specialty...........  40,526  40,717  40,745  40,458  40,800  40,924  40,806  40,595  40,665
    Technical, sales, and administrative support....  38,711  39,549  39,561  38,816  39,311  39,614  39,703  39,510  39,680
    Service occupations.............................  17,779  18,636  18,734  17,904  17,706  18,155  18,344  18,711  18,885
    Precision production, craft, and repair.........  14,533  14,491  14,530  14,508  14,940  14,610  14,681  14,520  14,501
    Operators, fabricators, and laborers............  17,550  17,965  18,212  17,775  18,299  18,385  18,279  18,334  18,453
    Farming, forestry, and fishing..................   3,454   3,135   3,432   3,508   3,367   3,574   3,630   3,562   3,477
                                                                                                                            
                   CLASS OF WORKER                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
    Agriculture:                                                                                                            
      Wage and salary workers.......................   1,925   1,841   2,048   1,930   2,018   2,024   2,025   2,043   2,054
      Self-employed workers.........................   1,367   1,202   1,247   1,399   1,211   1,320   1,344   1,292   1,272
      Unpaid family workers.........................      28      36      36      33      36      38      51      42      43
    Nonagricultural industries:                                                                                             
      Wage and salary workers....................... 120,331 122,709 122,992 120,925 122,426 122,823 123,166 123,169 123,623
        Government..................................  18,952  19,677  19,434  18,778  18,959  19,013  19,394  19,598  19,280
        Private industries.......................... 101,379 103,032 103,558 102,147 103,467 103,810 103,772 103,571 104,343
          Private households........................     899   1,002     982     935     948     952   1,016     998   1,019
          Other industries.......................... 100,479 102,030 102,576 101,212 102,519 102,858 102,756 102,573 103,324
      Self-employed workers.........................   8,839   8,600   8,794   8,801   8,662   8,802   8,793   8,704   8,750
      Unpaid family workers.........................      62     106      99      65      98      92      74     107     103
                                                                                                                            
              PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
    All industries:                                                                                                         
      Part time for economic reasons................   3,316   3,306   3,043   3,403   3,320   3,219   3,139   3,124   3,124
        Slack work or business conditions...........   1,926   1,955   1,827   1,937   1,951   1,893   1,807   1,820   1,844
        Could only find part-time work..............   1,082   1,029     986   1,117   1,025   1,012   1,023     953   1,016
      Part time for noneconomic reasons.............  19,788  19,540  19,509  18,752  18,618  18,889  19,031  18,770  18,474
                                                                                                                            
    Nonagricultural industries:                                                                                             
      Part time for economic reasons................   3,130   3,169   2,933   3,225   3,157   3,066   2,985   3,003   3,021
        Slack work or business conditions...........   1,835   1,888   1,768   1,845   1,843   1,801   1,705   1,766   1,782
        Could only find part-time work..............   1,051   1,008     957   1,087   1,018     986   1,005     922     989
      Part time for noneconomic reasons.............  19,181  19,002  18,948  18,159  18,061  18,347  18,406  18,184  17,943

      NOTE:  Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during the entire reference week for
  reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute.  Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually
  work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and bad
  weather.  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-5. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                            Number of                                                       
                                                        unemployed persons                Unemployment rates(1)             
                                                          (in thousands)                                                    
                       Category                                                                                             
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                    CHARACTERISTIC                                                                                          
                                                                                                                            
   Total, 16 years and over.........................   6,032   5,708   5,524    4.3     4.1     4.0     4.1     4.1     3.9 
     Men, 20 years and over.........................   2,430   2,342   2,280    3.5     3.3     3.3     3.4     3.3     3.2 
     Women, 20 years and over.......................   2,429   2,249   2,163    4.0     3.6     3.7     3.5     3.6     3.5 
     Both sexes, 16 to 19 years.....................   1,173   1,117   1,082   14.1    13.8    12.6    14.1    13.3    12.7 
                                                                                                                            
     Married men, spouse present....................   1,004     865     776    2.3     2.2     2.0     2.1     2.0     1.8 
     Married women, spouse present..................     981     955     897    2.9     2.5     2.6     2.6     2.7     2.6 
     Women who maintain families....................     614     591     559    7.1     6.2     6.2     6.1     6.8     6.3 
                                                                                                                            
     Full-time workers..............................   4,807   4,489   4,427    4.2     3.9     3.9     3.9     3.8     3.8 
     Part-time workers..............................   1,221   1,243   1,093    5.0     4.9     4.6     4.9     5.1     4.6 
                                                                                                                            
                    OCCUPATION(2)                                                                                           
                                                                                                                            
     Managerial and professional specialty..........     787     732     685    1.9     1.7     1.8     1.6     1.8     1.7 
     Technical, sales, and administrative support...   1,542   1,435   1,373    3.8     3.6     3.4     3.7     3.5     3.3 
     Precision production, craft, and repair........     575     570     525    3.8     4.0     3.7     4.2     3.8     3.5 
     Operators, fabricators, and laborers...........   1,228   1,245   1,313    6.5     6.1     6.1     6.1     6.4     6.6 
     Farming, forestry, and fishing.................     270     193     262    7.1     5.8     4.7     5.7     5.1     7.0 
                                                                                                                            
                       INDUSTRY                                                                                             
                                                                                                                            
     Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers   4,688   4,695   4,375    4.4     4.1     4.2     4.2     4.3     4.0 
       Goods-producing industries...................   1,278   1,328   1,232    4.5     4.4     4.1     4.4     4.6     4.3 
         Mining.....................................      50      13      17    8.4     4.1     2.6     4.0     2.5     2.8 
         Construction...............................     520     505     383    7.3     6.6     6.4     7.5     6.9     5.2 
         Manufacturing..............................     708     810     832    3.4     3.6     3.2     3.3     3.9     4.0 
           Durable goods............................     401     381     499    3.2     3.6     2.8     3.0     3.0     3.9 
           Nondurable goods.........................     307     429     333    3.9     3.5     3.9     3.8     5.2     4.1 
       Service-producing industries.................   3,410   3,366   3,144    4.3     4.0     4.3     4.1     4.2     3.9 
         Transportation and public utilities........     220     244     224    2.9     3.0     3.7     3.2     3.1     2.9 
         Wholesale and retail trade.................   1,455   1,485   1,369    5.4     5.2     5.1     5.3     5.4     4.9 
         Finance, insurance, and real estate........     261     195     211    3.2     2.1     2.5     2.9     2.4     2.6 
         Services...................................   1,474   1,443   1,340    4.1     3.8     4.2     3.7     4.0     3.7 
     Government workers.............................     455     337     327    2.4     2.1     2.1     2.2     1.7     1.7 
     Agricultural wage and salary workers...........     203     121     189    9.5     7.1     5.0     6.5     5.6     8.4 

    1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
    2 Seasonally adjusted unemployment data for service occupations are not available because the seasonal component, which
  is small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.
     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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  Table A-6. Duration of unemployment

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                       Duration                                                                                             
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
   Less than 5 weeks................................   2,378   2,527   2,139   2,741   2,620   2,447   2,603   2,824   2,455
   5 to 14 weeks....................................   1,671   2,003   1,666   1,868   1,694   1,754   1,864   1,719   1,868
   15 weeks and over................................   1,638   1,478   1,383   1,474   1,388   1,372   1,277   1,295   1,250
      15 to 26 weeks................................     928     815     778     794     693     667     673     657     670
      27 weeks and over.............................     711     663     605     680     695     705     604     637     580
                                                                                                                            
   Average (mean) duration, in weeks................    14.0    13.2    13.1    13.2    12.8    13.2    12.5    12.8    12.4
   Median duration, in weeks........................     7.4     7.0     7.3     6.1     5.9     5.7     6.1     6.0     6.0
                                                                                                                            
                 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..............................    41.8    42.1    41.2    45.1    45.9    43.9    45.3    48.4    44.1
     5 to 14 weeks..................................    29.4    33.3    32.1    30.7    29.7    31.5    32.5    29.4    33.5
     15 weeks and over..............................    28.8    24.6    26.7    24.2    24.3    24.6    22.2    22.2    22.4
       15 to 26 weeks...............................    16.3    13.6    15.0    13.1    12.2    12.0    11.7    11.3    12.0
       27 weeks and over............................    12.5    11.0    11.7    11.2    12.2    12.7    10.5    10.9    10.4

     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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  Table A-7. Reason for unemployment

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                     Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted              
                                                                                                                            
                        Reason                                                                                              
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                            
     jobs...........................................   2,633   2,769   2,248   2,695   2,401   2,477   2,616   2,541   2,306
    On temporary layoff.............................     835     983     692     843     795     739     838     781     703
    Not on temporary layoff.........................   1,797   1,787   1,556   1,852   1,606   1,739   1,778   1,759   1,602
      Permanent job losers..........................   1,263   1,224   1,081   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
      Persons who completed temporary jobs..........     534     562     475   (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)     (1)  
  Job leavers.......................................     754     837     778     810     825     776     759     824     833
  Reentrants........................................   1,874   2,019   1,802   2,039   2,036   2,043   1,975   1,979   1,961
  New entrants......................................     427     382     361     473     453     393     387     434     408
                                                                                                                            
                 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION                                                                                       
                                                                                                                            
  Total unemployed..................................   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0   100.0
   Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                           
     jobs...........................................    46.3    46.1    43.3    44.8    42.0    43.5    45.6    44.0    41.9
     On temporary layoff............................    14.7    16.4    13.3    14.0    13.9    13.0    14.6    13.5    12.8
     Not on temporary layoff........................    31.6    29.7    30.0    30.8    28.1    30.6    31.0    30.5    29.1
   Job leavers......................................    13.3    13.9    15.0    13.5    14.4    13.6    13.2    14.3    15.1
   Reentrants.......................................    33.0    33.6    34.7    33.9    35.6    35.9    34.4    34.3    35.6
   New entrants.....................................     7.5     6.4     6.9     7.9     7.9     6.9     6.7     7.5     7.4
                                                                                                                            
            UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE                                                                                  
                   CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE                                                                                     
                                                                                                                            
   Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                           
     jobs...........................................     1.9     2.0     1.6     1.9     1.7     1.8     1.9     1.8     1.6
   Job leavers......................................      .5      .6      .6      .6      .6      .6      .5      .6      .6
   Reentrants.......................................     1.4     1.4     1.3     1.5     1.5     1.4     1.4     1.4     1.4
   New entrants.....................................      .3      .3      .3      .3      .3      .3      .3      .3      .3

    1 Not available.
     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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  Table A-8. Range of alternative measures of labor underutilization

  (Percent)
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                  Not seasonally               Seasonally adjusted           
                                                                     adjusted                                                
                            Measure                                                                                          
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                Apr.   Mar.   Apr.   Apr.   Dec.   Jan.   Feb.   Mar.   Apr. 
                                                                1999   2000   2000   1999   1999   2000   2000   2000   2000 
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
  U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of                                                                 
      the civilian labor force................................    1.2    1.1    1.0    1.1    1.0    1.0     .9     .9     .9
                                                                                                                             
  U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as                                                                
      a percent of the civilian labor force...................    1.9    2.0    1.6    1.9    1.7    1.8    1.9    1.8    1.6
                                                                                                                             
  U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor                                                                   
      force (official unemployment rate)......................    4.1    4.3    3.7    4.3    4.1    4.0    4.1    4.1    3.9
                                                                                                                             
  U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent                                                                
      of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers....    4.3    4.5    3.9   (1)    (1)    (1)    (1)    (1)    (1) 
                                                                                                                             
  U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all                                                                   
      other marginally attached workers, as a percent of the                                                                 
      civilian labor force plus all marginally                                                                               
      attached workers........................................    5.0    5.1    4.5   (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.............................    7.4    7.4    6.7   (1)    (1)    (1)    (1)    (1)    (1) 

    1 Not available.
      NOTE:  This range of alternative measures of labor underutilization replaces the U1-U7 range published in table A-7 of
  this release prior to 1994.  Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work
  but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.  Discouraged
  workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job. 
  Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to
  settle for a part-time schedule.  For further information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment
  measures,"  in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised
  population controls used in the household survey.





  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                              HOUSEHOLD DATA
  
  Table A-9. Unemployed persons by sex and age, seasonally adjusted
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                            Number of                                                       
                                                        unemployed persons                Unemployment rates(1)             
                                                          (in thousands)                                                    
                     Age and sex                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                       Apr.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                                       1999    2000    2000    1999    1999    2000    2000    2000    2000 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
  Total, 16 years and over..........................   6,032   5,708   5,524    4.3     4.1     4.0     4.1     4.1     3.9 
    16 to 24 years..................................   2,211   2,199   2,115   10.0     9.8     9.3    10.0     9.7     9.3 
      16 to 19 years................................   1,173   1,117   1,082   14.1    13.8    12.6    14.1    13.3    12.7 
        16 to 17 years..............................     557     510     481   16.6    16.5    14.0    15.9    15.3    14.6 
        18 to 19 years..............................     612     607     597   12.4    12.1    11.4    12.8    12.1    11.4 
      20 to 24 years................................   1,038   1,082   1,033    7.5     7.4     7.4     7.5     7.6     7.2 
    25 years and over...............................   3,822   3,531   3,411    3.3     3.0     3.0     3.0     3.0     2.9 
      25 to 54 years................................   3,286   3,044   2,964    3.3     3.0     3.1     3.0     3.0     3.0 
      55 years and over.............................     507     498     427    2.9     2.7     2.8     3.0     2.7     2.4 
                                                                                                                            
    Men, 16 years and over..........................   3,062   2,885   2,882    4.1     4.0     3.9     4.1     3.8     3.8 
      16 to 24 years................................   1,195   1,106   1,153   10.5    10.6     9.7    10.3     9.2     9.6 
        16 to 19 years..............................     632     543     603   14.8    15.2    14.0    15.5    12.4    13.6 
          16 to 17 years............................     316     269     270   18.3    17.7    14.3    17.3    15.1    15.8 
          18 to 19 years............................     321     274     337   12.6    13.5    13.7    13.9    10.5    12.4 
        20 to 24 years..............................     563     563     550    7.9     7.8     7.2     7.3     7.4     7.3 
      25 years and over.............................   1,871   1,781   1,735    3.0     2.8     2.8     2.9     2.8     2.7 
        25 to 54 years..............................   1,597   1,500   1,462    3.0     2.8     2.9     2.9     2.8     2.7 
        55 years and over...........................     265     278     268    2.7     2.5     2.5     2.8     2.8     2.7 
                                                                                                                            
    Women, 16 years and over........................   2,970   2,823   2,642    4.6     4.1     4.2     4.1     4.3     4.0 
      16 to 24 years................................   1,016   1,093     962    9.5     8.9     8.9     9.6    10.2     8.9 
        16 to 19 years..............................     541     574     479   13.4    12.2    11.1    12.6    14.4    11.6 
          16 to 17 years............................     241     241     211   14.8    15.1    13.7    14.3    15.4    13.3 
          18 to 19 years............................     291     334     260   12.1    10.5     8.9    11.6    13.7    10.4 
        20 to 24 years..............................     475     520     483    7.1     7.0     7.6     7.8     7.7     7.2 
      25 years and over.............................   1,951   1,751   1,676    3.6     3.2     3.2     3.0     3.2     3.0 
        25 to 54 years..............................   1,689   1,544   1,502    3.7     3.2     3.3     3.0     3.3     3.2 
        55 years and over...........................     242     219     159    3.1     2.9     3.1     3.3     2.7     2.0 

    1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
     NOTE:  Beginning in January 2000, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.





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  Table A-10. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

  (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                                                            Total                Men                Women       
                                                                                                                                
                               Category                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
                                                                        Apr.      Apr.      Apr.      Apr.      Apr.      Apr.  
                                                                        1999      2000      1999      2000      1999      2000  
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
  Total not in the labor force......................................   68,996    68,813    25,628    25,740    43,368    43,073 
    Persons who currently want a job................................    4,797     4,422     2,052     1,907     2,745     2,515 
       Searched for work and available to work now(1)...............    1,257     1,215       625       597       632       618 
          Reason not currently looking:                                                                                         
            Discouragement over job prospects(2)....................      245       330       156       198        88       132 
            Reasons other than discouragement(3)....................    1,012       885       468       399       544       486 
                                                                                                                                
                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
  Total multiple jobholders(4)......................................    7,648     7,737     4,012     4,060     3,635     3,677 
      Percent of total employed.....................................      5.8       5.7       5.7       5.6       5.9       5.8 
                                                                                                                                
      Primary job full time, secondary job part time................    4,269     4,256     2,442     2,453     1,827     1,803 
      Primary and secondary jobs both part time.....................    1,615     1,596       496       509     1,119     1,087 
      Primary and secondary jobs both full time.....................      282       348       214       228        67       120 
      Hours vary on primary or secondary job........................    1,446     1,501       841       859       605       642 

    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 2000, 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                                                                                                
                                           Apr.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                           1999    2000   2000p   2000p    1999    1999    2000    2000   2000p   2000p 
                                                                                                                        
          Total1........................ 127,990 128,778 129,807 130,940 128,134 129,898 130,292 130,319 130,777 131,117
                                                                                                                        
       Total private.................... 107,522 108,090 108,863 109,914 108,035 109,583 109,927 109,937 110,237 110,470
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................  25,043  24,768  24,956  25,208  25,288  25,283  25,410  25,382  25,471  25,431
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................     532     521     526     533     538     529     530     532     536     540
    Metal mining........................    48.7    47.5    47.4    47.2      49      48      49      48      48      48
    Coal mining.........................    85.9    79.7    79.2    79.4      86      82      81      80      79      79
    Oil and gas extraction..............   289.1   293.7   296.2   299.1     294     291     292     296     301     305
    Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels..   108.4   100.4   103.0   107.7     109     108     108     108     108     108
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   6,104   5,976   6,141   6,369   6,277   6,393   6,504   6,484   6,574   6,519
    General building contractors........ 1,393.0 1,400.2 1,421.2 1,448.0   1,428   1,454   1,474   1,480   1,492   1,482
    Heavy construction, except building.   845.8   753.1   798.7   869.6     874     878     900     881     903     889
    Special trade contractors........... 3,865.0 3,822.5 3,920.8 4,051.7   3,975   4,061   4,130   4,123   4,179   4,148
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................  18,407  18,271  18,289  18,306  18,473  18,361  18,376  18,366  18,361  18,372
      Production workers................  12,650  12,549  12,558  12,570  12,696  12,613  12,627  12,617  12,602  12,612
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................  10,982  10,930  10,955  10,972  10,993  10,960  10,973  10,973  10,977  10,987
      Production workers................   7,518   7,481   7,496   7,512   7,519   7,485   7,505   7,507   7,501   7,509
    Lumber and wood products............   814.1   816.6   814.5   816.6     824     828     827     830     827     826
    Furniture and fixtures..............   536.3   544.9   545.3   545.9     536     543     543     545     545     546
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   568.7   555.8   564.0   573.8     570     574     577     574     577     575
    Primary metal industries............   690.4   687.2   688.6   686.7     691     687     686     687     689     688
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   221.7   220.5   221.5   220.6   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
    Fabricated metal products........... 1,486.5 1,492.8 1,495.9 1,499.9   1,489   1,489   1,491   1,493   1,496   1,501
    Industrial machinery and equipment.. 2,136.8 2,119.0 2,115.2 2,113.3   2,132   2,120   2,115   2,118   2,111   2,112
      Computer and office equipment.....   359.3   353.2   350.3   347.2     361     359     357     356     352     350
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................ 1,654.6 1,675.5 1,676.4 1,680.5   1,658   1,664   1,671   1,679   1,677   1,685
      Electronic components and                                                                                         
         accessories....................   633.9   650.8   652.2   654.9     635     645     647     652     652     656
    Transportation equipment............ 1,865.1 1,824.0 1,837.1 1,834.8   1,864   1,831   1,841   1,828   1,835   1,832
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   997.8 1,009.0 1,008.7 1,011.9     996   1,001   1,010   1,014   1,009   1,010
      Aircraft and parts................   502.1   447.0   459.4   455.0     503     464     463     447     460     456
    Instruments and related products....   842.1   828.0   829.9   831.3     842     833     830     829     831     832
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   387.6   386.3   387.7   389.0     387     391     392     390     389     390
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   7,425   7,341   7,334   7,334   7,480   7,401   7,403   7,393   7,384   7,385
      Production workers................   5,132   5,068   5,062   5,058   5,177   5,128   5,122   5,110   5,101   5,103
    Food and kindred products........... 1,649.0 1,647.8 1,643.1 1,643.6   1,689   1,686   1,689   1,680   1,679   1,684
    Tobacco products....................    36.4    39.0    34.8    35.5      38      38      38      38      35      38
    Textile mill products...............   566.8   547.4   547.3   546.9     567     551     549     550     549     548
    Apparel and other textile products..   696.1   651.7   653.9   654.5     698     662     657     657     657     655
    Paper and allied products...........   658.6   651.3   649.5   648.6     662     655     654     653     652     651
    Printing and publishing............. 1,552.7 1,546.9 1,547.7 1,549.1   1,555   1,547   1,550   1,551   1,551   1,552
    Chemicals and allied products....... 1,034.2 1,031.2 1,031.4 1,031.8   1,038   1,030   1,034   1,034   1,033   1,034
    Petroleum and coal products.........   137.9   131.8   132.6   134.0     139     135     136     136     136     135
    Rubber and misc. plastics products.. 1,018.5 1,024.1 1,023.2 1,021.0   1,019   1,026   1,025   1,024   1,022   1,019
    Leather and leather products........    75.1    69.9    70.0    69.1      75      71      71      70      70      69
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing1...................... 102,947 104,010 104,851 105,732 102,846 104,615 104,882 104,937 105,306 105,686
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   6,719   6,835   6,866   6,905   6,750   6,897   6,902   6,898   6,914   6,937
    Transportation......................   4,371   4,445   4,469   4,511   4,397   4,501   4,507   4,499   4,512   4,539
      Railroad transportation...........   234.1   222.8   220.6   222.7     234     227     226     226     222     223
      Local and interurban passenger                                                                                    
         transit........................   493.6   501.1   503.7   510.5     483     487     491     490     489     495
      Trucking and warehousing.......... 1,775.6 1,801.0 1,811.7 1,831.8   1,800   1,845   1,849   1,841   1,848   1,858
      Water transportation..............   177.5   176.1   178.1   183.7     180     182     181     185     185     187
      Transportation by air............. 1,211.4 1,260.4 1,267.9 1,270.6   1,220   1,273   1,277   1,271   1,280   1,283
      Pipelines, except natural gas.....    13.4    12.8    12.8    12.9      14      13      13      13      13      13
      Transportation services...........   465.6   470.3   473.9   478.6     466     474     470     473     475     480
    Communications and public utilities.   2,348   2,390   2,397   2,394   2,353   2,396   2,395   2,399   2,402   2,398
      Communications.................... 1,505.9 1,555.8 1,562.6 1,560.4   1,508   1,553   1,552   1,561   1,565   1,562
      Electric, gas, and sanitary                                                                                       
         services.......................   841.8   834.4   834.0   833.1     845     843     843     838     837     836
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   6,948   7,064   7,101   7,126   6,965   7,088   7,108   7,121   7,142   7,145
    Durable goods.......................   4,111   4,197   4,213   4,225   4,113   4,204   4,211   4,218   4,228   4,232
    Nondurable goods....................   2,837   2,867   2,888   2,901   2,852   2,884   2,897   2,903   2,914   2,913
  Retail trade..........................  22,476  22,466  22,599  22,892  22,724  22,973  23,018  23,016  23,041  23,160
    Building materials and garden                                                                                       
       supplies.........................   992.8   960.7   996.2 1,037.8     982   1,007   1,012   1,017   1,030   1,022
    General merchandise stores.......... 2,702.0 2,674.1 2,668.7 2,679.2   2,799   2,793   2,798   2,775   2,766   2,766
      Department stores................. 2,409.9 2,380.5 2,376.0 2,381.7   2,499   2,479   2,477   2,470   2,461   2,463
    Food stores......................... 3,447.2 3,450.8 3,432.4 3,454.6   3,492   3,482   3,481   3,484   3,478   3,498
    Automotive dealers and service                                                                                      
       stations......................... 2,388.9 2,412.4 2,432.2 2,447.4   2,399   2,432   2,445   2,442   2,454   2,455
      New and used car dealers.......... 1,072.5 1,097.9 1,104.5 1,108.1   1,074   1,097   1,100   1,103   1,108   1,109
    Apparel and accessory stores........ 1,135.0 1,154.3 1,158.6 1,170.6   1,163   1,177   1,178   1,193   1,195   1,204
    Furniture and home furnishings                                                                                      
       stores........................... 1,069.3 1,103.0 1,105.3 1,107.0   1,081   1,102   1,102   1,107   1,115   1,119
    Eating and drinking places.......... 7,852.6 7,720.4 7,850.0 8,028.2   7,863   7,986   7,987   7,980   7,981   8,061
    Miscellaneous retail establishments. 2,887.9 2,990.3 2,955.5 2,967.1   2,945   2,994   3,015   3,018   3,022   3,035
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   7,583   7,633   7,640   7,664   7,611   7,685   7,685   7,698   7,689   7,696
    Finance.............................   3,688   3,719   3,717   3,721   3,697   3,727   3,726   3,732   3,726   3,732
      Depository institutions........... 2,043.4 2,031.7 2,030.0 2,029.6   2,050   2,040   2,040   2,038   2,034   2,036
        Commercial banks................ 1,462.3 1,452.4 1,451.4 1,449.3   1,467   1,458   1,458   1,457   1,456   1,455
        Savings institutions............   257.2   248.4   246.9   247.2     257     252     251     250     247     247
      Nondepository institutions........   715.3   705.3   700.6   698.8     716     713     708     708     701     699
        Mortgage bankers and brokers....   370.1   348.6   343.4   342.3     370     357     353     352     344     341
      Security and commodity brokers....   665.4   708.0   712.7   719.4     668     702     705     712     717     725
      Holding and other investment                                                                                      
         offices........................   264.2   274.2   273.8   273.6     263     272     273     274     274     272
    Insurance...........................   2,392   2,405   2,406   2,407   2,395   2,416   2,406   2,412   2,410   2,412
      Insurance carriers................ 1,629.1 1,630.2 1,629.5 1,629.2   1,631   1,639   1,632   1,636   1,633   1,634
      Insurance agents, brokers, and                                                                                    
         service........................   762.6   774.8   776.2   777.3     764     777     774     776     777     778
    Real estate.........................   1,503   1,509   1,517   1,536   1,519   1,542   1,553   1,554   1,553   1,552
                                                                                                                        
  Services3.............................  38,753  39,324  39,701  40,119  38,697  39,657  39,804  39,822  39,980  40,101
    Agricultural services...............   760.2   663.5   711.2   807.2     755     765     788     782     799     798
    Hotels and other lodging places..... 1,744.0 1,712.6 1,745.4 1,788.6   1,791   1,807   1,800   1,805   1,822   1,835
    Personal services................... 1,266.8 1,298.5 1,295.3 1,300.0   1,204   1,225   1,231   1,228   1,234   1,235
    Business services................... 8,923.1 9,227.2 9,344.4 9,424.6   9,010   9,392   9,416   9,424   9,482   9,537
      Services to buildings.............   977.3   989.9 1,000.6 1,001.5     978   1,000     999   1,003   1,008   1,004
      Personnel supply services......... 3,289.2 3,357.0 3,445.3 3,519.2   3,350   3,513   3,505   3,523   3,556   3,613
        Help supply services............ 2,912.5 2,961.4 3,042.6 3,107.6   2,975   3,108   3,100   3,119   3,148   3,194
      Computer and data processing                                                                                      
         services....................... 1,750.8 1,859.9 1,870.4 1,876.5   1,749   1,842   1,852   1,859   1,868   1,876
    Auto repair, services, and parking.. 1,177.5 1,196.6 1,194.8 1,196.9   1,178   1,198   1,202   1,202   1,196   1,196
    Miscellaneous repair services.......   396.0   401.2   403.6   406.3     396     405     403     406     407     407
    Motion pictures.....................   584.9   610.8   608.3   612.1     587     609     616     609     608     617
    Amusement and recreation services... 1,648.8 1,547.1 1,603.8 1,744.0   1,668   1,725   1,759   1,762   1,763   1,778
    Health services..................... 9,937.7 10031.2 10055.7 10063.8   9,951  10,038  10,057  10,059  10,071  10,078
      Offices and clinics of medical                                                                                    
         doctors........................ 1,852.4 1,892.0 1,902.1 1,907.1   1,856   1,886   1,895   1,898   1,907   1,912
      Nursing and personal care                                                                                         
         facilities..................... 1,748.5 1,755.3 1,758.9 1,757.8   1,753   1,759   1,760   1,762   1,763   1,763
      Hospitals......................... 3,959.8 3,983.0 3,986.1 3,982.8   3,966   3,985   3,992   3,989   3,990   3,987
      Home health care services.........   655.9   652.4   652.5   653.4     656     659     658     656     653     654
    Legal services......................   992.4 1,008.1 1,008.7 1,005.0     998   1,015   1,017   1,014   1,014   1,010
    Educational services................ 2,398.1 2,434.7 2,468.7 2,481.3   2,254   2,304   2,297   2,298   2,321   2,332
    Social services..................... 2,771.2 2,872.1 2,899.4 2,913.3   2,755   2,850   2,872   2,876   2,889   2,900
      Child day care services...........   646.4   667.7   677.3   677.4     628     650     657     655     660     659
      Residential care..................   772.1   803.9   808.8   814.9     772     801     803     807     810     816
    Museums and botanical and zoological                                                                                
      gardens...........................    92.8    87.3    90.9    96.0      94      95      96      95      96      98
    Membership organizations............ 2,380.3 2,398.0 2,409.3 2,408.1   2,392   2,418   2,420   2,420   2,422   2,420
    Engineering and management services. 3,386.1 3,537.5 3,565.1 3,573.0   3,370   3,515   3,532   3,544   3,558   3,561
      Engineering and architectural                                                                                     
         services.......................   929.8   962.6   966.9   973.9     939     964     973     976     977     980
      Management and public relations... 1,132.5 1,209.7 1,218.9 1,224.0   1,133   1,213   1,220   1,218   1,225   1,226
    Services, nec.......................    55.7    59.6    59.2    60.8   (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
                                                                                                                        
  Government1...........................  20,468  20,688  20,944  21,026  20,099  20,315  20,365  20,382  20,540  20,647
    Federal1............................   2,681   2,688   2,808   2,881   2,688   2,645   2,665   2,702   2,818   2,887
      Federal, except Postal Service1... 1,810.0 1,827.3 1,947.8 2,021.8   1,809   1,780   1,799   1,836   1,953   2,022
    State...............................   4,809   4,822   4,859   4,869   4,688   4,730   4,727   4,725   4,733   4,739
      Education......................... 2,085.5 2,078.9 2,110.0 2,111.7   1,955   1,969   1,967   1,962   1,967   1,969
      Other State government............ 2,723.5 2,742.7 2,749.2 2,757.7   2,733   2,761   2,760   2,763   2,766   2,770
    Local...............................  12,978  13,178  13,277  13,276  12,723  12,940  12,973  12,955  12,989  13,021
      Education......................... 7,555.8 7,695.7 7,762.1 7,743.3   7,206   7,351   7,365   7,347   7,365   7,398
      Other local government............ 5,421.9 5,481.8 5,514.9 5,533.0   5,517   5,589   5,608   5,608   5,624   5,623

  1 Current employment levels in these series are affected by the hiring of temporary workers for Census 2000. Estimates
of these workers are 32,000, 72,000, 189,000, and 262,000 in January, February, March, and April 2000, respectively.
Preliminary estimates for these series may be subject to larger than normal revisions. 
  2 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.
  3 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                                                                                                
                                           Apr.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr.    Apr.    Dec.    Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr. 
                                           1999    2000   2000p   2000p    1999    1999    2000    2000   2000p   2000p 
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................   34.3    34.2    34.2    34.6    34.4    34.5    34.6    34.5    34.5    34.6 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................   40.9    40.8    40.9    41.1    40.9    40.9    41.1    41.3    41.2    41.4 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   43.3    44.2    43.9    44.7    43.8    44.2    44.9    44.7    44.7    45.0 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   38.6    38.6    38.8    39.1    38.6    38.9    39.4    39.9    39.6    39.4 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................   41.6    41.5    41.5    41.7    41.6    41.6    41.7    41.8    41.7    42.1 
      Overtime hours....................    4.5     4.5     4.5     4.6     4.3     4.6     4.7     4.8     4.6     4.9 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   42.2    42.1    42.2    42.4    42.1    42.1    42.3    42.4    42.3    42.7 
      Overtime hours....................    4.6     4.7     4.7     4.8     4.3     4.8     4.8     4.9     4.8     5.1 
                                                                                                                        
    Lumber and wood products............   41.2    40.4    40.4    41.0    41.2    40.9    41.1    41.0    40.8    40.9 
    Furniture and fixtures..............   40.2    39.8    40.0    40.1    40.4    40.0    40.2    40.4    40.3    40.8 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   43.2    42.4    42.5    43.1    43.1    43.3    43.6    43.5    43.3    43.4 
    Primary metal industries............   44.1    44.4    44.3    44.4    44.0    44.4    44.5    44.5    44.4    44.8 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   44.6    45.3    44.9    44.9    44.5    45.5    45.1    45.5    45.0    44.7 
    Fabricated metal products...........   42.1    42.2    42.1    42.4    41.8    41.9    42.3    42.5    42.4    43.0 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..   42.2    42.4    42.5    42.5    41.9    42.2    42.5    42.4    42.4    42.9 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................   41.1    41.4    41.7    41.8    41.1    41.2    41.4    41.6    41.9    42.3 
    Transportation equipment............   44.2    44.0    43.9    44.1    44.0    43.3    43.7    44.1    43.8    44.3 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   45.6    45.0    45.0    45.5    45.1    44.4    45.1    45.1    44.7    45.5 
    Instruments and related products....   41.5    41.3    41.2    41.2    41.6    41.6    41.2    41.2    41.1    41.5 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   39.9    39.3    39.5    39.5    39.6    39.9    39.4    39.5    39.4    39.8 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   40.7    40.6    40.6    40.8    40.9    40.9    40.9    41.0    40.8    41.3 
      Overtime hours....................    4.2     4.1     4.1     4.2     4.2     4.5     4.4     4.5     4.3     4.6 
                                                                                                                        
    Food and kindred products...........   41.2    40.9    40.9    41.0    41.9    41.6    41.6    41.5    41.5    41.9 
    Tobacco products....................   38.4    39.3    38.9    39.6    38.6    43.5    40.4    40.7    39.8    40.4 
    Textile mill products...............   40.9    41.3    41.4    41.6    41.0    41.2    40.9    41.8    41.5    41.8 
    Apparel and other textile products..   37.6    37.6    37.7    37.8    37.5    37.4    37.6    37.8    37.7    38.1 
    Paper and allied products...........   43.6    43.0    42.9    43.1    43.6    43.2    43.3    43.5    43.2    43.6 
    Printing and publishing.............   38.1    38.0    38.1    38.3    38.1    38.2    38.3    38.3    38.1    38.6 
    Chemicals and allied products.......   42.7    42.6    42.5    42.7    43.0    43.1    43.0    42.8    42.5    42.9 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   42.7    43.4    43.9    43.4    (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..   41.8    41.3    41.3    41.7    41.5    41.3    41.7    41.5    41.3    42.1 
    Leather and leather products........   37.9    37.5    37.8    38.2    38.1    36.8    37.5    38.1    38.0    38.7 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................   32.6    32.6    32.6    33.0    32.8    32.9    32.9    32.8    32.9    32.9 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   38.6    38.1    38.0    38.7    39.0    38.5    38.4    38.3    38.3    38.6 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   38.3    38.2    38.2    38.9    38.4    38.5    38.6    38.4    38.5    38.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................   28.7    28.5    28.6    29.0    29.0    29.1    29.2    29.0    29.1    29.0 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   35.9    36.1    35.9    36.7    (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)     (2)  
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................   32.4    32.6    32.5    32.9    32.5    32.7    32.7    32.7    32.7    32.8 

  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 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.
  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                                                                                                
                                            Apr.      Feb.      Mar.      Apr.      Apr.      Feb.      Mar.      Apr.  
                                            1999      2000     2000p     2000p      1999      2000     2000p     2000p  
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................  $13.16    $13.58    $13.60    $13.71    $451.39   $464.44   $465.12   $474.37 
        Seasonally adjusted.............   13.14     13.54     13.58     13.64     452.02    467.13    468.51    471.94 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................   14.64     15.04     15.12     15.24     598.78    613.63    618.41    626.36 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   16.93     17.13     17.17     17.22     733.07    757.15    753.76    769.73 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................   16.85     17.37     17.48     17.60     650.41    670.48    678.22    688.16 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................   13.80     14.19     14.22     14.30     574.08    588.89    590.13    596.31 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................   14.27     14.73     14.76     14.83     602.19    620.13    622.87    628.79 
    Lumber and wood products............   11.37     11.62     11.62     11.72     468.44    469.45    469.45    480.52 
    Furniture and fixtures..............   11.14     11.50     11.57     11.61     447.83    457.70    462.80    465.56 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....   13.75     14.00     14.06     14.23     594.00    593.60    597.55    613.31 
    Primary metal industries............   15.62     16.30     16.36     16.55     688.84    723.72    724.75    734.82 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   18.59     19.40     19.59     19.86     829.11    878.82    879.59    891.71 
    Fabricated metal products...........   13.36     13.65     13.67     13.69     562.46    576.03    575.51    580.46 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..   14.85     15.40     15.42     15.44     626.67    652.96    655.35    656.20 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................   13.31     13.70     13.68     13.78     547.04    567.18    570.46    576.00 
    Transportation equipment............   17.88     18.65     18.77     18.87     790.30    820.60    824.00    832.17 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......   18.31     19.10     19.23     19.38     834.94    859.50    865.35    881.79 
    Instruments and related products....   14.07     14.41     14.42     14.47     583.91    595.13    594.10    596.16 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........   11.25     11.55     11.57     11.63     448.88    453.92    457.02    459.39 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   13.09     13.37     13.40     13.49     532.76    542.82    544.04    550.39 
    Food and kindred products...........   12.07     12.24     12.29     12.42     497.28    500.62    502.66    509.22 
    Tobacco products....................   19.99     17.40     18.83     19.05     767.62    683.82    732.49    754.38 
    Textile mill products...............   10.68     10.85     10.86     10.93     436.81    448.11    449.60    454.69 
    Apparel and other textile products..    8.83      9.02      9.05      9.04     332.01    339.15    341.19    341.71 
    Paper and allied products...........   15.83     16.02     16.04     16.19     690.19    688.86    688.12    697.79 
    Printing and publishing.............   13.73     14.13     14.19     14.21     523.11    536.94    540.64    544.24 
    Chemicals and allied products.......   17.27     17.78     17.75     17.96     737.43    757.43    754.38    766.89 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   21.49     22.08     22.27     21.94     917.62    958.27    977.65    952.20 
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..   12.23     12.51     12.52     12.63     511.21    516.66    517.08    526.67 
    Leather and leather products........    9.59      9.86      9.91     10.05     363.46    369.75    374.60    383.91 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................   12.69     13.13     13.13     13.23     413.69    428.04    428.04    436.59 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...   15.57     16.02     16.01     16.14     601.00    610.36    608.38    624.62 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................   14.48     14.95     14.94     15.13     554.58    571.09    570.71    588.56 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................    9.03      9.34      9.36      9.42     259.16    266.19    267.70    273.18 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...   14.61     14.92     14.96     15.15     524.50    538.61    537.06    556.01 
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................   13.32     13.80     13.81     13.89     431.57    449.88    448.83    456.98 

  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  
                                    Apr.     Dec.     Jan.     Feb.      Mar.     Apr.     change  
            Industry                1999     1999     2000     2000     2000p    2000p     from:   
                                                                                         Mar. 2000-
                                                                                         Apr. 2000 
                                                                                                  
Total private:                                                                                    
   Current dollars..............   $13.14   $13.44   $13.49   $13.54   $13.58   $13.64      0.4   
   Constant (1982) dollars2.....     7.83     7.87     7.88     7.87     7.84     N.A.     (3)    
                                                                                                  
  Goods-producing...............    14.67    15.03    15.10    15.17    15.21    15.28       .5   
    Mining......................    16.87    17.01    17.01    17.04    17.14    17.21       .4   
    Construction................    16.97    17.42    17.44    17.55    17.62    17.72       .6   
    Manufacturing...............    13.79    14.09    14.15    14.21    14.22    14.30       .6   
      Excluding overtime4.......    13.09    13.35    13.42    13.45    13.48    13.51       .2   
                                                                                                  
  Service-producing.............    12.65    12.95    12.98    13.03    13.07    13.13       .5   
    Transportation and public                                                                     
       utilities................    15.60    15.94    15.87    15.98    16.04    16.11       .4   
    Wholesale trade.............    14.44    14.88    14.99    14.94    15.01    15.00      -.1   
    Retail trade................     9.03     9.26     9.26     9.31     9.34     9.39       .5   
    Finance, insurance, and real                                                                  
       estate...................    14.58    14.75    14.88    14.85    14.94    14.98       .3   
    Services....................    13.28    13.60    13.64    13.69    13.73    13.79       .4   

  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 -.4 percent from February 2000 to March 2000, 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                                                                                                
                                          Apr.   Feb.     Mar.     Apr.   Apr.    Dec.    Jan.   Feb.     Mar.     Apr.  
                                          1999   2000    2000p    2000p   1999    1999    2000   2000    2000p    2000p 
                                                                                                                        
       Total private....................  145.6  146.0   147.2    150.5   147.0  149.4   150.3   150.1   150.7    151.5 
                                                                                                                        
Goods-producing.........................  113.1  111.3   112.5    114.6   114.2  114.5   116.2   116.2   116.4    116.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Mining................................   49.1   49.4    49.5     51.1    50.4   50.8    51.4    51.3    51.5     52.4 
                                                                                                                        
  Construction..........................  164.8  159.1   165.4    174.7   169.2  174.5   181.4   181.1   184.0    180.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Manufacturing.........................  106.2  105.1   105.2    105.8   106.5  105.7   106.3   106.4   106.0    107.2 
                                                                                                                        
   Durable goods........................  110.8  110.0   110.3    111.0   110.4  109.8   110.7   111.0   110.7    112.0 
    Lumber and wood products............  145.3  142.4   142.1    145.0   147.5  146.6   147.6   147.2   146.0    146.4 
    Furniture and fixtures..............  135.1  135.5   136.4    136.9   135.6  135.8   136.2   137.2   136.8    139.2 
    Stone, clay, and glass products.....  116.2  110.2   112.3    116.4   116.2  117.0   118.9   117.5   117.3    117.5 
    Primary metal industries............   90.1   90.5    90.7     90.6    89.9   90.4    90.6    90.8    90.9     91.4 
      Blast furnaces and basic steel                                                                                    
         products.......................   68.9   69.9    69.7     69.5    69.1   70.2    70.0    70.2    69.9     69.4 
    Fabricated metal products...........  116.9  117.7   118.0    119.1   116.2  116.5   117.8   118.5   118.6    120.7 
    Industrial machinery and equipment..  105.4  105.3   105.1    104.9   104.1  103.8   104.6   104.9   104.4    105.5 
    Electronic and other electrical                                                                                     
       equipment........................  105.3  106.3   107.4    108.0   105.6  105.0   106.0   106.7   107.8    109.4 
    Transportation equipment............  126.5  124.7   124.6    125.2   125.5  122.2   124.4   125.3   123.9    125.0 
      Motor vehicles and equipment......  167.5  168.1   167.9    170.5   164.8  164.1   169.4   169.1   166.1    169.8 
    Instruments and related products....   75.6   73.5    73.3     73.5    75.8   74.5    73.5    73.1    72.9     74.0 
    Miscellaneous manufacturing.........  101.2   98.5    99.4     99.7   100.3  101.8   100.5   100.0    99.4    100.4 
                                                                                                                        
   Nondurable goods.....................   99.9   98.3    98.2     98.6   101.2  100.1   100.2   100.1    99.4    100.6 
    Food and kindred products...........  113.4  113.0   112.4    112.6   118.9  118.3   118.3   117.2   117.0    118.7 
    Tobacco products....................   51.4   54.5    45.1     48.0    55.4   58.2    52.0    54.4    47.3     54.0 
    Textile mill products...............   81.5   79.4    79.6     80.0    81.6   79.8    78.9    80.8    80.0     80.4 
    Apparel and other textile products..   61.4   57.2    57.8     58.0    61.4   57.7    57.7    57.9    58.0     58.5 
    Paper and allied products...........  105.9  103.7   103.0    103.2   106.7  105.1   104.9   105.4   104.3    105.0 
    Printing and publishing.............  121.8  120.8   121.6    122.1   121.9  121.4   121.8   122.1   121.8    123.5 
    Chemicals and allied products.......  101.3  102.2   102.0    102.1   102.4  103.4   103.7   102.8   101.9    102.7 
    Petroleum and coal products.........   74.2   65.1    65.1     64.5    74.5   72.0    70.0    69.0    66.6     66.7 
    Rubber and misc. plastics products..  149.6  149.6   149.3    150.4   148.5  149.5   150.9   150.0   149.1    151.6 
    Leather and leather products........   32.6   29.2    29.5     29.5    32.8   29.4    30.0    29.9    29.8     29.7 
                                                                                                                        
Service-producing.......................  160.2  161.6   162.7    166.6   161.6  165.0   165.6   165.3   166.0    167.0 
                                                                                                                        
  Transportation and public utilities...  131.3  132.0   132.4    135.7   133.6  134.0   134.5   134.0   134.8    136.3 
                                                                                                                        
  Wholesale trade.......................  130.9  132.2   133.0    136.0   131.6  134.0   134.7   134.4   135.2    136.1 
                                                                                                                        
  Retail trade..........................  139.5  138.4   139.7    143.4   142.6  144.7   145.5   144.6   145.4    145.5 
                                                                                                                        
  Finance, insurance, and real estate...  137.8  138.6   138.0    141.3   139.1  140.6   140.7   140.0   139.8    140.8 
                                                                                                                        
  Services..............................  198.8  202.4   204.0    208.7   198.9  204.8   205.5   205.8   206.6    208.0 

  1 See footnote 1, table B-2.
  p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                   ESTABLISHMENT DATA


Table B-6.  Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted

(Percent)
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
       Time span          Jan.    Feb.    Mar.    Apr.     May    June    July    Aug.   Sept.    Oct.    Nov.    Dec. 
                                                                                                                       
                        
                                                   Private nonfarm payrolls, 356 industries1
                        
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 1-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   49.6    64.9    59.4    55.1    61.9    60.8    57.0    62.5    57.3    63.5    59.7    61.2 
     1997..............   56.2    61.0    61.9    62.8    58.8    56.3    60.7    61.0    59.4    65.4    63.6    62.1 
     1998..............   63.8    57.9    58.8    60.5    55.9    57.9    58.0    55.8    54.6    52.9    59.1    58.6 
     1999..............   54.4    58.3    52.1    58.8    51.5    57.0    57.6    50.0    55.1    57.2    57.9    57.7 
     2000..............   57.7    54.1   p57.2   p55.3                                                                 
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 3-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   62.6    62.5    63.3    63.1    63.1    64.3    64.3    62.2    64.6    64.2    66.2    63.2 
     1997..............   63.8    63.6    67.7    67.3    62.6    61.7    61.4    66.2    67.3    69.9    70.8    71.2 
     1998..............   66.7    66.2    64.5    63.9    61.4    58.7    60.0    58.4    57.6    57.6    59.0    60.4 
     1999..............   60.7    55.9    59.6    54.6    56.3    56.2    56.2    59.0    57.4    59.6    60.8    60.5 
     2000..............   60.5   p61.5   p60.3                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 6-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   62.6    65.2    64.5    65.2    64.7    64.6    67.0    65.4    65.9    66.7    66.9    66.7 
     1997..............   67.4    68.3    65.6    67.0    65.6    64.9    66.3    68.4    69.7    71.3    71.3    71.9 
     1998..............   70.6    66.9    65.9    62.4    62.6    61.1    58.0    59.8    60.0    60.8    60.8    58.0 
     1999..............   61.1    58.8    57.3    59.0    55.2    57.4    56.9    61.5    61.0    59.7    62.9   p64.2 
     2000..............  p64.3                                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 12-month span:                                                                                                    
     1996..............   64.5    66.7    64.5    65.6    68.5    67.3    67.7    66.4    68.0    69.9    68.7    66.9 
     1997..............   69.0    67.3    68.3    69.7    69.5    70.1    70.1    70.4    70.5    69.7    69.8    71.3 
     1998..............   70.4    68.3    67.1    64.0    62.1    61.7    61.8    63.8    59.8    59.0    59.3    58.6 
     1999..............   60.1    57.3    57.0    57.6    58.7    59.0    58.8    57.9   p61.9   p62.5                 
     2000..............                                                                                                
                                                                                                                       
                        
                                                    Manufacturing payrolls, 139 industries1
                        
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 1-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   42.4    55.4    46.8    41.0    55.8    51.4    47.1    56.5    48.9    55.0    50.7    54.0 
     1997..............   50.0    52.9    53.6    56.1    52.2    53.2    51.1    55.4    53.6    62.2    61.2    55.4 
     1998..............   58.6    51.8    50.4    50.4    40.6    46.8    40.3    45.3    42.1    36.3    39.9    45.0 
     1999..............   40.3    42.4    39.6    44.6    36.3    45.3    57.2    38.5    42.8    48.9    50.7    49.3 
     2000..............   51.1    49.3   p45.0   p52.5                                                                 
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 3-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   46.8    46.0    43.5    46.0    48.2    51.1    51.8    49.6    53.2    52.5    55.0    50.7 
     1997..............   51.8    51.4    57.6    56.8    54.3    51.8    53.6    55.4    59.7    68.3    65.8    64.4 
     1998..............   59.4    57.9    51.8    44.2    41.7    34.9    37.4    37.1    38.1    34.2    35.6    35.3 
     1999..............   37.4    31.7    37.1    30.2    33.8    43.9    43.2    44.6    38.5    46.4    50.0    50.4 
     2000..............   49.6   p49.6   p48.2                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 6-month span:                                                                                                     
     1996..............   41.4    46.0    45.7    47.1    46.0    48.6    52.9    50.4    51.8    51.4    52.5    51.8 
     1997..............   54.7    54.0    51.4    54.3    52.5    52.2    55.4    61.2    61.5    64.7    66.2    65.1 
     1998..............   59.7    49.3    48.2    36.7    36.7    36.7    28.4    31.3    33.5    35.3    32.7    28.1 
     1999..............   33.1    29.1    28.1    36.0    30.9    34.5    36.3    44.6    45.7    41.4    47.8   p50.7 
     2000..............  p52.5                                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
Over 12-month span:                                                                                                    
     1996..............   43.5    47.5    45.3    45.3    50.4    49.6    50.4    48.6    51.1    55.0    54.3    50.7 
     1997..............   54.7    52.5    54.0    54.0    55.4    56.8    57.2    57.9    58.3    56.5    55.4    57.2 
     1998..............   54.0    49.3    46.0    40.6    35.6    33.8    30.9    32.0    26.6    26.6    25.5    26.3 
     1999..............   32.7    25.9    28.4    29.5    29.9    31.7    34.9    32.7   p40.3   p40.6                 
     2000..............                                                                                                

  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.