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2 Technical information: Household data: Establishment data: Media contact: (202) 691-6378 http://www.bls.gov/cps/ USDL 03-675 691-6555 http://www.bls.gov/ces/ 691-5902 Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EST), Friday, November 7, 2003. THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: OCTOBER 2003 Employment rose in October, and the unemployment rate, at 6.0 percent, was essentially unchanged, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 126,000 in October, following a similar increase (as revised) in September. Job gains occurred in several service industries in October. Manufacturing employment continued to decline, but the rate of job loss has moderated in recent months. Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, November 2000 - October 2003 Percent Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment, seasonally adjusted, November 2000 - October 2003 6.5 Millions 134.0 6.0 132.0 5.5 130.0 5.0 128.0 4.5 126.0 4.0 124.0 0.0 3.5 2001 2002 2003 0.0 122.0 2001 2002 2003 Unemployment (Household Survey Data) The unemployment rate, 6.0 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, 8.8 million, were essentially unchanged in October. Unemployment rates for the major worker groups—adult men (5.6 percent), adult women (5.2 percent), teenagers (17.1 percent), whites (5.1 percent), blacks (11.5 percent), and Hispanics or Latinos (7.2 percent)—also were little changed. The unemployment rate for Asians was 6.1 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) In October, 2.0 million unemployed persons had been looking for work for 27 weeks or longer, about the same level as in September. They represented 23.0 percent of the total unemployed. (See table A-9.) Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) Total employment increased by 441,000 in October to 138.0 million, seasonally adjusted. The employment-population ratio edged up to 62.2 percent. The civilian labor force was little changed at 146.8 million, while the labor force participation rate remained at 66.1 percent. (See table A-1.) 2 Table A. Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) Quarterly averages 2003 Category II III Aug. Monthly data 2003 Sept. Oct. Sept.Oct. change Labor force status HOUSEHOLD DATA Civilian labor force…………………………………………. 146,685 146,539 146,530 Employment…………………………………………………………. 137,638 137,559 137,625 Unemployment…………………………………………………………. 9,047 8,980 8,905 Not in labor force…………………………………………………………. 74,090 74,974 74,977 146,545 137,573 8,973 75,234 146,793 138,014 8,779 75,246 248 441 -194 12 6.0 5.6 5.2 17.1 5.1 11.5 7.2 -0.1 -.1 -.1 -.4 -.2 .3 -.3 Nonfarm employment……………………………………………….. 129,984 p129,911 129,881 p130,006 p130,132 Goods-producing 1……………………………………………….. 22,093 p21,984 21,982 p21,969 p21,952 Construction……………………………………………………. 6,782 p6,823 6,825 p6,841 p6,847 Manufacturing……………………………………………….. 14,744 p14,596 14,592 p14,564 p14,540 Service-providing 1……………………………………………………… 107,891 p107,927 107,899 p108,037 p108,180 Retail trade……………………………………………….. 14,981 p14,973 14,975 p14,985 p15,015 Professional and business services……… 15,999 p16,080 16,054 p16,124 p16,167 Education and health services………………………… 16,498 p16,532 16,541 p16,569 p16,625 Leisure and hospitality……………………………………………….. 12,036 p12,053 12,051 p12,058 p12,081 Government……………………………………………….. 21,495 p21,469 21,470 p21,478 p21,488 p126 p-17 p6 p-24 p143 p30 p43 p56 p23 p10 Unemployment rates All workers…………………….……………………………….. 6.2 Adult men…………………...…………………………….. 5.9 Adult women……………………………………………….. 5.1 Teenagers……………………………………………….. 18.6 White ……….……...……………………………………….. 5.4 Black or African American ……………………………… 11.2 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity……………………… 8.0 6.1 5.8 5.2 17.5 5.4 11.1 7.8 6.1 5.8 5.2 16.6 5.4 10.9 7.8 6.1 5.7 5.3 17.5 5.3 11.2 7.5 Employment ESTABLISHMENT DATA Hours of work 2 Total private……...…………………………………………….. 33.7 p33.7 33.7 p33.7 p33.8 Manufacturing…………….…………………………………….. 40.2 p40.3 40.2 p40.5 p40.5 Overtime……………………………………………….. 4.0 p4.1 4.1 p4.2 p4.2 Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100) 2 p0.1 p.0 p.0 Total private…...….……….….....……………....……..… 98.7 p98.6 98.7 p98.7 p99.1 p0.4 p$15.45 p520.67 p$15.46 p522.55 p$0.01 p1.88 Earnings Average hourly earnings, total private…………… $15.34 Average weekly earnings, total private………… 517.07 1 p$15.44 p519.93 Includes other industries, not shown separately. Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers. p=preliminary. 2 $15.45 520.67 2 3 Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) In October, 1.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, 170,000 more than a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals wanted and were available to work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed, however, because they did not actively search for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Of the 1.6 million, 462,000 were discouraged workers—persons who were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them. The number of discouraged workers was up by 103,000 from October 2002. (See table A-13.) Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data) Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 126,000 in October to 130.1 million, seasonally adjusted. This followed increases totaling 160,000 in August and September (as revised). During the February-July period, payroll employment had decreased by an average of 85,000 per month. (See table B-1.) Professional and business services added 43,000 jobs in October, following an increase of 70,000 in September. Professional and technical services contributed over half of the job gain (24,000) in October, with its management and technical consulting services component adding 7,000 jobs. Within administrative and support services, employment in temporary help services continued to trend up in October. Since April, temporary help has added 150,000 jobs. Employment in health care and social assistance rose by 34,000 over the month and by 255,000 over the year. In October, ambulatory health care services added 18,000 jobs, with about half the gain in offices of physicians. Social assistance added 8,000 jobs in October, largely in child day care services. Employment in private educational services grew by 23,000, seasonally adjusted. Job gains over the last 3 months have more than offset declines that occurred in June and July. Over the year, employment in private education grew by 56,000. Within retail trade, employment in food stores rose by 13,000 in October, reflecting the hiring of additional workers in anticipation of strikes. Since April 2000, however, employment in food stores has trended down. Within the leisure and hospitality sector, food services and drinking places added 23,000 jobs in October, following a gain of 20,000 in September. Restaurant employment has increased by 113,000 over the year. Employment in construction was little changed in October. Since February, the industry has added 147,000 jobs. In the financial sector, employment in credit intermediation, which includes mortgage banking, fell by 10,000, reflecting the decline in mortgage refinancing activity. Manufacturing employment decreased by 24,000 in October, with small losses distributed throughout most of the sector. Factory job losses in September and October averaged 26,000, well below the 53,000 average for the prior 12 months. After a small increase in September, employment in air transportation was down over the month. Since reaching its most recent peak in March 2001, the industry has lost 138,000 jobs. 4 Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data) The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.1 hour over the month to 33.8 hours, seasonally adjusted. The manufacturing workweek and manufacturing overtime were unchanged from September, at 40.5 hours and 4.2 hours, respectively. (See table B-2.) The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.4 percent to 99.1 in October (2002=100). The manufacturing index fell by 0.2 percent over the month to 94.3. (See table B-5.) Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data) Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 1 cent over the month to $15.46, seasonally adjusted. Average weekly earnings rose by 0.4 percent in October to $522.55. Over the year, both average hourly and weekly earnings increased by 2.4 percent. (See table B-3.) ______________________________ The Employment Situation for November 2003 is scheduled to be released on Friday, December 5, at 8:30 A.M. (EST). Change in Seasonal Adjustment Procedures for the Household Survey Effective with the release of December 2003 estimates in January 2004, BLS will convert to the use of concurrent seasonal adjustment to produce seasonally adjusted Current Population Survey (CPS) labor force estimates. Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all available monthly estimates, including those for the current month, in developing seasonal factors. Currently, seasonal factors for the CPS data are projected twice a year. With the introduction of concurrent seasonal adjustment, BLS will no longer publish seasonal factors for CPS data. BLS introduced the use of concurrent seasonal adjustment for the nonfarm payroll data in June 2003 with the release of data for May 2003. Benchmark Revisions to the Payroll Survey BLS will publish nonfarm payroll data revised to the March 2003 benchmark on February 6, 2004, with the release of data for January 2004. Previously, the revised data were published in June of each year; earlier receipt and tabulation of the benchmark source data now make it feasible to accelerate the publication date to February. Explanatory Note This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current Population Survey (household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides the information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the A tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The establishment survey provides the information on the employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that appears in the B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. This information is collected from payroll records by BLS in cooperation with State agencies. The sample includes about 160,000 businesses and government agencies covering approximately 400,000 individual worksites. The active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm payroll workers. The sample is drawn from a sampling frame of unemployment insurance tax accounts. For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular week or pay period. In the household survey, the reference week is generally the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of questions on work and job search activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force. People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm. People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal reasons. People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria: They had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and unemployed persons. Those not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent of the population, and the employmentpopulation ratio is the employed as a percent of the population. Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as Federal, State, and local government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are for private businesses and relate only to production workers in the goods-producing sector and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing sector. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification System. Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological differences between the household and establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the surveys. Among these are: • The household survey includes agricultural workers, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, and private household workers among the employed. These groups are excluded from the establishment survey. • The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed. The establishment survey does not. • The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older. The establishment survey is not limited by age. • The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because individuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one job. In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one job and thus appearing on more than one payroll would be counted separately for each appearance. Seasonal adjustment Over the course of a year, the size of the nation’s labor force and the levels of employment and unemployment undergo sharp fluctuations due to such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded production, harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large; seasonal fluctuations may account for as much as 95 percent of the monthto-month changes in unemployment. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by adjusting the statistics from month to month. These adjustments make nonseasonal developments, such as declines in economic activity or increases in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot. For example, the large number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen or declined. However, because the effect of students finishing school in previous years is known, the statistics for the current year can be adjusted to allow for a comparable change. Insofar as the seasonal adjustment is made correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in economic activity. In both the household and establishment surveys, most seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted. However, the ad- justed series for many major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most supersectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed by aggregating independently adjusted component series. For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. The numerical factors used to make the seasonal adjustments for the household survey are recalculated twice a year; the factors are calculated for the January-June period and again for the July-December period. For the establishment survey, a concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each month for the three most recent monthly estimates, using all relevant data, up to and including the data for the current month. In both surveys, revisions to historical data are made once a year. Reliability of the estimates Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may differ from the “true” population values they represent. The exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the particular sample selected, and this variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 standard errors from the “true” population value because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90percent level of confidence. For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or minus 290,000. Suppose the estimate of total employment increases by 100,000 from one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from -190,000 to 390,000 (100,000 +/- 290,000). These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent chance that the “true” over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that employment had, in fact, increased. If, however, the reported employment rise was half a million, then all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least a 90-percent chance) that an employment rise had, in fact, occurred. At an unemployment rate of around 4 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 270,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 percentage point. In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates which are based on a small number of observations. The precision of estimates is also improved when the data are cumulated over time such as for quarterly and annual averages. The seasonal adjustment process can also improve the stability of the monthly estimates. The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling error. Nonsampling errors can occur for many reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the population, inability to obtain information for all respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or processing of the data. For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2 months are based on substantially incomplete returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final. Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an estimation procedure with two components is used to account for business births. The first component uses business deaths to impute employment for business births. This is incorporated into the sample-based link relative estimate procedure by simply not reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the same trend as the other firms in the sample. The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the residual net birth/ death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and deaths over the past five years. The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference between the March samplebased employment estimates and the March universe counts is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over the past decade, the benchmark revision for total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.3 percent, ranging from zero to 0.7 percent. Additional statistics and other information More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and Earnings, published each month by BLS. It is available for $27.00 per issue or $53.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. All orders must be prepaid by sending a check or money order payable to the Superintendent of Documents, or by charging to Mastercard or Visa. Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error for the household and establishment survey data published in this release. For unemployment and other labor force categories, these measures appear in tables 1-B through 1-D of its “Explanatory Notes.” For the establishment survey data, the sampling error measures and the actual size of revisions due to benchmark adjustments appear in tables 2-B through 2-F of Employment and Earnings. Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-877-8339. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age (Numbers in thousands) Seasonally adjusted 1 Not seasonally adjusted Employment status, sex, and age Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 218,340 145,320 66.6 137,551 63.0 7,769 5.3 73,019 4,192 221,779 146,166 65.9 137,731 62.1 8,436 5.8 75,612 4,637 222,039 146,787 66.1 138,619 62.4 8,169 5.6 75,252 4,561 218,340 145,393 66.6 136,988 62.7 8,405 5.8 72,947 4,542 221,014 147,096 66.6 137,738 62.3 9,358 6.4 73,918 4,668 221,252 146,540 66.2 137,478 62.1 9,062 6.2 74,712 4,921 221,507 146,530 66.2 137,625 62.1 8,905 6.1 74,977 4,840 221,779 146,545 66.1 137,573 62.0 8,973 6.1 75,234 4,837 222,039 146,793 66.1 138,014 62.2 8,779 6.0 75,246 4,941 104,985 77,641 74.0 73,513 70.0 4,128 5.3 27,344 106,744 78,216 73.3 73,715 69.1 4,501 5.8 28,528 106,879 78,392 73.3 73,979 69.2 4,413 5.6 28,487 104,985 77,727 74.0 73,151 69.7 4,575 5.9 27,258 106,362 78,372 73.7 73,071 68.7 5,301 6.8 27,990 106,475 78,182 73.4 73,043 68.6 5,139 6.6 28,293 106,604 78,160 73.3 73,195 68.7 4,965 6.4 28,443 106,744 78,485 73.5 73,475 68.8 5,010 6.4 28,259 106,879 78,431 73.4 73,569 68.8 4,863 6.2 28,447 96,860 73,950 76.3 70,372 72.7 3,579 4.8 22,910 98,568 74,773 75.9 70,923 72.0 3,850 5.1 23,794 98,696 74,955 75.9 71,141 72.1 3,815 5.1 23,741 96,860 73,883 76.3 69,921 72.2 3,962 5.4 22,977 98,196 74,692 76.1 70,130 71.4 4,562 6.1 23,504 98,304 74,581 75.9 70,193 71.4 4,388 5.9 23,724 98,434 74,561 75.7 70,203 71.3 4,357 5.8 23,873 98,568 74,905 76.0 70,610 71.6 4,295 5.7 23,662 98,696 74,860 75.8 70,665 71.6 4,195 5.6 23,837 113,355 67,679 59.7 64,039 56.5 3,641 5.4 45,676 115,035 67,951 59.1 64,016 55.6 3,935 5.8 47,084 115,160 68,396 59.4 64,640 56.1 3,756 5.5 46,765 113,355 67,667 59.7 63,837 56.3 3,829 5.7 45,689 114,653 68,724 59.9 64,667 56.4 4,057 5.9 45,928 114,778 68,359 59.6 64,435 56.1 3,923 5.7 46,419 114,903 68,370 59.5 64,430 56.1 3,940 5.8 46,533 115,035 68,060 59.2 64,098 55.7 3,962 5.8 46,975 115,160 68,362 59.4 64,446 56.0 3,916 5.7 46,798 105,509 64,084 60.7 60,947 57.8 3,137 4.9 41,425 107,080 64,627 60.4 61,193 57.1 3,434 5.3 42,453 107,197 65,022 60.7 61,777 57.6 3,245 5.0 42,176 105,509 63,975 60.6 60,668 57.5 3,308 5.2 41,533 106,724 65,148 61.0 61,753 57.9 3,395 5.2 41,576 106,839 64,819 60.7 61,462 57.5 3,357 5.2 42,020 106,957 64,831 60.6 61,470 57.5 3,361 5.2 42,126 107,080 64,554 60.3 61,120 57.1 3,434 5.3 42,526 107,197 64,904 60.5 61,519 57.4 3,384 5.2 42,294 15,971 7,286 45.6 6,232 39.0 1,053 14.5 8,685 16,131 6,766 41.9 5,615 34.8 1,151 17.0 9,365 16,145 6,810 42.2 5,701 35.3 1,109 16.3 9,335 15,971 7,535 47.2 6,400 40.1 1,135 15.1 8,436 16,095 7,256 45.1 5,855 36.4 1,401 19.3 8,839 16,109 7,140 44.3 5,823 36.1 1,317 18.4 8,969 16,116 7,139 44.3 5,952 36.9 1,187 16.6 8,977 16,131 7,086 43.9 5,842 36.2 1,243 17.5 9,046 16,145 7,030 43.5 5,830 36.1 1,200 17.1 9,115 TOTAL Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... Persons who currently want a job ......................................... Men, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... Men, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... Women, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... Women, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ............................................................... Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio ............................................ Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate .......................................................... Not in labor force .................................................................... 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age (Numbers in thousands) Seasonally adjusted 1 Not seasonally adjusted Employment status, race, sex, and age Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 180,306 120,364 66.8 114,691 63.6 5,673 4.7 59,943 181,696 120,088 66.1 114,093 62.8 5,994 5.0 61,608 181,871 120,668 66.3 114,996 63.2 5,672 4.7 61,203 180,306 120,479 66.8 114,294 63.4 6,184 5.1 59,828 181,184 120,881 66.7 114,203 63.0 6,678 5.5 60,303 181,341 120,623 66.5 114,044 62.9 6,580 5.5 60,717 181,512 120,669 66.5 114,141 62.9 6,528 5.4 60,843 181,696 120,307 66.2 113,934 62.7 6,373 5.3 61,389 181,871 120,722 66.4 114,567 63.0 6,155 5.1 61,149 62,240 76.6 59,576 73.4 2,664 4.3 62,531 76.2 59,773 72.8 2,759 4.4 62,714 76.3 59,995 73.0 2,719 4.3 62,243 76.6 59,246 73.0 2,997 4.8 62,447 76.3 59,064 72.2 3,384 5.4 62,526 76.4 59,167 72.3 3,359 5.4 62,532 76.3 59,190 72.2 3,342 5.3 62,496 76.2 59,407 72.4 3,088 4.9 62,695 76.3 59,664 72.6 3,031 4.8 52,014 60.1 49,822 57.6 2,192 4.2 51,921 59.6 49,533 56.9 2,388 4.6 52,288 60.0 50,095 57.5 2,193 4.2 51,909 60.0 49,601 57.3 2,308 4.4 52,400 60.3 50,104 57.7 2,297 4.4 52,146 60.0 49,867 57.4 2,279 4.4 52,138 59.9 49,853 57.3 2,285 4.4 51,909 59.6 49,521 56.9 2,388 4.6 52,175 59.9 49,879 57.2 2,296 4.4 6,110 48.5 5,293 42.0 816 13.4 5,636 44.9 4,788 38.2 848 15.0 5,667 45.1 4,906 39.1 761 13.4 6,328 50.2 5,448 43.3 880 13.9 6,034 48.2 5,036 40.2 998 16.5 5,952 47.5 5,010 40.0 942 15.8 5,998 47.8 5,098 40.7 901 15.0 5,902 47.0 5,006 39.9 896 15.2 5,852 46.6 5,024 40.0 828 14.2 25,717 16,673 64.8 15,111 58.8 1,562 9.4 9,043 25,784 16,616 64.4 14,855 57.6 1,761 10.6 9,168 25,825 16,592 64.2 14,777 57.2 1,814 10.9 9,233 25,717 16,682 64.9 15,027 58.4 1,656 9.9 9,034 25,664 16,717 65.1 14,746 57.5 1,971 11.8 8,947 25,702 16,540 64.4 14,697 57.2 1,842 11.1 9,162 25,742 16,579 64.4 14,769 57.4 1,810 10.9 9,163 25,784 16,724 64.9 14,853 57.6 1,871 11.2 9,060 25,825 16,572 64.2 14,658 56.8 1,913 11.5 9,254 7,438 72.5 6,749 65.8 688 9.3 7,399 71.7 6,648 64.4 751 10.2 7,391 71.5 6,658 64.4 733 9.9 7,413 72.2 6,682 65.1 731 9.9 7,447 72.5 6,604 64.3 843 11.3 7,336 71.3 6,590 64.1 746 10.2 7,344 71.3 6,578 63.9 766 10.4 7,454 72.2 6,620 64.1 834 11.2 7,359 71.2 6,583 63.7 776 10.5 8,390 64.4 7,708 59.1 683 8.1 8,443 64.6 7,682 58.8 761 9.0 8,450 64.6 7,630 58.3 820 9.7 8,390 64.4 7,676 58.9 715 8.5 8,500 65.3 7,675 59.0 826 9.7 8,432 64.7 7,614 58.4 819 9.7 8,510 65.2 7,684 58.9 826 9.7 8,445 64.6 7,678 58.7 767 9.1 8,428 64.4 7,583 57.9 845 10.0 845 34.9 654 27.0 191 22.6 774 32.4 526 22.0 249 32.1 750 31.3 489 20.4 261 34.8 879 36.3 669 27.6 210 23.9 770 32.3 467 19.6 302 39.3 771 32.3 493 20.7 278 36.0 725 30.4 507 21.2 218 30.0 826 34.5 555 23.2 271 32.8 785 32.8 493 20.6 292 37.2 9,927 6,716 67.7 6,337 63.8 379 5.6 3,211 9,297 6,125 65.9 5,747 61.8 378 6.2 3,172 9,336 6,154 65.9 5,777 61.9 377 6.1 3,183 WHITE 2 Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Not in labor force .................................................................... Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 2 Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Not in labor force .................................................................... Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ ASIAN 2 Civilian noninstutional population ............................................. Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Not in labor force .................................................................... 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Beginning in 2003, persons who selected this race group only; persons who selected more than one race group are not included. Prior to 2003, persons who reported more than one race were included in the group they identified as the main race. (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) 3 Data not available. NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age (Numbers in thousands) Seasonally adjusted 1 Not seasonally adjusted Employment status, sex, and age Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 26,272 18,119 69.0 16,742 63.7 1,376 7.6 8,154 27,808 18,831 67.7 17,513 63.0 1,317 7.0 8,977 27,913 18,948 67.9 17,610 63.1 1,337 7.1 8,966 26,272 18,049 68.7 16,637 63.3 1,412 7.8 8,223 27,494 18,856 68.6 17,271 62.8 1,586 8.4 8,638 27,597 18,750 67.9 17,206 62.3 1,544 8.2 8,847 27,701 18,829 68.0 17,370 62.7 1,460 7.8 8,872 27,808 18,859 67.8 17,448 62.7 1,411 7.5 8,949 27,913 18,915 67.8 17,546 62.9 1,369 7.2 8,998 10,152 84.0 9,486 78.5 666 6.6 10,853 84.0 10,262 79.4 591 5.4 10,867 83.7 10,239 78.9 628 5.8 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) 6,949 59.5 6,432 55.1 517 7.4 7,108 57.7 6,520 52.9 588 8.3 7,170 58.0 6,622 53.5 548 7.6 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) 1,018 40.6 825 32.9 193 19.0 870 34.0 732 28.6 138 15.9 911 35.6 750 29.3 161 17.7 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Not in labor force .................................................................... Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force .................................................................. Participation rate ................................................................. Employed .............................................................................. Employment-population ratio .............................................. Unemployed ......................................................................... Unemployment rate ............................................................ 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available. NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Educational attainment Seasonally adjusted Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 12,344 44.4 11,358 40.9 986 8.0 12,636 45.0 11,638 41.4 998 7.9 12,551 45.2 11,516 41.5 1,036 8.3 12,461 44.9 11,375 40.9 1,086 8.7 12,498 44.8 11,286 40.4 1,211 9.7 12,537 45.5 11,446 41.5 1,091 8.7 12,639 45.5 11,453 41.3 1,185 9.4 12,576 44.8 11,488 40.9 1,088 8.6 12,692 45.7 11,562 41.7 1,130 8.9 38,052 64.2 36,361 61.3 1,691 4.4 38,044 63.7 36,209 60.6 1,835 4.8 37,947 63.7 36,072 60.5 1,875 4.9 37,966 64.0 36,090 60.9 1,876 4.9 37,977 64.1 35,778 60.3 2,199 5.8 37,847 64.0 35,786 60.5 2,061 5.4 37,914 63.8 35,883 60.4 2,031 5.4 38,068 63.7 36,038 60.3 2,031 5.3 37,852 63.5 35,756 60.0 2,096 5.5 34,243 73.5 32,751 70.3 1,492 4.4 34,023 72.9 32,423 69.5 1,599 4.7 33,993 72.7 32,461 69.4 1,533 4.5 33,884 72.8 32,299 69.4 1,585 4.7 34,329 73.2 32,648 69.6 1,681 4.9 34,310 72.2 32,594 68.6 1,717 5.0 33,856 72.4 32,271 69.0 1,585 4.7 33,938 72.7 32,304 69.2 1,634 4.8 33,640 71.9 32,013 68.5 1,627 4.8 38,670 78.6 37,538 76.3 1,132 2.9 39,857 77.7 38,552 75.1 1,305 3.3 40,634 78.2 39,431 75.9 1,203 3.0 38,622 78.5 37,458 76.1 1,165 3.0 39,966 78.3 38,743 75.9 1,224 3.1 39,614 77.5 38,387 75.1 1,226 3.1 40,012 77.5 38,752 75.1 1,260 3.1 39,813 77.6 38,537 75.1 1,276 3.2 40,611 78.2 39,374 75.8 1,237 3.0 Less than a high school diploma Civilian labor force .................................................................... Participation rate ................................................................... Employed ................................................................................ Employment-population ratio ................................................ Unemployed ........................................................................... Unemployment rate .............................................................. High school graduates, no college 1 Civilian labor force .................................................................... Participation rate ................................................................... Employed ................................................................................ Employment-population ratio ................................................ Unemployed ........................................................................... Unemployment rate .............................................................. Some college or associate degree Civilian labor force .................................................................... Participation rate ................................................................... Employed ................................................................................ Employment-population ratio ................................................ Unemployed ........................................................................... Unemployment rate .............................................................. Bachelor’s degree and higher 2 Civilian labor force .................................................................... Participation rate ................................................................... Employed ................................................................................ Employment-population ratio ................................................ Unemployed ........................................................................... Unemployment rate .............................................................. 1 2 Includes high school diploma or equivalent. Includes persons with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees. NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-5. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Category Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 CLASS OF WORKER Agriculture and related industries ............................................. Wage and salary workers ....................................................... Self-employed workers ........................................................... Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 2,551 1,430 1,092 28 2,494 1,576 900 18 2,559 1,546 996 17 2,483 1,394 1,040 (1) 2,213 1,226 1,005 (1) 2,193 1,216 946 (1) 2,348 1,384 937 (1) 2,362 1,445 878 (1) 2,471 1,496 940 (1) Nonagricultural industries ......................................................... Wage and salary workers ....................................................... Government .......................................................................... Private industries .................................................................. Private households ............................................................. Other industries .................................................................. Self-employed workers ........................................................... Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 135,001 125,717 19,691 106,026 796 105,231 9,188 95 135,237 125,580 19,722 105,858 784 105,074 9,545 111 136,060 126,371 19,862 106,510 756 105,753 9,574 115 134,537 125,346 19,692 105,704 (1) 104,947 9,080 (1) 135,357 126,034 19,701 106,275 (1) 105,441 9,250 (1) 135,204 125,727 19,631 106,135 (1) 105,240 9,306 (1) 135,215 125,661 19,651 105,940 (1) 105,060 9,538 (1) 135,329 125,754 19,739 105,967 (1) 105,212 9,394 (1) 135,706 126,147 19,853 106,324 (1) 105,613 9,464 (1) All industries: Part time for economic reasons .............................................. Slack work or business conditions ........................................ Could only find part-time work .............................................. Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 3,965 2,710 1,084 19,441 4,455 2,878 1,336 19,296 4,394 2,793 1,318 19,604 4,343 2,888 1,133 18,685 4,499 3,153 1,257 19,548 4,649 3,112 1,304 19,027 4,449 3,017 1,188 19,564 4,975 3,203 1,365 18,993 4,836 2,989 1,396 18,879 Nonagricultural industries: Part time for economic reasons .............................................. Slack work or business conditions ........................................ Could only find part-time work .............................................. Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 3,907 2,668 1,080 19,071 4,368 2,828 1,325 18,924 4,297 2,727 1,311 19,265 4,274 2,857 1,122 18,347 4,390 3,074 1,237 19,184 4,566 3,079 1,276 18,610 4,360 2,963 1,179 19,142 4,847 3,145 1,367 18,619 4,717 2,925 1,374 18,608 PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME 2 1 2 Data not available. Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute. Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and bad weather. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census industry classification system derived from the 2002 North American Industry Classification System into the Current Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-6. Selected employment indicators (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Characteristic Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over ............................................................... 137,551 6,232 2,337 3,895 131,319 13,310 118,009 97,363 30,592 35,142 31,629 20,646 137,731 5,615 2,262 3,353 132,116 13,294 118,822 97,432 30,419 34,942 32,071 21,390 138,619 5,701 2,188 3,513 132,918 13,438 119,479 97,703 30,518 34,943 32,243 21,777 136,988 6,400 2,347 4,045 130,589 13,303 117,271 96,840 30,323 35,005 31,512 20,430 137,738 5,855 2,291 3,568 131,883 13,473 118,414 97,357 30,410 34,858 32,089 21,057 137,478 5,823 2,289 3,538 131,655 13,379 118,288 97,213 30,437 34,742 32,034 21,074 137,625 5,952 2,362 3,562 131,673 13,393 118,434 97,185 30,311 34,843 32,031 21,249 137,573 5,842 2,254 3,594 131,730 13,395 118,319 97,078 30,261 34,923 31,894 21,241 138,014 5,830 2,206 3,626 132,184 13,444 118,790 97,209 30,282 34,819 32,107 21,581 Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over ............................................................... 73,513 3,141 1,120 2,022 70,372 7,010 63,362 52,181 16,719 18,894 16,567 11,181 73,715 2,792 1,073 1,718 70,923 7,015 63,909 52,460 16,767 18,986 16,707 11,449 73,979 2,839 1,072 1,766 71,141 7,061 64,080 52,443 16,780 18,915 16,747 11,637 73,151 3,230 1,142 2,081 69,921 6,975 62,938 51,873 16,569 18,804 16,500 11,065 73,071 2,941 1,089 1,850 70,130 7,012 63,118 51,961 16,668 18,670 16,623 11,157 73,043 2,850 1,089 1,757 70,193 6,962 63,253 51,994 16,711 18,724 16,559 11,259 73,195 2,992 1,162 1,812 70,203 6,947 63,328 51,977 16,587 18,757 16,632 11,351 73,475 2,864 1,069 1,801 70,610 7,029 63,520 52,160 16,646 18,934 16,581 11,360 73,569 2,904 1,097 1,801 70,665 7,040 63,673 52,154 16,645 18,835 16,674 11,520 Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over ............................................................... 64,039 3,091 1,217 1,874 60,947 6,300 54,647 45,183 13,873 16,248 15,061 9,465 64,016 2,823 1,188 1,635 61,193 6,280 54,913 44,972 13,652 15,956 15,364 9,941 64,640 2,863 1,116 1,747 61,777 6,377 55,400 45,260 13,737 16,027 15,495 10,139 63,837 3,169 1,204 1,964 60,668 6,328 54,332 44,967 13,754 16,201 15,012 9,365 64,667 2,914 1,203 1,718 61,753 6,461 55,295 45,396 13,742 16,188 15,466 9,900 64,435 2,973 1,200 1,781 61,462 6,416 55,035 45,220 13,726 16,019 15,475 9,816 64,430 2,960 1,199 1,750 61,470 6,445 55,106 45,208 13,724 16,086 15,399 9,898 64,098 2,978 1,185 1,793 61,120 6,366 54,799 44,918 13,615 15,990 15,313 9,881 64,446 2,926 1,109 1,825 61,519 6,403 55,116 45,055 13,637 15,984 15,434 10,061 Married men, spouse present ................................................... Married women, spouse present .............................................. Women who maintain families .................................................. 44,628 34,618 8,507 44,809 34,635 8,396 45,006 35,345 8,484 44,245 34,322 (1) 44,371 34,600 (1) 44,739 34,612 (1) 44,620 34,655 (1) 44,522 34,562 (1) 44,674 35,096 (1) Full-time workers 2 ................................................................... Part-time workers 3 ................................................................... 113,570 23,981 113,568 24,163 113,828 24,791 113,458 23,635 112,904 24,990 113,316 24,458 112,954 24,981 113,206 24,419 113,662 24,451 1 2 Data not available. Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week. 3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-7. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted Characteristic Number of unemployed persons (in thousands) Unemployment rates 1 Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over ............................................................... 8,405 1,135 453 674 7,269 1,502 5,768 4,942 1,859 1,787 1,296 823 8,973 1,243 542 687 7,729 1,636 6,111 5,217 2,042 1,766 1,409 869 8,779 1,200 582 637 7,579 1,491 6,120 5,272 2,048 1,851 1,374 833 5.8 15.1 16.2 14.3 5.3 10.1 4.7 4.9 5.8 4.9 4.0 3.9 6.4 19.3 21.6 17.9 5.7 10.7 5.1 5.3 6.5 5.4 4.0 4.6 6.2 18.4 20.8 17.0 5.6 10.3 5.0 5.1 6.1 5.2 4.0 4.3 6.1 16.6 18.7 15.9 5.5 10.3 5.0 5.1 6.3 5.0 4.1 4.1 6.1 17.5 19.4 16.1 5.5 10.9 4.9 5.1 6.3 4.8 4.2 3.9 6.0 17.1 20.9 14.9 5.4 10.0 4.9 5.1 6.3 5.0 4.1 3.7 Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over ............................................................... 4,575 613 237 372 3,962 813 3,153 2,695 1,023 966 706 459 5,010 715 312 403 4,295 954 3,371 2,878 1,167 967 745 493 4,863 668 279 389 4,195 839 3,385 2,918 1,168 957 792 467 5.9 16.0 17.2 15.2 5.4 10.4 4.8 4.9 5.8 4.9 4.1 4.0 6.8 20.1 23.8 17.7 6.1 11.7 5.5 5.5 6.7 5.6 4.2 5.5 6.6 20.9 22.8 19.5 5.9 11.7 5.2 5.3 6.4 5.2 4.4 4.6 6.4 16.9 20.7 15.3 5.8 10.8 5.3 5.5 6.9 5.2 4.4 4.4 6.4 20.0 22.6 18.3 5.7 11.9 5.0 5.2 6.6 4.9 4.3 4.2 6.2 18.7 20.3 17.8 5.6 10.7 5.0 5.3 6.6 4.8 4.5 3.9 Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 20 years and over ................................................................... 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 25 years and over ................................................................. 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 55 years and over 2 ............................................................ 3,829 522 216 302 3,308 689 2,614 2,247 836 821 590 344 3,962 528 230 285 3,434 682 2,740 2,339 875 800 664 391 3,916 532 303 248 3,384 651 2,734 2,354 880 893 581 354 5.7 14.1 15.2 13.3 5.2 9.8 4.6 4.8 5.7 4.8 3.8 3.5 5.9 18.5 19.5 18.0 5.2 9.5 4.7 5.0 6.2 5.2 3.7 3.7 5.7 16.0 18.9 14.5 5.2 8.9 4.7 4.9 5.8 5.2 3.7 4.2 5.8 16.4 16.7 16.6 5.2 9.8 4.6 4.7 5.6 4.8 3.8 4.5 5.8 15.1 16.3 13.7 5.3 9.7 4.8 5.0 6.0 4.8 4.2 3.8 5.7 15.4 21.5 12.0 5.2 9.2 4.7 5.0 6.1 5.3 3.6 3.4 Married men, spouse present ................................................... Married women, spouse present .............................................. Women who maintain families 2 ............................................... 1,630 1,342 706 1,716 1,427 775 1,760 1,366 781 3.6 3.8 7.7 4.4 3.9 8.7 3.9 3.9 9.0 3.8 3.8 8.4 3.7 4.0 8.5 3.8 3.7 8.4 Full-time workers 3 ................................................................... Part-time workers 4 ................................................................... 7,099 1,305 7,484 1,512 7,367 1,413 5.9 5.2 6.5 5.9 6.3 5.5 6.2 5.3 6.2 5.8 6.1 5.5 1 2 3 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force. Not seasonally adjusted. Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs. 4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs. NOTE: Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-8. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Reason Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 4,151 735 3,416 2,663 753 895 2,291 432 4,500 763 3,737 2,956 781 895 2,404 637 4,319 739 3,580 2,793 787 832 2,443 575 4,828 1,098 3,729 (1) (1) 850 2,386 494 5,010 1,199 3,811 (1) (1) 893 2,687 648 4,951 1,198 3,753 (1) (1) 792 2,529 670 4,942 1,080 3,862 (1) (1) 782 2,540 628 5,014 1,108 3,905 (1) (1) 847 2,408 700 4,936 1,097 3,838 (1) (1) 783 2,544 655 100.0 53.4 9.5 44.0 11.5 29.5 5.6 100.0 53.3 9.0 44.3 10.6 28.5 7.5 100.0 52.9 9.0 43.8 10.2 29.9 7.0 100.0 56.4 12.8 43.6 9.9 27.9 5.8 100.0 54.2 13.0 41.3 9.7 29.1 7.0 100.0 55.4 13.4 42.0 8.9 28.3 7.5 100.0 55.6 12.1 43.4 8.8 28.6 7.1 100.0 55.9 12.4 43.5 9.4 26.9 7.8 100.0 55.3 12.3 43.0 8.8 28.5 7.3 2.9 .6 1.6 .3 3.1 .6 1.6 .4 2.9 .6 1.7 .4 3.3 .6 1.6 .3 3.4 .6 1.8 .4 3.4 .5 1.7 .5 3.4 .5 1.7 .4 3.4 .6 1.6 .5 3.4 .5 1.7 .4 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs .......... On temporary layoff ................................................................ Not on temporary layoff .......................................................... Permanent job losers ............................................................ Persons who completed temporary jobs .............................. Job leavers ............................................................................... Reentrants ................................................................................ New entrants ............................................................................ PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Total unemployed ..................................................................... Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... On temporary layoff ............................................................... Not on temporary layoff ......................................................... Job leavers .............................................................................. Reentrants ............................................................................... New entrants ........................................................................... UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... Job leavers .............................................................................. Reentrants ............................................................................... New entrants ........................................................................... 1 Data not available. NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. Table A-9. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Duration Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Less than 5 weeks .................................................................... 5 to 14 weeks ........................................................................... 15 weeks and over ................................................................... 15 to 26 weeks ...................................................................... 27 weeks and over ................................................................ 2,618 2,281 2,870 1,272 1,598 2,682 2,514 3,240 1,268 1,973 2,579 2,346 3,243 1,354 1,890 2,797 2,515 3,099 1,374 1,724 3,009 2,936 3,572 1,536 2,036 2,730 2,699 3,592 1,633 1,959 2,727 2,595 3,572 1,637 1,935 2,739 2,783 3,524 1,421 2,102 2,731 2,577 3,463 1,444 2,020 Average (mean) duration, in weeks .......................................... Median duration, in weeks ........................................................ 18.0 9.6 19.5 10.2 19.6 10.3 17.6 9.6 19.8 12.3 19.3 10.0 19.0 9.6 19.7 10.1 19.1 10.3 100.0 33.7 29.4 36.9 16.4 20.6 100.0 31.8 29.8 38.4 15.0 23.4 100.0 31.6 28.7 39.7 16.6 23.1 100.0 33.2 29.9 36.8 16.3 20.5 100.0 31.6 30.9 37.5 16.1 21.4 100.0 30.3 29.9 39.8 18.1 21.7 100.0 30.7 29.2 40.2 18.4 21.8 100.0 30.3 30.8 39.0 15.7 23.2 100.0 31.1 29.4 39.5 16.5 23.0 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Total unemployed ..................................................................... Less than 5 weeks .................................................................. 5 to 14 weeks ......................................................................... 15 weeks and over ................................................................. 15 to 26 weeks ..................................................................... 27 weeks and over ............................................................... NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-10. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) Employed Unemployment rates Unemployed Occupation Total, 16 years and over 1 .......................................................................... Management, professional, and related occupations ............................... Management, business, and financial operations occupations ............ Professional and related occupations ........................................................ Service occupations .......................................................................................... Sales and office occupations .......................................................................... Sales and related occupations ..................................................................... Office and administrative support occupations ........................................ Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations ........... Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations ............................................... Construction and extraction occupations ................................................... Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................. Production, transportation, and material moving occupations ................ Production occupations .................................................................................. Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 137,551 47,640 19,875 27,765 22,060 34,999 15,921 19,078 14,198 1,169 8,252 4,777 18,655 10,101 8,554 138,619 48,200 19,568 28,632 21,872 35,446 16,010 19,436 14,952 1,261 8,367 5,323 18,149 9,727 8,422 1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Occupations reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census occupational classification Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 7,769 1,379 608 771 1,486 2,095 1,022 1,072 996 94 738 163 1,348 719 629 8,169 1,464 614 849 1,700 2,005 1,011 995 1,075 115 651 309 1,321 683 638 Oct. 2003 5.3 2.8 3.0 2.7 6.3 5.6 6.0 5.3 6.6 7.5 8.2 3.3 6.7 6.6 6.8 5.6 2.9 3.0 2.9 7.2 5.4 5.9 4.9 6.7 8.4 7.2 5.5 6.8 6.6 7.0 system derived from the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification system into the Current Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. Table A-11. Unemployed persons by industry, not seasonally adjusted Number of unemployed persons (in thousands) Industry Total, 16 years and over 1 ....................................................................... Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers ...................................... Mining ................................................................................................................. Construction ...................................................................................................... Manufacturing ................................................................................................... Durable goods ................................................................................................ Nondurable goods ......................................................................................... Wholesale and retail trade ............................................................................ Transportation and utilities ............................................................................ Information ........................................................................................................ Financial activities ........................................................................................... Professional and business services ............................................................ Education and health services ..................................................................... Leisure and hospitality ................................................................................... Other services .................................................................................................. Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers ........................ Government workers ......................................................................................... Self employed and unpaid family workers ................................................... 1 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Industries reflect the introduction of the 2002 Census industry classification system derived from the 2002 North American Industry Classification System into the Current Unemployment rates Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 7,769 6,466 36 680 1,046 666 380 1,212 262 211 312 962 517 956 272 97 499 275 8,169 6,620 31 651 1,041 683 358 1,189 260 182 303 1,014 639 933 378 136 500 338 Oct. 2002 5.3 5.7 6.4 7.7 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 4.7 6.0 3.5 7.5 3.0 8.5 4.6 6.6 2.5 2.6 Oct. 2003 5.6 5.9 5.6 7.4 6.0 6.3 5.4 5.7 4.8 5.4 3.3 8.1 3.6 8.3 6.1 8.5 2.4 3.1 Population Survey. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization (Percent) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Measure Oct. 2002 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003 Oct. 2003 U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force .............. 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force ...................................................................................................................................... 2.9 3.1 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) ...................................................................................................................................... 5.3 5.8 5.6 5.8 6.4 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers ............................................................................................................ 5.6 6.0 5.9 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers ................................................................................................................. 6.3 6.8 6.6 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers ........................................................................................... 9.0 9.8 9.5 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) 1 part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. For further information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. Data not available. NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job. Persons employed Table A-13. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) Total Men Women Category Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 Oct. 2003 73,019 4,192 1,416 75,252 4,561 1,586 27,344 1,896 708 28,487 2,086 737 45,676 2,296 708 46,765 2,475 849 359 1,057 462 1,125 206 502 223 514 153 555 239 610 Total multiple jobholders 4 ............................................................................ Percent of total employed ......................................................................... 7,320 5.3 7,515 5.4 3,722 5.1 3,776 5.1 3,597 5.6 3,738 5.8 Primary job full time, secondary job part time ........................................... Primary and secondary jobs both part time .............................................. Primary and secondary jobs both full time ................................................ Hours vary on primary or secondary job ................................................... 3,893 1,738 264 1,374 3,849 1,840 235 1,554 2,284 507 160 744 2,203 578 138 837 1,610 1,232 103 629 1,646 1,261 97 717 NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE Total not in the labor force ............................................................................ Persons who currently want a job ............................................................... Searched for work and available to work now 1 ..................................... Reason not currently looking: Discouragement over job prospects 2 ......................................... Reasons other than discouragement 3 ........................................ MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS 1 Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and were available to take a job during the reference week. 2 Includes thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination. 3 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as child-care and transportation problems, as well as a small number for which reason for nonparticipation was not determined. 4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately. NOTE: Beginning in January 2003, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Industry Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Seasonally adjusted Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Change from: Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Total nonfarm ............................. 131,297 129,633 130,249 131,071 130,408 129,903 129,846 129,881 130,006 130,132 126 Total private ........................................ 109,463 109,314 108,998 109,292 108,864 108,427 108,388 108,411 108,528 108,644 116 Goods-producing ............................................ 22,692 22,392 22,282 22,217 22,435 22,061 22,001 21,982 21,969 21,952 -17 Natural resources and mining .................................. Logging ............................................................ Mining .................................................................... Oil and gas extraction ........................................ Mining, except oil and gas 1................................. Coal mining ...................................................... Support activities for mining .............................. 583 70.5 512.6 121.2 213.4 73.9 178.0 577 66.9 510.5 126.4 214.1 73.0 170.0 573 66.8 506.3 125.7 211.3 71.4 169.3 577 68.2 508.4 126.5 211.7 71.8 170.2 572 66.7 505.7 121.5 209.7 73.6 174.5 569 65.7 502.8 125.7 208.9 73.2 168.2 566 64.0 502.1 125.3 209.6 73.7 167.2 565 63.6 501.1 125.0 209.1 72.9 167.0 564 63.5 500.1 125.5 207.4 71.4 167.2 565 64.1 500.5 126.0 207.5 71.5 167.0 1 .6 .4 .5 .1 .1 -.2 Construction ............................................................. 6,922 Construction of buildings ................................... 1,621.3 Heavy and civil engineering construction ......... 979.5 Specialty trade contractors ................................ 4,321.3 7,134 1,665.1 987.6 4,480.9 7,082 1,658.5 986.4 4,437.3 7,058 1,656.5 978.6 4,422.7 6,720 1,588.0 918.1 4,214.2 6,800 1,609.7 905.8 4,284.1 6,804 1,606.7 910.8 4,286.3 6,825 1,610.9 913.9 4,300.3 6,841 1,620.3 915.8 4,305.3 6,847 1,621.5 912.8 4,312.3 6 1.2 -3.0 7.0 Manufacturing ........................................................... Production workers ....................................... 15,187 10,727 14,681 10,296 14,627 10,262 14,582 10,227 15,143 10,685 14,692 10,299 14,631 10,257 14,592 10,229 14,564 10,198 14,540 10,176 -24 -22 Durable goods ....................................................... Production workers ....................................... Wood products ................................................... Nonmetallic mineral products ............................ Primary metals .................................................... Fabricated metal products ................................. Machinery ........................................................... Computer and electronic products 1.................... Computer and peripheral equipment ............. Communications equipment ........................... Semiconductors and electronic components . Electronic instruments ..................................... Electrical equipment and appliances ................ Transportation equipment .................................. Furniture and related products .......................... Miscellaneous manufacturing ............................ 9,413 6,486 557.1 524.5 504.9 1,536.6 1,215.7 1,482.7 241.3 186.6 512.7 442.6 488.8 1,815.0 596.5 690.8 9,052 6,206 549.5 512.5 477.9 1,471.5 1,165.6 1,392.3 221.1 169.6 480.1 430.8 462.6 1,773.8 574.9 671.1 9,017 6,180 547.7 508.6 474.3 1,464.9 1,162.1 1,381.5 220.2 168.9 472.6 428.7 462.0 1,772.7 574.2 668.6 9,006 6,172 547.0 504.2 469.8 1,470.0 1,161.0 1,379.1 219.4 169.1 469.9 428.5 459.8 1,769.7 576.3 668.7 9,400 6,474 554.2 516.1 504.4 1,532.0 1,219.6 1,483.9 242.0 185.5 513.9 444.1 489.1 1,815.5 596.9 688.3 9,081 6,221 541.0 505.0 482.0 1,476.4 1,175.8 1,407.7 226.5 173.3 485.1 429.9 467.7 1,774.3 574.1 676.6 9,034 6,188 540.8 501.1 478.5 1,470.7 1,171.9 1,398.1 223.6 171.9 480.9 429.0 465.9 1,760.2 574.2 673.0 9,018 6,182 538.2 501.4 475.9 1,469.2 1,168.0 1,392.5 221.9 170.9 479.5 429.0 462.1 1,767.6 572.7 670.4 9,000 6,161 541.1 498.1 471.9 1,464.4 1,166.6 1,385.9 221.5 170.0 474.2 429.0 461.1 1,769.1 573.6 667.9 8,990 6,149 542.7 496.7 469.0 1,466.2 1,165.1 1,379.3 219.2 169.3 470.1 428.8 460.3 1,769.1 574.6 666.6 -10 -12 1.6 -1.4 -2.9 1.8 -1.5 -6.6 -2.3 -.7 -4.1 -.2 -.8 .0 1.0 -1.3 Nondurable goods ................................................. 5,774 Production workers ....................................... 4,241 Food manufacturing ........................................... 1,541.4 Beverages and tobacco products ...................... 205.2 Textile mills ......................................................... 287.8 Textile product mills ........................................... 196.1 Apparel ................................................................ 349.4 Leather and allied products ............................... 48.6 Paper and paper products ................................. 546.4 Printing and related support activities ............... 703.0 Petroleum and coal products ............................. 120.2 Chemicals ........................................................... 922.6 Plastics and rubber products ............................. 853.5 5,629 4,090 1,558.6 199.7 260.2 178.9 299.5 43.2 528.3 691.4 119.4 916.5 832.9 5,610 4,082 1,560.4 198.8 259.0 179.3 298.5 42.9 526.9 687.2 117.9 908.2 831.1 5,576 4,055 1,541.3 196.8 254.0 179.7 298.0 42.8 524.5 686.6 116.5 906.0 829.3 5,743 4,211 1,520.0 203.1 287.5 195.4 346.7 48.6 545.6 701.3 118.7 925.1 851.0 5,611 4,078 1,517.5 194.5 270.1 186.4 307.8 43.3 530.6 694.1 118.4 916.5 831.7 5,597 4,069 1,520.9 194.4 264.7 184.2 301.2 43.5 527.3 692.2 118.0 917.7 833.3 5,574 4,047 1,521.7 194.8 259.6 178.4 299.0 43.1 526.4 690.0 116.9 914.8 829.3 5,564 4,037 1,524.8 194.4 257.7 179.6 295.3 43.0 525.0 687.0 116.0 912.1 829.1 5,550 4,027 1,524.1 194.5 254.8 179.6 294.6 42.5 523.9 684.2 115.5 909.3 827.3 -14 -10 -.7 .1 -2.9 .0 -.7 -.5 -1.1 -2.8 -.5 -2.8 -1.8 Service-providing ............................................ 108,605 107,241 107,967 108,854 107,973 107,842 107,845 107,899 108,037 108,180 143 Private service-providing ............................ 86,771 86,922 86,716 87,075 86,429 86,366 86,387 86,429 86,559 86,692 133 Trade, transportation, and utilities ........................... 25,539 25,200 25,200 25,380 25,439 25,238 25,211 25,217 25,241 25,269 28 Wholesale trade .................................................... 5,635.7 Durable goods .................................................... 2,996.1 Nondurable goods .............................................. 2,019.7 Electronic markets and agents and brokers ..... 619.9 5,571.7 2,946.8 2,006.5 618.4 5,554.0 2,929.6 2,004.5 619.9 5,564.6 2,940.6 2,002.2 621.8 5,618.9 2,990.8 2,010.1 618.0 5,570.6 2,947.5 2,004.1 619.0 5,560.1 2,940.4 2,001.4 618.3 5,550.0 2,934.5 1,997.7 617.8 5,548.8 2,930.9 1,996.4 621.5 5,547.6 2,932.4 1,994.0 621.2 -1.2 1.5 -2.4 -.3 See footnotes at end of table. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail-Continued (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Industry Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Seasonally adjusted Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Change from: Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Retail trade ............................................................ 15,070.9 14,950.8 14,906.1 15,063.2 15,025.2 14,964.2 14,958.0 14,975.1 14,984.9 15,015.2 Motor vehicle and parts dealers 1........................ 1,896.8 1,896.5 1,896.7 1,896.4 1,886.8 1,877.9 1,883.2 1,880.5 1,884.3 1,884.9 Automobile dealers ......................................... 1,259.2 1,253.6 1,255.2 1,255.3 1,254.9 1,246.0 1,249.0 1,248.1 1,250.1 1,250.2 Furniture and home furnishings stores ............. 549.5 536.9 538.2 546.1 546.8 546.5 543.9 541.6 542.8 543.2 Electronics and appliance stores ....................... 527.0 513.0 513.2 522.4 526.4 522.9 519.6 519.9 519.9 520.6 Building material and garden supply stores ...... 1,180.3 1,222.1 1,209.7 1,214.4 1,184.2 1,194.2 1,196.5 1,203.3 1,210.8 1,215.8 Food and beverage stores ................................. 2,859.5 2,808.2 2,790.5 2,809.7 2,852.5 2,812.8 2,801.7 2,798.0 2,791.9 2,804.9 Health and personal care stores ....................... 950.0 966.8 965.8 973.4 949.2 967.9 965.8 965.9 968.3 972.1 Gasoline stations ................................................ 904.2 918.6 907.1 901.4 903.6 908.6 904.0 907.1 903.5 901.0 Clothing and clothing accessories stores ......... 1,302.2 1,281.7 1,257.1 1,276.7 1,307.4 1,277.5 1,277.6 1,278.9 1,278.4 1,283.5 Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores................................................................ 659.0 629.9 636.0 643.3 655.3 642.0 640.8 640.6 640.6 641.2 General merchandise stores 1............................. 2,824.4 2,807.4 2,818.7 2,885.1 2,809.1 2,831.5 2,838.9 2,857.7 2,863.8 2,867.6 Department stores .......................................... 1,707.1 1,663.2 1,671.9 1,723.9 1,696.6 1,689.9 1,690.3 1,703.6 1,705.6 1,706.3 Miscellaneous store retailers ............................. 964.6 939.3 938.2 944.8 960.8 941.8 942.5 941.0 942.0 942.7 Nonstore retailers ............................................... 453.4 430.4 434.9 449.5 443.1 440.6 443.5 440.6 438.6 437.7 30.3 .6 .1 .4 .7 5.0 13.0 3.8 -2.5 5.1 Transportation and warehousing .......................... 4,232.8 Air transportation ................................................ 560.5 Rail transportation .............................................. 215.3 Water transportation ........................................... 50.4 Truck transportation ........................................... 1,354.7 Transit and ground passenger transportation ... 372.2 Pipeline transportation ....................................... 40.5 Scenic and sightseeing transportation .............. 26.5 Support activities for transportation ................... 531.2 Couriers and messengers .................................. 557.4 Warehousing and storage .................................. 524.1 .6 3.8 .7 .7 -.9 4,083.4 505.5 215.8 52.5 1,352.6 293.7 39.1 37.3 522.7 551.9 512.3 4,148.7 507.4 217.0 49.8 1,347.3 363.0 38.6 33.8 524.0 552.6 515.2 4,161.6 502.0 217.1 49.4 1,351.2 370.8 38.6 30.4 525.8 555.1 521.2 4,194.6 556.3 215.1 50.4 1,336.2 365.1 40.4 26.2 528.1 557.5 519.3 4,113.9 510.0 217.2 50.1 1,326.9 345.4 39.7 29.9 523.2 560.9 510.6 4,103.7 502.4 217.1 50.0 1,324.0 347.4 39.5 29.5 520.2 560.6 513.0 4,101.2 500.0 214.8 49.9 1,331.0 348.3 38.9 30.0 519.1 557.8 511.4 4,115.8 502.5 216.6 48.6 1,329.9 355.7 38.9 29.9 522.7 557.3 513.7 4,114.3 497.4 216.1 49.2 1,332.0 358.0 38.8 30.2 522.7 555.3 514.6 -1.5 -5.1 -.5 .6 2.1 2.3 -.1 .3 .0 -2.0 .9 599.8 593.9 590.9 590.3 600.6 589.5 589.6 590.8 591.1 591.4 .3 Information ................................................................ 3,388 Publishing industries, except Internet ............... 964.8 Motion picture and sound recording industries . 387.9 Broadcasting, except Internet ............................ 330.7 Internet publishing and broadcasting ................ 34.1 Telecommunications .......................................... 1,181.7 ISPs, search portals, and data processing ....... 442.1 Other information services ................................. 46.3 3,283 942.0 379.8 323.1 34.6 1,129.1 428.6 45.6 3,252 938.0 362.5 325.6 34.4 1,123.6 423.1 45.2 3,250 937.5 359.7 324.7 33.7 1,122.6 425.5 46.0 3,392 964.7 394.7 330.3 34.2 1,177.7 444.0 46.5 3,285 945.1 371.7 324.2 34.0 1,132.5 432.1 45.1 3,278 941.4 373.7 324.1 34.5 1,127.8 430.9 45.1 3,267 941.5 367.2 322.9 34.2 1,125.7 429.7 45.5 3,265 939.7 369.3 325.4 34.1 1,124.3 426.8 45.7 3,257 937.8 367.5 324.1 33.7 1,120.9 426.6 46.0 -8 -1.9 -1.8 -1.3 -.4 -3.4 -.2 .3 Financial activities .................................................... Finance and insurance .......................................... Monetary authorities - central bank ................... Credit intermediation and related activities 1....... Depository credit intermediation 1..................... Commercial banking .................................... Securities, commodity contracts, investments .. Insurance carriers and related activities ........... Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles ........ Real estate and rental and leasing ....................... Real estate .......................................................... Rental and leasing services ............................... Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets ......... 7,858 5,828.8 22.8 2,705.1 1,738.0 1,283.6 795.1 2,220.7 85.1 2,028.9 1,354.9 646.3 27.7 8,043 5,943.9 22.1 2,802.0 1,782.9 1,313.7 800.5 2,237.7 81.6 2,099.3 1,399.7 669.8 29.8 7,981 5,918.2 21.9 2,781.8 1,766.2 1,298.0 799.1 2,233.7 81.7 2,063.0 1,378.7 654.2 30.1 7,969 5,911.3 21.8 2,771.7 1,766.3 1,297.5 802.5 2,234.8 80.5 2,057.9 1,378.8 648.5 30.6 7,872 5,841.1 22.9 2,714.0 1,745.6 1,288.8 796.9 2,222.2 85.1 2,031.1 1,354.4 648.9 27.8 7,972 5,923.3 22.1 2,783.5 1,768.5 1,302.3 796.7 2,238.9 82.1 2,048.6 1,365.2 654.2 29.2 7,981 5,928.6 22.1 2,789.4 1,771.5 1,304.1 796.6 2,238.1 82.4 2,052.7 1,368.9 654.6 29.2 7,980 5,924.4 22.0 2,788.8 1,772.4 1,304.8 794.9 2,237.1 81.6 2,055.2 1,371.5 654.2 29.5 7,989 5,935.1 22.0 2,791.5 1,772.8 1,303.2 799.3 2,240.4 81.9 2,053.7 1,373.5 650.2 30.0 7,980 5,923.5 21.8 2,781.8 1,774.4 1,303.6 800.8 2,238.4 80.7 2,056.0 1,375.5 650.1 30.4 -9 -11.6 -.2 -9.7 1.6 .4 1.5 -2.0 -1.2 2.3 2.0 -.1 .4 Professional and business services ........................ Professional and technical services 1..................... Legal services .................................................. Accounting and bookkeeping services ........... Architectural and engineering services .......... Computer systems design and related services.......................................................... Management and technical consulting services.......................................................... 16,197 6,697.0 1,120.3 823.3 1,256.7 16,235 6,640.5 1,126.2 790.1 1,258.7 16,265 6,621.7 1,118.5 790.7 1,252.6 16,353 6,671.8 1,127.3 798.6 1,251.7 16,036 6,738.3 1,121.7 882.7 1,251.3 16,006 6,674.9 1,125.2 848.9 1,236.0 16,063 6,661.6 1,122.8 847.9 1,240.9 16,054 6,657.3 1,121.9 854.3 1,238.1 16,124 6,696.1 1,125.1 859.8 1,247.1 16,167 6,719.6 1,128.2 863.1 1,246.6 43 23.5 3.1 3.3 -.5 1,153.2 1,124.6 1,127.6 1,137.5 1,153.4 1,142.0 1,130.6 1,125.4 1,134.8 1,140.1 5.3 737.1 742.1 741.2 752.2 734.0 731.8 735.0 736.1 742.0 748.9 6.9 Utilities ................................................................... See footnotes at end of table. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail-Continued (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Change from: Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 1,709.8 7,789.8 7,471.9 3,406.1 2,294.7 751.5 1,642.9 317.9 1,698.8 7,895.5 7,573.7 3,489.4 2,322.7 743.0 1,687.1 321.8 1,697.5 7,946.0 7,625.7 3,561.7 2,387.7 745.8 1,664.9 320.3 1,695.3 7,986.3 7,669.8 3,605.5 2,405.1 757.0 1,647.3 316.5 1,703.9 7,594.0 7,279.2 3,260.8 2,192.6 749.1 1,606.7 314.8 1,690.8 7,639.8 7,323.0 3,318.3 2,207.9 747.8 1,601.8 316.8 1,698.5 7,702.5 7,380.3 3,374.8 2,226.6 745.0 1,609.9 322.2 1,690.8 7,706.1 7,389.2 3,373.7 2,236.6 750.4 1,613.5 316.9 1,691.1 7,737.2 7,420.3 3,399.0 2,264.3 753.7 1,610.6 316.9 1,689.2 7,758.2 7,443.1 3,427.7 2,281.2 753.9 1,605.8 315.1 -1.9 21.0 22.8 28.7 16.9 .2 -4.8 -1.8 Education and health services ................................ 16,471 16,178 16,475 16,801 16,315 16,503 16,487 16,541 16,569 16,625 Educational services ............................................. 2,830.4 2,361.3 2,650.0 2,900.6 2,681.3 2,689.7 2,676.7 2,699.8 2,714.8 2,737.3 Health care and social assistance ........................ 13,640.5 13,816.8 13,824.7 13,900.6 13,633.3 13,813.2 13,810.0 13,840.8 13,854.1 13,887.9 Ambulatory health care services 1....................... 4,693.6 4,800.0 4,787.3 4,816.8 4,692.0 4,777.4 4,781.6 4,791.7 4,792.0 4,809.7 Offices of physicians ....................................... 2,009.0 2,062.1 2,056.1 2,068.5 2,009.0 2,050.2 2,052.7 2,056.6 2,058.0 2,067.2 Outpatient care centers ................................... 412.0 413.9 411.6 412.3 412.2 414.7 412.9 413.7 413.3 413.3 Home health care services ............................. 689.6 710.5 712.1 717.0 687.9 709.0 711.1 711.8 711.1 713.1 Hospitals ............................................................. 4,180.5 4,241.7 4,236.2 4,240.8 4,179.0 4,227.0 4,226.8 4,235.2 4,237.6 4,240.3 Nursing and residential care facilities 1............... 2,757.4 2,797.0 2,788.4 2,798.9 2,757.1 2,790.7 2,787.2 2,789.7 2,794.0 2,799.0 Nursing care facilities ...................................... 1,581.2 1,586.4 1,585.5 1,588.7 1,580.8 1,589.6 1,586.0 1,583.8 1,586.4 1,588.6 Social assistance1................................................ 2,009.0 1,978.1 2,012.8 2,044.1 2,005.2 2,018.1 2,014.4 2,024.2 2,030.5 2,038.9 Child day care services ................................... 735.3 688.2 728.8 749.1 726.2 722.7 729.3 732.4 733.4 739.2 56 22.5 33.8 17.7 9.2 .0 2.0 2.7 5.0 2.2 8.4 5.8 Leisure and hospitality ............................................. 11,982 12,632 12,247 12,017 12,032 12,039 12,051 12,051 12,058 12,081 Arts, entertainment, and recreation ...................... 1,742.9 2,008.0 1,815.7 1,719.6 1,790.1 1,758.4 1,763.8 1,759.8 1,765.2 1,772.9 Performing arts and spectator sports ................ 358.2 372.4 360.5 350.3 360.9 346.5 347.4 347.3 354.1 357.5 Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks ...... 111.3 117.7 109.4 109.9 111.2 109.8 110.0 109.8 108.9 109.5 Amusements, gambling, and recreation ........... 1,273.4 1,517.9 1,345.8 1,259.4 1,318.0 1,302.1 1,306.4 1,302.7 1,302.2 1,305.9 Accommodations and food services .................... 10,239.1 10,624.1 10,431.2 10,297.2 10,241.6 10,280.4 10,286.9 10,290.8 10,293.0 10,307.8 Accommodations ................................................ 1,782.7 1,916.9 1,797.9 1,741.6 1,789.1 1,769.1 1,778.6 1,769.1 1,751.0 1,742.4 Food services and drinking places .................... 8,456.4 8,707.2 8,633.3 8,555.6 8,452.5 8,511.3 8,508.3 8,521.7 8,542.0 8,565.4 23 7.7 3.4 .6 3.7 14.8 -8.6 23.4 Other services .......................................................... 5,336 Repair and maintenance .................................... 1,230.2 Personal and laundry services .......................... 1,239.5 Membership associations and organizations .... 2,866.1 5,351 1,226.7 1,227.4 2,897.2 5,296 1,220.6 1,221.2 2,854.6 5,305 1,217.7 1,224.3 2,863.1 5,343 1,230.4 1,237.5 2,875.3 5,323 1,218.6 1,225.0 2,879.5 5,316 1,219.5 1,224.6 2,872.1 5,319 1,222.3 1,223.5 2,872.7 5,313 1,220.0 1,218.8 2,873.8 5,313 1,218.1 1,221.2 2,873.5 0 -1.9 2.4 -.3 Government .............................................................. Federal ................................................................... Federal, except U.S. Postal Service ................. U.S. Postal Service ............................................ State government .................................................. State government education .............................. State government, excluding education ............ Local government .................................................. Local government education ............................. Local government, excluding education ........... 20,319 2,758 1,946.8 811.4 4,681 1,917.7 2,763.3 12,880 6,653.9 6,226.4 21,251 2,760 1,950.9 808.9 4,912 2,167.5 2,744.2 13,579 7,512.5 6,066.5 21,779 2,728 1,920.3 808.0 5,069 2,335.5 2,733.9 13,982 7,943.0 6,039.1 21,544 2,781 1,947.5 833.6 4,984 2,203.0 2,780.8 13,779 7,691.5 6,087.7 21,476 2,749 1,928.2 821.1 4,925 2,174.3 2,751.1 13,802 7,718.7 6,083.5 21,458 2,747 1,928.9 817.7 4,920 2,175.5 2,744.7 13,791 7,723.5 6,067.2 21,470 2,745 1,929.5 815.8 4,928 2,186.6 2,741.6 13,797 7,735.1 6,061.9 21,478 2,765 1,952.4 812.6 4,944 2,199.8 2,744.0 13,769 7,687.0 6,081.7 21,488 2,740 1,928.4 811.4 4,951 2,207.2 2,743.6 13,797 7,707.7 6,089.5 10 -25 -24.0 -1.2 7 7.4 -.4 28 20.7 7.8 Industry Professional and business services-Continued Management of companies and enterprises ....... Administrative and waste services ....................... Administrative and support services 1................. Employment services 1...................................... Temporary help services ............................. Business support services .............................. Services to buildings and dwellings ............... Waste management and remediation services 1 Includes 21,834 2,780 1,951.6 828.7 5,098 2,322.3 2,775.2 13,956 7,925.5 6,030.0 other industries, not shown separately. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail Not seasonally adjusted Industry Seasonally adjusted Change from: Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Total private ....................................... 33.8 34.0 33.8 33.7 33.8 33.7 33.6 33.7 33.7 33.8 0.1 Goods-producing .......................................... 40.0 40.1 40.3 40.2 39.7 39.8 39.6 39.8 39.9 39.9 .0 Natural resources and mining .............................. 43.4 44.1 44.1 43.9 43.0 43.7 43.2 43.7 43.7 43.6 -.1 Construction ............................................................ 38.7 39.5 39.1 38.9 38.2 38.4 38.3 38.6 38.4 38.4 .0 Manufacturing ......................................................... Overtime hours ............................................ 40.5 4.3 40.2 4.2 40.8 4.5 40.7 4.4 40.3 4.2 40.3 4.0 40.1 4.1 40.2 4.1 40.5 4.2 40.5 4.2 .0 .0 Durable goods ..................................................... Overtime hours ............................................ Wood products .................................................. Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... Primary metals .................................................. Fabricated metal products .............................. Machinery .......................................................... Computer and electronic products ................ Electrical equipment and appliances ............ Transportation equipment ............................... Furniture and related products ....................... Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 40.7 4.3 40.2 42.3 42.3 40.7 40.4 39.4 40.1 42.5 38.6 38.9 40.6 4.3 40.7 42.6 41.6 40.5 40.5 40.9 40.3 40.9 39.4 38.1 41.2 4.6 41.0 42.7 42.5 40.9 41.1 40.7 40.7 42.6 39.6 38.4 41.1 4.4 41.1 42.3 42.4 40.9 40.8 40.7 41.1 42.4 39.1 38.3 40.6 4.3 39.9 41.9 42.4 40.6 40.5 39.3 39.9 42.4 38.7 38.8 40.7 4.1 40.3 42.2 42.0 40.5 40.9 40.5 41.0 41.4 38.9 38.6 40.5 4.1 40.7 41.6 41.7 40.5 40.3 40.5 40.4 41.3 38.9 38.4 40.5 4.2 40.4 42.1 41.9 40.5 40.7 41.1 40.6 40.7 39.1 38.2 40.8 4.3 40.4 41.9 42.2 40.7 41.1 40.5 40.6 42.0 39.2 38.3 40.9 4.3 40.7 42.0 42.4 40.8 40.9 40.6 40.8 41.9 39.1 38.2 .1 .0 .3 .1 .2 .1 -.2 .1 .2 -.1 -.1 -.1 Nondurable goods ............................................... Overtime hours ............................................ Food manufacturing ......................................... Beverages and tobacco products .................. Textile mills ........................................................ Textile product mills ......................................... Apparel ............................................................... Leather and allied products ............................ Paper and paper products .............................. Printing and related support activities ........... Petroleum and coal products .......................... Chemicals .......................................................... Plastics and rubber products .......................... 40.1 4.3 39.9 39.5 39.9 38.7 35.8 38.7 41.7 38.7 43.6 42.5 40.6 39.7 4.1 39.7 39.1 38.7 40.1 34.7 38.8 41.0 38.1 43.9 42.2 40.1 40.3 4.5 40.1 39.5 39.4 41.0 35.1 38.4 41.7 38.8 44.9 42.5 40.8 40.1 4.3 39.7 38.8 39.1 40.6 36.1 39.3 41.7 38.8 45.5 42.0 41.0 39.9 4.1 39.4 39.4 40.0 38.9 35.8 38.5 41.5 38.5 43.5 42.5 40.5 39.7 3.9 39.4 39.0 38.6 39.1 35.0 38.8 41.4 38.1 44.1 42.2 40.1 39.4 4.0 39.0 38.5 37.7 39.8 34.6 39.8 41.2 38.0 43.9 42.1 40.0 39.7 3.9 39.3 38.8 38.7 39.9 34.7 39.0 41.2 38.0 44.4 42.3 40.2 39.8 4.1 39.4 38.8 39.0 40.8 35.2 38.5 41.2 38.2 44.5 42.2 40.5 40.0 4.1 39.4 38.6 39.0 40.5 35.9 39.1 41.5 38.5 45.2 42.0 40.8 .2 .0 .0 -.2 .0 -.3 .7 .6 .3 .3 .7 -.2 .3 Private service-providing ............................. 32.4 32.6 32.3 32.3 32.5 32.4 32.3 32.4 32.4 32.4 .0 Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 33.5 33.9 33.7 33.6 33.6 33.4 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.6 .0 Wholesale trade ................................................... 37.7 38.0 37.9 38.0 37.8 37.8 37.8 37.9 37.8 38.0 .2 Retail trade ........................................................... 30.7 31.4 31.0 30.8 30.9 30.8 30.6 30.8 30.9 30.9 .0 Transportation and warehousing ...................... 36.8 37.1 37.2 37.1 36.9 36.6 36.9 36.9 37.0 37.1 .1 Utilities ................................................................... 41.2 40.9 40.8 41.5 41.0 41.0 40.9 40.9 40.5 41.3 .8 Information ............................................................... 36.6 36.5 36.2 36.2 36.5 36.4 36.4 36.3 36.2 36.2 .0 Financial activities .................................................. 35.3 35.4 35.2 35.2 35.5 35.5 35.5 35.5 35.4 35.4 .0 Professional and business services .................... 34.2 34.1 33.8 33.8 34.2 34.1 34.0 33.9 33.9 33.9 .0 Education and health services ............................. 32.4 32.7 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.5 32.7 32.5 32.6 .1 Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 25.7 26.3 25.3 25.5 25.9 25.5 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 .1 Other services ......................................................... 32.0 31.9 31.7 31.7 32.0 31.8 31.7 31.7 31.7 31.7 .0 1 Data relate to production workers in natural resources and mining and manufacturing, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail Average hourly earnings Industry Average weekly earnings Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Total private ....................................... Seasonally adjusted ..................... $15.12 15.10 $15.35 15.45 $15.48 15.45 $15.45 15.46 $511.06 510.38 $521.90 520.67 $523.22 520.67 $520.67 522.55 Goods-producing .......................................... 16.55 16.92 17.01 16.93 662.00 678.49 685.50 680.59 Natural resources and mining .............................. 17.25 17.61 17.74 17.67 748.65 776.60 782.33 775.71 Construction ............................................................ 18.79 19.06 19.19 19.11 727.17 752.87 750.33 743.38 Manufacturing ......................................................... 15.45 15.76 15.87 15.79 625.73 633.55 647.50 642.65 Durable goods ..................................................... Wood products .................................................. Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... Primary metals .................................................. Fabricated metal products .............................. Machinery .......................................................... Computer and electronic products ................ Electrical equipment and appliances ............ Transportation equipment ............................... Furniture and related products ....................... Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 16.20 12.37 15.59 17.93 14.78 15.97 16.24 14.02 21.13 12.74 13.01 16.47 12.76 15.81 18.10 15.04 16.35 16.78 14.43 21.30 13.05 13.26 16.61 12.83 15.81 18.25 15.09 16.43 16.76 14.49 21.55 13.11 13.41 16.52 12.78 15.90 18.22 15.03 16.35 16.74 14.38 21.27 13.02 13.50 659.34 497.27 659.46 758.44 601.55 645.19 639.86 562.20 898.03 491.76 506.09 668.68 519.33 673.51 752.96 609.12 662.18 686.30 581.53 871.17 514.17 505.21 684.33 526.03 675.09 775.63 617.18 675.27 682.13 589.74 918.03 519.16 514.94 678.97 525.26 672.57 772.53 614.73 667.08 681.32 591.02 901.85 509.08 517.05 Nondurable goods ............................................... Food manufacturing ......................................... Beverages and tobacco products .................. Textile mills ........................................................ Textile product mills ......................................... Apparel ............................................................... Leather and allied products ............................ Paper and paper products .............................. Printing and related support activities ........... Petroleum and coal products .......................... Chemicals .......................................................... Plastics and rubber products .......................... 14.27 12.66 17.62 11.70 11.02 9.15 11.01 17.09 15.15 23.46 18.00 13.66 14.67 12.78 17.60 11.94 11.47 9.75 11.73 17.46 15.37 23.01 18.61 14.26 14.74 12.88 17.33 12.08 11.44 9.77 11.70 17.54 15.50 23.53 18.66 14.29 14.66 12.71 17.70 12.03 11.32 9.70 11.93 17.55 15.45 23.75 18.68 14.13 572.23 505.13 695.99 466.83 426.47 327.57 426.09 712.65 586.31 1,022.86 765.00 554.60 582.40 507.37 688.16 462.08 459.95 338.33 455.12 715.86 585.60 1,010.14 785.34 571.83 594.02 516.49 684.54 475.95 469.04 342.93 449.28 731.42 601.40 1,056.50 793.05 583.03 587.87 504.59 686.76 470.37 459.59 350.17 468.85 731.84 599.46 1,080.63 784.56 579.33 Private service-providing ............................. 14.72 14.92 15.05 15.05 476.93 486.39 486.12 486.12 Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 14.13 14.32 14.43 14.36 473.36 485.45 486.29 482.50 Wholesale trade ................................................... 17.05 17.32 17.37 17.36 642.79 658.16 658.32 659.68 Retail trade ........................................................... 11.78 11.90 12.01 11.89 361.65 373.66 372.31 366.21 Transportation and warehousing ...................... 15.94 16.36 16.36 16.38 586.59 606.96 608.59 607.70 Utilities ................................................................... 23.93 24.78 25.11 25.02 985.92 1,013.50 1,024.49 1,038.33 Information ............................................................... 20.59 21.21 21.43 21.37 753.59 774.17 775.77 773.59 Financial activities .................................................. 16.48 17.30 17.29 17.29 581.74 612.42 608.61 608.61 Professional and business services .................... 16.89 17.04 17.14 17.14 577.64 581.06 579.33 579.33 Education and health services ............................. 15.42 15.75 15.78 15.80 499.61 515.03 512.85 513.50 Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 8.65 8.66 8.78 8.81 222.31 227.76 222.13 224.66 Other services ......................................................... 13.86 13.91 13.99 13.93 443.52 443.73 443.48 441.58 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted Percent change from: Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Total private: Current dollars .............................................. Constant (1982) dollars 2.............................. $15.10 8.26 $15.38 8.30 $15.43 8.32 $15.45 8.30 $15.45 8.28 $15.46 N.A. 0.1 ( 3) Goods-producing .......................................................... 16.48 16.79 16.81 16.86 16.91 16.88 -.2 Natural resources and mining .............................................. 17.21 17.60 17.62 17.69 17.71 17.74 .2 Construction ............................................................................ 18.66 18.96 18.96 18.99 19.04 19.04 .0 Manufacturing ......................................................................... Excluding overtime 4.................................................... 15.45 14.68 15.72 14.98 15.73 14.96 15.79 15.02 15.84 15.06 15.81 15.03 -.2 -.2 Durable goods ..................................................................... 16.19 16.42 16.42 16.49 16.56 16.51 -.3 Nondurable goods ............................................................... 14.29 14.63 14.66 14.70 14.71 14.71 .0 Private service-providing ............................................. 14.72 15.00 15.06 15.06 15.05 15.07 .1 Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................................... 14.13 14.34 14.40 14.39 14.38 14.39 .1 Wholesale trade ................................................................... 17.09 17.34 17.36 17.40 17.40 17.41 .1 Retail trade ........................................................................... 11.77 11.92 11.96 11.96 11.95 11.94 -.1 Transportation and warehousing ...................................... 15.92 16.30 16.40 16.36 16.35 16.38 .2 Utilities ................................................................................... 23.96 24.62 24.73 24.95 24.91 25.06 .6 Information ............................................................................... 20.49 21.13 21.26 21.32 21.30 21.31 .0 Financial activities .................................................................. 16.51 17.17 17.33 17.33 17.31 17.33 .1 Professional and business services .................................... 16.99 17.22 17.23 17.24 17.22 17.26 .2 Education and health services ............................................. 15.42 15.67 15.72 15.76 15.77 15.81 .3 Leisure and hospitality ........................................................... 8.62 8.75 8.76 8.75 8.78 8.79 .1 Other services ......................................................................... 13.86 13.98 13.98 13.98 13.98 13.97 -.1 Industry 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate this series. 3 Change was -0.2 percent from Aug. 2003 to Sept. 2003, the latest month available. 2 The 4 Derived by assuming that overtime hours are paid at the rate of time and one-half. N.A. = not available. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (2002=100) Not seasonally adjusted Industry Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Seasonally adjusted Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Percent Oct. change from: 2003p Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Total private ....................................... 100.3 100.5 99.5 99.4 99.7 98.7 98.3 98.7 98.7 99.1 0.4 Goods-producing .......................................... 100.8 99.0 98.9 98.3 98.5 96.3 95.6 96.0 96.1 95.9 -.2 Natural resources and mining .............................. 100.7 99.5 98.3 99.0 97.7 96.7 95.4 96.2 95.5 96.0 .5 Construction ............................................................ 103.8 107.9 106.0 104.9 98.7 99.1 98.9 99.9 99.6 99.5 -.1 99.4 94.7 95.8 95.2 98.5 95.0 94.1 94.1 94.5 94.3 -.2 Durable goods ..................................................... 98.9 Wood products .................................................. 100.8 Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 101.5 Primary metals .................................................. 98.9 Fabricated metal products .............................. 99.5 Machinery .......................................................... 97.5 Computer and electronic products ................ 97.2 Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 97.9 Transportation equipment ............................... 99.5 Furniture and related products ....................... 96.5 Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 100.2 94.4 100.3 98.7 91.4 94.3 93.3 94.7 90.8 93.6 94.2 93.1 95.3 100.4 98.0 92.6 94.9 94.6 93.3 91.8 97.4 94.7 93.2 95.0 100.6 96.3 91.6 95.2 93.9 93.2 92.0 96.7 93.6 93.0 98.4 99.4 98.6 98.9 98.9 98.2 97.2 97.3 99.3 96.9 99.5 94.8 97.5 95.7 93.4 94.7 95.0 95.3 93.7 94.4 92.9 95.6 93.8 98.3 93.6 91.8 94.3 93.6 94.6 91.9 93.4 93.0 94.4 93.8 97.5 94.9 91.7 94.2 94.3 95.4 91.6 92.8 93.2 93.2 94.1 97.6 93.7 91.5 94.3 95.1 93.4 91.2 95.5 93.6 92.8 94.2 98.8 93.7 91.3 94.6 94.5 93.0 91.3 95.1 93.4 92.3 .1 1.2 .0 -.2 .3 -.6 -.4 .1 -.4 -.2 -.5 Nondurable goods ............................................... 99.9 Food manufacturing ......................................... 102.4 Beverages and tobacco products .................. 99.1 Textile mills ........................................................ 96.6 Textile product mills ......................................... 98.4 Apparel ............................................................... 95.8 Leather and allied products ............................ 100.4 Paper and paper products .............................. 98.9 Printing and related support activities ........... 99.7 Petroleum and coal products .......................... 101.9 Chemicals .......................................................... 99.4 Plastics and rubber products .......................... 99.9 95.4 102.2 88.7 83.8 92.1 76.3 87.9 92.9 96.0 100.8 99.2 95.8 96.6 103.4 90.4 85.3 95.9 77.1 86.5 94.2 96.8 102.3 99.0 97.3 95.5 101.1 88.0 83.0 95.5 78.9 88.0 93.2 97.1 102.9 97.5 97.7 98.7 99.3 97.2 96.5 98.8 94.8 99.9 98.2 98.7 100.0 100.0 99.4 95.1 98.6 85.7 87.4 93.5 79.2 87.1 94.0 96.5 99.6 99.0 96.1 94.2 97.9 85.3 83.2 94.6 77.4 91.0 93.0 95.8 98.8 99.3 95.5 94.4 98.5 85.1 83.6 91.8 76.2 88.1 92.8 95.5 99.5 99.6 95.7 94.4 98.9 84.9 83.8 95.5 76.0 86.7 92.4 95.4 99.3 98.9 96.3 94.6 98.8 85.4 82.7 95.0 76.8 86.7 92.7 95.8 100.6 98.2 97.0 .2 -.1 .6 -1.3 -.5 1.1 .0 .3 .4 1.3 -.7 .7 Private service-providing ............................. 100.2 100.8 99.5 99.9 100.1 99.5 99.2 99.5 99.6 99.8 .2 Manufacturing ......................................................... Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 99.7 99.2 98.6 99.1 99.6 97.9 97.8 98.2 98.6 98.6 .0 Wholesale trade ................................................... 98.9 97.9 97.3 97.5 98.9 97.3 97.1 97.2 97.0 97.2 .2 Retail trade ........................................................... 99.4 100.7 99.0 99.5 99.7 98.9 98.2 99.0 99.4 99.6 .2 Transportation and warehousing ...................... 100.7 97.3 99.4 99.4 99.9 96.8 97.3 97.1 98.0 98.2 .2 Utilities ................................................................... 100.7 99.4 98.7 100.2 100.4 98.6 98.5 98.8 98.1 100.1 2.0 Information ............................................................... 99.1 100.1 98.2 98.0 99.4 99.6 99.5 99.2 98.8 98.8 .0 Financial activities .................................................. 99.4 102.0 100.4 100.2 100.3 101.3 101.4 101.4 101.3 101.0 -.3 Professional and business services .................... 101.0 100.1 99.3 99.9 99.9 98.6 98.6 98.3 98.6 98.9 .3 Education and health services ............................. 101.6 100.2 101.4 103.3 101.0 101.8 101.7 102.5 102.0 102.6 .6 Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 99.3 107.3 99.7 98.5 100.6 98.8 98.1 98.6 98.9 99.4 .5 Other services ......................................................... 99.4 99.1 97.3 97.5 99.5 98.3 97.9 97.8 97.7 97.7 .0 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. preliminary. NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the p= corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and production or nonsupervisory worker employment. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-6. Indexes of aggregrate weekly payrolls of production or nonsupervisory workers1 on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (2002=100) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Oct. 2002 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Oct. 2003p Oct. 2002 June 2003 July 2003 Aug. 2003 Sept. 2003p Percent Oct. change from: 2003p Sept. 2003Oct. 2003 Total private ....................................... 101.4 103.1 103.0 102.8 100.7 101.5 101.5 102.0 102.0 102.5 0.5 Goods-producing .......................................... 102.2 102.5 103.1 102.0 99.4 99.0 98.4 99.1 99.5 99.2 -.3 Industry Natural resources and mining .............................. 100.8 101.7 101.2 101.6 97.6 98.8 97.6 98.8 98.2 98.9 .7 Construction ............................................................ 105.4 111.1 109.8 108.3 99.5 101.5 101.2 102.4 102.4 102.3 -.1 Manufacturing ......................................................... 100.4 97.6 99.4 98.3 99.5 97.6 96.8 97.2 97.9 97.5 -.4 Durable goods ..................................................... 100.0 97.0 98.9 98.0 99.5 97.2 96.2 96.5 97.3 97.1 -.2 Nondurable goods ............................................... 100.7 98.9 100.6 98.9 99.6 98.3 97.5 98.0 98.1 98.3 .2 Private service-providing ............................. 101.2 103.2 102.8 103.2 101.1 102.4 102.5 102.9 103.0 103.2 .2 Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 100.5 101.4 101.5 101.5 100.4 100.2 100.5 100.8 101.1 101.3 .2 Wholesale trade ................................................... 99.4 99.9 99.7 99.8 99.7 99.5 99.4 99.7 99.5 99.8 .3 Retail trade ........................................................... 100.3 102.7 101.9 101.4 100.6 101.0 100.6 101.5 101.8 101.9 .1 Transportation and warehousing ...................... 101.8 100.9 103.0 103.3 100.8 100.0 101.1 100.7 101.6 102.0 .4 Utilities ................................................................... 100.7 102.9 103.5 104.8 100.5 101.4 101.8 102.9 102.1 104.7 2.5 Information ............................................................... 100.8 105.0 104.0 103.5 100.7 104.0 104.6 104.5 104.1 104.1 .0 Financial activities .................................................. 101.3 109.2 107.4 107.2 102.4 107.5 108.7 108.7 108.4 108.3 -.1 Professional and business services .................... 101.5 101.4 101.2 101.8 100.9 101.0 101.0 100.8 101.0 101.5 .5 Education and health services ............................. 103.0 103.7 105.1 107.3 102.3 104.8 105.1 106.2 105.7 106.6 .9 Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 100.2 108.4 102.1 101.2 101.2 100.9 100.3 100.6 101.3 102.0 .7 Other services ......................................................... 100.4 100.5 99.2 98.9 100.5 100.1 99.7 99.7 99.6 99.4 -.2 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. preliminary. NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate payrolls by the p= corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate payroll estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and production or nonsupervisrory worker employment. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-7. 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, 278 industries 1 Over 1-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 56.3 65.5 52.3 40.5 44.2 64.7 60.3 49.6 37.4 36.7 56.7 65.5 48.6 37.6 44.1 65.8 58.8 36.5 41.0 46.9 64.2 47.7 41.4 41.7 43.3 61.9 61.7 38.1 43.7 37.2 63.3 65.5 35.6 39.0 43.2 59.9 52.9 38.5 41.7 40.8 57.6 52.3 39.0 43.3 p 50.4 64.4 54.1 35.6 43.9 p 48.2 69.1 57.7 37.8 42.4 64.4 53.2 36.0 37.2 Over 3-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 61.5 70.1 54.9 34.4 36.0 64.9 66.0 50.7 38.3 35.6 61.0 68.3 50.5 36.5 36.0 65.8 68.3 43.5 35.4 41.2 66.4 58.5 37.2 36.7 43.0 69.1 56.3 36.0 38.8 40.6 66.9 58.1 36.2 39.7 37.6 64.4 62.2 35.8 41.4 34.5 62.2 55.9 34.5 38.1 p 41.7 62.9 53.1 32.2 39.0 p 48.2 66.7 54.0 31.7 37.8 69.6 58.3 30.9 34.9 Over 6-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 66.9 67.6 53.2 30.6 37.4 64.9 68.7 51.4 29.9 36.5 63.7 71.4 50.7 31.1 35.1 64.0 71.9 47.1 31.3 34.7 65.6 68.5 42.8 33.3 37.4 65.8 66.2 38.8 35.8 36.5 66.7 67.3 37.6 36.9 38.7 66.2 60.4 34.5 37.4 35.1 69.4 58.3 31.1 37.8 p 39.9 68.7 55.0 32.9 39.9 p 40.3 66.4 61.0 31.3 38.3 66.5 55.2 31.7 35.8 Over 12-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 70.5 70.9 59.5 33.6 33.8 68.7 69.2 59.5 31.7 33.3 68.2 73.2 53.4 30.2 34.5 68.0 71.0 49.3 30.2 35.4 68.3 69.8 48.6 30.4 36.5 68.3 71.0 45.0 30.6 35.4 68.0 70.0 43.3 30.8 35.8 68.0 70.3 43.9 31.8 33.6 67.8 70.3 39.9 31.5 p 38.3 69.1 65.6 37.8 30.0 p 36.0 68.3 63.8 37.1 33.5 69.1 62.1 34.9 33.3 Manufacturing payrolls, 84 industries 1 Over 1-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 42.3 50.6 24.4 19.0 36.3 38.7 53.6 22.0 22.6 19.0 33.3 54.8 24.4 20.8 27.4 39.3 42.9 14.3 33.9 20.2 52.4 39.9 14.3 30.4 30.4 34.5 53.6 19.6 32.1 25.6 50.0 62.5 14.3 34.5 31.5 40.5 28.6 13.7 25.0 25.6 41.7 24.4 17.9 31.0 p 29.8 50.6 35.1 16.7 19.6 p 29.8 56.0 41.1 16.7 21.4 51.8 38.7 9.5 25.0 Over 3-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 33.9 54.2 34.5 11.9 14.9 40.5 54.8 24.4 11.9 15.5 37.5 58.3 17.9 16.7 19.6 35.7 51.8 14.3 20.2 16.7 41.7 41.7 11.9 21.4 17.9 43.5 41.1 14.3 20.2 14.3 42.3 54.8 10.7 28.6 20.2 38.1 48.2 7.7 25.6 18.5 41.1 29.2 8.3 25.6 p 22.6 44.6 25.6 9.5 17.9 p 26.8 49.4 25.0 8.9 14.9 56.5 42.3 8.3 10.7 Over 6-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 37.5 47.0 23.8 7.7 13.7 32.7 51.2 24.4 8.9 14.3 30.4 56.5 20.8 7.7 12.5 33.3 57.1 17.9 8.9 11.9 36.9 49.4 14.9 12.5 12.5 38.1 47.6 11.9 16.7 15.5 38.1 56.0 13.7 19.6 13.1 34.5 44.0 9.5 19.6 13.7 40.5 36.9 8.3 23.8 p 14.3 46.4 35.1 6.5 17.9 p 17.9 41.1 34.5 6.5 16.7 48.2 31.0 6.0 13.7 Over 12-month span: 1999 ........................................................ 2000 ........................................................ 2001 ........................................................ 2002 ........................................................ 2003 ........................................................ 35.7 41.7 29.8 7.1 13.7 32.1 39.3 32.1 6.0 15.5 29.8 47.0 20.8 6.0 16.7 32.1 50.0 19.0 7.1 13.1 32.7 46.4 13.1 7.7 15.5 32.1 52.4 12.5 5.4 16.1 34.5 51.8 10.7 6.0 13.1 32.1 49.4 11.9 8.9 14.3 33.3 46.4 11.9 7.7 p 12.5 39.3 40.5 10.1 9.5 p 11.9 41.1 35.1 8.3 13.1 42.9 33.3 6.0 13.1 1 Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, and 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. p = preliminary. NOTE: Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.
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