Percent change in productivity

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Percent change in productivity
Industry	Productivity 1-year percent change, 2020	Productivity average annual percent change, 1987-2020
Wholesale trade	3.6	2.8
Durable goods	1.6	4.0
Motor vehicles and parts	2.3	3.1
Furniture and furnishings	4.5	1.7
Lumber and construction supplies	-1.8	0.6
Commercial equipment	1.4	10.9
Metals and minerals	-4.4	-0.4
Appliances and electric goods	6.3	6.6
Hardware and plumbing	7.1	1.7
Machinery and supplies	2.4	1.7
Miscellaneous durable goods	6.0	1.2
Nondurable goods	8.3	1.3
Paper and paper products	17.7	1.5
Druggists' goods	13.0	2.0
Apparel and piece goods	-0.4	1.7
Grocery and related products	5.8	1.1
Farm product raw materials	4.6	1.3
Chemicals	2.3	0.3
Petroleum	8.0	2.6
Alcoholic beverages	14.3	0.7
Miscellaneous nondurable goods	5.2	0.5
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	-4.7	2.5
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	-4.7	2.5
Retail trade	7.7	3.0
Motor vehicle and parts dealers	7.0	2.3
Automobile dealers	8.2	2.5
Other motor vehicle dealers	25.9	2.8
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores	1.8	1.1
Furniture and home furnishings stores	2.9	3.8
Furniture stores	7.1	3.4
Home furnishings stores	-1.6	4.3
Electronics and appliance stores	-2.0	10.1
Electronics and appliance stores	-2.0	10.1
Building material and garden supply stores	-0.7	2.3
Building material and supplies dealers	-2.3	2.1
Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores	11.0	3.3
Food and beverage stores	8.8	0.9
Grocery stores	7.6	0.8
Specialty food stores	9.0	0.9
Beer, wine and liquor stores	18.3	2.3
Health and personal care stores	13.1	1.9
Health and personal care stores	13.1	1.9
Gasoline stations	-5.0	1.2
Gasoline stations	-5.0	1.2
Clothing and clothing accessories stores	3.6	4.0
Clothing stores	-4.3	4.1
Shoe stores	12.1	3.0
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores	35.4	4.2
Sports, hobby, music instruments, book stores	19.5	4.0
Sporting goods and musical instrument stores	16.0	4.5
Book stores and news dealers	58.1	2.7
General merchandise stores	2.2	3.0
Department stores	-2.7	0.6
Other general merchandise stores	0.5	4.8
Miscellaneous store retailers	12.2	3.4
Florists	24.9	3.3
Office supplies, stationery and gift stores	-0.3	5.2
Used merchandise stores	3.4	4.4
Other miscellaneous store retailers	13.7	1.3
Nonstore retailers	19.6	8.5
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses	12.9	9.8
Vending machine operators	26.7	1.4
Direct selling establishments	9.9	3.0