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Technical information: 

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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION – NOVEMBER 2011 

The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 8.6 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll

employment rose by 120,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment 

continued to trend up in retail trade, leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, and 

health care. Government employment continued to trend down. 

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

November 2009 – November 2011

Household Survey Data 

In November, the unemployment rate declined by 0.4 percentage point to 8.6 percent. From April 

through October, the rate held in a narrow range from 9.0 to 9.2 percent. The number of unemployed 

persons, at 13.3 million, was down by 594,000 in November. The labor force, which is the sum of the 

unemployed and employed, was down by a little more than half that amount. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult men fell by 0.5 percentage point to 

8.3 percent in November. The jobless rate for whites (7.6 percent) also declined, while the rates for adult 

women (7.8 percent), teenagers (23.7 percent), blacks (15.5 percent), and Hispanics (11.4 percent) 
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showed little or no change. The jobless rate for Asians was 6.5 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See 

tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

In November, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs declined by 

432,000 to 7.6 million. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) 

was little changed at 5.7 million and accounted for 43.0 percent of the unemployed. (See tables A-11 

and A-12.) 

The civilian labor force participation rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 64.0 percent. The 

employment-population ratio, at 58.5 percent, changed little. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) dropped by 378,000 over the month to 8.5 million. These individuals 

were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a fulltime job. (See table A-8.) 

In November, 2.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, about the same as a 

year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted 

and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not 

counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. 

(See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 1.1 million discouraged workers in November, a decrease 

of 186,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons 

not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 

million persons marginally attached to the labor force in November had not searched for work in the 4 

weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table 

A-16.) 

Establishment Survey Data 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 120,000 in November, in line with the average gain 

for the prior 12 months (+131,000). The private sector added 140,000 jobs, as employment rose in a 

number of service-providing industries. Government employment continued to trend down. (See table 

B-1.) 

Employment in retail trade rose by 50,000 in November, with much of the increase occurring in 

clothing and clothing accessories stores (+27,000) and in electronics and appliance stores (+5,000). 

Since reaching an employment trough in December 2009, retailers have added an average of 14,000 jobs 

per month. 

Employment in leisure and hospitality continued to trend up in November (+22,000). Within the 

industry, food services and drinking places added 33,000 jobs. This gain more than offset a loss of 

12,000 jobs in the accommodation industry. In the last 12 months, leisure and hospitality added 253,000 

jobs, largely driven by employment increases in food services and drinking places. 

Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up in November (+33,000). 

Modest job gains continued in temporary help services. 
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Health care employment continued to rise in November (+17,000). Within the industry, hospitals added 

9,000 jobs. Over the past 12 months, health care has added an average of 27,000 jobs per month. 

Manufacturing employment changed little over the month and has remained essentially unchanged 

since July. In November, fabricated metal products added 8,000 jobs, while electronic instruments lost 

2,000 jobs. 

Construction employment showed little movement in November. Employment in the industry has 

shown little change, on net, since early 2010. 

Government employment continued to trend down in November, with a decline in the U.S. Postal 

Service (-5,000). Employment in both state government and local government has been trending down 

since the second half of 2008. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.3 hours in 

November. The manufacturing workweek was down by 0.2 hour to 40.3 hours, offsetting a 0.2 hour gain 

in the previous month. Factory overtime remained at 3.2 hours in November. The average workweek for 

production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to 

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

Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased in November by 2 

cents, or 0.1 percent, to $23.18. This decline followed a gain of 7 cents in October. Over the past 12 

months, average hourly earnings have increased by 1.8 percent. In November, average hourly earnings 

of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 2 cents, or 0.1 percent, to 

$19.54. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for September was revised from +158,000 to 

+210,000, and the change for October was revised from +80,000 to +100,000. 

The Employment Situation for December is scheduled to be released on Friday, January 6, 2012, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EST). 
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Upcoming changes to the Household Survey

In accordance with usual practice, The Employment Situation release for December 2011, 

scheduled for January 6, 2012, will incorporate annual revisions in seasonally adjusted 

unemployment and other labor force series from the household survey. Seasonally adjusted 

data for the most recent 5 years are subject to revision. 

Effective with the release of The Employment Situation for January 2012, scheduled for 

February 3, 2012, population controls that reflect the results of Census 2010 will be used in the 

monthly household survey estimation process. Historical data will not be revised to incorporate 

the new controls; consequently, household survey data for January 2012 will not be directly 

comparable with that for December 2011 or earlier periods. A table showing the effects of the 

new controls on the major labor force series will be included in the January 2012 release. 

Also effective with the release of The Employment Situation for January 2012, the questions on 

race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity in the household survey will be modified. The minor 

wording changes in the questions are not expected to affect the estimates. 

In January 2012, the Census Bureau, which conducts the household survey, will begin a yearlong process of reorganizing its regional office structure. For more information on these Census 

Bureau changes, see www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/General_QAs_FINAL2.pdf. Both the 

Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics will monitor survey operations during the 

transition period. No impact on the employment and unemployment estimates from the survey 

is anticipated from this organizational change. 

Update to 2012 North American Industry Classification System

With the release of January 2012 data on February 3, 2012, the Current Employment Statistics 

(CES) survey will revise the basis for industry classification from the 2007 North American 

Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the 2012 NAICS. The conversion to 2012 NAICS 

will result in minor revisions reflecting content changes within the Construction, 

Manufacturing, and Retail trade sectors, as well as minor coding changes within the Utilities 

and Leisure and hospitality sectors. Several industry titles and descriptions also will be 

updated. Approximately 1 percent of employment will be reclassified into different industries 

as a result of the revision. Details of new, discontinued, and collapsed industries due to the 

2012 NAICS update, as well as changes due to the annual benchmarking process, will be 

available on January 6, 2012. 

For more information on the 2012 NAICS update, visit www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Change from:

Oct. 2011-

Nov. 2011

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 238,715 240,071 240,269 240,441 172

Civilian labor force............................................................ 153,950 154,017 154,198 153,883 -315

Participation rate........................................................... 64.5 64.2 64.2 64.0 -0.2

Employed.................................................................... 138,909 140,025 140,302 140,580 278

Employment-population ratio........................................... 58.2 58.3 58.4 58.5 0.1

Unemployed................................................................. 15,041 13,992 13,897 13,303 -594

Unemployment rate..................................................... 9.8 9.1 9.0 8.6 -0.4

Not in labor force............................................................. 84,765 86,054 86,071 86,558 487

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 9.8 9.1 9.0 8.6 -0.4

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 9.9 8.8 8.8 8.3 -0.5

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 8.3 8.1 8.0 7.8 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 24.5 24.6 24.1 23.7 -0.4

White........................................................................... 8.9 8.0 8.0 7.6 -0.4

Black or African American................................................... 16.0 16.0 15.1 15.5 0.4

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 7.6 7.8 7.3 6.5 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 13.2 11.3 11.4 11.4 0.0

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 8.4 7.8 7.8 7.4 -0.4

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 15.7 14.0 13.8 13.2 -0.6

High school graduates, no college......................................... 10.0 9.7 9.6 8.8 -0.8

Some college or associate degree......................................... 8.7 8.4 8.3 7.6 -0.7

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 5.1 4.2 4.4 4.4 0.0

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 9,471 8,121 8,006 7,574 -432

Job leavers....................................................................... 864 967 1,072 1,007 -65

Reentrants........................................................................ 3,427 3,504 3,400 3,366 -34

New entrants..................................................................... 1,269 1,327 1,293 1,276 -17

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 2,824 2,772 2,694 2,519 -175

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 3,336 2,904 3,250 2,911 -339

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 2,515 2,086 2,048 2,111 63

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 6,328 6,242 5,876 5,691 -185

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 8,960 9,270 8,896 8,518 -378

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 6,025 5,963 5,901 5,605 -296

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 2,557 2,852 2,631 2,526 -105

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,326 18,308 18,392 18,356 -36

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,531 2,511 2,555 2,591 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 1,282 1,037 967 1,096 –

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

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not

necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with

the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 210 100 120

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 220 117 140

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 36 -4 -6

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 5 4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -8 31 -15 -12

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 -1 6 2

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6 13 10

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1.9 2.3 6.8 1.2

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 -7 -7 -8

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 184 121 146

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 -6.5 10.8 -1.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -15.6 23.1 12.7 49.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.1 3.0 6.3 8.3

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 32 -10 -4

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 -2 8 8

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 54 39 33

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.8 24.7 15.8 22.3

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 52 37 27

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.9 41.9 30.3 18.7

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -15 24 24 22

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 3 -6 2

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -35 -10 -17 -20

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.7 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 47.9 47.9 47.9

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 82.5 82.5 82.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.3

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.76 $ 23.13 $ 23.20 $ 23.18

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $778.39 $793.36 $795.76 $795.07

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.4 94.1 94.2 94.3

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.2 0.5 0.1 0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.3 103.8 104.2 104.3

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.2 0.8 0.4 0.1

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.6

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.24 $ 19.49 $ 19.52 $ 19.54

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $644.54 $654.86 $657.82 $656.54

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.5 101.3 101.7 101.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1 0.5 0.4 -0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127.9 132.0 132.7 132.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2 0.7 0.5 -0.1

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 58.4 59.6 54.7

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.0 54.3 52.5 49.4

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

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

industries.

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

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

aggregate weekly payrolls.

5 Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance

between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.

p Preliminary
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 

Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups. 

Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

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

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

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

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

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

Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. For more information 

on the annual benchmark revision, please visit www.bls.gov/web/cesbmart.htm. 

Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

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

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

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

to achieve that goal. 

Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses? 

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

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

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

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

establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not 

immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth 

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

businesses to the survey twice a year. 

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

benefits? 

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

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

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

question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. 

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

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

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

addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (some of which include discouraged workers and 

other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in The Employment 

Situation news release. 

How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates? 

In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period that includes the 12th of the month. 

Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on average weekly hours than on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid time during the pay period, including pay for 

holidays, sick leave, or other time off. The impact of severe weather on hours estimates typically, but 

not always, results in a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some employees may be off 

work for part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, while some workers, such as 

those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours. 

In order for severe weather conditions to reduce the estimate of payroll employment, employees have to 

be off work without pay for the entire pay period. About half of all employees in the payroll survey have 

a 2-week, semi-monthly, or monthly pay period. Employees who receive pay for any part of the pay 

period, even 1 hour, are counted in the payroll employment figures. It is not possible to quantify the 

effect of extreme weather on estimates of employment from the establishment survey. 

In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that includes the 12th of the 

month. Persons who miss the entire week’s work for weather-related events are counted as employed 

whether or not they are paid for the time off. The household survey collects data on the number of 

persons who usually work full time but had reduced hours, or had a job but were not at work the entire 

week, due to bad weather. Current and historical data are available on the household survey’s most 

requested statistics page at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln. 
Technical Note 

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (household survey) 

and the Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment 

that appears in the "A" tables, marked HOUSEHOLD 

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

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

of Labor Statistics (BLS). 

The establishment survey provides information on 

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

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

140,000 businesses and government agencies representing 

approximately 440,000 worksites and is drawn from a sampling frame of roughly 9 million unemployment insurance 

tax accounts. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that 

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

survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 

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

calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment 

sometime during the 4-week period ending with the 

reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting 

recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the 

household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for 

or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those not classified as employed or 

unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment 

rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor 

force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force 

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

Additional information about the household survey can be 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

offices, and stores, as well as from federal, state, and local 

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are 

counted in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are 

produced for the private sector for all employees and for 

production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and 

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and 

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

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

version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

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

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

the surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, the self-employed, unpaid family 

workers, and private household workers among the 

employed. These groups are excluded from the 

establishment survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 

years of age and older. The establishment survey is 

not limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 

 
Seasonal adjustment 

Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor 

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, 

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

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

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

number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely 

to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative 

to May, making it difficult to determine if the level of 

economic activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the 

establishment survey, payroll employment in education 

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

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

underlying employment trends in the industry. Because 

seasonal employment changes at the end and beginning of 

the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be 

adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more 

discernable. The seasonally adjusted figures provide a more 

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

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, 

such as total payroll employment, employment in most 

major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are 

computed by aggregating independently adjusted 

component series. For example, total unemployment is 

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

estimate that would be obtained by directly adjusting the 

total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more 

detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

all relevant data, up to and including the data for the current 

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

used to adjust only the current month's data. In the 

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling 

error. When a sample rather than the entire population is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

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

exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the 

particular sample selected, and this variability is measured 

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

percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate 

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

errors from the "true" population value because of sampling 

error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-

percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the 

establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 

100,000. Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment 

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

percent confidence interval on the monthly change would 

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

These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by 

these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent 

chance that the "true" over-the-month change lies within 

this interval. Since this range includes values of less than 

zero, we could not say with confidence that nonfarm 

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

the reported nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then 

all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval 

would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least 

a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, 

risen that month. At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 

percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly 

change in unemployment as measured by the household 

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

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

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, 

such as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all 

respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of 

respondents to provide correct information on a timely 

basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in 

the collection or processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates 

for the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete 

returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled 

preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive 

revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample 

reports have been received, that the estimate is considered 

final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 
employment losses from business deaths from samplebased estimation in order to offset the missing employment 

gains from business births. This is incorporated into the 

sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting 

sample units going out of business, but imputing to them 

the same employment trend as the other firms in the 

sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net 

birth/death employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series 

model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death 

employment not accounted for by the imputation. The 

historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA 

model was derived from the unemployment insurance 

universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual 

residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

survey are adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to 

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough 

proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also 

incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over 

the past decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total 

nonfarm employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a 

range from -0.7 to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,715 240,269 240,441 238,715 239,671 239,871 240,071 240,269 240,441

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,698 154,088 153,683 153,950 153,228 153,594 154,017 154,198 153,883

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 64.1 63.9 64.5 63.9 64.0 64.2 64.2 64.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,415 140,987 141,070 138,909 139,296 139,627 140,025 140,302 140,580

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 58.7 58.7 58.2 58.1 58.2 58.3 58.4 58.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,282 13,102 12,613 15,041 13,931 13,967 13,992 13,897 13,303

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 8.5 8.2 9.8 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,017 86,181 86,757 84,765 86,443 86,278 86,054 86,071 86,558

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,832 5,969 6,183 6,248 6,575 6,493 6,241 6,403 6,595

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,640 116,664 116,755 115,640 116,347 116,453 116,559 116,664 116,755

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,651 82,081 82,080 81,986 81,751 81,975 82,123 82,252 82,275

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.6 70.4 70.3 70.9 70.3 70.4 70.5 70.5 70.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,540 74,931 75,157 73,337 73,908 74,122 74,364 74,442 74,931

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 64.2 64.4 63.4 63.5 63.6 63.8 63.8 64.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,111 7,151 6,923 8,649 7,844 7,853 7,758 7,809 7,344

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.9 8.7 8.4 10.5 9.6 9.6 9.4 9.5 8.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,988 34,583 34,674 33,653 34,596 34,478 34,436 34,413 34,480

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,114 108,104 108,203 107,114 107,773 107,884 107,994 108,104 108,203

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,822 79,329 79,378 78,980 78,906 79,043 79,227 79,349 79,383

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 73.4 73.4 73.7 73.2 73.3 73.4 73.4 73.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,471 72,924 73,183 71,130 71,836 72,015 72,276 72,336 72,810

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.7 67.5 67.6 66.4 66.7 66.8 66.9 66.9 67.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,352 6,405 6,195 7,849 7,070 7,028 6,952 7,013 6,574

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 8.1 7.8 9.9 9.0 8.9 8.8 8.8 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,291 28,776 28,825 28,134 28,867 28,841 28,767 28,756 28,820

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,075 123,605 123,686 123,075 123,324 123,418 123,512 123,605 123,686

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,046 72,007 71,603 71,964 71,476 71,619 71,894 71,947 71,608

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 58.3 57.9 58.5 58.0 58.0 58.2 58.2 57.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,875 66,056 65,913 65,572 65,388 65,505 65,661 65,859 65,649

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.5 53.4 53.3 53.3 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,171 5,951 5,690 6,392 6,088 6,114 6,233 6,087 5,959

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 8.3 7.9 8.9 8.5 8.5 8.7 8.5 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,029 51,598 52,083 51,112 51,847 51,800 51,618 51,659 52,078

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,801 115,437 115,526 114,801 115,138 115,238 115,338 115,437 115,526

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,374 69,208 68,850 69,151 68,666 68,771 69,019 69,060 68,711

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.4 60.0 59.6 60.2 59.6 59.7 59.8 59.8 59.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,779 63,837 63,710 63,385 63,216 63,300 63,398 63,569 63,355

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.6 55.3 55.1 55.2 54.9 54.9 55.0 55.1 54.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,595 5,371 5,140 5,766 5,450 5,472 5,622 5,491 5,356

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 7.8 7.5 8.3 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.0 7.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,427 46,229 46,675 45,651 46,472 46,467 46,318 46,377 46,815

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,800 16,728 16,711 16,800 16,760 16,749 16,739 16,728 16,711

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,501 5,552 5,454 5,820 5,656 5,779 5,770 5,790 5,788

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.7 33.2 32.6 34.6 33.7 34.5 34.5 34.6 34.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,165 4,226 4,177 4,393 4,244 4,312 4,352 4,397 4,415

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.8 25.3 25.0 26.2 25.3 25.7 26.0 26.3 26.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,335 1,326 1,277 1,426 1,412 1,467 1,418 1,393 1,373

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.3 23.9 23.4 24.5 25.0 25.4 24.6 24.1 23.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,299 11,176 11,257 10,980 11,104 10,970 10,969 10,938 10,923

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,641 193,493 193,598 192,641 193,106 193,236 193,365 193,493 193,598

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,735 124,870 124,565 124,824 124,503 124,563 124,702 124,870 124,641

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.7 64.5 64.3 64.8 64.5 64.5 64.5 64.5 64.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,254 115,421 115,584 113,728 114,420 114,631 114,751 114,849 115,116

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.3 59.7 59.7 59.0 59.3 59.3 59.3 59.4 59.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,481 9,449 8,981 11,096 10,083 9,932 9,951 10,021 9,525

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 7.6 7.2 8.9 8.1 8.0 8.0 8.0 7.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,907 68,623 69,033 67,817 68,603 68,673 68,662 68,623 68,957

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,074 65,315 65,407 65,088 65,099 65,105 65,269 65,333 65,342

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 73.9 73.9 74.1 73.8 73.7 73.9 73.9 73.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,492 60,608 60,938 59,137 59,929 60,108 60,235 60,187 60,591

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.7 68.5 68.9 67.3 67.9 68.1 68.2 68.1 68.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,583 4,707 4,469 5,951 5,170 4,997 5,034 5,146 4,751

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 7.2 6.8 9.1 7.9 7.7 7.7 7.9 7.3

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,155 54,952 54,659 54,953 54,696 54,655 54,706 54,727 54,528

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 59.6 59.2 59.7 59.4 59.3 59.3 59.3 59.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,195 51,217 51,091 50,817 50,866 50,826 50,795 50,899 50,774

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.7 55.5 55.3 55.2 55.2 55.2 55.1 55.2 55.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,960 3,735 3,568 4,136 3,830 3,828 3,911 3,828 3,755

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 6.8 6.5 7.5 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.0 6.9

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,506 4,604 4,499 4,783 4,708 4,803 4,728 4,810 4,771

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.2 36.0 35.2 37.3 36.8 37.5 37.0 37.6 37.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,568 3,596 3,555 3,775 3,625 3,697 3,722 3,763 3,751

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.9 28.1 27.8 29.5 28.3 28.9 29.1 29.4 29.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938 1,008 944 1,008 1,083 1,106 1,006 1,047 1,019

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.8 21.9 21.0 21.1 23.0 23.0 21.3 21.8 21.4

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,865 29,228 29,259 28,865 29,123 29,158 29,193 29,228 29,259

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,979 18,047 17,900 18,020 17,582 17,930 18,103 18,052 17,915

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 61.7 61.2 62.4 60.4 61.5 62.0 61.8 61.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,206 15,471 15,236 15,142 14,786 14,941 15,209 15,332 15,139

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 52.9 52.1 52.5 50.8 51.2 52.1 52.5 51.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,772 2,576 2,664 2,878 2,796 2,989 2,893 2,720 2,777

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.4 14.3 14.9 16.0 15.9 16.7 16.0 15.1 15.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,886 11,181 11,359 10,845 11,541 11,229 11,091 11,176 11,344

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,084 8,182 8,185 8,099 8,044 8,151 8,146 8,176 8,186

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.0 68.5 68.4 69.1 67.7 68.4 68.3 68.4 68.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,815 6,960 6,917 6,753 6,680 6,682 6,774 6,855 6,837

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 58.3 57.8 57.6 56.2 56.1 56.8 57.4 57.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,269 1,221 1,268 1,346 1,364 1,469 1,372 1,321 1,349

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.7 14.9 15.5 16.6 17.0 18.0 16.8 16.2 16.5

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,238 9,254 9,106 9,228 8,945 9,153 9,291 9,252 9,088

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 62.9 61.9 63.6 61.1 62.4 63.3 62.9 61.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,035 8,116 7,948 8,017 7,745 7,923 8,064 8,089 7,915

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.4 55.2 54.0 55.2 52.9 54.0 54.9 55.0 53.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203 1,138 1,158 1,211 1,200 1,230 1,227 1,164 1,173

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.0 12.3 12.7 13.1 13.4 13.4 13.2 12.6 12.9

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 611 608 693 594 626 665 624 641

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.9 23.7 23.7 26.3 22.9 24.2 25.8 24.2 24.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 394 370 372 361 335 371 388 387

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5 15.3 14.4 14.1 13.9 13.0 14.4 15.1 15.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 216 238 321 233 291 294 236 254

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.8 35.4 39.1 46.3 39.2 46.5 44.2 37.8 39.6

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,376 11,614 11,589 – – – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,335 7,462 7,419 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.5 64.3 64.0 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,780 6,916 6,939 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 59.6 59.9 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555 546 480 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 7.3 6.5 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,041 4,151 4,170 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced

annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 34,102 34,724 34,808 34,102 34,470 34,555 34,640 34,724 34,808

Civilian labor force................................. 22,958 23,313 23,255 22,915 22,741 22,917 22,993 23,259 23,205

Participation rate................................. 67.3 67.1 66.8 67.2 66.0 66.3 66.4 67.0 66.7

Employed......................................... 20,042 20,757 20,684 19,899 20,171 20,332 20,389 20,600 20,555

Employment-population ratio................ 58.8 59.8 59.4 58.4 58.5 58.8 58.9 59.3 59.1

Unemployed...................................... 2,916 2,555 2,571 3,016 2,570 2,585 2,604 2,660 2,651

Unemployment rate........................... 12.7 11.0 11.1 13.2 11.3 11.3 11.3 11.4 11.4

Not in labor force................................... 11,145 11,412 11,553 11,188 11,728 11,638 11,647 11,465 11,602

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 13,000 13,182 13,169 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 81.8 82.0 81.7 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 11,454 11,891 11,884 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 72.1 73.9 73.7 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,546 1,291 1,285 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 11.9 9.8 9.8 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 8,999 9,141 9,085 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 60.2 60.1 59.6 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 7,916 8,183 8,118 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 52.9 53.8 53.2 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,083 958 967 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 12.0 10.5 10.6 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 959 990 1,000 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 29.4 28.9 29.2 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 672 683 682 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 20.6 19.9 19.9 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 288 307 319 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 30.0 31.0 31.8 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 11,730 11,570 11,673 11,803 11,704 11,664 11,738 11,768 11,720

Participation rate.................................... 46.3 46.6 46.8 46.6 46.9 46.7 46.5 47.4 47.0

Employed............................................ 9,943 10,105 10,190 9,955 9,952 10,002 10,092 10,141 10,173

Employment-population ratio................... 39.3 40.7 40.9 39.3 39.9 40.0 40.0 40.8 40.8

Unemployed......................................... 1,788 1,465 1,483 1,848 1,752 1,663 1,646 1,628 1,547

Unemployment rate.............................. 15.2 12.7 12.7 15.7 15.0 14.3 14.0 13.8 13.2

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,794 37,140 37,089 37,824 37,505 36,956 37,319 37,437 37,135

Participation rate.................................... 61.0 60.1 60.3 61.1 60.6 60.0 60.5 60.6 60.3

Employed............................................ 34,178 33,882 33,970 34,035 34,006 33,425 33,686 33,841 33,848

Employment-population ratio................... 55.2 54.8 55.2 55.0 54.9 54.3 54.7 54.8 55.0

Unemployed......................................... 3,616 3,258 3,119 3,789 3,499 3,531 3,632 3,596 3,286

Unemployment rate.............................. 9.6 8.8 8.4 10.0 9.3 9.6 9.7 9.6 8.8

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,337 37,114 37,086 37,037 36,686 37,013 37,164 36,895 36,733

Participation rate.................................... 70.4 69.4 69.0 69.8 68.9 69.2 69.5 69.0 68.4

Employed............................................ 34,247 34,119 34,347 33,832 33,657 33,975 34,031 33,826 33,950

Employment-population ratio................... 64.6 63.8 63.9 63.8 63.2 63.5 63.7 63.3 63.2

Unemployed......................................... 3,090 2,995 2,739 3,205 3,028 3,038 3,133 3,069 2,783

Unemployment rate.............................. 8.3 8.1 7.4 8.7 8.3 8.2 8.4 8.3 7.6

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 46,330 47,346 47,147 46,322 46,680 46,813 46,915 47,008 47,130

Participation rate.................................... 76.6 76.4 76.0 76.6 76.1 76.0 76.2 75.8 76.0

Employed............................................ 44,101 45,348 45,161 43,952 44,677 44,808 44,931 44,951 45,045

Employment-population ratio................... 72.9 73.1 72.8 72.7 72.9 72.7 73.0 72.5 72.6

Unemployed......................................... 2,228 1,998 1,985 2,370 2,003 2,005 1,985 2,058 2,085

Unemployment rate.............................. 4.8 4.2 4.2 5.1 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.4 4.4

1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

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

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

Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service,

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,865 21,463 20,072 19,657 1,793 1,806

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,572 11,181 10,468 10,055 1,104 1,126

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.9 52.1 52.2 51.2 61.6 62.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,573 10,350 9,543 9,303 1,030 1,047

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.4 48.2 47.5 47.3 57.4 58.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 832 924 753 75 79

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 7.4 8.8 7.5 6.8 7.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,293 10,282 9,604 9,602 689 680

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,266 2,400 1,915 2,053 352 347

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,893 1,994 1,648 1,741 245 253

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.5 83.1 86.1 84.8 69.8 72.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,704 1,773 1,476 1,567 228 206

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.2 73.9 77.1 76.3 64.8 59.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 221 171 174 18 47

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.0 11.1 10.4 10.0 7.2 18.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 406 267 312 106 94

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,844 2,922 2,418 2,444 426 479

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,488 2,446 2,155 2,104 332 341

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.5 83.7 89.1 86.1 78.1 71.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,304 2,320 2,003 1,987 301 333

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.0 79.4 82.8 81.3 70.8 69.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 126 152 118 31 8

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 5.2 7.1 5.6 9.3 2.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 477 263 339 93 137

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,872 10,224 10,515 9,905 357 319

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,865 3,326 3,747 3,226 118 101

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.5 32.5 35.6 32.6 33.1 31.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,501 3,099 3,391 2,998 110 101

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.2 30.3 32.2 30.3 30.8 31.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 227 356 227 8 0

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.4 6.8 9.5 7.0 7.0 0.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,007 6,898 6,768 6,679 239 219

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,883 5,917 5,225 5,256 659 661

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,326 3,416 2,918 2,985 408 431

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.5 57.7 55.8 56.8 62.0 65.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,064 3,158 2,673 2,751 391 408

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.1 53.4 51.2 52.3 59.3 61.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 257 245 234 18 23

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.9 7.5 8.4 7.8 4.3 5.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,557 2,501 2,307 2,271 251 230

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,753 210,130 90,989 92,624 116,764 117,506

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,294 140,734 70,296 71,217 69,998 69,517

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 67.0 77.3 76.9 59.9 59.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,474 129,352 63,370 65,260 64,103 64,092

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 61.6 69.6 70.5 54.9 54.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,820 11,382 6,926 5,957 5,894 5,425

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1 8.1 9.9 8.4 8.4 7.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,459 69,396 20,693 21,407 46,766 47,989

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

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

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

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

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

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 26,886 27,331 211,829 213,110

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 5,784 5,676 147,914 148,007

Participation rate...................................................................... 21.5 20.8 69.8 69.5

Employed.............................................................................. 4,945 4,938 134,470 136,132

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 18.4 18.1 63.5 63.9

Unemployed........................................................................... 839 738 13,443 11,875

Unemployment rate................................................................ 14.5 13.0 9.1 8.0

Not in labor force........................................................................ 21,102 21,655 63,916 65,103

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,641 2,617 75,268 75,366

Participation rate...................................................................... 35.9 34.5 82.4 82.4

Employed.............................................................................. 2,226 2,223 67,834 69,099

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 30.2 29.3 74.2 75.6

Unemployed........................................................................... 415 394 7,434 6,267

Unemployment rate................................................................ 15.7 15.1 9.9 8.3

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,718 4,973 16,104 16,084

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,338 2,173 66,617 66,205

Participation rate...................................................................... 31.2 29.6 71.2 70.5

Employed.............................................................................. 1,976 1,893 61,013 61,025

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 26.4 25.8 65.2 65.0

Unemployed........................................................................... 362 279 5,604 5,180

Unemployment rate................................................................ 15.5 12.9 8.4 7.8

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,157 5,161 26,899 27,654

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 805 886 6,029 6,436

Participation rate...................................................................... 6.7 7.1 22.4 23.2

Employed.............................................................................. 743 821 5,623 6,009

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 6.2 6.6 20.9 21.6

Unemployed........................................................................... 62 64 406 427

Unemployment rate................................................................ 7.7 7.3 6.7 6.6

Not in labor force........................................................................ 11,227 11,521 20,912 21,365

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

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

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status and nativity

Total Men Women

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 36,350 36,705 18,035 18,196 18,315 18,509

Civilian labor force................................................... 24,788 24,696 14,403 14,468 10,385 10,228

Participation rate................................................... 68.2 67.3 79.9 79.5 56.7 55.3

Employed........................................................... 22,387 22,631 13,012 13,328 9,375 9,303

Employment-population ratio.................................. 61.6 61.7 72.1 73.2 51.2 50.3

Unemployed........................................................ 2,401 2,065 1,391 1,140 1,010 925

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.7 8.4 9.7 7.9 9.7 9.0

Not in labor force..................................................... 11,562 12,009 3,632 3,728 7,930 8,282

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 202,365 203,735 97,605 98,559 104,760 105,176

Civilian labor force................................................... 128,909 128,987 67,249 67,612 61,661 61,375

Participation rate................................................... 63.7 63.3 68.9 68.6 58.9 58.4

Employed........................................................... 117,029 118,439 60,528 61,829 56,500 56,610

Employment-population ratio.................................. 57.8 58.1 62.0 62.7 53.9 53.8

Unemployed........................................................ 11,881 10,548 6,720 5,783 5,161 4,765

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.2 8.2 10.0 8.6 8.4 7.8

Not in labor force..................................................... 73,455 74,748 30,356 30,947 43,099 43,801

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

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

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 2,127 2,246 2,176 2,185 2,245 2,355 2,267 2,250 2,254

Wage and salary workers1....................... 1,347 1,339 1,319 1,385 1,419 1,475 1,380 1,325 1,349

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 749 873 824 771 810 843 839 862 840

Unpaid family workers............................. 30 34 33 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 137,289 138,740 138,894 136,752 136,837 137,146 137,840 138,137 138,367

Wage and salary workers1

....................... 128,468 130,189 130,261 127,728 128,393 128,552 129,606 129,565 129,619

Government...................................... 20,745 20,682 20,525 20,600 20,302 20,286 20,568 20,519 20,404

Private industries................................ 107,723 109,507 109,736 107,146 108,070 108,275 108,742 108,980 109,196

Private households............................ 650 771 674 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 107,073 108,736 109,062 106,516 107,319 107,556 107,992 108,160 108,527

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 8,727 8,501 8,576 8,832 8,525 8,551 8,334 8,521 8,631

Unpaid family workers............................. 93 50 57 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3................... 8,670 8,258 8,271 8,960 8,396 8,826 9,270 8,896 8,518

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,897 5,518 5,499 6,025 5,687 5,833 5,963 5,901 5,605

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,487 2,488 2,492 2,557 2,517 2,736 2,852 2,631 2,526

Part time for noneconomic reasons4.............. 19,290 18,941 19,355 18,326 18,258 18,208 18,308 18,392 18,356

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

................... 8,526 8,151 8,161 8,822 8,218 8,670 9,112 8,784 8,407

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,805 5,444 5,422 5,941 5,569 5,732 5,864 5,829 5,533

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,468 2,472 2,473 2,555 2,466 2,720 2,868 2,613 2,546

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 18,928 18,543 18,950 17,929 17,880 17,813 17,877 17,985 17,926

1 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

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

entire week.

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

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

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

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

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

- Data not available.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of

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

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,415 140,987 141,070 138,909 139,296 139,627 140,025 140,302 140,580

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,165 4,226 4,177 4,393 4,244 4,312 4,352 4,397 4,415

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,369 1,447 1,368 1,440 1,343 1,341 1,414 1,442 1,426

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,796 2,779 2,809 2,961 2,890 2,981 2,944 2,961 2,984

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,250 136,761 136,893 134,515 135,052 135,315 135,673 135,905 136,164

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,781 13,306 13,225 12,774 12,860 12,895 13,072 13,357 13,212

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,469 123,454 123,668 121,744 122,228 122,447 122,610 122,496 122,900

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,347 94,108 94,322 93,723 93,550 93,568 93,460 93,338 93,642

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,458 30,806 30,992 30,214 30,322 30,635 30,587 30,557 30,729

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,715 30,295 30,423 30,527 30,249 30,017 30,053 30,043 30,201

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,175 33,007 32,907 32,982 32,979 32,916 32,819 32,738 32,712

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,122 29,346 29,346 28,021 28,677 28,880 29,150 29,158 29,258

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,540 74,931 75,157 73,337 73,908 74,122 74,364 74,442 74,931

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,069 2,007 1,974 2,206 2,072 2,107 2,089 2,106 2,121

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 626 594 688 652 629 674 666 658

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,443 1,381 1,380 1,524 1,429 1,492 1,418 1,443 1,457

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,471 72,924 73,183 71,130 71,836 72,015 72,276 72,336 72,810

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,473 7,017 6,967 6,502 6,711 6,747 6,858 7,084 6,985

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,998 65,907 66,216 64,617 65,163 65,289 65,429 65,262 65,785

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,304 50,406 50,701 49,970 50,018 50,019 50,022 49,844 50,308

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,491 16,884 17,080 16,331 16,481 16,674 16,686 16,658 16,888

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,652 16,360 16,497 16,543 16,371 16,226 16,277 16,201 16,352

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,162 17,162 17,124 17,096 17,167 17,118 17,059 16,986 17,068

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,693 15,501 15,515 14,648 15,146 15,271 15,407 15,418 15,477

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,875 66,056 65,913 65,572 65,388 65,505 65,661 65,859 65,649

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,096 2,219 2,203 2,187 2,172 2,205 2,263 2,290 2,294

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742 821 774 752 691 712 740 777 769

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,354 1,398 1,429 1,437 1,461 1,489 1,525 1,518 1,527

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,779 63,837 63,710 63,385 63,216 63,300 63,398 63,569 63,355

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,308 6,290 6,258 6,272 6,149 6,148 6,214 6,273 6,227

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,471 57,547 57,452 57,127 57,064 57,158 57,181 57,233 57,115

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,042 43,703 43,622 43,753 43,533 43,549 43,438 43,494 43,334

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,967 13,923 13,912 13,883 13,841 13,960 13,901 13,899 13,842

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,063 13,935 13,926 13,983 13,879 13,790 13,776 13,843 13,849

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,013 15,844 15,783 15,887 15,813 15,798 15,760 15,752 15,644

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,429 13,845 13,830 13,374 13,532 13,609 13,744 13,740 13,780

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,296 43,940 44,159 43,130 43,145 43,184 43,637 43,632 43,910

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,725 34,401 34,705 34,543 33,734 33,845 34,052 34,239 34,433

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,817 9,101 8,723 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,348 113,456 113,138 111,187 111,859 112,330 112,357 112,778 113,101

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,068 27,530 27,932 27,594 27,606 27,407 27,704 27,514 27,423

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,816 6,989 7,083 6,734 6,741 6,927 6,964 6,887 6,996

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.9 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.8 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,037 5,030 5,060 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,477 9,374 9,400 9,603 9,335 9,394 9,173 9,383 9,471

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

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

- Data not available.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated

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

Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 15,041 13,897 13,303 9.8 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.6

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,426 1,393 1,373 24.5 25.0 25.4 24.6 24.1 23.7

16 to 17 years.................................... 476 488 427 24.9 28.7 29.6 26.5 25.3 23.0

18 to 19 years.................................... 947 898 923 24.2 23.1 24.5 23.3 23.3 23.6

20 years and over.................................. 13,615 12,504 11,930 9.2 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.4 8.1

20 to 24 years.................................... 2,418 2,176 2,190 15.9 14.6 14.8 14.7 14.0 14.2

25 years and over............................... 11,188 10,342 9,762 8.4 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.8 7.4

25 to 54 years................................. 8,983 8,147 7,731 8.7 8.0 8.1 8.1 8.0 7.6

25 to 34 years.............................. 3,513 3,313 3,106 10.4 9.7 9.5 9.7 9.8 9.2

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,558 2,339 2,273 7.7 7.1 7.7 7.5 7.2 7.0

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,912 2,495 2,352 8.1 7.3 7.1 7.2 7.1 6.7

55 years and over............................. 2,184 2,187 2,004 7.2 6.9 6.6 6.7 7.0 6.4

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 8,649 7,809 7,344 10.5 9.6 9.6 9.4 9.5 8.9

16 to 19 years...................................... 800 796 770 26.6 27.2 28.1 27.9 27.4 26.6

16 to 17 years.................................... 274 249 238 28.5 29.9 28.6 27.6 27.2 26.6

18 to 19 years.................................... 523 551 534 25.5 25.6 28.9 27.3 27.6 26.8

20 years and over.................................. 7,849 7,013 6,574 9.9 9.0 8.9 8.8 8.8 8.3

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,440 1,222 1,294 18.1 15.7 16.5 15.8 14.7 15.6

25 years and over............................... 6,417 5,808 5,325 9.0 8.2 8.1 8.0 8.2 7.5

25 to 54 years................................. 5,145 4,605 4,202 9.3 8.4 8.5 8.4 8.5 7.7

25 to 34 years.............................. 2,002 1,895 1,706 10.9 10.2 9.8 9.8 10.2 9.2

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,417 1,324 1,243 7.9 7.5 8.1 7.7 7.6 7.1

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,726 1,386 1,253 9.2 7.7 7.4 7.6 7.5 6.8

55 years and over............................. 1,272 1,203 1,123 8.0 7.4 7.0 6.9 7.2 6.8

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 6,392 6,087 5,959 8.9 8.5 8.5 8.7 8.5 8.3

16 to 19 years...................................... 626 597 603 22.3 22.7 22.6 21.3 20.7 20.8

16 to 17 years.................................... 202 239 189 21.2 27.5 30.5 25.5 23.6 19.7

18 to 19 years.................................... 425 347 388 22.8 20.6 19.4 19.1 18.6 20.3

20 years and over.................................. 5,766 5,491 5,356 8.3 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.0 7.8

20 to 24 years.................................... 978 954 896 13.5 13.2 12.8 13.4 13.2 12.6

25 years and over............................... 4,771 4,533 4,437 7.7 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.3 7.2

25 to 54 years................................. 3,838 3,542 3,529 8.1 7.5 7.7 7.9 7.5 7.5

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,511 1,418 1,400 9.8 9.1 9.1 9.6 9.3 9.2

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,141 1,015 1,030 7.5 6.7 7.2 7.3 6.8 6.9

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,186 1,110 1,099 6.9 6.8 6.8 6.8 6.6 6.6

55 years and over1

........................... 887 970 847 6.2 7.3 7.1 6.6 6.5 5.8

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 3,214 2,707 2,486 6.9 6.1 5.9 5.9 5.8 5.4

Married women, spouse present.................... 2,118 2,092 1,926 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.9 5.8 5.3

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,317 1,275 1,230 13.0 12.1 11.9 12.4 12.3 12.4

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 13,298 11,998 11,494 10.7 9.8 9.7 9.8 9.6 9.2

Part-time workers3................................... 1,690 1,892 1,757 5.8 6.1 6.5 6.0 6.4 6.0

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

2 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs.

3 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time

jobs.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of

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

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 8,926 7,390 7,201 9,471 8,215 8,203 8,121 8,006 7,574

On temporary layoff................................ 1,172 861 955 1,430 1,268 1,247 1,196 1,236 1,152

Not on temporary layoff............................ 7,754 6,528 6,246 8,042 6,947 6,956 6,925 6,770 6,422

Permanent job losers............................ 6,183 5,170 4,878 6,425 5,567 5,545 5,500 5,362 5,022

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,571 1,359 1,367 1,617 1,380 1,411 1,426 1,409 1,401

Job leavers............................................. 852 1,103 1,000 864 928 963 967 1,072 1,007

Reentrants............................................. 3,348 3,368 3,248 3,427 3,410 3,532 3,504 3,400 3,366

New entrants.......................................... 1,156 1,242 1,164 1,269 1,270 1,241 1,327 1,293 1,276

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 62.5 56.4 57.1 63.0 59.4 58.8 58.3 58.1 57.3

On temporary layoff................................ 8.2 6.6 7.6 9.5 9.2 8.9 8.6 9.0 8.7

Not on temporary layoff............................ 54.3 49.8 49.5 53.5 50.3 49.9 49.8 49.2 48.6

Job leavers............................................. 6.0 8.4 7.9 5.8 6.7 6.9 6.9 7.8 7.6

Reentrants............................................. 23.4 25.7 25.8 22.8 24.7 25.3 25.2 24.7 25.5

New entrants.......................................... 8.1 9.5 9.2 8.4 9.2 8.9 9.5 9.4 9.7

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 5.8 4.8 4.7 6.2 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.2 4.9

Job leavers............................................. 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7

Reentrants............................................. 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.2

New entrants.......................................... 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8

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

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 2,639 2,443 2,297 2,824 2,689 2,755 2,772 2,694 2,519

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 3,152 2,985 2,766 3,336 3,088 3,050 2,904 3,250 2,911

15 weeks and over.................................... 8,491 7,674 7,551 8,843 8,150 8,273 8,328 7,924 7,801

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 2,233 1,936 1,933 2,515 1,965 2,239 2,086 2,048 2,111

27 weeks and over................................. 6,258 5,738 5,618 6,328 6,185 6,034 6,242 5,876 5,691

Average (mean) duration, in weeks1

.............. 34.5 39.8 41.1 33.9 40.4 40.3 40.5 39.4 40.9

Median duration, in weeks........................... 21.7 21.1 21.8 21.7 21.2 21.8 22.2 20.8 21.6

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 18.5 18.6 18.2 18.8 19.3 19.6 19.8 19.4 19.0

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 22.1 22.8 21.9 22.2 22.2 21.7 20.7 23.4 22.0

15 weeks and over.................................... 59.5 58.6 59.9 58.9 58.5 58.8 59.5 57.1 59.0

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 15.6 14.8 15.3 16.8 14.1 15.9 14.9 14.8 16.0

27 weeks and over................................. 43.8 43.8 44.5 42.2 44.4 42.9 44.6 42.4 43.0

1 Beginning in January 2011, this series reflects a change to the collection of data on unemployment duration. For more information, see

www.bls.gov/cps/duration.htm.

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 139,415 141,070 14,282 12,613 9.3 8.2

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 51,532 52,787 2,525 2,336 4.7 4.2

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 20,420 21,776 1,191 1,060 5.5 4.6

Professional and related occupations........................... 31,111 31,011 1,334 1,277 4.1 4.0

Service occupations.................................................. 24,641 24,783 2,810 2,610 10.2 9.5

Sales and office occupations....................................... 33,525 33,294 3,232 2,965 8.8 8.2

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,732 15,607 1,515 1,323 8.8 7.8

Office and administrative support occupations................. 17,793 17,687 1,717 1,641 8.8 8.5

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 12,768 13,422 2,274 1,662 15.1 11.0

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 956 1,011 194 189 16.9 15.8

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 6,896 7,440 1,619 1,151 19.0 13.4

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 4,916 4,970 461 321 8.6 6.1

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,949 16,785 2,263 1,823 11.8 9.8

Production occupations........................................... 8,390 8,310 1,169 872 12.2 9.5

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,560 8,475 1,094 951 11.3 10.1

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

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2011 data, occupations reflect the

introduction of the 2010 Census occupational classification system into the Current Population Survey, or household survey. This classification system is

derived from the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2011 are not strictly comparable with

earlier years.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 14,282 12,613 9.3 8.2

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 11,363 9,740 9.5 8.2

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 68 76 8.5 8.3

Construction........................................................................... 1,596 1,100 18.8 13.1

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,526 1,176 9.9 7.7

Durable goods...................................................................... 991 749 10.4 7.9

Nondurable goods................................................................. 535 427 9.1 7.3

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 1,883 1,726 9.0 8.4

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 434 423 7.6 7.2

Information............................................................................ 268 225 8.8 7.4

Financial activities.................................................................... 590 557 6.7 6.1

Professional and business services................................................ 1,521 1,340 10.6 9.0

Education and health services...................................................... 1,298 1,132 5.9 5.2

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,634 1,451 12.4 11.1

Other services........................................................................ 545 535 8.6 8.4

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 223 222 14.5 14.9

Government workers.................................................................... 949 964 4.4 4.5

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............. 591 523 5.8 5.2

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

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

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

July

2011

Aug.

2011

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011

Nov.

2011

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 5.5 5.0 4.9 5.7 5.3 5.4 5.4 5.1 5.1

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 5.8 4.8 4.7 6.2 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.2 4.9

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 9.3 8.5 8.2 9.8 9.1 9.1 9.1 9.0 8.6

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 10.0 9.1 8.9 10.5 9.8 9.7 9.7 9.6 9.3

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,

plus all other persons marginally attached to

the labor force, as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all persons marginally attached

to the labor force................................... 10.8 10.0 9.7 11.2 10.7 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.2

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic reasons,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all

persons marginally attached to the labor

force.................................................. 16.3 15.3 15.0 17.0 16.1 16.2 16.5 16.2 15.6

NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are

available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a

job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for

full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

Nov.

2010

Nov.

2011

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 85,017 86,757 33,988 34,674 51,029 52,083

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 5,832 6,183 2,823 2,915 3,010 3,268

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,531 2,591 1,399 1,355 1,131 1,236

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 1,282 1,096 830 679 452 416

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,249 1,495 570 676 679 819

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4............................................. 6,816 7,083 3,202 3,505 3,614 3,578

Percent of total employed........................................... 4.9 5.0 4.4 4.7 5.5 5.4

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 3,573 3,712 1,855 2,105 1,718 1,607

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,891 1,854 629 573 1,262 1,281

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 206 219 135 137 71 82

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,113 1,262 564 671 549 591

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

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

2 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling

or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination.

3 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and transportation

problems, as well as a number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined.

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Change

from:

Oct.2011 -

Nov.2011p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,371 131,746 132,620 132,959 130,108 131,488 131,588 131,708 120

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,623 109,900 110,248 110,482 107,841 109,462 109,579 109,719 140

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,992 18,450 18,427 18,283 17,793 18,111 18,107 18,101 -6

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743 819 824 823 735 806 811 815 4

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.1 49.3 48.3 49.6 47.8 47.3 46.2 48.1 1.9

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694.0 769.5 776.1 773.7 686.8 758.9 765.1 767.3 2.2

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.5 180.2 182.7 183.6 161.2 180.4 183.2 183.6 0.4

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209.7 219.8 219.8 216.4 206.1 213.7 214.4 213.5 -0.9

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.0 87.1 86.6 86.9 82.6 86.8 86.7 86.7 0.0

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.8 369.5 373.6 373.7 319.5 364.8 367.5 370.2 2.7

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,645 5,796 5,777 5,657 5,504 5,549 5,534 5,522 -12

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,242.0 1,272.7 1,272.9 1,251.9 1,219.0 1,231.8 1,232.7 1,228.5 -4.2

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570.6 576.0 581.9 569.7 560.2 557.8 562.8 559.8 -3.0

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671.4 696.7 691.0 682.2 658.8 674.0 669.9 668.7 -1.2

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 883.6 912.7 916.1 877.8 845.7 845.5 849.8 842.8 -7.0

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,519.0 3,610.9 3,587.5 3,527.7 3,439.7 3,471.3 3,451.1 3,450.6 -0.5

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,469.4 1,523.2 1,520.6 1,489.4 1,442.2 1,456.3 1,460.0 1,463.0 3.0

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,049.6 2,087.7 2,066.9 2,038.3 1,997.5 2,015.0 1,991.1 1,987.6 -3.5

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,604 11,835 11,826 11,803 11,554 11,756 11,762 11,764 2

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,143 7,346 7,354 7,359 7,113 7,314 7,327 7,337 10

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.8 336.3 333.8 334.2 337.7 331.6 332.4 333.1 0.7

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376.4 377.7 376.6 373.6 370.6 368.7 368.5 368.2 -0.3

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.5 390.8 392.9 393.0 366.6 389.3 391.5 392.5 1.0

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,311.9 1,369.6 1,369.3 1,372.8 1,305.7 1,361.8 1,362.0 1,370.3 8.3

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,010.6 1,055.6 1,062.1 1,066.5 1,007.3 1,057.0 1,060.2 1,064.0 3.8

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,108.3 1,129.0 1,128.0 1,126.3 1,106.7 1,129.2 1,128.5 1,125.1 -3.4

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 166.0 172.9 173.7 174.9 164.9 173.1 174.0 174.0 0.0

Communication equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.2 116.6 115.2 113.5 119.6 116.1 114.6 113.7 -0.9

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373.2 389.5 389.2 390.3 372.9 389.2 389.6 390.1 0.5

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.4 401.8 401.7 400.0 405.5 402.3 402.1 399.9 -2.2

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 365.8 371.9 372.0 371.0 365.2 371.0 371.1 370.3 -0.8

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,338.9 1,384.2 1,393.5 1,400.0 1,332.7 1,378.7 1,390.3 1,395.5 5.2

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681.8 710.0 714.5 716.7 676.3 704.5 711.3 712.5 1.2

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.2 354.1 349.6 346.7 351.4 350.6 348.5 347.7 -0.8

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.6 576.9 576.4 574.6 569.5 575.8 573.6 570.6 -3.0

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,461 4,489 4,472 4,444 4,441 4,442 4,435 4,427 -8

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,454.0 1,471.8 1,463.9 1,446.5 1,442.1 1,441.2 1,440.8 1,437.5 -3.3

Beverages and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . 184.5 193.7 192.1 190.9 183.8 188.2 187.9 189.7 1.8

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.5 121.4 120.2 119.7 119.0 121.2 120.2 119.5 -0.7

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.8 113.1 113.7 114.2 115.8 113.7 113.1 113.8 0.7

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.7 157.4 156.6 153.4 157.1 155.1 155.9 154.2 -1.7

Leather and allied products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.9 30.2 30.4 30.9 28.7 29.9 30.1 30.6 0.5

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396.9 400.3 399.7 400.1 396.2 399.3 399.1 399.1 0.0

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 484.5 465.1 464.3 461.0 480.9 463.5 461.6 458.4 -3.2

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.9 114.0 116.7 114.7 113.2 112.0 113.4 113.1 -0.3

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778.4 785.5 782.2 782.8 777.8 785.5 783.3 781.9 -1.4

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626.4 636.0 631.7 629.4 626.4 632.1 629.7 628.8 -0.9

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,631 91,450 91,821 92,199 90,048 91,351 91,472 91,618 146

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,112 24,899 25,058 25,505 24,684 24,978 25,007 25,065 58

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,499.1 5,548.3 5,573.4 5,571.4 5,475.7 5,541.3 5,552.1 5,550.4 -1.7

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,742.0 2,774.6 2,785.6 2,786.3 2,733.7 2,773.7 2,778.8 2,780.4 1.6

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,945.0 1,955.1 1,965.0 1,958.9 1,932.7 1,950.9 1,953.0 1,946.7 -6.3

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 812.1 818.6 822.8 826.2 809.3 816.7 820.3 823.3 3.0

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,788.5 14,480.8 14,604.5 15,028.0 14,441.0 14,604.7 14,617.4 14,667.2 49.8

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,641.8 1,692.1 1,692.4 1,689.5 1,643.1 1,681.1 1,686.3 1,690.5 4.2

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,018.8 1,051.3 1,052.9 1,053.8 1,018.7 1,046.0 1,050.1 1,053.6 3.5

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 450.7 431.7 446.8 455.7 435.8 437.7 439.8 440.2 0.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Change

from:

Oct.2011 -

Nov.2011p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 529.5 477.0 484.8 508.5 508.6 485.7 484.0 489.2 5.2

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,088.1 1,107.6 1,102.7 1,096.4 1,112.0 1,119.6 1,120.3 1,121.5 1.2

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,834.3 2,839.6 2,849.8 2,867.5 2,810.9 2,845.5 2,844.9 2,845.6 0.7

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 985.4 974.0 978.2 988.2 976.4 979.7 979.5 979.0 -0.5

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.2 822.7 819.5 820.8 815.3 816.9 818.7 821.5 2.8

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,487.3 1,412.0 1,447.6 1,585.4 1,404.4 1,456.7 1,463.4 1,490.1 26.7

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635.1 596.4 589.4 627.2 600.4 598.2 591.0 593.3 2.3

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,112.9 2,941.2 2,989.8 3,159.3 2,968.2 2,997.1 3,004.1 3,009.9 5.8

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,591.2 1,460.9 1,491.6 1,613.1 1,484.3 1,501.6 1,504.7 1,504.3 -0.4

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771.3 768.0 772.8 778.6 754.9 768.0 765.0 763.8 -1.2

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437.9 418.5 430.7 450.9 411.0 418.5 420.4 422.6 2.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,275.3 4,316.1 4,326.6 4,350.3 4,218.3 4,277.5 4,283.8 4,292.1 8.3

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.4 477.1 475.7 471.8 466.9 475.9 475.6 473.8 -1.8

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219.8 227.1 227.1 227.4 219.0 225.9 226.4 226.3 -0.1

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 65.0 65.5 64.7 64.2 64.2 64.9 65.1 0.2

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,270.4 1,304.9 1,305.2 1,303.5 1,256.0 1,283.6 1,286.2 1,289.8 3.6

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462.9 455.5 460.6 457.1 444.3 442.9 442.4 440.1 -2.3

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 43.2 43.4 43.6 41.9 43.3 43.3 43.4 0.1

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 23.7 34.0 31.0 22.7 27.1 28.1 29.3 26.7 -2.6

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 542.0 557.6 565.0 568.7 540.6 558.2 562.3 567.4 5.1

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542.5 517.1 515.6 543.6 527.3 523.3 522.5 525.2 2.7

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642.8 634.6 637.5 647.2 631.0 632.1 630.9 634.3 3.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.7 553.7 553.5 554.9 549.3 554.3 554.0 555.3 1.3

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,709 2,651 2,644 2,656 2,699 2,659 2,649 2,645 -4

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 760.5 753.1 755.6 753.5 757.2 753.5 754.5 750.5 -4.0

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374.0 358.3 349.3 362.1 373.4 361.3 354.6 359.5 4.9

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298.8 294.0 295.2 295.0 296.3 294.2 293.7 292.6 -1.1

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889.8 846.3 842.0 844.8 886.0 849.5 843.9 841.3 -2.6

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.8 237.0 238.3 237.7 240.4 238.4 238.5 237.6 -0.9

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145.4 162.4 163.9 163.2 145.3 162.3 163.5 163.3 -0.2

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,610 7,609 7,617 7,622 7,616 7,610 7,618 7,626 8

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,687.4 5,654.6 5,664.4 5,679.2 5,685.3 5,668.2 5,669.5 5,675.1 5.6

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 21.0 21.8 21.9 22.0 21.1 21.7 21.9 22.0 0.1

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,551.0 2,537.4 2,540.7 2,553.5 2,552.1 2,545.8 2,545.8 2,552.4 6.6

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,740.0 1,753.1 1,753.0 1,757.6 1,740.9 1,758.1 1,757.1 1,758.8 1.7

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,312.9 1,322.5 1,322.5 1,325.6 1,314.4 1,325.7 1,324.8 1,327.2 2.4

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801.8 806.1 807.1 807.4 801.2 808.5 807.4 807.5 0.1

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,226.7 2,204.0 2,208.9 2,211.5 2,224.0 2,206.6 2,208.9 2,208.2 -0.7

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 86.9 85.3 85.8 84.8 86.9 85.6 85.5 85.0 -0.5

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,922.6 1,954.4 1,952.9 1,942.8 1,930.6 1,941.3 1,948.3 1,951.3 3.0

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,385.9 1,403.1 1,408.3 1,401.5 1,388.0 1,396.8 1,403.4 1,405.0 1.6

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511.5 525.5 518.6 515.3 517.3 518.6 518.9 520.3 1.4

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 25.2 25.8 26.0 26.0 25.3 25.9 26.0 26.0 0.0

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,012 17,360 17,501 17,531 16,844 17,293 17,332 17,365 33

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,457.0 7,599.1 7,665.2 7,703.6 7,455.1 7,685.3 7,695.6 7,704.4 8.8

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,116.4 1,108.8 1,113.7 1,114.5 1,116.1 1,112.5 1,112.9 1,113.0 0.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 850.3 851.2 864.9 890.7 893.3 930.8 935.0 937.0 2.0

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,281.4 1,310.0 1,313.4 1,307.7 1,273.9 1,304.8 1,303.4 1,301.4 -2.0

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,469.6 1,517.2 1,526.0 1,534.6 1,459.6 1,519.2 1,519.5 1,524.6 5.1

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012.8 1,051.5 1,070.9 1,079.7 1,000.3 1,057.1 1,062.4 1,066.9 4.5

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 1,871.1 1,892.3 1,895.9 1,901.6 1,870.8 1,892.0 1,895.7 1,899.1 3.4

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,684.0 7,868.1 7,939.5 7,925.6 7,517.9 7,716.1 7,740.8 7,761.7 20.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Change

from:

Oct.2011 -

Nov.2011p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 7,323.3 7,494.6 7,568.3 7,557.5 7,159.1 7,347.9 7,372.7 7,394.6 21.9

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,939.6 3,037.7 3,097.3 3,116.9 2,808.0 2,960.6 2,970.7 2,988.6 17.9

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,278.2 2,355.4 2,422.1 2,444.3 2,164.1 2,295.0 2,310.8 2,333.1 22.3

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.9 795.1 811.0 816.6 808.8 803.6 802.3 800.7 -1.6

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,764.3 1,831.8 1,824.8 1,791.2 1,754.5 1,767.7 1,777.3 1,778.3 1.0

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.7 373.5 371.2 368.1 358.8 368.2 368.1 367.1 -1.0

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,974 20,012 20,301 20,390 19,732 20,088 20,125 20,152 27

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,364.8 3,188.3 3,390.6 3,434.6 3,176.9 3,235.9 3,242.5 3,250.7 8.2

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,609.2 16,823.2 16,910.0 16,955.2 16,555.3 16,852.4 16,882.7 16,901.4 18.7

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,926.1 14,159.2 14,214.9 14,248.0 13,894.8 14,174.8 14,200.3 14,217.5 17.2

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,056.0 6,189.9 6,231.7 6,240.2 6,039.7 6,201.4 6,218.4 6,223.1 4.7

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,330.7 2,377.8 2,396.2 2,400.9 2,324.5 2,383.0 2,391.0 2,393.7 2.7

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608.1 625.4 631.4 634.8 607.2 627.1 630.4 633.1 2.7

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,104.8 1,140.6 1,143.5 1,143.8 1,099.6 1,140.4 1,140.5 1,138.7 -1.8

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,709.2 4,772.5 4,783.9 4,798.8 4,701.5 4,774.5 4,782.5 4,791.2 8.7

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,160.9 3,196.8 3,199.3 3,209.0 3,153.6 3,198.9 3,199.4 3,203.2 3.8

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,679.9 1,683.0 1,682.6 1,687.0 1,674.1 1,683.2 1,683.0 1,681.8 -1.2

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,683.1 2,664.0 2,695.1 2,707.2 2,660.5 2,677.6 2,682.4 2,683.9 1.5

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.0 849.6 861.1 863.9 858.4 852.3 851.0 848.4 -2.6

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,811 13,473 13,249 13,053 13,057 13,264 13,288 13,310 22

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,748.5 1,980.8 1,863.0 1,751.6 1,895.0 1,895.9 1,898.0 1,899.6 1.6

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 395.6 434.0 414.7 396.4 410.6 408.3 408.0 411.4 3.4

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. . . 122.0 132.9 132.2 127.7 126.6 130.8 132.2 132.7 0.5

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,230.9 1,413.9 1,316.1 1,227.5 1,357.8 1,356.8 1,357.8 1,355.5 -2.3

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,062.0 11,492.0 11,386.4 11,301.0 11,162.0 11,367.8 11,389.8 11,410.7 20.9

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,709.9 1,846.8 1,801.1 1,742.2 1,759.3 1,806.8 1,809.9 1,798.1 -11.8

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 9,352.1 9,645.2 9,585.3 9,558.8 9,402.7 9,561.0 9,579.9 9,612.6 32.7

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,403 5,446 5,451 5,442 5,416 5,459 5,453 5,455 2

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,139.7 1,157.5 1,158.0 1,156.3 1,144.7 1,156.2 1,157.5 1,160.0 2.5

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,268.4 1,289.5 1,282.7 1,277.6 1,269.9 1,290.9 1,285.4 1,280.9 -4.5

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 2,995.2 2,998.7 3,009.8 3,007.6 3,001.4 3,011.7 3,010.5 3,013.8 3.3

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,748 21,846 22,372 22,477 22,267 22,026 22,009 21,989 -20

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,839.0 2,825.0 2,821.0 2,807.0 2,844.0 2,817.0 2,821.0 2,817.0 -4.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,195.3 2,214.7 2,199.0 2,195.0 2,200.4 2,202.7 2,203.3 2,204.8 1.5

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.4 610.7 622.0 611.9 643.1 614.6 617.5 612.4 -5.1

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,322.0 5,114.0 5,231.0 5,255.0 5,144.0 5,094.0 5,078.0 5,073.0 -5.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,581.5 2,425.9 2,565.2 2,595.6 2,392.9 2,408.1 2,404.4 2,406.3 1.9

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,740.7 2,688.5 2,666.2 2,659.0 2,751.4 2,686.0 2,673.5 2,667.1 -6.4

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,587.0 13,907.0 14,320.0 14,415.0 14,279.0 14,115.0 14,110.0 14,099.0 -11.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,307.5 7,648.8 8,105.5 8,213.3 7,961.9 7,862.0 7,860.9 7,854.9 -6.0

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,279.6 6,258.2 6,214.2 6,201.6 6,316.6 6,252.7 6,248.9 6,244.2 -4.7

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.

3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

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ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.3

Goods-producing..................................................................... 39.8 39.9 40.0 40.0

Mining and logging................................................................ 43.3 44.4 45.2 44.8

Construction........................................................................ 38.1 38.5 38.2 38.4

Manufacturing...................................................................... 40.4 40.3 40.5 40.3

Durable goods................................................................... 40.7 40.6 40.9 40.7

Nondurable goods............................................................... 39.9 39.6 40.0 39.7

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.1 33.2 33.2 33.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.3 34.5 34.4 34.4

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.3 38.8 38.8 38.7

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.2 31.4 31.3 31.4

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.5 38.3 38.5 38.4

Utilities............................................................................ 41.5 42.3 42.4 41.9

Information.......................................................................... 36.6 36.6 36.7 36.5

Financial activities................................................................. 37.1 37.4 37.3 37.4

Professional and business services............................................. 35.5 35.8 35.8 35.6

Education and health services................................................... 32.8 32.7 32.7 32.7

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 25.9 25.9 25.9 26.0

Other services...................................................................... 31.6 31.5 31.5 31.4

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2

Durable goods........................................................................ 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.2

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2

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Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Total private................................................. $22.76 $23.13 $23.20 $23.18 $ 778.39 $ 793.36 $ 795.76 $ 795.07

Goods-producing........................................ 24.18 24.50 24.58 24.51 962.36 977.55 983.20 980.40

Mining and logging................................... 27.62 28.26 28.33 28.41 1,195.95 1,254.74 1,280.52 1,272.77

Construction........................................... 25.32 25.48 25.46 25.46 964.69 980.98 972.57 977.66

Manufacturing......................................... 23.43 23.77 23.89 23.78 946.57 957.93 967.55 958.33

Durable goods...................................... 24.94 25.30 25.46 25.30 1,015.06 1,027.18 1,041.31 1,029.71

Nondurable goods................................. 20.97 21.18 21.25 21.21 836.70 838.73 850.00 842.04

Private service-providing............................... 22.43 22.80 22.88 22.87 742.43 756.96 759.62 759.28

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 19.77 20.08 20.15 20.17 678.11 692.76 693.16 693.85

Wholesale trade.................................... 26.20 26.34 26.49 26.51 1,003.46 1,021.99 1,027.81 1,025.94

Retail trade.......................................... 15.61 15.80 15.86 15.92 487.03 496.12 496.42 499.89

Transportation and warehousing................. 21.23 21.83 21.80 21.85 817.36 836.09 839.30 839.04

Utilities............................................... 32.50 33.98 33.97 33.82 1,348.75 1,437.35 1,440.33 1,417.06

Information............................................. 31.05 31.38 31.45 31.59 1,136.43 1,148.51 1,154.22 1,153.04

Financial activities.................................... 27.37 27.95 28.03 28.08 1,015.43 1,045.33 1,045.52 1,050.19

Professional and business services................ 27.40 27.89 27.98 27.96 972.70 998.46 1,001.68 995.38

Education and health services...................... 23.21 23.66 23.74 23.69 761.29 773.68 776.30 774.66

Leisure and hospitality............................... 13.11 13.27 13.32 13.30 339.55 343.69 344.99 345.80

Other services......................................... 20.48 20.53 20.57 20.63 647.17 646.70 647.96 647.78

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Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2011 -

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2011 -

Nov.

2011p

Total private....................................... 92.4 94.1 94.2 94.3 0.1 100.3 103.8 104.2 104.3 0.1

Goods-producing............................... 80.7 82.3 82.5 82.5 0.0 88.2 91.2 91.7 91.4 -0.3

Mining and logging.......................... 100.0 112.4 115.2 114.7 -0.4 110.9 127.6 131.0 130.9 -0.1

Construction.................................. 72.3 73.6 72.9 73.1 0.3 79.5 81.5 80.6 80.8 0.2

Manufacturing................................ 84.0 85.2 85.7 85.3 -0.5 91.5 94.2 95.2 94.3 -0.9

Durable goods............................ 81.5 83.6 84.4 84.1 -0.4 90.3 93.9 95.4 94.5 -0.9

Nondurable goods........................ 88.4 87.8 88.5 87.7 -0.9 94.1 94.4 95.5 94.4 -1.2

Private service-providing...................... 95.7 97.4 97.5 97.7 0.2 104.0 107.6 108.1 108.2 0.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 92.0 93.7 93.5 93.7 0.2 97.9 101.2 101.4 101.7 0.3

Wholesale trade........................... 91.5 93.8 94.0 93.7 -0.3 100.1 103.1 103.9 103.7 -0.2

Retail trade................................ 91.5 93.1 92.9 93.5 0.6 94.4 97.3 97.4 98.4 1.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 92.9 93.8 94.4 94.3 -0.1 100.1 103.9 104.4 104.6 0.2

Utilities..................................... 98.6 101.4 101.6 100.6 -1.0 105.9 113.9 114.0 112.5 -1.3

Information................................... 90.2 88.9 88.8 88.2 -0.7 99.7 99.3 99.4 99.2 -0.2

Financial activities........................... 93.1 93.8 93.6 94.0 0.4 99.5 102.3 102.4 103.0 0.6

Professional and business services....... 94.0 97.4 97.6 97.2 -0.4 104.4 110.0 110.6 110.1 -0.5

Education and health services............. 105.3 106.9 107.1 107.3 0.2 114.5 118.5 119.1 119.0 -0.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 96.5 98.0 98.2 98.7 0.5 102.1 104.9 105.5 106.0 0.5

Other services............................... 94.8 95.3 95.2 94.9 -0.3 110.2 111.0 111.1 111.1 0.0

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Total nonfarm............................................... 64,615 64,972 65,024 65,089 49.7 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private.............................................. 51,967 52,444 52,497 52,567 48.2 47.9 47.9 47.9

Goods-producing...................................... 4,062 4,047 4,048 4,035 22.8 22.3 22.4 22.3

Mining and logging................................. 100 106 108 110 13.6 13.2 13.3 13.5

Construction........................................ 712 710 710 708 12.9 12.8 12.8 12.8

Manufacturing....................................... 3,250 3,231 3,230 3,217 28.1 27.5 27.5 27.3

Durable goods................................... 1,718 1,714 1,713 1,709 24.2 23.4 23.4 23.3

Nondurable goods............................... 1,532 1,517 1,517 1,508 34.5 34.2 34.2 34.1

Private service-providing............................. 47,905 48,397 48,449 48,532 53.2 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 9,970 9,994 9,986 10,007 40.4 40.0 39.9 39.9

Wholesale trade................................. 1,643.9 1,670.2 1,670.8 1,668.7 30.0 30.1 30.1 30.1

Retail trade....................................... 7,187.2 7,188.0 7,178.2 7,196.5 49.8 49.2 49.1 49.1

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,003.2 1,001.0 1,002.1 1,006.2 23.8 23.4 23.4 23.4

Utilities............................................ 135.6 134.7 134.4 135.4 24.7 24.3 24.3 24.4

Information.......................................... 1,102 1,080 1,076 1,077 40.8 40.6 40.6 40.7

Financial activities.................................. 4,463 4,428 4,424 4,431 58.6 58.2 58.1 58.1

Professional and business services............. 7,492 7,674 7,706 7,723 44.5 44.4 44.5 44.5

Education and health services................... 15,201 15,415 15,436 15,456 77.0 76.7 76.7 76.7

Leisure and hospitality............................. 6,810 6,925 6,942 6,957 52.2 52.2 52.2 52.3

Other services...................................... 2,867 2,881 2,879 2,881 52.9 52.8 52.8 52.8

Government.............................................. 12,648 12,528 12,527 12,522 56.8 56.9 56.9 56.9

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Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Total private................................................................................ 88,870 90,258 90,367 90,494

Goods-producing........................................................................ 12,804 13,054 13,055 13,042

Mining and logging................................................................... 550 606 611 611

Construction........................................................................... 4,174 4,198 4,185 4,169

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,080 8,250 8,259 8,262

Durable goods...................................................................... 4,854 5,014 5,027 5,042

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,226 3,236 3,232 3,220

Private service-providing............................................................... 76,066 77,204 77,312 77,452

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 20,878 21,153 21,188 21,244

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,377.9 4,440.7 4,446.9 4,443.6

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,426.6 12,585.5 12,608.1 12,663.5

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,634.6 3,685.0 3,692.0 3,695.5

Utilities............................................................................... 438.7 441.6 440.8 441.3

Information............................................................................ 2,170 2,135 2,128 2,125

Financial activities.................................................................... 5,845 5,823 5,831 5,838

Professional and business services................................................ 13,813 14,223 14,251 14,271

Education and health services...................................................... 17,320 17,596 17,624 17,659

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 11,507 11,707 11,721 11,744

Other services........................................................................ 4,533 4,567 4,569 4,571

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.6

Goods-producing..................................................................... 40.5 40.9 40.9 40.9

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.7 46.9 47.9 47.7

Construction........................................................................ 38.7 39.1 38.9 39.2

Manufacturing...................................................................... 41.2 41.3 41.5 41.3

Durable goods................................................................... 41.6 41.8 41.8 41.7

Nondurable goods............................................................... 40.6 40.7 40.9 40.8

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.3 32.4 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.6

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.1 38.6 38.6 38.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.4

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 37.6 37.6 37.8 37.8

Utilities............................................................................ 42.3 42.2 41.9 41.1

Information.......................................................................... 36.4 36.0 36.2 36.0

Financial activities................................................................. 36.2 36.5 36.5 36.4

Professional and business services............................................. 35.2 35.2 35.2 35.2

Education and health services................................................... 32.1 32.3 32.3 32.3

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.9 24.7 24.8 24.7

Other services...................................................................... 30.6 30.7 30.8 30.7

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.1

Durable goods........................................................................ 4.0 4.1 4.1 4.1

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.0

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Total private................................................. $19.24 $19.49 $19.52 $19.54 $ 644.54 $ 654.86 $ 657.82 $ 656.54

Goods-producing........................................ 20.45 20.69 20.76 20.76 828.23 846.22 849.08 849.08

Mining and logging................................... 24.02 24.69 24.89 24.94 1,073.69 1,157.96 1,192.23 1,189.64

Construction........................................... 23.42 23.73 23.71 23.70 906.35 927.84 922.32 929.04

Manufacturing......................................... 18.75 18.89 19.00 18.99 772.50 780.16 788.50 784.29

Durable goods...................................... 19.94 20.06 20.19 20.19 829.50 838.51 843.94 841.92

Nondurable goods................................. 16.91 17.04 17.10 17.07 686.55 693.53 699.39 696.46

Private service-providing............................... 18.98 19.24 19.25 19.28 613.05 623.38 623.70 624.67

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 16.96 17.19 17.23 17.22 568.16 577.58 580.65 578.59

Wholesale trade.................................... 21.73 21.99 22.06 22.05 827.91 848.81 851.52 851.13

Retail trade.......................................... 13.37 13.47 13.55 13.58 405.11 409.49 413.28 412.83

Transportation and warehousing................. 19.22 19.62 19.60 19.49 722.67 737.71 740.88 736.72

Utilities............................................... 30.26 31.18 30.97 31.23 1,280.00 1,315.80 1,297.64 1,283.55

Information............................................. 26.13 26.63 26.69 26.62 951.13 958.68 966.18 958.32

Financial activities.................................... 21.69 21.87 21.93 22.04 785.18 798.26 800.45 802.26

Professional and business services................ 22.96 23.12 23.18 23.24 808.19 813.82 815.94 818.05

Education and health services...................... 20.37 20.84 20.87 20.86 653.88 673.13 674.10 673.78

Leisure and hospitality............................... 11.30 11.45 11.32 11.36 281.37 282.82 280.74 280.59

Other services......................................... 17.26 17.27 17.28 17.29 528.16 530.19 532.22 530.80

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2011 -

Nov.

2011p

Nov.

2010

Sept.

2011

Oct.

2011p

Nov.

2011p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2011 -

Nov.

2011p

Total private....................................... 99.5 101.3 101.7 101.6 -0.1 127.9 132.0 132.7 132.6 -0.1

Goods-producing............................... 79.2 81.6 81.6 81.5 -0.1 99.2 103.4 103.7 103.6 -0.1

Mining and logging.......................... 130.6 151.0 155.5 154.9 -0.4 182.5 216.9 225.1 224.6 -0.2

Construction.................................. 80.9 82.2 81.5 81.8 0.4 102.3 105.3 104.4 104.7 0.3

Manufacturing................................ 76.4 78.2 78.7 78.3 -0.5 93.7 96.6 97.7 97.3 -0.4

Durable goods............................ 75.9 78.7 78.9 79.0 0.1 94.4 98.6 99.5 99.6 0.1

Nondurable goods........................ 77.2 77.6 77.9 77.4 -0.6 92.2 93.4 94.1 93.4 -0.7

Private service-providing...................... 105.1 107.0 107.1 107.3 0.2 136.7 141.1 141.4 141.8 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 97.5 99.1 99.5 99.5 0.0 118.0 121.5 122.3 122.2 -0.1

Wholesale trade........................... 98.2 100.9 101.1 101.0 -0.1 125.7 130.8 131.4 131.2 -0.2

Retail trade................................ 95.3 96.8 97.3 97.4 0.1 109.2 111.8 113.1 113.4 0.3

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 102.9 104.3 105.1 105.2 0.1 125.4 129.8 130.6 130.0 -0.5

Utilities..................................... 94.9 95.3 94.5 92.8 -1.8 119.9 124.1 122.1 120.9 -1.0

Information................................... 90.2 87.7 87.9 87.3 -0.7 116.6 115.7 116.2 115.1 -0.9

Financial activities........................... 101.3 101.7 101.9 101.7 -0.2 135.8 137.5 138.1 138.6 0.4

Professional and business services....... 109.0 112.2 112.4 112.6 0.2 148.9 154.4 155.1 155.7 0.4

Education and health services............. 119.9 122.6 122.8 123.0 0.2 160.6 168.0 168.5 168.7 0.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 105.0 106.0 106.5 106.3 -0.2 134.8 137.8 137.0 137.2 0.1

Other services............................... 97.3 98.4 98.7 98.4 -0.3 122.4 123.8 124.3 124.0 -0.2

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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