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• Metropolitan area employment and unemployment, December 2011
• Employment and unemployment in January 2012
• Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2011
• Employment projections for major industries, 2010–20

Monthly Labor Review

Overview of projections to 2020 Dixie Sommers and James C. Franklin Summary | Full text in PDF The U.S. economy in 2020: recovery in uncertain times Kathryn J. Byun and Christopher Frey Summary | Full text in PDF Labor force projections to 2020: a more slowly growing workforce Mitra Toossi Summary | Full text in PDF Industry employment and output projections to 2020 Richard Henderson Summary | Full text in PDF Occupational employment projections to 2020 C. Brett Lockard and Michael Wolf Summary | Full text in PDF

OOQ: Occupational Outlook Quarterly

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Issues in Labor Statistics

• How long before the unemployed find jobs or quit looking? (HTML) (PDF)

Spotlight on Statistics

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Compensation and Working Conditions Online

Tracking Employment-Based Health Benefits in Changing Times

Program Perspectives

Program Perspectives on Outpatient Prescription Drug Coverage (PDF)

Focus on Prices and Spending

• Consumer Expenditure Survey: Consumer Spending in 2010 (PDF)
• Consumer Price Indexes: A Comparison of the CPI-U and the C-CPI-U (PDF)
• Producer Price Indexes: Technology in Commodity Markets (PDF)
• Import and Export Prices: The Impact of the Earthquake in Japan on U.S. Imports (PDF)

Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Highlights

Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Regional Reports

High-tech Industries in Massachusetts: Employment and Wage Trends during the 2001–2009 Period (HTML) (PDF)

• CPI Detailed Report
• Employment & Earnings Online
• PPI Detailed Report

Recent Chartbooks

• Fatal Occupational Injuries and Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, 2008

Archived Chartbooks

• Chartbook: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2009
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2006: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2006
• A Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons (2010 Edition) (PDF)
• Employment and Wages, Annual Averages 2008
• Charting the U.S. Labor Market in 2006
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2005: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2005
• Chartbook: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2008
• Employment and Wages, Annual Averages 2007
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2004
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2004: A Collection of Data and Analysis
• Chartbook: Fatal Occupational Injuries in the United States, 1995-1999
• Regional Economic Patterns in the United States, 1990-1999
• Working in the 21st Century

• BLS Handbook of Methods
• National Compensation Survey: Selected Medical Benefits, 2009
• National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2010
• National Compensation Survey: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2009
• Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2009 (PDF)
• A Profile of the Working Poor, 2009 (PDF)
• Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2009, Report 1025 (PDF)
• The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Report on the American Workforce
• Report on the Youth Labor Force
• Geographic Profile
• Worklife Estimates: Effects of Race and Education (PDF 1.32MB)
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Test your knowledge

1. Fill in the blank with the name of the major component of consumer spending that increased the most in 2010 (hint: its level of spending has increased on a year-to-year basis for well over a decade):

   Spending on food and housing fell 3.8 percent and 2.0 percent, respectively, contributing to the overall drop in spending in 2010. _______ (+1.0 percent) and transportation (+0.2 percent) were the only major components of spending to increase.

   Answer:
   Consumer Expenditures — 2010 (PDF); also see Overall consumer expenditures fall in 2010.

 

2. Fill in the blank with the correct number:

   Multifactor productivity—defined as output per unit of combined inputs—increased in only _______ of the 86 four-digit NAICS manufacturing industries in 2009. This was down from 2008, when multifactor productivity increased in 36 of those 86 industries.

   Answer:
   Multifactor Productivity Trends for Detailed Industries, 2009 (PDF); also see Multifactor productivity in manufacturing, 2009.

 

3. Fill in the blank with the correct percentages for the occupational groups:

   In March 2010, 69 percent of all private industry workers had access (ability to receive benefits) to outpatient prescription drug coverage. Outpatient prescription drug coverage varied widely by worker characteristics: _______ percent of private industry workers in management, professional, and related occupations had access to outpatient prescription drug coverage—nearly double the access rate of workers in service occupations, which was _______ percent.
   

   Answer:
   Program Perspectives for August 2011, "Outpatient Prescription Drug Coverage" (PDF); also see Outpatient prescription drug coverage, March 2010.

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