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Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin
Table A-3. Selected employment indicators
Table A-4. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
Table A-5. Duration of unemployment
Table A-6. Reason for unemployment
Table A-7. Unemployed persons by age and sex, seasonally adjusted
Table A-8. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted
Table A-9.  Employment status of the civilian population for eleven large States
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls by industry
Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls
Table B-6.  Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted

 
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                 THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION:  NOVEMBER 1995
 
     Nonfarm payroll employment rose in November and the unemployment rate
was essentially unchanged at 5.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.  The number of payroll jobs
increased by 166,000, but manufacturing employment continued to decline.
 
Unemployment (Household Survey Data)
 
     The number of unemployed persons and the unemployment rate in November
were 7.4 million and 5.6 percent, respectively.  Both measures have
remained in a very narrow range for much of the year.  The unemployment
rate for adult men rose four-tenths of a percentage point to 4.9 percent in
November; this followed a decline of the same magnitude in the previous
month.  The rates for adult women (4.8 percent), teenagers (17.9 percent),
whites (5.0 percent), blacks (9.4 percent), and Hispanics (9.4 percent)
showed little or no change.  (See tables A-1 and A-2.)
 
Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
     Total employment, at 125.0 million in November, fell by 389,000 over
the month.  The proportion of the working-age population that was employed
(the employment-population ratio) was 62.7 percent; it has been at or near
that level since spring.  The number of persons working part time for
economic reasons was unchanged in November at 4.4 million.  (See tables A-1
and A-3.)
 
     The number of workers who held more than one job in November was 7.6
million (not seasonally adjusted).  These multiple jobholders comprised 6.1
percent of the total employed, about the same as a year earlier.  (See
table A-8.)
 
     The civilian labor force, at a seasonally adjusted level of 132.4
million in November, was essentially unchanged from the previous month.
The labor force participation rate also was little changed at 66.4 percent.
(See table A-1.)
 
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Table A.  Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted
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                      |   Quarterly     |      Monthly data        |
                      |   averages      |                          |
                      |-----------------|--------------------------|Oct.-
      Category        |       1995      |           1995           |Nov.
                      |-----------------|--------------------------|change
                      |   II   |   III  |  Sept. |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |
______________________|----------------------------------------------------
    HOUSEHOLD DATA    |                  Labor force status
                      |----------------------------------------------------
Civilian labor force..| 132,139| 132,440| 132,591| 132,648| 132,442|   -206
  Employment..........| 124,625| 124,960| 125,140| 125,399| 125,010|   -389
  Unemployment........|   7,514|   7,480|   7,451|   7,249|   7,432|    183
Not in labor force....|  66,157|  66,367|  66,414|  66,544|  66,913|    369
                      |----------------------------------------------------
                      |                 Unemployment rates
                      |----------------------------------------------------
All workers...........|     5.7|     5.6|     5.6|     5.5|     5.6|    0.1
  Adult men...........|     4.9|     4.8|     4.9|     4.5|     4.9|     .4
  Adult women.........|     5.0|     5.0|     4.9|     5.0|     4.8|    -.2
  Teenagers...........|    17.2|    17.8|    17.5|    17.1|    17.9|     .8
  White...............|     5.0|     4.8|     4.8|     4.8|     5.0|     .2
  Black...............|    10.4|    11.2|    11.3|     9.9|     9.4|    -.5
  Hispanic origin.....|     9.3|     9.2|     8.9|     9.4|     9.4|     .0
----------------------|----------------------------------------------------
 ESTABLISHMENT DATA   |                     Employment
                      |----------------------------------------------------
Nonfarm employment....| 116,368| 116,782| 116,932|p116,998|p117,164|   p166
  Goods-producing 1/..|  24,266|  24,159|  24,157| p24,159| p24,128|   p-31
    Construction......|   5,221|   5,240|   5,262|  p5,285|  p5,289|     p4
    Manufacturing.....|  18,463|  18,344|  18,322| p18,303| p18,271|   p-32
  Service-producing 1/|  92,102|  92,622|  92,775| p92,839| p93,036|   p197
    Retail trade......|  20,769|  20,862|  20,899| p20,905| p20,979|    p74
    Services..........|  32,654|  32,951|  33,047| p33,083| p33,170|    p87
    Government........|  19,262|  19,316|  19,320| p19,304| p19,296|    p-8
                      |----------------------------------------------------
                      |                  Hours of work 2/
                      |----------------------------------------------------
Total private.........|    34.4|    34.5|    34.5|   p34.6|   p34.5|  p-0.1
  Manufacturing.......|    41.5|    41.5|    41.7|   p41.5|   p41.5|    p.0
    Overtime..........|     4.4|     4.4|     4.5|    p4.4|    p4.4|    p.0
                      |----------------------------------------------------
                      |                     Earnings 2/
                      |----------------------------------------------------
Avg. hourly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  $11.40|  $11.51|  $11.54| p$11.59| p$11.58|p-$0.01
Avg. weekly earnings, |        |        |        |        |        |
  total private.......|  392.16|  396.98|  398.13| p401.01| p399.51| p-1.50
______________________|----------------------------------------------------
    1/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
    2/ Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.
    p = preliminary.
 
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Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)
 
     About 1.5 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally
attached to the labor force in November--that is, they wanted and were
available for work but had stopped looking for jobs sometime in the prior
12 months.  The number of discouraged workers--persons who had stopped
looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available
to them--was 401,000 in November.  Both figures were about the same as a
year earlier.  (See table A-8.)
 
Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 166,000 in November to 117.2
million.  This gain was concentrated in the services and retail trade
industries, while  manufacturing employment continued its downward trend.
A portion of the payroll employment increase was attributable to two
technical factors: a later-than-usual survey week, and the normal semi-
annual updating of the factors used in the seasonal adjustment process.
The combined effect accounted for about 70,000 of the over-the-month
increase in payroll employment, with the majority of the effect in retail
trade.  (See table B-1.)
 
     The services industry added 87,000 jobs in November, with health
services and engineering and management services showing large gains.  The
pace of job growth in health services has been quite robust in recent
months.  Employment in engineering and management services has expanded
rapidly in 1995, adding nearly 150,000 workers.  Following recent declines,
employment in hotels and other lodging places and membership organizations
had sizable over-the-month increases.  Business services showed a
relatively small job gain for the second straight month, as a decline in
help supply services offset much of the increase in computer services and
other business services.
 
     Employment in retail trade rose by 74,000 in November.  Much of the
increase, however, was attributable to the technical factors previously
mentioned.  Wholesale trade added 12,000 jobs over the month, virtually all
of which was concentrated in the distribution of durable goods.
Employment in transportation and public utilities increased by 18,000,
primarily due to gains in the local transit and air transportation
industries.  Finance recorded its largest gain in 2 years (14,000).
 
     Manufacturing employment fell by 32,000 in November, continuing the
downward trend which began this April.  The November decline was evenly
divided between the durable and nondurable goods industries.  Within
durables, the motor vehicle component of transportation equipment
experienced the greatest decline (14,000), resulting from the temporary
layoff of auto workers for inventory adjustment.  Another component of
transportation equipment, aircraft manufacturing, showed a further decline
over the month as additional workers went out on strike.  In contrast,
industrial machinery and electronic components continued their strong job
growth trend.  In nondurables, the apparel industry again experienced job
losses; these have totaled 86,000 over the year.
 
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     Construction employment was little changed in November, after seasonal
adjustment, following 2 months of healthy job gains.  Employment in
November may have been held down due to the very cold weather conditions in
the eastern half of the country, which resulted in more layoffs than usual
in such outdoor activities as heavy construction, roofing, and concrete
work.  Mining continued its long-term decline, losing 3,000 jobs over the
month.
 
Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on
private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour in November to 34.5 hours,
seasonally adjusted.  Both the average manufacturing workweek and factory
overtime were unchanged, at 41.5 and 4.4 hours, respectively. (See table B-
2.)
 
     The index of aggregate weekly hours of private production or
nonsupervisory workers on nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.4 percent on a
seasonally adjusted basis to 133.3 (1982=100) in November.  The
manufacturing index edged down by 0.1 percent to 105.7.  (See table B-5.)
 
Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)
 
     Average hourly earnings of private production or nonsupervisory
workers edged down by 1 cent in November to $11.58 (seasonally adjusted),
following a gain of 5 cents in the previous month.  Average weekly earnings
fell by 0.4 percent to $399.51.  Over the past year, average hourly
earnings increased by 3.0 percent and average weekly earnings rose by 2.7
percent.  (See table B-3.)
 
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     The Employment Situation news release for December 1995 is scheduled
to be released on Friday, January 5, 1996, at 8:30 A.M. (EST).  Release
dates for the balance of 1996 are as follows:
 
          Feb. 2     May 3      Aug. 2     Nov. 1
          March 8    June 7     Sept. 6    Dec. 6
          April 5    July 5     Oct. 4
 
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       |    The collection period for the November data presented            |
       |in this release overlapped the November 14-19 shutdown of            |
       |many federal agencies, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics      |
       |(BLS) and the Bureau of the Census.  Due to the timing and           |
       |nature of our survey collection procedures, the federal shutdown     |
       |had no effect on this months establishment survey data.             |
       |Household survey data are collected for BLS by the U.S. Bureau       |
       |of the Census.  Interviewers from the Census Bureau normally         |
       |would have begun collecting data on Sunday, November 19;             |
       |because of the federal shutdown, however, normal data collection     |
       |efforts did not begin until Tuesday, November 21.  Collection        |
       |efforts were further complicated by the presence of the              |
       |Thanksgiving Day holiday in the collection week. Nevertheless,       |
       |due to extraordinary efforts by staff from the Census Bureau, a      |
       |sufficient number of household interviews was conducted to           |
       |provide an adequate sample in time for the scheduled release         |
       |of November data.  It does not appear that the quality of the        |
       |household survey data was materially compromised by the              |
       |later-than-normal interviews.                                        |
       |    In accordance with usual practice, the release of December       |
       |data will incorporate annual revisions in the seasonally adjusted    |
       |household survey estimates.  In addition, unadjusted series for      |
       |1990-93 will be revised to reflect 1990 census-based population      |
       |controls, adjusted for the estimated undercount.  Thus, seasonally   |
       |adjusted data for 1990-95 are subject to revision.                   |
       |    Effective with the data for January 1996, scheduled for release  |
       |on February 2, BLS plans to discontinue publishing table A-9,        |
       |"Employment status of the civilian population for 11 large states."  |
       |Because of anticipated budget reductions, we expect that the Current |
       |Population Survey sample will no longer be of sufficient size to     |
       |provide data for all of these 11 states directly from the survey.    |
       |Estimates for these states, based on the method currently used for   |
       |each of the other states and the District of Columbia, will be       |
       |included in the news release, "State and Metropolitan Area Employment|
       |and Unemployment," issued about 4 weeks after "The Employment        |
       |Situation" news release.                                             |
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HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
Table A-1.  Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                  Seasonally adjusted
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         Employment status, sex, and age          |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
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                      TOTAL
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Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 197,607| 199,192| 199,355| 197,607| 198,615| 198,801| 199,005| 199,192| 199,355
  Civilian labor force............................| 131,869| 132,863| 132,622| 131,718| 132,519| 132,211| 132,591| 132,648| 132,442
        Participation rate........................|    66.7|    66.7|    66.5|    66.7|    66.7|    66.5|    66.6|    66.6|    66.4
    Employed......................................| 124,896| 125,979| 125,599| 124,403| 124,959| 124,779| 125,140| 125,399| 125,010
        Employment-population ratio...............|    63.2|    63.2|    63.0|    63.0|    62.9|    62.8|    62.9|    63.0|    62.7
      Agriculture.................................|   3,480|   3,479|   3,242|   3,500|   3,409|   3,362|   3,273|   3,455|   3,276
      Nonagricultural industries..................| 121,416| 122,500| 122,357| 120,903| 121,550| 121,417| 121,867| 121,944| 121,734
    Unemployed....................................|   6,973|   6,884|   7,024|   7,315|   7,559|   7,431|   7,451|   7,249|   7,432
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.3|     5.2|     5.3|     5.6|     5.7|     5.6|     5.6|     5.5|     5.6
  Not in labor force..............................|  65,738|  66,329|  66,733|  65,889|  66,096|  66,590|  66,414|  66,544|  66,913
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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              Men, 16 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  94,768|  95,492|  95,580|  94,768|  95,191|  95,287|  95,397|  95,492|  95,580
  Civilian labor force............................|  71,013|  71,324|  71,015|  71,168|  71,338|  71,109|  71,437|  71,291|  71,156
        Participation rate........................|    74.9|    74.7|    74.3|    75.1|    74.9|    74.6|    74.9|    74.7|    74.4
    Employed......................................|  67,313|  67,850|  67,219|  67,244|  67,383|  67,108|  67,408|  67,494|  67,090
        Employment-population ratio...............|    71.0|    71.1|    70.3|    71.0|    70.8|    70.4|    70.7|    70.7|    70.2
    Unemployed....................................|   3,700|   3,474|   3,796|   3,924|   3,955|   4,001|   4,029|   3,797|   4,065
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.2|     4.9|     5.3|     5.5|     5.5|     5.6|     5.6|     5.3|     5.7
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              Men, 20 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  87,529|  88,027|  88,046|  87,529|  87,818|  87,905|  87,940|  88,027|  88,046
  Civilian labor force............................|  67,364|  67,473|  67,203|  67,345|  67,258|  67,077|  67,343|  67,251|  67,138
        Participation rate........................|    77.0|    76.7|    76.3|    76.9|    76.6|    76.3|    76.6|    76.4|    76.3
    Employed......................................|  64,239|  64,711|  64,103|  64,051|  64,066|  63,871|  64,061|  64,243|  63,837
        Employment-population ratio...............|    73.4|    73.5|    72.8|    73.2|    73.0|    72.7|    72.8|    73.0|    72.5
      Agriculture.................................|   2,402|   2,398|   2,243|   2,377|   2,327|   2,288|   2,266|   2,363|   2,223
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  61,837|  62,313|  61,860|  61,674|  61,739|  61,583|  61,795|  61,880|  61,614
    Unemployed....................................|   3,125|   2,762|   3,100|   3,294|   3,192|   3,206|   3,282|   3,008|   3,301
        Unemployment rate.........................|     4.6|     4.1|     4.6|     4.9|     4.7|     4.8|     4.9|     4.5|     4.9
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             Women, 16 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 102,839| 103,700| 103,775| 102,839| 103,424| 103,514| 103,608| 103,700| 103,775
  Civilian labor force............................|  60,856|  61,539|  61,608|  60,550|  61,180|  61,102|  61,154|  61,357|  61,286
        Participation rate........................|    59.2|    59.3|    59.4|    58.9|    59.2|    59.0|    59.0|    59.2|    59.1
    Employed......................................|  57,584|  58,129|  58,380|  57,159|  57,576|  57,672|  57,732|  57,905|  57,920
        Employment-population ratio...............|    56.0|    56.1|    56.3|    55.6|    55.7|    55.7|    55.7|    55.8|    55.8
    Unemployed....................................|   3,272|   3,410|   3,228|   3,391|   3,604|   3,430|   3,422|   3,452|   3,367
        Unemployment rate.........................|     5.4|     5.5|     5.2|     5.6|     5.9|     5.6|     5.6|     5.6|     5.5
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             Women, 20 years and over
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  95,821|  96,487|  96,555|  95,821|  96,265|  96,327|  96,409|  96,487|  96,555
  Civilian labor force............................|  57,444|  57,978|  58,026|  56,984|  57,471|  57,346|  57,392|  57,618|  57,527
        Participation rate........................|    59.9|    60.1|    60.1|    59.5|    59.7|    59.5|    59.5|    59.7|    59.6
    Employed......................................|  54,667|  55,113|  55,374|  54,129|  54,519|  54,498|  54,600|  54,710|  54,790
        Employment-population ratio...............|    57.1|    57.1|    57.3|    56.5|    56.6|    56.6|    56.6|    56.7|    56.7
      Agriculture.................................|     844|     847|     790|     850|     787|     809|     753|     821|     800
      Nonagricultural industries..................|  53,823|  54,266|  54,584|  53,279|  53,732|  53,688|  53,847|  53,889|  53,990
    Unemployed....................................|   2,776|   2,864|   2,652|   2,855|   2,952|   2,849|   2,792|   2,908|   2,737
        Unemployment rate.........................|     4.8|     4.9|     4.6|     5.0|     5.1|     5.0|     4.9|     5.0|     4.8
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian  noninstitutional population.............|  14,257|  14,678|  14,754|  14,257|  14,531|  14,569|  14,657|  14,678|  14,754
  Civilian labor force............................|   7,061|   7,412|   7,393|   7,389|   7,790|   7,787|   7,856|   7,779|   7,778
        Participation rate........................|    49.5|    50.5|    50.1|    51.8|    53.6|    53.5|    53.6|    53.0|    52.7
    Employed......................................|   5,990|   6,154|   6,121|   6,223|   6,375|   6,411|   6,479|   6,446|   6,384
        Employment-population ratio...............|    42.0|    41.9|    41.5|    43.6|    43.9|    44.0|    44.2|    43.9|    43.3
      Agriculture.................................|     234|     233|     209|     273|     295|     265|     253|     272|     254
      Nonagricultural industries..................|   5,756|   5,920|   5,913|   5,950|   6,080|   6,146|   6,225|   6,174|   6,130
    Unemployed....................................|   1,071|   1,258|   1,272|   1,166|   1,415|   1,377|   1,378|   1,332|   1,394
        Unemployment rate.........................|    15.2|    17.0|    17.2|    15.8|    18.2|    17.7|    17.5|    17.1|    17.9
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   1/  The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore,
identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-2.  Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                  Seasonally adjusted
      Employment status, race, sex, age, and      |                          |
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                 Hispanic origin                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
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                      WHITE
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............| 166,072| 167,327| 167,441| 166,072| 166,931| 167,058| 167,200| 167,327| 167,441
  Civilian labor force............................| 111,703| 112,322| 112,089| 111,637| 112,197| 111,971| 112,247| 112,232| 111,978
      Participation rate..........................|    67.3|    67.1|    66.9|    67.2|    67.2|    67.0|    67.1|    67.1|    66.9
    Employed......................................| 106,655| 107,294| 106,828| 106,242| 106,770| 106,567| 106,851| 106,815| 106,331
      Employment-population ratio.................|    64.2|    64.1|    63.8|    64.0|    64.0|    63.8|    63.9|    63.8|    63.5
    Unemployed....................................|   5,048|   5,027|   5,261|   5,395|   5,427|   5,404|   5,396|   5,417|   5,648
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.5|     4.5|     4.7|     4.8|     4.8|     4.8|     4.8|     4.8|     5.0
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              Men, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|  57,744|  57,852|  57,739|  57,726|  57,618|  57,559|  57,790|  57,707|  57,673
      Participation rate..........................|    77.4|    77.1|    76.9|    77.4|    76.9|    76.8|    77.0|    76.9|    76.8
    Employed......................................|  55,441|  55,783|  55,361|  55,242|  55,263|  55,126|  55,318|  55,395|  55,086
      Employment-population ratio.................|    74.3|    74.3|    73.7|    74.1|    73.8|    73.6|    73.8|    73.8|    73.3
    Unemployed....................................|   2,303|   2,069|   2,378|   2,484|   2,355|   2,433|   2,472|   2,312|   2,587
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.0|     3.6|     4.1|     4.3|     4.1|     4.2|     4.3|     4.0|     4.5
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             Women, 20 years and over
  Civilian labor force............................|  47,975|  48,254|  48,196|  47,631|  47,965|  47,881|  47,958|  48,003|  47,821
      Participation rate..........................|    59.8|    59.8|    59.7|    59.4|    59.5|    59.4|    59.4|    59.5|    59.2
    Employed......................................|  45,992|  46,192|  46,250|  45,569|  45,873|  45,824|  45,988|  45,871|  45,792
      Employment-population ratio.................|    57.4|    57.2|    57.3|    56.8|    56.9|    56.8|    57.0|    56.8|    56.7
    Unemployed....................................|   1,983|   2,061|   1,946|   2,062|   2,092|   2,057|   1,970|   2,131|   2,030
      Unemployment rate...........................|     4.1|     4.3|     4.0|     4.3|     4.4|     4.3|     4.1|     4.4|     4.2
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
  Civilian labor force............................|   5,984|   6,216|   6,154|   6,280|   6,614|   6,532|   6,499|   6,522|   6,484
      Participation rate..........................|    52.9|    53.8|    53.2|    55.5|    57.6|    56.8|    56.4|    56.5|    56.0
    Employed......................................|   5,222|   5,319|   5,217|   5,431|   5,634|   5,617|   5,544|   5,549|   5,453
      Employment-population ratio.................|    46.2|    46.1|    45.1|    48.0|    49.1|    48.8|    48.1|    48.0|    47.1
    Unemployed....................................|     762|     897|     937|     849|     980|     914|     955|     973|   1,031
      Unemployment rate...........................|    12.7|    14.4|    15.2|    13.5|    14.8|    14.0|    14.7|    14.9|    15.9
        Men.......................................|    13.6|    16.2|    16.3|    14.3|    14.6|    15.7|    16.0|    17.6|    16.8
        Women.....................................|    11.8|    12.4|    14.1|    12.6|    15.0|    12.1|    13.3|    12.0|    15.0
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                      BLACK
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  23,023|  23,357|  23,389|  23,023|  23,249|  23,284|  23,323|  23,357|  23,389
  Civilian labor force............................|  14,566|  14,943|  15,022|  14,578|  14,656|  14,715|  14,823|  14,883|  15,071
      Participation rate..........................|    63.3|    64.0|    64.2|    63.3|    63.0|    63.2|    63.6|    63.7|    64.4
    Employed......................................|  13,080|  13,520|  13,660|  13,054|  13,033|  13,049|  13,147|  13,413|  13,662
      Employment-population ratio.................|    56.8|    57.9|    58.4|    56.7|    56.1|    56.0|    56.4|    57.4|    58.4
    Unemployed....................................|   1,486|   1,423|   1,363|   1,524|   1,623|   1,666|   1,676|   1,470|   1,409
      Unemployment rate...........................|    10.2|     9.5|     9.1|    10.5|    11.1|    11.3|    11.3|     9.9|     9.4
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              Men, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|   6,703|   6,746|   6,656|   6,702|   6,666|   6,666|   6,729|   6,688|   6,663
      Participation rate..........................|    72.6|    72.4|    71.7|    72.6|    71.7|    71.6|    72.4|    71.8|    71.8
    Employed......................................|   6,097|   6,244|   6,118|   6,085|   6,059|   6,039|   6,083|   6,158|   6,118
      Employment-population ratio.................|    66.0|    67.0|    66.0|    65.9|    65.2|    64.9|    65.4|    66.1|    66.0
    Unemployed....................................|     605|     502|     537|     617|     607|     627|     646|     530|     544
      Unemployment rate...........................|     9.0|     7.4|     8.1|     9.2|     9.1|     9.4|     9.6|     7.9|     8.2
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             Women, 20 years and over
 
  Civilian labor force............................|   7,041|   7,333|   7,423|   7,012|   7,085|   7,105|   7,116|   7,284|   7,414
      Participation rate..........................|    60.9|    62.5|    63.2|    60.7|    60.6|    60.7|    60.7|    62.1|    63.1
    Employed......................................|   6,417|   6,699|   6,871|   6,390|   6,422|   6,468|   6,442|   6,645|   6,857
      Employment-population ratio.................|    55.5|    57.1|    58.5|    55.3|    55.0|    55.3|    55.0|    56.6|    58.4
    Unemployed....................................|     625|     634|     552|     622|     663|     636|     674|     638|     558
      Unemployment rate...........................|     8.9|     8.6|     7.4|     8.9|     9.4|     9.0|     9.5|     8.8|     7.5
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            Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
 
  Civilian labor force............................|     822|     864|     944|     864|     905|     945|     978|     911|     994
      Participation rate..........................|    36.9|    37.4|    39.9|    38.8|    39.8|    41.5|    42.4|    39.4|    42.0
    Employed......................................|     566|     578|     671|     579|     552|     542|     622|     610|     687
      Employment-population ratio.................|    25.4|    25.0|    28.3|    26.0|    24.3|    23.8|    27.0|    26.4|    29.0
    Unemployed....................................|     256|     286|     273|     285|     353|     403|     356|     301|     307
      Unemployment rate...........................|    31.1|    33.1|    28.9|    33.0|    39.0|    42.6|    36.4|    33.1|    30.9
        Men.......................................|    28.6|    33.4|    28.4|    32.0|    41.6|    46.3|    32.7|    33.6|    32.0
        Women.....................................|    33.8|    32.8|    29.5|    34.1|    36.3|    38.9|    39.7|    32.6|    29.8
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                 HISPANIC ORIGIN
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Civilian noninstitutional population..............|  18,339|  18,800|  18,845|  18,339|  18,653|  18,702|  18,752|  18,800|  18,845
  Civilian labor force............................|  12,215|  12,504|  12,369|  12,324|  12,323|  12,383|  12,456|  12,504|  12,437
      Participation rate..........................|    66.6|    66.5|    65.6|    67.2|    66.1|    66.2|    66.4|    66.5|    66.0
    Employed......................................|  11,160|  11,378|  11,246|  11,236|  11,235|  11,158|  11,351|  11,333|  11,269
      Employment-population ratio.................|    60.9|    60.5|    59.7|    61.3|    60.2|    59.7|    60.5|    60.3|    59.8
    Unemployed....................................|   1,055|   1,126|   1,123|   1,088|   1,088|   1,225|   1,105|   1,171|   1,168
      Unemployment rate...........................|     8.6|     9.0|     9.1|     8.8|     8.8|     9.9|     8.9|     9.4|     9.4
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   1/  The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore,
identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.
   NOTE:  Detail for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to totals
because data for the "other races" group are not presented and Hispanics are included in
both the white and black population groups.
 
Table A-3. Selected employment indicators
 
(In thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                    Seasonally adjusted
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                     Category                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
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                  CHARACTERISTIC
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Total employed, 16 years and over.................|124,896 |125,979 |125,599 |124,403 |124,959 |124,779 |125,140 |125,399 |125,010
  Married men, spouse present.....................| 41,672 | 42,647 | 42,133 | 41,530 | 42,137 | 42,060 | 42,257 | 42,393 | 42,049
  Married women, spouse present...................| 32,161 | 32,460 | 32,562 | 31,775 | 32,309 | 32,226 | 32,175 | 32,234 | 32,176
  Women who maintain families.....................|  7,159 |  7,126 |  7,317 |  7,141 |  7,081 |  7,268 |  7,100 |  7,055 |  7,295
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                    OCCUPATION
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Managerial and professional specialty...........| 34,646 | 36,031 | 35,986 | 34,382 | 35,692 | 35,775 | 35,602 | 35,827 | 35,730
  Technical, sales, and administrative support....| 37,779 | 37,327 | 37,484 | 37,767 | 37,860 | 37,435 | 37,606 | 37,365 | 37,334
  Service occupations.............................| 16,754 | 16,879 | 16,757 | 16,893 | 16,759 | 17,025 | 16,818 | 17,084 | 16,909
  Precision production, craft, and repair.........| 13,868 | 13,665 | 13,526 | 13,615 | 13,433 | 13,296 | 13,506 | 13,463 | 13,274
  Operators, fabricators, and laborers............| 18,245 | 18,336 | 18,395 | 18,056 | 17,746 | 17,758 | 17,974 | 17,995 | 18,264
  Farming, forestry, and fishing..................|  3,605 |  3,740 |  3,452 |  3,727 |  3,561 |  3,511 |  3,567 |  3,699 |  3,581
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                 CLASS OF WORKER
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Agriculture:                                    |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|  1,768 |  1,877 |  1,715 |  1,767 |  1,832 |  1,772 |  1,744 |  1,844 |  1,743
    Self-employed workers.........................|  1,664 |  1,557 |  1,494 |  1,677 |  1,551 |  1,542 |  1,491 |  1,541 |  1,500
    Unpaid family workers.........................|     48 |     44 |     33 |     48 |     45 |     45 |     43 |     48 |     34
  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Wage and salary workers.......................|112,315 |113,374 |113,374 |111,770 |112,331 |112,350 |112,674 |112,950 |112,802
      Government..................................| 18,528 | 18,394 | 18,441 | 18,357 | 18,358 | 18,326 | 18,196 | 18,193 | 18,295
      Private industries..........................| 93,788 | 94,981 | 94,933 | 93,413 | 93,973 | 94,023 | 94,478 | 94,756 | 94,507
        Private households........................|    964 |    958 |    953 |    999 |    887 |    886 |    982 |    980 |    994
        Other industries..........................| 92,824 | 94,022 | 93,980 | 92,414 | 93,086 | 93,138 | 93,495 | 93,776 | 93,513
    Self-employed workers.........................|  8,986 |  9,023 |  8,884 |  8,915 |  9,098 |  8,869 |  9,017 |  8,943 |  8,822
    Unpaid family workers.........................|    115 |    103 |     99 |    120 |    103 |    103 |    121 |    100 |    104
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            PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  All industries:                                 |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,368 |  4,092 |  4,335 |  4,411 |  4,402 |  4,526 |  4,589 |  4,400 |  4,410
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,374 |  2,324 |  2,489 |  2,394 |  2,497 |  2,586 |  2,535 |  2,515 |  2,519
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,688 |  1,504 |  1,591 |  1,736 |  1,672 |  1,567 |  1,738 |  1,636 |  1,647
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 19,284 | 18,673 | 18,698 | 17,756 | 18,299 | 18,113 | 17,959 | 17,683 | 17,265
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  Nonagricultural industries:                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
    Part time for economic reasons................|  4,156 |  3,923 |  4,165 |  4,246 |  4,234 |  4,316 |  4,451 |  4,255 |  4,272
      Slack work or business conditions...........|  2,250 |  2,221 |  2,382 |  2,282 |  2,385 |  2,448 |  2,432 |  2,441 |  2,418
      Could only find part-time work..............|  1,641 |  1,457 |  1,574 |  1,689 |  1,613 |  1,533 |  1,716 |  1,582 |  1,631
    Part time for noneconomic reasons.............| 18,634 | 18,016 | 18,113 | 17,101 | 17,660 | 17,473 | 17,389 | 17,044 | 16,648
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   NOTE:  Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs
during the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial
dispute.  Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time
but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays,
illness, and bad weather.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-4. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted
 
 
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                                                  |        Number of         |
                                                  |    unemployed persons    |                Unemployment rates1/
                                                  |      (in thousands)      |
                     Category                     |                          |
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                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
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                  CHARACTERISTIC
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Total, 16 years and over.........................|  7,315 |  7,249 |   7,432|   5.6  |   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.5  |   5.6
   Men, 20 years and over.........................|  3,294 |  3,008 |   3,301|   4.9  |   4.7  |   4.8  |   4.9  |   4.5  |   4.9
   Women, 20 years and over.......................|  2,855 |  2,908 |   2,737|   5.0  |   5.1  |   5.0  |   4.9  |   5.0  |   4.8
   Both sexes, 16 to 19 years.....................|  1,166 |  1,332 |   1,394|  15.8  |  18.2  |  17.7  |  17.5  |  17.1  |  17.9
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   Married men, spouse present....................|  1,393 |  1,369 |   1,428|   3.2  |   3.4  |   3.3  |   3.5  |   3.1  |   3.3
   Married women, spouse present..................|  1,278 |  1,303 |   1,256|   3.9  |   4.1  |   4.1  |   3.9  |   3.9  |   3.8
   Women who maintain families....................|    680 |    609 |     610|   8.7  |   8.5  |   7.0  |   8.0  |   7.9  |   7.7
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   Full-time workers..............................|  5,987 |  5,824 |   6,018|   5.6  |   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.4  |   5.6
   Part-time workers..............................|  1,342 |  1,438 |   1,436|   5.4  |   6.6  |   5.9  |   5.9  |   5.8  |   5.9
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                             2/                   |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                   OCCUPATION
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Managerial and professional specialty..........|    849 |    849 |     942|   2.4  |   2.6  |   2.6  |   2.4  |   2.3  |   2.6
   Technical, sales, and administrative support...|  1,824 |  1,759 |   1,604|   4.6  |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.5  |   4.5  |   4.1
   Precision production, craft, and repair........|    814 |    854 |     953|   5.6  |   6.6  |   6.8  |   6.1  |   6.0  |   6.7
   Operators, fabricators, and laborers...........|  1,634 |  1,540 |   1,660|   8.3  |   8.4  |   8.5  |   8.4  |   7.9  |   8.3
   Farming, forestry, and fishing.................|    303 |    335 |     300|   7.5  |   7.6  |   6.6  |   7.1  |   8.3  |   7.7
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                     INDUSTRY
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers|  5,828 |  5,719 |   5,789|   5.9  |   5.9  |   5.8  |   5.9  |   5.7  |   5.8
     Goods-producing industries...................|  1,753 |  1,803 |   1,949|   6.3  |   6.5  |   6.5  |   6.6  |   6.4  |   6.9
       Mining.....................................|     31 |     54 |      42|   4.5  |   3.4  |   4.1  |   3.3  |   8.8  |   7.1
       Construction...............................|    674 |    755 |     774|  10.7  |  10.9  |  12.2  |  12.7  |  11.7  |  12.2
       Manufacturing..............................|  1,048 |    994 |   1,134|   5.1  |   5.2  |   4.8  |   4.8  |   4.7  |   5.3
         Durable goods............................|    518 |    533 |     600|   4.3  |   4.8  |   4.0  |   4.0  |   4.2  |   4.8
         Nondurable goods.........................|    530 |    461 |     533|   6.0  |   5.8  |   5.9  |   5.9  |   5.3  |   6.1
     Service-producing industries.................|  4,075 |  3,916 |   3,839|   5.7  |   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.4  |   5.3
       Transportation and public utilities........|    325 |    297 |     278|   4.6  |   4.7  |   4.4  |   4.5  |   4.2  |   4.0
       Wholesale and retail trade.................|  1,815 |  1,625 |   1,625|   7.0  |   6.6  |   6.4  |   7.2  |   6.3  |   6.2
       Finance, insurance, and real estate........|    270 |    240 |     197|   3.6  |   3.5  |   3.4  |   2.9  |   3.3  |   2.8
       Services...................................|  1,665 |  1,753 |   1,740|   5.4  |   5.8  |   5.7  |   5.1  |   5.5  |   5.5
   Government workers.............................|    507 |    530 |     564|   2.7  |   2.8  |   3.0  |   2.7  |   2.8  |   3.0
   Agricultural wage and salary workers...........|    204 |    257 |     233|  10.4  |   9.7  |   8.3  |  11.6  |  12.2  |  11.8
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   1/  Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
   2/  Seasonally adjusted unemployment data for service occupations are not available
because the seasonal component, which is small relative to the trend-cycle and irregular
components, cannot be separated with sufficient precision.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Table A-5. Duration of unemployment
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                    Not seasonally adjusted                    Seasonally adjusted
                                                  |                          |
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                     Duration                     |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
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               NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Less than 5 weeks................................|  2,467 |  2,529 |  2,629 |  2,599 |  2,600 |  2,713 |  2,868 |  2,740 |  2,812
 5 to 14 weeks....................................|  2,063 |  2,257 |  2,247 |  2,163 |  2,621 |  2,434 |  2,272 |  2,348 |  2,376
 15 weeks and over................................|  2,443 |  2,099 |  2,147 |  2,661 |  2,319 |  2,380 |  2,352 |  2,296 |  2,297
    15 to 26 weeks................................|  1,068 |    952 |    969 |  1,187 |  1,023 |  1,150 |  1,071 |  1,068 |  1,048
    27 weeks and over.............................|  1,374 |  1,147 |  1,179 |  1,474 |  1,297 |  1,230 |  1,281 |  1,228 |  1,249
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Average (mean) duration, in weeks................|   17.9 |   16.2 |   16.3 |   18.2 |   16.5 |   16.3 |   16.3 |   16.2 |   16.5
 Median duration, in weeks........................|    8.7 |    7.9 |    7.7 |    9.1 |    9.1 |    8.7 |    8.0 |    8.1 |    7.9
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               PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
 Total unemployed.................................|  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
   Less than 5 weeks..............................|   35.4 |   36.7 |   37.4 |   35.0 |   34.5 |   36.0 |   38.3 |   37.1 |   37.6
   5 to 14 weeks..................................|   29.6 |   32.8 |   32.0 |   29.1 |   34.8 |   32.3 |   30.3 |   31.8 |   31.7
   15 weeks and over..............................|   35.0 |   30.5 |   30.6 |   35.8 |   30.8 |   31.6 |   31.4 |   31.1 |   30.7
     15 to 26 weeks...............................|   15.3 |   13.8 |   13.8 |   16.0 |   13.6 |   15.3 |   14.3 |   14.5 |   14.0
     27 weeks and over............................|   19.7 |   16.7 |   16.8 |   19.9 |   17.2 |   16.3 |   17.1 |   16.6 |   16.7
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HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-6. Reason for unemployment
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                                            Not seasonally adjusted               Seasonally adjusted
                                                           |                       |
                                                            _______________________ _______________________________________________
                          Reason                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                           | Nov.  | Oct.  | Nov.  | Nov.  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.
                                                           | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995
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                   NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs........|  3,366|  3,104|  3,355|  3,495|  3,615|  3,426|  3,367|  3,452|  3,516
  On temporary layoff......................................|    803|    719|    935|    881|  1,184|  1,036|    874|    972|  1,062
  Not on temporary layoff..................................|  2,563|  2,384|  2,419|  2,614|  2,431|  2,390|  2,492|  2,480|  2,455
    Permanent job losers...................................|  1,801|  1,686|  1,661|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
    Persons who completed temporary jobs...................|    762|    698|    758|  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)  |  (1)
Job leavers................................................|    714|    799|    842|    710|    832|    871|    887|    753|    856
Reentrants.................................................|  2,407|  2,490|  2,349|  2,575|  2,593|  2,537|  2,578|  2,502|  2,509
New entrants...............................................|    486|    492|    478|    578|    571|    574|    614|    550|    573
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                   PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
Total unemployed...........................................|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0
 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.......|   48.3|   45.1|   47.8|   47.5|   47.5|   46.2|   45.2|   47.6|   47.2
   On temporary layoff.....................................|   11.5|   10.5|   13.3|   12.0|   15.6|   14.0|   11.7|   13.4|   14.2
   Not on temporary layoff.................................|   36.8|   34.6|   34.4|   35.5|   31.9|   32.3|   33.5|   34.2|   32.9
 Job leavers...............................................|   10.2|   11.6|   12.0|    9.6|   10.9|   11.8|   11.9|   10.4|   11.5
 Reentrants................................................|   34.5|   36.2|   33.4|   35.0|   34.1|   34.2|   34.6|   34.5|   33.7
 New entrants..............................................|    7.0|    7.1|    6.8|    7.9|    7.5|    7.8|    8.3|    7.6|    7.7
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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              UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                      CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
                                                           |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.......|    2.6|    2.3|    2.5|    2.7|    2.7|    2.6|    2.5|    2.6|    2.7
 Job leavers...............................................|     .5|     .6|     .6|     .5|     .6|     .7|     .7|     .6|     .6
 Reentrants................................................|    1.8|    1.9|    1.8|    2.0|    2.0|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9|    1.9
 New entrants..............................................|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .4|     .5|     .4|     .4
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   1/  Not available.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Table A-7. Unemployed persons by age and sex, seasonally adjusted
 
 
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                                                  |                          |
                                                  |        Number of         |
                                                  |    unemployed persons    |                Unemployment rates1/
                                                  |      (in thousands)      |
                   Age and sex                    |                          |
                                                   __________________________ _____________________________________________________
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
                                                  |  Nov.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.  |  Nov.  |  July  |  Aug.  | Sept.  |  Oct.  |  Nov.
                                                  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1994  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995  |  1995
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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Total, 16 years and over..........................|  7,315 |  7,249 |  7,432 |   5.6  |   5.7  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.5  |   5.6
  16 to 24 years..................................|  2,450 |  2,604 |  2,551 |  11.4  |  12.5  |  12.7  |  12.8  |  12.3  |  12.1
    16 to 19 years................................|  1,166 |  1,332 |  1,394 |  15.8  |  18.2  |  17.7  |  17.5  |  17.1  |  17.9
      16 to 17 years..............................|    539 |    652 |    628 |  17.2  |  21.4  |  21.2  |  19.8  |  20.3  |  19.8
      18 to 19 years..............................|    624 |    678 |    767 |  14.7  |  15.4  |  15.0  |  15.8  |  14.9  |  16.7
    20 to 24 years................................|  1,284 |  1,272 |  1,157 |   9.1  |   9.3  |   9.9  |  10.1  |   9.5  |   8.7
  25 years and over...............................|  4,926 |  4,674 |  4,912 |   4.5  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.2  |   4.4
    25 to 54 years................................|  4,297 |  4,136 |  4,275 |   4.5  |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.5
    55 years and over.............................|    615 |    549 |    608 |   3.9  |   3.9  |   3.8  |   3.6  |   3.4  |   3.8
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Men, 16 years and over..........................|  3,924 |  3,797 |  4,065 |   5.5  |   5.5  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.3  |   5.7
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,346 |  1,451 |  1,421 |  11.8  |  12.5  |  13.8  |  12.9  |  13.0  |  12.7
      16 to 19 years..............................|    630 |    788 |    764 |  16.5  |  18.7  |  19.7  |  18.3  |  19.5  |  19.0
        16 to 17 years............................|    271 |    357 |    353 |  16.5  |  21.9  |  23.1  |  20.2  |  21.6  |  22.0
        18 to 19 years............................|    361 |    426 |    420 |  16.5  |  15.9  |  17.0  |  16.8  |  17.9  |  17.4
      20 to 24 years..............................|    716 |    662 |    657 |   9.5  |   9.0  |  10.5  |   9.8  |   9.3  |   9.2
    25 years and over.............................|  2,626 |  2,373 |  2,674 |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.2  |   4.3  |   3.9  |   4.5
      25 to 54 years..............................|  2,249 |  2,075 |  2,314 |   4.4  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.3  |   4.0  |   4.5
      55 years and over...........................|    349 |    287 |    331 |   4.0  |   3.9  |   3.6  |   4.0  |   3.2  |   3.7
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
  Women, 16 years and over........................|  3,391 |  3,452 |  3,367 |   5.6  |   5.9  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.6  |   5.5
    16 to 24 years................................|  1,104 |  1,153 |  1,130 |  10.9  |  12.6  |  11.5  |  12.8  |  11.5  |  11.3
      16 to 19 years..............................|    536 |    544 |    630 |  15.0  |  17.6  |  15.5  |  16.8  |  14.5  |  16.8
        16 to 17 years............................|    268 |    295 |    275 |  17.9  |  21.0  |  19.2  |  19.3  |  19.0  |  17.6
        18 to 19 years............................|    263 |    252 |    347 |  12.8  |  14.9  |  12.8  |  14.8  |  11.6  |  15.9
      20 to 24 years..............................|    568 |    609 |    500 |   8.7  |   9.7  |   9.2  |  10.4  |   9.7  |   8.0
    25 years and over.............................|  2,300 |  2,301 |  2,238 |   4.6  |   4.6  |   4.4  |   4.2  |   4.5  |   4.4
      25 to 54 years..............................|  2,048 |  2,061 |  1,961 |   4.7  |   4.6  |   4.5  |   4.4  |   4.7  |   4.4
      55 years and over...........................|    266 |    262 |    277 |   3.8  |   3.9  |   4.1  |   3.0  |   3.7  |   4.0
                                                  |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
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   1/  Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force.
 
 
 
HOUSEHOLD DATA
 
 
Table A-8. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted
 
(In thousands)
 
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                                                                      |                   |                   |
                               Category                               |       Total       |        Men        |       Women
                                                                       ___________________ ___________________ ___________________
                                                                      |  Nov.   |  Nov.   |  Nov.   |  Nov.   |  Nov.   |  Nov.
                                                                      |  1994   |  1995   |  1994   |  1995   |  1994   |  1995
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                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                        NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total not in the labor force..........................................|  65,738 |  66,733 |  23,755 |  24,565 |  41,983 |  42,167
 Persons who currently want a job.....................................|   5,411 |   5,140 |   2,151 |   2,194 |   3,260 |   2,946
  Searched for work and available to work now1/.......................|   1,674 |   1,542 |     818 |     724 |     855 |     818
   Reason not currently looking:                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
     Discouragement over job prospects2/..............................|     447 |     401 |     277 |     240 |     171 |     161
     Reasons other than discouragement3/..............................|   1,226 |   1,141 |     542 |     483 |     685 |     657
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
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                         MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
Total multiple jobholders4/...........................................|   7,475 |   7,617 |   4,068 |   4,045 |   3,407 |   3,572
    Percent of total employed.........................................|     6.0 |     6.1 |     6.0 |     6.0 |     5.9 |     6.1
                                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |
 Primary job full time, secondary job part time.......................|   4,384 |   4,350 |   2,685 |   2,567 |   1,700 |   1,783
 Primary and secondary jobs both part time............................|   1,702 |   1,726 |     537 |     561 |   1,165 |   1,165
 Primary and secondary jobs both full time............................|     241 |     217 |     174 |     144 |      67 |      73
 Hours vary on primary or secondary job...............................|   1,103 |   1,298 |     649 |     757 |     454 |     541
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   1/  Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and
were available to take a job during the reference week.
   2/  Includes thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or
training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination.
   3/  Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such
reasons as child-care and transportation problems, as well as a small number for which
reason for nonparticipation was not determined.
   4/  Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their
secondary job(s), not shown separately.
 
 
 
Table A-9.  Employment status of the civilian population for eleven large States
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                          |                             |
                                          |                        1/   |                                     2/
                                            Not seasonally adjusted                        Seasonally adjusted
                                          |                             |
                                         _____________________________ ___________________________________________________________
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |
       State and employment status
                                          |  Nov.   |  Oct.   |  Nov.   |  Nov.   |  July   |  Aug.   |  Sept.  |  Oct.   |  Nov.
                                          |  1994   |  1995   |  1995   |  1994   |  1995   |  1995   |  1995   |  1995   |  1995
                                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |
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                California
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......   23,514    23,628    23,638    23,514    23,586    23,599    23,614    23,628    23,638
  Civilian labor force....................   15,453    15,719    15,527    15,489    15,474    15,500    15,638    15,736    15,555
    Employed..............................   14,291    14,556    14,223    14,275    14,258    14,288    14,507    14,503    14,191
    Unemployed............................    1,162     1,163     1,304     1,214     1,216     1,213     1,131     1,232     1,364
    Unemployment rate.....................      7.5       7.4       8.4       7.8       7.9       7.8       7.2       7.8       8.8
 
 
                 Florida
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......   10,959    11,112    11,127    10,959    11,065    11,080    11,097    11,112    11,127
  Civilian labor force....................    6,949     6,853     6,882     6,948     6,930     6,800     6,872     6,835     6,862
    Employed..............................    6,519     6,416     6,476     6,480     6,573     6,485     6,485     6,379     6,428
    Unemployed............................      430       437       406       468       357       315       388       457       434
    Unemployment rate.....................      6.2       6.4       5.9       6.7       5.2       4.6       5.6       6.7       6.3
 
 
                 Illinois
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    8,879     8,938     8,942     8,879     8,923     8,928     8,933     8,938     8,942
  Civilian labor force....................    5,989     6,123     6,112     5,991     6,076     6,067     6,101     6,141     6,132
    Employed..............................    5,720     5,833     5,853     5,684     5,768     5,703     5,771     5,844     5,825
    Unemployed............................      269       289       259       307       308       364       330       297       307
    Unemployment rate.....................      4.5       4.7       4.2       5.1       5.1       6.0       5.4       4.8       5.0
 
 
              Massachusetts
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    4,688     4,673     4,673     4,688     4,668     4,669     4,671     4,673     4,673
  Civilian labor force....................    3,173     3,137     3,151     3,181     3,154     3,136     3,109     3,155     3,161
    Employed..............................    3,007     2,986     2,999     3,005     2,975     2,970     2,944     2,988     2,998
    Unemployed............................      165       151       152       175       180       166       165       167       162
    Unemployment rate.....................      5.2       4.8       4.8       5.5       5.7       5.3       5.3       5.3       5.1
 
 
                 Michigan
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    7,150     7,180     7,182     7,150     7,169     7,173     7,177     7,180     7,182
  Civilian labor force....................    4,739     4,711     4,700     4,742     4,715     4,669     4,661     4,694     4,703
    Employed..............................    4,540     4,525     4,501     4,517     4,472     4,429     4,437     4,486     4,469
    Unemployed............................      199       186       199       225       242       240       223       207       234
    Unemployment rate.....................      4.2       3.9       4.2       4.7       5.1       5.1       4.8       4.4       5.0
 
 
                New Jersey
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    6,068     6,132     6,134     6,068     6,122     6,125     6,129     6,132     6,134
  Civilian labor force....................    4,000     4,083     4,047     4,009     4,108     4,063     4,028     4,079     4,052
    Employed..............................    3,753     3,862     3,816     3,748     3,828     3,795     3,799     3,841     3,805
    Unemployed............................      247       221       232       261       280       267       229       238       247
    Unemployment rate.....................      6.2       5.4       5.7       6.5       6.8       6.6       5.7       5.8       6.1
 
 
                 New York
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......   13,987    13,990    13,989    13,987    13,986    13,987    13,989    13,990    13,989
  Civilian labor force....................    8,489     8,500     8,421     8,541     8,602     8,621     8,611     8,520     8,462
    Employed..............................    7,987     7,991     7,951     8,005     8,069     8,013     8,024     7,986     7,951
    Unemployed............................      502       509       470       536       533       608       587       534       512
    Unemployment rate.....................      5.9       6.0       5.6       6.3       6.2       7.1       6.8       6.3       6.0
 
 
              North Carolina
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    5,417     5,479     5,487     5,417     5,454     5,462     5,471     5,479     5,487
  Civilian labor force....................    3,678     3,637     3,636     3,655     3,648     3,652     3,626     3,605     3,605
    Employed..............................    3,535     3,498     3,497     3,506     3,501     3,486     3,456     3,466     3,455
    Unemployed............................      143       139       140       150       147       166       170       139       150
    Unemployment rate.....................      3.9       3.8       3.8       4.1       4.0       4.6       4.7       3.9       4.2
 
 
                   Ohio
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    8,431     8,463     8,466     8,431     8,450     8,454     8,459     8,463     8,466
  Civilian labor force....................    5,559     5,601     5,614     5,570     5,550     5,586     5,585     5,619     5,619
    Employed..............................    5,326     5,363     5,319     5,305     5,280     5,284     5,297     5,356     5,295
    Unemployed............................      233       237       295       265       270       303       288       264       324
    Unemployment rate.....................      4.2       4.2       5.3       4.8       4.9       5.4       5.2       4.7       5.8
 
 
               Pennsylvania
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......    9,283     9,279     9,280     9,283     9,273     9,275     9,278     9,279     9,280
  Civilian labor force....................    5,731     5,827     5,807     5,714     5,868     5,795     5,844     5,805     5,803
    Employed..............................    5,409     5,544     5,466     5,365     5,552     5,475     5,468     5,508     5,438
    Unemployed............................      322       282       340       348       316       320       377       297       365
    Unemployment rate.....................      5.6       4.8       5.9       6.1       5.4       5.5       6.4       5.1       6.3
 
 
                  Texas
 
Civilian noninstitutional population......   13,647    13,889    13,911    13,647    13,817    13,841    13,866    13,889    13,911
  Civilian labor force....................    9,494     9,632     9,654     9,474     9,607     9,558     9,631     9,630     9,631
    Employed..............................    8,964     9,062     9,081     8,937     9,029     8,919     9,039     9,031     9,053
    Unemployed............................      531       570       573       538       578       639       592       599       578
    Unemployment rate.....................      5.6       5.9       5.9       5.7       6.0       6.7       6.1       6.2       6.0
 
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   1/ These are the official Bureau of Labor Statistics' estimates used in the
administration of Federal fund allocation programs.
 
   2/ The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore,
identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and the seasonally adjusted columns.
 
 
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
   Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
   (In thousands)
 
 
 
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                                                 |                               |
                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
                                                 |                               |
                                                  _______________________________ _______________________________________________
                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Nov.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  | Nov.  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.
                                                 | 1994  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/ | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
              Total..............................|116,414|117,430|117,961|118,110|115,427|116,575|116,838|116,932|116,998|117,164
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           Total private.........................| 96,716| 98,358| 98,378| 98,394| 96,152| 97,293| 97,492| 97,612| 97,694| 97,868
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Goods_producing...............................| 24,378| 24,608| 24,525| 24,329| 24,175| 24,156| 24,165| 24,157| 24,159| 24,128
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Mining......................................|    600|    581|    578|    574|    592|    577|    575|    573|    571|    568
       Metal mining..............................|   49.4|   51.8|   51.1|   50.7|     49|     52|     52|     51|     51|     51
       Coal mining...............................|  111.9|  106.2|  105.5|  105.5|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)
       Oil and gas extraction....................|  333.3|  314.9|  313.6|  311.2|    328|    315|    313|    311|    309|    307
       Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels........|  105.7|  108.5|  108.1|  106.7|    104|    104|    104|    105|    105|    105
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  5,278|  5,563|  5,553|  5,427|  5,144|  5,226|  5,233|  5,262|  5,285|  5,289
       General building contractors..............|1,257.0|1,277.9|1,270.5|1,247.8|  1,234|  1,235|  1,231|  1,229|  1,229|  1,226
       Heavy construction, except building.......|  776.3|  827.8|  826.1|  780.0|    740|    741|    744|    750|    749|    744
       Special trade contractors.................|3,245.0|3,456.9|3,456.3|3,399.0|  3,170|  3,250|  3,258|  3,283|  3,307|  3,319
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Manufacturing...............................| 18,500| 18,464| 18,394| 18,328| 18,439| 18,353| 18,357| 18,322| 18,303| 18,271
         Production workers......................| 12,807| 12,788| 12,726| 12,670| 12,759| 12,672| 12,684| 12,659| 12,640| 12,621
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      Durable goods..............................| 10,585| 10,616| 10,596| 10,585| 10,550| 10,569| 10,587| 10,572| 10,565| 10,549
         Production workers......................|  7,245|  7,272|  7,253|  7,244|  7,218|  7,227|  7,244|  7,232|  7,224|  7,213
       Lumber and wood products..................|  768.6|  763.6|  762.2|  756.2|    766|    750|    751|    752|    755|    752
       Furniture and fixtures....................|  510.2|  497.1|  497.5|  497.0|    507|    492|    496|    495|    494|    494
       Stone, clay, and glass products...........|  543.2|  549.2|  547.3|  542.8|    539|    539|    539|    537|    538|    539
       Primary metal industries..................|  713.4|  713.4|  711.5|  714.4|    712|    712|    710|    710|    710|    713
         Blast furnaces and basic steel products.|  239.7|  238.1|  237.1|  239.3|    240|    239|    239|    238|    237|    239
       Fabricated metal products.................|1,418.6|1,436.1|1,438.8|1,438.4|  1,412|  1,432|  1,433|  1,429|  1,433|  1,431
       Industrial machinery and equipment........|2,002.3|2,045.2|2,049.0|2,056.6|  2,006|  2,045|  2,048|  2,047|  2,055|  2,061
         Computer and office equipment...........|  343.2|  340.1|  342.5|  343.9|    344|    337|    339|    340|    344|    344
       Electronic and other electrical equipment.|1,600.9|1,632.2|1,636.4|1,642.8|  1,595|  1,622|  1,624|  1,631|  1,635|  1,636
         Electronic components and accessories...|  556.7|  590.7|  594.7|  599.3|    556|    583|    586|    591|    595|    599
       Transportation equipment..................|1,770.9|1,741.2|1,715.1|1,699.8|  1,764|  1,742|  1,751|  1,738|  1,715|  1,693
         Motor vehicles and equipment............|  928.7|  936.1|  934.7|  924.7|    924|    934|    942|    932|    934|    920
         Aircraft and parts......................|  467.0|  439.1|  415.4|  411.9|    465|    442|    440|    439|    414|    410
       Instruments and related products..........|  855.5|  841.5|  839.3|  837.4|    854|    846|    843|    842|    839|    836
       Miscellaneous manufacturing...............|  401.2|  396.1|  399.2|  399.9|    395|    389|    392|    391|    391|    394
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      Nondurable goods...........................|  7,915|  7,848|  7,798|  7,743|  7,889|  7,784|  7,770|  7,750|  7,738|  7,722
         Production workers......................|  5,562|  5,516|  5,473|  5,426|  5,541|  5,445|  5,440|  5,427|  5,416|  5,408
       Food and kindred products.................|1,691.2|1,754.1|1,727.1|1,690.2|  1,683|  1,682|  1,677|  1,680|  1,685|  1,682
       Tobacco products..........................|   42.0|   41.3|   41.1|   39.2|     41|     40|     40|     39|     39|     38
       Textile mill products.....................|  676.0|  648.8|  645.1|  643.3|    674|    651|    650|    644|    643|    642
       Apparel and other textile products........|  970.9|  906.9|  893.5|  882.7|    963|    913|    907|    898|    884|    877
       Paper and allied products.................|  693.0|  686.9|  683.5|  681.5|    692|    688|    688|    684|    683|    682
       Printing and publishing...................|1,555.3|1,549.3|1,549.6|1,556.4|  1,551|  1,557|  1,554|  1,552|  1,551|  1,552
       Chemicals and allied products.............|1,052.1|1,042.3|1,039.8|1,037.2|  1,054|  1,043|  1,041|  1,040|  1,041|  1,039
       Petroleum and coal products...............|  150.2|  143.6|  143.0|  140.3|    149|    143|    142|    141|    141|    139
       Rubber and misc. plastics products........|  970.8|  967.2|  968.0|  966.4|    970|    962|    965|    966|    965|    966
       Leather and leather products..............|  113.5|  108.0|  107.0|  106.0|    112|    105|    106|    106|    106|    105
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   Service_producing.............................| 92,036| 92,822| 93,436| 93,781| 91,252| 92,419| 92,673| 92,775| 92,839| 93,036
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     Transportation and public utilities.........|  6,134|  6,255|  6,272|  6,279|  6,092|  6,195|  6,217|  6,206|  6,215|  6,233
       Transportation............................|  3,887|  3,982|  3,999|  4,004|  3,846|  3,925|  3,950|  3,938|  3,945|  3,960
         Railroad transportation.................|  242.6|  238.5|  237.5|  236.7|    242|    236|    238|    236|    236|    236
         Local and interurban passenger transit..|  437.5|  470.2|  477.2|  480.1|    421|    458|    464|    457|    456|    462
         Trucking and warehousing................|1,870.7|1,896.3|1,911.7|1,913.2|  1,843|  1,873|  1,882|  1,872|  1,882|  1,885
         Water transportation....................|  162.1|  159.9|  155.8|  154.5|    165|    157|    159|    157|    155|    157
         Transportation by air...................|  749.1|  771.6|  772.7|  778.6|    750|    761|    764|    770|    773|    779
         Pipelines, except natural gas...........|   17.7|   16.2|   16.0|   15.9|     18|     16|     16|     16|     16|     16
         Transportation services.................|  407.0|  429.1|  428.4|  424.8|    407|    424|    427|    430|    427|    425
       Communications and public utilities.......|  2,247|  2,273|  2,273|  2,275|  2,246|  2,270|  2,267|  2,268|  2,270|  2,273
         Communications..........................|1,329.4|1,369.7|1,371.5|1,374.3|  1,325|  1,367|  1,365|  1,366|  1,367|  1,370
         Electric, gas, and sanitary services....|  917.8|  903.0|  901.9|  900.2|    921|    903|    902|    902|    903|    903
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Wholesale trade.............................|  6,224|  6,365|  6,377|  6,381|  6,210|  6,333|  6,340|  6,346|  6,356|  6,368
       Durable goods.............................|  3,587|  3,686|  3,696|  3,707|  3,587|  3,674|  3,679|  3,686|  3,696|  3,707
       Nondurable goods..........................|  2,637|  2,679|  2,681|  2,674|  2,623|  2,659|  2,661|  2,660|  2,660|  2,661
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   See footnotes at end of table.
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
   Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
   (In thousands)
 
   -Continued
 
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                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
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                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Nov.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  | Nov.  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.
                                                 | 1994  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/ | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/
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                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Retail trade................................| 21,004| 20,984| 20,947| 21,270| 20,703| 20,851| 20,837| 20,899| 20,905| 20,979
       Building materials and garden supplies....|  838.0|  858.5|  859.6|  857.3|    844|    847|    850|    853|    857|    863
       General merchandise stores................|2,783.1|2,518.9|2,590.7|2,741.1|  2,598|  2,534|  2,530|  2,534|  2,557|  2,562
         Department stores.......................|2,435.2|2,208.4|2,278.7|2,411.7|  2,268|  2,218|  2,215|  2,220|  2,247|  2,248
       Food stores...............................|3,333.8|3,365.0|3,373.9|3,409.0|  3,308|  3,357|  3,371|  3,368|  3,371|  3,385
       Automotive dealers and service stations...|2,162.4|2,238.8|2,238.2|2,237.4|  2,165|  2,206|  2,214|  2,223|  2,232|  2,240
         New and used car dealers................|  984.9|1,011.4|1,013.5|1,016.4|    984|    998|  1,002|  1,005|  1,009|  1,015
       Apparel and accessory stores..............|1,173.9|1,065.1|1,070.8|1,116.4|  1,130|  1,092|  1,092|  1,078|  1,075|  1,076
       Furniture and home furnishings stores.....|  946.1|  949.9|  961.5|  983.6|    926|    947|    953|    959|    962|    962
       Eating and drinking places................|7,078.2|7,389.7|7,221.7|7,205.6|  7,134|  7,258|  7,222|  7,259|  7,236|  7,264
       Miscellaneous retail establishments.......|2,688.4|2,598.4|2,630.4|2,719.2|  2,598|  2,610|  2,605|  2,625|  2,615|  2,627
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     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  6,912|  6,971|  6,959|  6,969|  6,937|  6,938|  6,947|  6,957|  6,976|  6,990
       Finance...................................|  3,310|  3,312|  3,312|  3,330|  3,319|  3,307|  3,310|  3,316|  3,323|  3,337
         Depository institutions.................|2,065.9|2,046.8|2,041.2|2,046.4|  2,071|  2,052|  2,048|  2,049|  2,047|  2,051
           Commercial banks......................|1,493.1|1,486.9|1,483.0|1,488.1|  1,498|  1,490|  1,487|  1,487|  1,489|  1,493
           Savings institutions..................|  295.8|  277.9|  275.8|  274.8|    296|    282|    280|    279|    277|    275
         Nondepository institutions..............|  482.5|  488.8|  492.8|  501.3|    485|    484|    490|    491|    496|    503
           Mortgage bankers and brokers..........|  235.8|  230.6|  232.4|  237.8|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)|    (2)
         Security and commodity brokers..........|  526.9|  531.4|  530.5|  532.3|    528|    526|    529|    531|    532|    533
         Holding and other investment offices....|  235.0|  245.1|  247.6|  250.4|    235|    245|    243|    245|    248|    250
       Insurance.................................|  2,232|  2,245|  2,248|  2,249|  2,236|  2,242|  2,246|  2,249|  2,253|  2,252
         Insurance carriers......................|1,539.9|1,539.2|1,539.7|1,541.1|  1,542|  1,538|  1,540|  1,542|  1,543|  1,543
         Insurance agents, brokers, and service..|  692.4|  705.9|  708.1|  707.9|    694|    704|    706|    707|    710|    709
       Real estate...............................|  1,370|  1,414|  1,399|  1,390|  1,382|  1,389|  1,391|  1,392|  1,400|  1,401
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     Services3/..................................| 32,064| 33,175| 33,298| 33,166| 32,035| 32,820| 32,986| 33,047| 33,083| 33,170
       Agricultural services.....................|  579.1|  621.9|  616.0|  586.2|    584|    586|    588|    588|    594|    591
       Hotels and other lodging places...........|  1,556|  1,675|  1,635|  1,573|  1,605|  1,635|  1,634|  1,635|  1,622|  1,635
       Personal services.........................|  1,114|  1,110|  1,112|  1,115|  1,140|  1,144|  1,142|  1,135|  1,138|  1,141
       Business services.........................|  6,563|  6,826|  6,892|  6,873|  6,457|  6,600|  6,681|  6,745|  6,750|  6,758
         Services to buildings...................|    871|    893|    891|    896|    869|    870|    884|    888|    889|    893
         Personnel supply services...............|  2,454|  2,534|  2,568|  2,528|  2,373|  2,373|  2,406|  2,458|  2,446|  2,438
           Help supply services..................|  2,183|  2,246|  2,280|  2,240|  2,107|  2,095|  2,129|  2,174|  2,170|  2,156
         Computer and data processing services...|    984|  1,068|  1,076|  1,090|    984|  1,051|  1,063|  1,072|  1,080|  1,089
       Auto repair, services, and parking........|    993|  1,033|  1,040|  1,043|    995|  1,025|  1,031|  1,029|  1,040|  1,045
       Miscellaneous repair services.............|    337|    344|    345|    344|    337|    341|    342|    343|    343|    344
       Motion pictures...........................|    520|    590|    586|    591|    519|    603|    592|    602|    596|    592
       Amusement and recreation services.........|  1,238|  1,573|  1,442|  1,312|  1,371|  1,522|  1,525|  1,501|  1,481|  1,476
       Health services...........................|  9,099|  9,324|  9,353|  9,390|  9,096|  9,267|  9,298|  9,324|  9,353|  9,390
         Offices and clinics of medical doctors..|  1,556|  1,599|  1,602|  1,607|  1,557|  1,586|  1,591|  1,599|  1,600|  1,608
         Nursing and personal care facilities....|  1,666|  1,706|  1,707|  1,718|  1,663|  1,693|  1,697|  1,704|  1,706|  1,715
         Hospitals...............................|  3,784|  3,823|  3,830|  3,836|  3,785|  3,811|  3,822|  3,827|  3,834|  3,836
         Home health care services...............|    581|    621|    626|    630|    579|    610|    619|    619|    623|    628
       Legal services............................|    928|    925|    926|    928|    930|    928|    930|    932|    930|    929
       Educational services......................|  1,998|  1,849|  2,020|  2,046|  1,851|  1,887|  1,906|  1,883|  1,895|  1,895
       Social services...........................|  2,237|  2,285|  2,297|  2,307|  2,226|  2,246|  2,269|  2,294|  2,292|  2,295
         Child day care services.................|    529|    534|    539|    541|    512|    525|    536|    529|    525|    524
         Residential care........................|    616|    636|    638|    641|    617|    636|    637|    640|    640|    641
       Museums and botanical and zoological      |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
         gardens.................................|     78|     84|     83|     80|     80|     83|     83|     81|     82|     83
       Membership organizations..................|  2,055|  2,041|  2,044|  2,052|  2,066|  2,065|  2,072|  2,056|  2,052|  2,062
       Engineering and management services.......|  2,598|  2,720|  2,734|  2,754|  2,606|  2,716|  2,722|  2,728|  2,743|  2,763
         Engineering and architectural services..|    786|    810|    812|    814|    787|    803|    804|    806|    810|    815
         Management and public relations.........|    736|    825|    826|    831|    737|    812|    814|    823|    826|    833
       Services, nec.............................|   40.9|   41.7|   41.9|   41.6|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)|    (1)
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     Government..................................| 19,698| 19,072| 19,583| 19,716| 19,275| 19,282| 19,346| 19,320| 19,304| 19,296
       Federal...................................|  2,837|  2,812|  2,783|  2,772|  2,854|  2,834|  2,825|  2,812|  2,797|  2,789
         Federal, except Postal Service..........|2,008.4|1,970.3|1,938.2|1,922.1|  2,022|  1,990|  1,982|  1,966|  1,948|  1,936
       State.....................................|  4,731|  4,552|  4,714|  4,737|  4,596|  4,600|  4,604|  4,601|  4,595|  4,601
         Education...............................|2,051.4|1,861.6|2,042.9|2,074.4|  1,892|  1,923|  1,923|  1,919|  1,911|  1,914
         Other State government..................|2,680.0|2,690.0|2,670.6|2,662.7|  2,704|  2,677|  2,681|  2,682|  2,684|  2,687
       Local.....................................| 12,130| 11,708| 12,086| 12,207| 11,825| 11,848| 11,917| 11,907| 11,912| 11,906
         Education...............................|6,901.0|6,489.5|6,911.1|7,025.1|  6,549|  6,647|  6,706|  6,683|  6,658|  6,672
         Other local government..................|5,229.4|5,218.6|5,175.0|5,182.0|  5,276|  5,201|  5,211|  5,224|  5,254|  5,234
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      1/  These series are not published seasonally adjusted        because it has very little irregular movement.  Thus,
   because the seasonal component, which is small relative          the not seasonally adjusted series can be used
   to the trend-cycle and irregular components, cannot              for analysis of cyclical and long-term trends.
   be separated with sufficient precision.                             3/ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
      2/ This series is not suitable for seasonal adjustment           p = preliminary.
 
 
 
   ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                        ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                          1/
   Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls by industry
 
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                                                 |    Not seasonally adjusted    |              Seasonally adjusted
                                                 |                               |
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                      Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                 | Nov.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  | Nov.  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.
                                                 | 1994  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/ | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/
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         Total private...........................|  34.6 |  34.6 |  34.7 |  34.4 |  34.6 |  34.6 |  34.4 |  34.5 |  34.6 |  34.5
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   Goods_producing...............................|  41.6 |  41.5 |  41.4 |  41.1 |  41.4 |  40.8 |  40.9 |  41.1 |  41.0 |  41.0
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     Mining......................................|  45.4 |  45.4 |  45.5 |  44.8 |  44.9 |  44.9 |  44.3 |  45.0 |  45.1 |  44.3
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Construction................................|  38.5 |  39.9 |  40.0 |  38.5 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
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     Manufacturing...............................|  42.5 |  42.0 |  41.7 |  41.9 |  42.1 |  41.3 |  41.5 |  41.7 |  41.5 |  41.5
          Overtime hours.........................|   5.0 |   4.8 |   4.6 |   4.6 |   4.8 |   4.3 |   4.3 |   4.5 |   4.4 |   4.4
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Durable goods.............................|  43.3 |  42.8 |  42.5 |  42.7 |  43.0 |  41.9 |  42.4 |  42.5 |  42.4 |  42.4
          Overtime hours.........................|   5.4 |   5.1 |   4.9 |   4.9 |   5.1 |   4.5 |   4.6 |   4.8 |   4.7 |   4.6
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
        Lumber and wood products.................|  41.2 |  41.1 |  41.2 |  40.8 |  41.1 |  40.1 |  40.7 |  40.7 |  40.9 |  40.7
        Furniture and fixtures...................|  41.0 |  40.1 |  40.0 |  40.2 |  40.6 |  39.2 |  39.8 |  39.6 |  39.5 |  39.7
        Stone, clay, and glass products..........|  43.7 |  44.0 |  43.7 |  43.3 |  43.5 |  42.9 |  43.1 |  43.2 |  43.0 |  43.0
        Primary metal industries.................|  45.2 |  43.8 |  43.8 |  44.1 |  45.0 |  43.0 |  43.6 |  43.7 |  44.0 |  43.8
          Blast furnaces and basic steel products|  45.5 |  44.2 |  44.3 |  44.0 |  45.6 |  43.1 |  43.8 |  43.7 |  44.7 |  44.1
        Fabricated metal products................|  43.5 |  42.9 |  42.6 |  42.9 |  43.0 |  42.0 |  42.3 |  42.7 |  42.3 |  42.3
        Industrial machinery and equipment.......|  43.9 |  43.4 |  43.1 |  43.6 |  43.8 |  42.8 |  43.5 |  43.4 |  43.1 |  43.5
        Electronic and other electrical equipment|  42.6 |  42.2 |  42.2 |  42.1 |  42.1 |  41.3 |  41.6 |  42.1 |  42.1 |  41.6
        Transportation equipment.................|  45.0 |  44.3 |  43.7 |  44.1 |  44.7 |  43.3 |  43.7 |  43.9 |  43.6 |  43.8
          Motor vehicles and equipment...........|  46.6 |  45.4 |  44.7 |  45.4 |  46.4 |  44.2 |  44.6 |  44.9 |  44.7 |  45.1
        Instruments and related products.........|  42.1 |  41.5 |  41.4 |  41.9 |  41.8 |  41.3 |  41.5 |  41.5 |  41.4 |  41.6
        Miscellaneous manufacturing..............|  40.7 |  40.2 |  40.3 |  40.4 |  40.0 |  39.6 |  40.0 |  40.1 |  39.8 |  39.7
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
       Nondurable goods..........................|  41.5 |  40.9 |  40.6 |  40.8 |  41.0 |  40.4 |  40.4 |  40.5 |  40.4 |  40.4
          Overtime hours.........................|   4.5 |   4.5 |   4.2 |   4.2 |   4.3 |   4.0 |   4.0 |   4.0 |   3.9 |   4.0
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
        Food and kindred products................|  42.2 |  42.0 |  41.3 |  41.4 |  41.5 |  41.2 |  41.2 |  41.1 |  40.9 |  40.7
        Tobacco products.........................|  39.9 |  39.9 |  40.4 |  39.9 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
        Textile mill products....................|  41.8 |  41.1 |  40.6 |  40.9 |  41.5 |  40.3 |  40.7 |  40.5 |  40.4 |  40.6
        Apparel and other textile products.......|  38.0 |  37.2 |  36.9 |  37.2 |  37.6 |  36.8 |  36.7 |  37.1 |  36.6 |  36.8
        Paper and allied products................|  44.2 |  43.4 |  43.3 |  43.7 |  43.9 |  43.1 |  42.9 |  42.9 |  43.0 |  43.4
        Printing and publishing..................|  39.1 |  38.6 |  38.3 |  38.8 |  38.6 |  38.1 |  38.1 |  38.1 |  38.0 |  38.3
        Chemicals and allied products............|  43.7 |  43.3 |  43.2 |  43.3 |  43.4 |  43.1 |  43.1 |  43.4 |  43.2 |  43.0
        Petroleum and coal products..............|  44.4 |  43.8 |  44.3 |  44.0 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
        Rubber and misc. plastics products.......|  42.6 |  41.7 |  41.6 |  41.8 |  42.3 |  41.0 |  41.2 |  41.6 |  41.6 |  41.5
        Leather and leather products.............|  39.0 |  38.6 |  38.2 |  37.9 |  38.7 |  36.8 |  38.6 |  38.4 |  38.0 |  37.6
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   Service_producing.............................|  32.6 |  32.7 |  32.9 |  32.6 |  32.7 |  32.8 |  32.5 |  32.7 |  32.9 |  32.7
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Transportation and public utilities.........|  39.8 |  39.7 |  39.8 |  39.7 |  39.8 |  39.7 |  39.4 |  39.5 |  39.6 |  39.7
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Wholesale trade.............................|  38.4 |  38.3 |  38.5 |  38.2 |  38.4 |  38.3 |  38.2 |  38.3 |  38.4 |  38.2
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Retail trade................................|  28.7 |  28.9 |  28.8 |  28.6 |  28.9 |  28.9 |  28.7 |  28.8 |  28.9 |  28.8
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Finance, insurance, and real estate.........|  35.5 |  35.7 |  36.4 |  35.6 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
     Services....................................|  32.3 |  32.3 |  32.6 |  32.4 |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)  |  (2)
                                                 |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
      1/  Data relate to production workers in mining and             2/  These series are not published seasonally
   manufacturing; construction workers in construction;            adjusted since the seasonal component, which is small
   and nonsupervisory workers in transportation and                relative to the trend-cycle and irregular
   public utilities; wholesale and retail trade;                   components, cannot be separated with sufficient
   finance,insurance, and real estate; and services.               precision.
   These groups account for approximately four-fifths                 p = preliminary.
   of the total employees on private nonfarm payrolls.
 
 
 
           ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                       ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                                1/
   Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
 
           payrolls by industry
 
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                                                         |                               |
                                                         |    Average hourly earnings    |    Average weekly earnings
                                                         |                               |
                                                          _______________________________ _______________________________
                              Industry                   |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                         | Nov.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  | Nov.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.
                                                         | 1994  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/ | 1994  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private...........................|$11.27 |$11.57 |$11.62 |$11.60 |$389.94|$400.32|$403.21|$399.04
                  Seasonally adjusted....................| 11.24 | 11.54 | 11.59 | 11.58 | 388.90| 398.13| 401.01| 399.51
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Goods_producing...............................| 12.84 | 13.21 | 13.18 | 13.18 | 534.14| 548.22| 545.65| 541.70
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Mining......................................| 14.97 | 15.37 | 15.35 | 15.33 | 679.64| 697.80| 698.43| 686.78
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Construction................................| 14.87 | 15.29 | 15.29 | 15.22 | 572.50| 610.07| 611.60| 585.97
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Manufacturing...............................| 12.17 | 12.45 | 12.42 | 12.48 | 517.23| 522.90| 517.91| 522.91
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Durable goods.............................| 12.77 | 13.02 | 12.94 | 13.00 | 552.94| 557.26| 549.95| 555.10
                Lumber and wood products.................|  9.93 | 10.28 | 10.26 | 10.21 | 409.12| 422.51| 422.71| 416.57
                Furniture and fixtures...................|  9.67 |  9.94 |  9.92 |  9.95 | 396.47| 398.59| 396.80| 399.99
                Stone, clay, and glass products..........| 12.21 | 12.53 | 12.52 | 12.51 | 533.58| 551.32| 547.12| 541.68
                Primary metal industries.................| 14.44 | 14.68 | 14.58 | 14.79 | 652.69| 642.98| 638.60| 652.24
                  Blast furnaces and basic steel products| 17.13 | 17.58 | 17.32 | 17.84 | 779.42| 777.04| 767.28| 784.96
                Fabricated metal products................| 12.03 | 12.21 | 12.18 | 12.24 | 523.31| 523.81| 518.87| 525.10
                Industrial machinery and equipment.......| 13.11 | 13.32 | 13.32 | 13.38 | 575.53| 578.09| 574.09| 583.37
                Electronic and other electrical equipment| 11.54 | 11.78 | 11.76 | 11.84 | 491.60| 497.12| 496.27| 498.46
                Transportation equipment.................| 16.62 | 16.87 | 16.69 | 16.72 | 747.90| 747.34| 729.35| 737.35
                  Motor vehicles and equipment...........| 17.11 | 17.47 | 17.39 | 17.40 | 797.33| 793.14| 777.33| 789.96
                Instruments and related products.........| 12.55 | 12.83 | 12.79 | 12.89 | 528.36| 532.45| 529.51| 540.09
                Miscellaneous manufacturing..............|  9.79 | 10.08 | 10.11 | 10.12 | 398.45| 405.22| 407.43| 408.85
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
               Nondurable goods..........................| 11.35 | 11.67 | 11.68 | 11.74 | 471.03| 477.30| 474.21| 478.99
                Food and kindred products................| 10.81 | 10.98 | 10.92 | 11.04 | 456.18| 461.16| 451.00| 457.06
                Tobacco products.........................| 19.46 | 17.96 | 18.16 | 19.54 | 776.45| 716.60| 733.66| 779.65
                Textile mill products....................|  9.26 |  9.51 |  9.50 |  9.55 | 387.07| 390.86| 385.70| 390.60
                Apparel and other textile products.......|  7.45 |  7.70 |  7.72 |  7.76 | 283.10| 286.44| 284.87| 288.67
                Paper and allied products................| 13.92 | 14.34 | 14.33 | 14.39 | 615.26| 622.36| 620.49| 628.84
                Printing and publishing..................| 12.20 | 12.48 | 12.41 | 12.40 | 477.02| 481.73| 475.30| 481.12
                Chemicals and allied products............| 15.29 | 15.76 | 15.81 | 15.92 | 668.17| 682.41| 682.99| 689.34
                Petroleum and coal products..............| 19.25 | 19.41 | 19.65 | 19.49 | 854.70| 850.16| 870.50| 857.56
                Rubber and misc. plastics products.......| 10.69 | 11.01 | 11.02 | 11.00 | 455.39| 459.12| 458.43| 459.80
                Leather and leather products.............|  8.05 |  8.28 |  8.26 |  8.26 | 313.95| 319.61| 315.53| 313.05
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           Service_producing.............................| 10.70 | 10.99 | 11.07 | 11.06 | 348.82| 359.37| 364.20| 360.56
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Transportation and public utilities.........| 14.07 | 14.34 | 14.48 | 14.48 | 559.99| 569.30| 576.30| 574.86
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Wholesale trade.............................| 12.15 | 12.48 | 12.52 | 12.49 | 466.56| 477.98| 482.02| 477.12
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Retail trade................................|  7.57 |  7.78 |  7.78 |  7.79 | 217.26| 224.84| 224.06| 222.79
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Finance, insurance, and real estate.........| 11.98 | 12.40 | 12.52 | 12.48 | 425.29| 442.68| 455.73| 444.29
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             Services....................................| 11.22 | 11.48 | 11.56 | 11.58 | 362.41| 370.80| 376.86| 375.19
                                                         |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
              1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.                                     p = preliminary.
 
 
 
                 ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                             ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                           1/
   Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm
 
                 payrolls by industry, seasonally adjusted
 
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |  Percent
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |  change
                               Industry               | Nov.  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  |   from:
                                                      | 1994  | 1995  | 1995  | 1995  |1995p/ |1995p/ |Oct. 1995-
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       | Nov. 1995
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Total private:                       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                    Current dollars...................| $11.24| $11.50| $11.48| $11.54| $11.59| $11.58|    -0.1
                    Constant (1982) dollars2/.........|   7.40|   7.43|   7.41|   7.44|   7.45|  N.A. |    (3)
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Goods_producing......................|  12.83|  13.09|  13.09|  13.12|  13.15|  13.17|      .2
                   Mining.............................|  15.04|  15.47|  15.48|  15.42|  15.49|  15.39|     -.6
                   Construction.......................|  14.84|  15.09|  15.09|  15.14|  15.14|  15.19|      .3
                   Manufacturing......................|  12.17|  12.40|  12.41|  12.43|  12.46|  12.48|      .2
                     Excluding overtime4/.............|  11.52|  11.80|  11.79|  11.78|  11.84|  11.85|      .1
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 Service_producing....................|  10.68|  10.95|  10.93|  10.99|  11.06|  11.04|     -.2
                   Transportation and public utilities|  14.02|  14.27|  14.27|  14.31|  14.47|  14.45|     -.1
                   Wholesale trade....................|  12.15|  12.44|  12.42|  12.48|  12.53|  12.49|     -.3
                   Retail trade.......................|   7.56|   7.72|   7.74|   7.76|   7.76|   7.78|      .3
                   Finance, insurance, and real estate|  11.99|  12.43|  12.37|  12.45|  12.55|  12.49|     -.5
                   Services...........................|  11.17|  11.44|  11.40|  11.48|  11.56|  11.53|     -.3
                                                      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                 _________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
                    1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.
                    2/  The Consumer Price Index for Urban
                 Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is
                 used to deflate this series.
                    3/  Change was .1 percent from September
                 1995 to October 1995, the latest month
                 available.
                    4/  Derived by assuming that overtime
                 hours are paid at the rate of time and one-
                 half.
                    N.A.  = not available.
                    p/  = preliminary.
 
 
 
         ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                            ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
                                                                                             1/
   Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers   on private nonfarm payrolls
 
         by industry
 
         (1982=100)
 
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                       |                           |
                                                       |  Not seasonally adjusted  |          Seasonally adjusted
                                                       |                           |
                                                        ___________________________ _______________________________________
                            Industry                   |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
                                                       |Nov. |Sept.| Oct.  | Nov.  |Nov. |July |Aug. |Sept.| Oct.  | Nov.
                                                       |1994 |1995 |1995p/ |1995p/ |1994 |1995 |1995 |1995 |1995p/ |1995p/
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
               Total private...........................|132.3|134.7| 135.1 | 134.0 |131.5|132.8|132.3|133.0| 133.8 | 133.3
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Goods_producing...............................|112.7|113.9| 113.0 | 111.1 |110.9|109.2|109.5|109.9| 109.7 | 109.3
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Mining.......................................| 56.1| 55.5|  55.2 |  53.8 | 54.6| 54.3| 53.2| 53.9|  53.8 |  52.3
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Construction.................................|144.1|158.0| 157.9 | 147.8 |140.3|143.4|142.0|143.6| 145.4 | 143.9
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Manufacturing................................|109.8|108.2| 107.1 | 107.1 |108.4|105.4|106.2|106.3| 105.8 | 105.7
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Durable goods...............................|109.5|108.5| 107.7 | 108.0 |108.2|105.7|107.1|107.3| 106.8 | 106.7
            Lumber and wood products...................|138.2|136.8| 136.6 | 133.9 |137.4|130.4|133.0|133.0| 134.1 | 132.8
            Furniture and fixtures.....................|130.4|123.9| 123.7 | 123.9 |128.3|119.8|122.6|122.0| 121.1 | 121.7
            Stone, clay, and glass products............|111.2|113.5| 112.6 | 110.5 |109.7|108.1|108.7|108.6| 108.7 | 108.7
            Primary metal industries...................| 94.5| 91.9|  91.7 |  92.7 | 94.0| 89.8| 91.2| 91.3|  91.9 |  91.8
              Blast furnaces and basic steel products..| 75.0| 72.0|  71.9 |  72.2 | 74.9| 70.8| 71.6| 71.0|  72.6 |  72.4
            Fabricated metal products..................|115.3|114.9| 114.2 | 114.9 |113.2|112.0|112.8|113.5| 112.7 | 112.7
            Industrial machinery and equipment.........|101.4|102.6| 102.2 | 103.8 |101.4|101.3|102.8|102.8| 102.5 | 103.8
            Electronic and other electrical equipment..|109.5|109.2| 109.8 | 110.0 |107.7|106.7|107.3|108.9| 109.1 | 108.2
            Transportation equipment...................|122.2|119.7| 115.4 | 115.3 |120.9|116.8|118.8|118.4| 115.3 | 114.0
              Motor vehicles and equipment.............|162.6|160.2| 158.0 | 158.7 |161.2|155.1|158.6|158.0| 158.1 | 156.7
            Instruments and related products...........| 75.4| 73.8|  73.8 |  74.7 | 74.9| 73.6| 74.2| 74.0|  73.8 |  74.0
            Miscellaneous manufacturing................|109.6|106.1| 107.1 | 107.5 |105.8|101.8|103.5|103.8| 103.4 | 103.5
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
           Nondurable goods............................|110.2|107.9| 106.2 | 105.9 |108.6|105.0|105.0|105.0| 104.4 | 104.4
            Food and kindred products..................|118.2|123.7| 119.2 | 116.2 |115.4|114.6|114.1|114.4| 114.2 | 113.5
            Tobacco products...........................| 64.6| 62.9|  63.4 |  59.1 | 62.9| 60.2| 59.7| 57.5|  55.6 |  57.2
            Textile mill products......................| 99.7| 93.5|  92.0 |  92.3 | 98.6| 91.9| 92.8| 91.5|  91.1 |  91.4
            Apparel and other textile products.........| 90.6| 81.8|  80.0 |  79.5 | 89.0| 81.3| 80.7| 80.8|  78.5 |  78.1
            Paper and allied products..................|113.5|110.3| 109.4 | 110.1 |112.4|109.9|109.2|108.6| 108.8 | 109.4
            Printing and publishing....................|128.9|126.2| 125.0 | 127.4 |126.8|125.3|125.3|125.0| 124.4 | 125.7
            Chemicals and allied products..............|103.1|103.2| 103.2 | 103.3 |102.7|102.7|102.5|103.2| 103.3 | 102.8
            Petroleum and coal products................| 82.4| 77.9|  78.6 |  75.2 | 81.4| 78.7| 76.3| 75.6|  75.6 |  73.9
            Rubber and misc. plastics products.........|146.0|142.0| 142.0 | 142.5 |144.9|138.5|140.1|141.3| 141.1 | 141.5
            Leather and leather products...............| 53.7| 50.5|  49.0 |  48.0 | 52.8| 46.4| 49.8| 49.6|  47.9 |  47.4
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         Service_producing.............................|141.0|144.1| 145.0 | 144.3 |140.7|143.5|142.6|143.4| 144.6 | 144.1
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Transportation and public utilities..........|125.0|127.3| 128.2 | 127.7 |124.0|125.7|125.2|125.6| 126.2 | 126.7
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Wholesale trade..............................|118.2|121.1| 121.9 | 121.0 |118.0|120.5|120.3|120.8| 121.2 | 120.6
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Retail trade.................................|130.8|131.2| 130.4 | 131.9 |129.5|130.4|129.4|130.2| 130.6 | 130.4
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Finance, insurance, and real estate..........|123.3|125.3| 127.4 | 125.1 |124.0|127.2|125.0|125.2| 128.4 | 125.8
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
          Services.....................................|164.8|170.3| 172.4 | 170.4 |165.0|169.4|168.7|170.1| 171.7 | 171.2
                                                       |     |     |       |       |     |     |     |     |       |
         __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
            1/  See footnote 1, table B-2.                                     p = preliminary.
 
 
 
      ESTABLISHMENT DATA                                                                                  ESTABLISHMENT DATA
 
 
   Table B-6.  Diffusion indexes of employment change, seasonally adjusted
 
      (Percent)
 
      _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
             TIME SPAN       | Jan.  | Feb.  | Mar.  | Apr.  | May   | June  | July  | Aug.  | Sept. | Oct.  | Nov.  | Dec.
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |
                             |                          Private nonfarm payrolls, 356 industries1/
                             |
                              _______________________________________________________________________________________________
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 1-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  39.7 |  40.0 |  38.6 |  37.2 |  49.4 |  44.2 |  47.1 |  53.7 |  49.3 |  47.6 |  46.2 |  45.8
           1992..............|  42.3 |  45.2 |  50.1 |  57.3 |  53.7 |  48.2 |  53.5 |  49.6 |  53.4 |  57.0 |  52.2 |  58.1
           1993..............|  57.6 |  61.5 |  51.4 |  58.3 |  61.4 |  55.1 |  57.7 |  56.3 |  61.4 |  59.7 |  61.1 |  60.7
           1994..............|  60.0 |  63.3 |  65.9 |  62.4 |  58.0 |  63.8 |  60.5 |  61.5 |  60.7 |  61.1 |  65.3 |  61.1
           1995..............|  60.3 |  61.7 |  57.6 |  51.3 |  46.2 |  55.3 |  48.5 |  54.9 |  50.6 |p/54.4 |p/55.2 |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  34.0 |  32.6 |  31.5 |  38.2 |  39.3 |  44.2 |  48.9 |  52.0 |  52.1 |  44.9 |  43.5 |  41.2
           1992..............|  40.2 |  42.6 |  50.7 |  56.3 |  56.3 |  54.6 |  50.6 |  51.3 |  52.5 |  54.9 |  58.7 |  59.1
           1993..............|  64.0 |  61.2 |  61.8 |  58.8 |  61.4 |  61.8 |  59.3 |  61.8 |  62.6 |  66.7 |  65.7 |  63.6
           1994..............|  68.8 |  70.9 |  69.8 |  67.1 |  66.0 |  66.0 |  68.4 |  68.3 |  67.8 |  67.3 |  68.1 |  67.4
           1995..............|  66.4 |  64.9 |  57.9 |  49.3 |  50.6 |  47.9 |  52.8 |  50.3 |p/53.7 |p/52.4 |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  29.8 |  32.6 |  30.9 |  32.6 |  39.0 |  44.8 |  47.1 |  44.7 |  48.0 |  45.8 |  40.7 |  40.3
           1992..............|  43.4 |  46.2 |  46.3 |  50.8 |  55.1 |  55.3 |  52.7 |  52.2 |  56.7 |  55.9 |  63.6 |  63.2
           1993..............|  63.2 |  63.8 |  62.8 |  64.2 |  60.8 |  63.9 |  64.5 |  64.7 |  66.2 |  67.3 |  70.8 |  70.8
           1994..............|  71.2 |  70.2 |  70.5 |  69.5 |  69.8 |  69.1 |  70.5 |  70.9 |  69.0 |  69.0 |  67.4 |  67.0
           1995..............|  65.9 |  58.8 |  56.3 |  52.2 |  49.2 |  49.6 |p/51.5 |p/54.2 |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 12-month span:    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  31.0 |  31.0 |  31.7 |  31.9 |  31.7 |  33.8 |  35.8 |  37.5 |  40.0 |  45.2 |  45.6 |  45.4
           1992..............|  47.2 |  42.3 |  42.7 |  44.1 |  48.0 |  52.5 |  55.8 |  60.7 |  59.7 |  61.4 |  62.9 |  62.9
           1993..............|  64.9 |  63.9 |  64.0 |  65.4 |  67.0 |  67.6 |  67.6 |  67.0 |  70.2 |  69.4 |  68.8 |  69.4
           1994..............|  68.4 |  70.8 |  71.9 |  70.2 |  69.5 |  69.7 |  70.4 |  70.8 |  70.4 |  70.2 |  66.0 |  64.0
           1995..............|  63.1 |  60.8 |  58.1 |p/58.1 |p/55.5 |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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                             |                           Manufacturing payrolls, 139 industries1/
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                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 1-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  32.4 |  35.6 |  32.4 |  35.3 |  47.1 |  42.4 |  44.6 |  52.2 |  43.2 |  47.5 |  42.1 |  38.5
           1992..............|  37.1 |  40.3 |  46.0 |  57.2 |  48.2 |  46.0 |  56.1 |  42.8 |  50.7 |  47.5 |  51.4 |  52.5
           1993..............|  52.2 |  57.9 |  52.9 |  44.2 |  51.4 |  46.0 |  50.7 |  48.6 |  56.1 |  54.7 |  56.5 |  54.3
           1994..............|  59.4 |  61.2 |  59.4 |  56.5 |  55.0 |  59.0 |  54.0 |  56.5 |  53.2 |  59.4 |  59.0 |  57.6
           1995..............|  56.8 |  54.7 |  49.6 |  44.2 |  36.7 |  41.7 |  39.6 |  46.8 |  40.3 |p/49.6 |p/43.2 |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 3-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  23.7 |  23.0 |  20.9 |  33.1 |  35.6 |  37.4 |  47.1 |  47.1 |  50.4 |  39.9 |  37.4 |  32.7
           1992..............|  29.9 |  36.0 |  45.0 |  51.4 |  52.2 |  54.3 |  45.3 |  50.7 |  43.9 |  49.6 |  51.4 |  53.6
           1993..............|  60.8 |  60.4 |  57.2 |  46.4 |  46.4 |  50.7 |  49.6 |  54.3 |  53.2 |  60.1 |  56.1 |  57.6
           1994..............|  65.1 |  66.5 |  64.4 |  59.0 |  58.6 |  58.3 |  61.5 |  59.0 |  61.5 |  60.4 |  64.0 |  62.2
           1995..............|  61.5 |  56.1 |  47.1 |  35.6 |  32.4 |  28.8 |  32.7 |  33.1 |p/41.0 |p/38.1 |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 6-month span:     |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  14.7 |  20.5 |  21.6 |  24.8 |  34.9 |  38.5 |  42.8 |  40.6 |  41.4 |  39.2 |  31.7 |  33.1
           1992..............|  33.5 |  36.0 |  39.6 |  47.5 |  51.8 |  52.5 |  47.5 |  48.9 |  52.5 |  47.1 |  57.9 |  58.3
           1993..............|  57.6 |  56.5 |  56.1 |  55.0 |  49.3 |  52.2 |  55.4 |  57.9 |  56.8 |  57.6 |  65.1 |  62.9
           1994..............|  61.9 |  62.9 |  64.4 |  61.5 |  60.8 |  59.0 |  62.2 |  62.6 |  61.5 |  64.0 |  61.5 |  61.5
           1995..............|  57.2 |  47.1 |  40.3 |  32.7 |  26.6 |  25.9 |p/29.1 |p/31.3 |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                             |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
      Over 12-month span:    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
           1991..............|  16.5 |  16.2 |  17.3 |  18.0 |  20.9 |  24.1 |  26.3 |  30.6 |  32.7 |  38.1 |  38.8 |  37.4
           1992..............|  42.4 |  36.7 |  36.3 |  36.0 |  39.6 |  45.7 |  50.0 |  55.8 |  57.9 |  56.8 |  58.3 |  56.5
           1993..............|  56.8 |  57.9 |  55.8 |  58.6 |  57.2 |  57.6 |  58.6 |  59.0 |  61.2 |  60.4 |  60.1 |  59.4
           1994..............|  58.3 |  59.7 |  61.9 |  61.5 |  61.5 |  61.5 |  61.9 |  63.3 |  61.5 |  59.7 |  56.5 |  49.6
           1995..............|  46.8 |  43.2 |  40.6 |p/37.1 |p/34.5 |       |       |       |       |       |       |
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         1/  Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-,             employment increasing plus one-half of the industries
       and 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month          with unchanged employment, where 50 percent
       span. Data are centered within the span.                        indicates an equal balance between industries with
         p = preliminary.                                              increasing and decreasing employment.
         NOTE:  Figures are the percent of industries with