Percent change in productivity

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Percent change in productivity
Industry	Productivity 1-year percent change, 2021	Productivity average annual percent change, 1987-2021
Wholesale trade	5.7	2.8
Durable goods	9.6	4.1
Motor vehicles and parts	9.0	3.2
Furniture and furnishings	2.2	1.9
Lumber and construction supplies	4.3	0.7
Commercial equipment	9.5	10.8
Metals and minerals	6.7	-0.2
Appliances and electric goods	14.1	6.8
Hardware and plumbing	2.7	1.6
Machinery and supplies	9.7	1.8
Miscellaneous durable goods	17.3	1.8
Nondurable goods	0.9	1.2
Paper and paper products	-1.9	1.4
Druggists' goods	-1.0	1.8
Apparel and piece goods	7.9	1.8
Grocery and related products	5.0	1.3
Farm product raw materials	-10.5	0.8
Chemicals	4.1	0.5
Petroleum	-4.8	2.2
Alcoholic beverages	9.1	1.0
Miscellaneous nondurable goods	-3.5	0.4
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	6.8	2.0
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	6.8	2.0
Retail trade	6.6	3.1
Motor vehicle and parts dealers	7.6	2.4
Automobile dealers	5.7	2.5
Other motor vehicle dealers	13.3	3.0
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores	10.7	1.4
Furniture and home furnishings stores	11.7	4.0
Furniture stores	8.9	3.6
Home furnishings stores	15.2	4.5
Electronics and appliance stores	22.5	10.4
Electronics and appliance stores	22.5	10.4
Building material and garden supply stores	-1.7	2.1
Building material and supplies dealers	-0.5	2.0
Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores	-10.2	2.9
Food and beverage stores	1.1	0.9
Grocery stores	1.2	0.7
Specialty food stores	-2.3	0.7
Beer, wine and liquor stores	8.3	2.5
Health and personal care stores	2.5	2.0
Health and personal care stores	2.5	2.0
Gasoline stations	6.8	1.3
Gasoline stations	6.8	1.3
Clothing and clothing accessories stores	28.0	4.6
Clothing stores	26.2	4.7
Shoe stores	34.9	3.7
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores	26.9	4.5
Sports, hobby, music instruments, book stores	14.3	4.2
Sporting goods and musical instrument stores	16.3	4.9
Book stores and news dealers	-1.5	1.0
General merchandise stores	4.4	3.0
Department stores	14.3	1.0
Other general merchandise stores	2.4	4.7
Miscellaneous store retailers	10.8	3.5
Florists	1.7	2.7
Office supplies, stationery and gift stores	17.6	5.7
Used merchandise stores	1.7	4.4
Other miscellaneous store retailers	14.3	1.4
Nonstore retailers	9.0	8.6
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses	6.9	9.9
Vending machine operators	29.9	1.7
Direct selling establishments	7.8	3.2