Bureau of Labor Statistics
Southwest Regional Office, Dallas
Economic Analysis and Information Unit
Catalog with Web Links


The following list contains links to the most frequently requested documents from the Southwest Regional Office.

Links provided below are presented in PDF format.

Code

Document

Number of pages
 

Catalog of Selected Documents

11

     
 

BUREAU INFORMATION

 
9010

Mailing list request form for the Southwest Statistical Summary (monthly report of U.S., Dallas, and Houston CPIs and selected Southwest employment data)

1
9015

Calendar of BLS news releases

2

9020

How To Find BLS Data on the Internet

6

1530

Phone contacts in the national and regional offices

1
     
 

HOT TOPICS

 

3640

New Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics From BLS

15

3500 Job Openings and Labor Turnover (text and technical note) 7

3090

Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers

12

1410 Worker Displacement (text and technical note) 4
1420 Worker Displacement (tables) 9
1460 Multifactor Productivity Trends in Manufacturing 12

1480

Volunteering in the United States

12

1620

Major Work Stoppages in 2006

10

     
 

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX

 
 

CPI-U and CPI-W, All Items, historical series

 
9110 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, 1982-84=100

2

9115 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, 1967=100

2

9120 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, 1982-84=100

2

9125 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX, 1967=100

2

9130 U.S. city average, 1982-84=100 2
9135 U.S. city average, 1967=100 2
 

Southwest CPI indicators and news releases

 
9140 Southwest CPI Indicators, latest month (listing of U.S., Dallas, and Houston CPIs and percent changes for detailed categories) 1
9145 Southwest CPI Indicators, previous month 1
9210 Latest full CPI news release for Dallas-Fort Worth 2
9215 Latest full CPI news release for Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 2
9225 Latest Food and Energy CPI news release for Dallas-Fort Worth 2
9230 Latest Food and Energy CPI news release for Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 2
 

National CPI news release

 
2010 Text of latest news release 1
2015 CPI-U, U.S. City Average, by expenditure category (Tables 1-3) 1
 

CPI technical information

 
2440 CPI escalation article 2
2490 CPI explanantory note 1
     
 

CONSUMER EXPENDITURE SURVEY

 
9250 Consumer Spending Patterns in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area

8

9260 Consumer Spending Patterns in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Metropolitan Area

8

     
 

PRODUCER PRICE INDEX

 
 

PPI, most current data

 

9310

PPI Highlights -- latest available PPI for selected codes 1
 

PPI, historical series

 

9320

Finished Goods 1

9330

All Commodities 1

9340

Industrial Commodities 1
     
 

EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT

 
 

National Employment Situation, most current data

 

3010

Text of news release 1

3015

Household data on employment & unemployment (Tables A-1 through A-10) 1

3020

Payroll data on employment, hours and earnings by industry (Tables B-1 through B-4) 1

3025

Indexes of aggregate weekly hours & diffusion indexes of employment change (Tables B-5 & B-6) 1
 

Metropolitan Employment & Unemployment,most current data

 
3030 Text of news release and technical note 6
3035 Labor force status by state and selected metropolitan areas (Table 1) 7
3040 Employees on nonfarm payrolls in states and selected areas (Table 2) 8
 

State and Regional Employment, most current data

 
3050 Text of news release and Charts 1 and 2 9
3055 Labor force, unemployment, and nonfarm employment by state (Tables 3-6) 8

3060

Technical Note

2

 

Texas & selected areas, employment data, current & historical

 
9410 Southwest Employment Indicators: Labor force and nonfarm employment by major industry; AR, LA, NM, OK, TX, and Southwest region

1

9420

Industry employment and percent change: Texas and U.S., seasonally adjusted, latest month 1

9425

Industry employment levels: Texas and U.S., seasonally adjusted, historical 1

9430

Industry employment levels: Texas and U.S., not seasonally adjusted, historical 1

9435

Industry employment levels: Dallas, Fort Worth-Arlington, and Houston-Galveston PMSAs, not seasonally adjusted

1

9440

Industry employment levels: Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso MSAs, not seasonally adjusted 1

9450

Labor force status: Texas and U.S., seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted, historical 2
 

Employment, U.S. and all states, historical series

 
3110 Historical labor force statistics since 1961, U.S. 1
3120 Historical industry payroll employment since 1942, U.S. 1
3140 State labor force statistics, last 12 months, seasonally adjusted 5
3150 Industry employment by State, seasonally adjusted, last 12 months 9
 

Employment Technical Information

 
3290 Employment Series explanantory note 1
 

Minimum Wage Workers

 

9460

Minimum Wage Workers in Texas: 2006 5
9461 Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers in the US: 2006 13
     
 

NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEYS

 

9502

Amarillo, TX 5

9504

Arkansas, Statewide 8

9506

Austin-Round Rock, TX 6

9508

Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 4

9510

Corpus Christi, TX 4

9520

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 7

9522

El Paso-Las Cruces-Alamargo, TX-NM 5

9525

Gillespie County, TX 1

9530

Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX 8

9534

New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 4

9536

Oklahoma City, OK 1

9538

Panola County, TX 10

9540

San Antonio, TX 4

9545

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA 11
9550 Tulsa, OK 6
9555 Vermilion Parish, LA 1
     
 

AVERAGE WAGES IN THE SOUTHWEST

 
9556 Average Weekly Wages in Large Arkansas Counties 5
9557 Average Weekly Wages in Large Louisiana Parishes

7

9559

Average Weekly Wages in Large Oklahoma Counties

5

9560 Average Weekly Wages in Large Texas Counties 7
9580 Average Annual Wages in the Southwest States 11
     
  OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES  
9590 Occupational Employment and Wages, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas 19
9595 Occupational Employment and Wages, Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas 19
     
 

EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS

 
3910 Text of news release 4
3915 Summary tables on projections (Tables 1, 2, 3a, 3b, and 3c) 4
3920 Employment and job openings by education and projected labor force (Tables 4 and 5) 1
     
 

EMPLOYMENT COST TRENDS

 
 

Employment Cost Index (ECI), most current data

 
9610 Employment Cost Index, South Region, news release and tables 7
4110 Text of national news release and Charts A-C 1
4115 Total compensation, wages and salaries, and benefit costs, seasonally adjusted, and total compensation, not seasonally adjusted (Tables 1- 4) 1
4120 Wages and salaries, not seasonally adjusted (Tables 5 - 7) 1
4125 Benefits, not seasonally adjusted (Table 8) 1
 

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, most current

 
9620 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation in the South region, news release and tables 9
4130 Text of national news release and Charts A - C 4
4135 Employer costs per hour worked, selected categories (Tables 1-6) 9
4140 Employer costs per hour worked, selected categories including regions (Tables 7-10) 6
4145 Employer costs per hour worked, selected categories including union status (Tables 11-16) 7
 

Employment Cost Trends technical information

 
4190 ECI explanatory note 1
4195 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation explanatory note 4
     
 

CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES

 
9700 Texas Workplace Fatalities in 2006

13

9705 Louisiana Workplace Fatalities in 2006 10

 

Last Modified Date: April 7, 2008