Percent change in productivity

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Percent change in productivity
Industry	Productivity 1-year percent change, 2023	Productivity annual percent change, 1987-2023
Wholesale trade	-1.5	2.4
Durable goods	-3.1	3.7
Motor vehicles and parts	7.2	3.2
Furniture and furnishings	-2.2	1.6
Lumber and construction supplies	-0.9	0.6
Commercial equipment	-6.4	9.7
Metals and minerals	2.8	-0.3
Appliances and electric goods	-7.3	6.4
Hardware and plumbing	-5.0	1.3
Machinery and supplies	-3.2	1.5
Miscellaneous durable goods	-17.4	1.0
Nondurable goods	-0.4	1.0
Paper and paper products	2.9	1.2
Druggists' goods	6.2	2.1
Apparel and piece goods	-15.0	1.0
Grocery and related products	-5.2	0.8
Farm product raw materials	6.1	1.2
Chemicals	-2.0	0.3
Petroleum	4.9	1.8
Alcoholic beverages	-8.6	0.6
Miscellaneous nondurable goods	-6.9	0.1
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	2.8	1.4
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	2.8	1.4
Retail trade	1.9	3.1
Motor vehicle and parts dealers	3.4	2.1
Automobile dealers	3.9	2.1
Other motor vehicle dealers	-4.1	2.1
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores	4.1	1.4
Furniture and home furnishings stores	1.0	3.6
Furniture stores	2.2	3.3
Home furnishings stores	-0.8	4.1
Electronics and appliance stores	10.3	10.3
Electronics and appliance stores	10.3	10.3
Building material and garden supply stores	-1.8	2.3
Building material and supplies dealers	-3.6	2.2
Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores	9.7	3.0
Food and beverage stores	-0.1	0.8
Grocery stores	0.6	0.7
Specialty food stores	-8.6	0.3
Beer, wine and liquor stores	-0.1	2.0
Health and personal care stores	4.8	2.2
Health and personal care stores	4.8	2.2
Gasoline stations	-6.8	1.0
Gasoline stations	-6.8	1.0
Clothing and clothing accessories stores	2.0	4.4
Clothing stores	6.3	4.7
Shoe stores	-5.4	3.0
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores	-8.5	4.3
Sports, hobby, music instruments, book stores	1.7	3.9
Sporting goods and musical instrument stores	1.5	4.6
Book stores and news dealers	3.5	0.8
General merchandise stores	-5.8	3.3
Department stores	-8.8	1.1
Other general merchandise stores	-5.2	4.8
Miscellaneous store retailers	3.8	3.6
Florists	-1.6	2.8
Office supplies, stationery and gift stores	-1.9	5.1
Used merchandise stores	3.5	4.4
Other miscellaneous store retailers	6.3	1.9
Nonstore retailers	12.7	9.1
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses	14.4	10.5
Vending machine operators	-14.6	0.3
Direct selling establishments	5.3	3.5