Handbook of U.S. labor statistics
Subtitle: employment, earnings, prices. productivity, and other labor data
By: edited by Mary Meghan Ryan
Edition: 17th edition.
Series: U.S. DataBook; U.S. DataBook
Publisher: Bernan Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781598887006
Subjects: Statistics; Economics; Labor
Description: The current edition maintains the content of previous editions and updates the text with additional data and new features. ... The comprehensive and historical data presented in the Handbook allow the user to understand the background of current events and compare today's economy with previous years. Select data in this publication go back to 1913 and several tables have data going back to the 1940s. ... Includes over 225 tables, notes, definitions, concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derived ... and references to more comprehensive reports. -- from Preface.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1: Population, labor force, and employment status; title: Chapter 2: Employment, hours, and earnings; title: Chapter 3: Occupational employment and wages; title: Chapter 4: Labor force and employment projections by industry and occupation; title: Chapter 5: Productivity and costs; title: Chapter 6: Compensation of employees; title: Chapter 7: Recent trends in the labor market; title: Chapter 8: Labor-management relations; title: Chapter 9: Prices; title: Chapter 10: International labor comparisions; title: Chapter 11: Consumer expenditures; title: Chapter 12: American time use survey; title: Chapter 13: Income in the United States (Census Bureau); title: Chapter 14: Occupational safety and health; title: Index.