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Beyond the Numbers

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American Time Use Survey

Television, capturing America's attention at prime time and beyond (09/28/2018)
How parents use time and money (08/20/2012)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Shrimp disease in Asia resulting in high U.S. import prices (06/24/2014)

Business Employment Dynamics

The decline of job creation at new establishments (05/16/2023)

Consumer Expenditure Surveys

We love our pets, and our spending proves it (11/06/2023)
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect healthcare spending? (11/02/2023)
Four personal tax liabilities trends that have emerged from recent tax legislation (05/25/2023)
Changing how BLS defines "geographic areas" in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (02/28/2023)
How have healthcare expenditures changed? Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (11/16/2020)
Receipt and use of stimulus payments in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic (08/31/2020)
How does consumer spending differ among households in California, Texas, and New York? A new BLS data product can tell us (09/23/2019)
Are most Americans cutting the cord on landlines? (05/20/2019)
The relationship between cash contributions, pretax income, and age (02/07/2019)
Tradeoffs in the expenditure patterns of families with children (07/30/2018)
Housing and expenditures: before, during, and after the bubble (06/11/2018)
Consumer spending by state: BLS puts New Jersey to the test (03/15/2018)
Hispanic household spending in 2015 (07/27/2017)
Use with caution: interpreting Consumer Expenditure income group data (05/05/2017)
How do United States consumer expenditures compare with the United Kingdom and Japan? (02/28/2017)
What the Consumer Expenditure Survey tells us about mortgage instruments before and after the housing collapse (10/11/2016)
Household healthcare spending in 2014 (08/29/2016)
Eating and drinking in Miami: consumer expenditures, 2010–14 (08/18/2016)
Using gasoline data to explain inelasticity (03/08/2016)
A closer look at spending patterns of older Americans (03/03/2016)
Expenditures on cellular phone services have increased significantly since 2007 (02/03/2016)
Consumer expenditures vary by age (12/10/2015)
Movies, music, and sports: U.S. entertainment spending, 2008–2013 (03/25/2015)
Income and spending patterns among Black households (11/05/2014)
Do different groups invest differently in higher education? (06/09/2014)
How frequently do private businesses pay workers? (05/23/2014)
Americans’ aging autos (05/08/2014)
New education classification better reflects income and spending patterns in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (01/27/2014)
Spending patterns of families receiving means-tested government assistance (12/16/2013)
Spending on pets: “Tails” from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (05/17/2013)
Expenditures of urban and rural households in 2011 (02/25/2013)
Travel expenditures, 2005–2011: spending slows during recent recession (12/12/2012)
A comparison of 25 years of consumer expenditures by homeowners and renters (10/11/2012)
How parents use time and money (08/20/2012)

Consumer Price Index

What price changes contributed the most to increases in the CPI in 2024? (08/08/2025)
Telework trends (03/25/2025)
A year in review: exploring consumer price trends in 2023 (05/02/2024)
Getting less for the same price? Explore how the CPI measures “shrinkflation” and its impact on inflation (02/02/2023)
Exploring price increases in 2021 and previous periods of inflation (10/28/2022)
Measuring consumer price change during economic downturns: a review of assumptions about consumer spending (09/17/2021)
Improving the cost-of-living measure for older populations: some recommendations (03/24/2021)
Improving the CPI physicians' services index (01/25/2019)
Arlington Memorial Bridge spans the decades as a study in long-term price change (10/13/2017)
The cost of care: new insights into healthcare spending growth (06/14/2017)
Spending habits of urban consumers and "blue-collar" consumers living in urban areas, 1984 and 2015 (01/13/2017)
The consumer price index continued its slowdown in 2015: energy was the main factor (04/14/2016)
Using gasoline data to explain inelasticity (03/08/2016)
The cost of 'basic necessities' has risen slightly more than inflation over the last 30 years (06/18/2015)
Falling gasoline prices lead to lowest inflation since 2008 (03/13/2015)
Slicing through fruit price volatility (12/22/2014)
Two measures of consumer price change: How are they different? (09/30/2014)
How does consumer spending change during boom, recession, and recovery? (06/26/2014)
Why does BLS provide both the CPI-W and CPI-U? (02/28/2014)
The Consumer Price Index and the 'median CPI' (12/13/2013)
Measures of gasoline price change (09/13/2013)
Owners’ equivalent rent and the Consumer Price Index: 30 years and counting (05/15/2013)
Average Food Prices: a snapshot of how much has changed over a century (02/26/2013)
Writing an escalation contract using the Consumer Price Index (11/14/2012)
Consumer Price Index data quality: how accurate is the U.S. CPI? (08/21/2012)

Current Employment Statistics

Did the COVID-19 pandemic affect real earnings? Analyzing average hourly earnings and inflation before and after the onset of the pandemic (09/30/2024)
How did the 2020 census affect employment? (02/24/2022)
Employment trends in retail trade, 2010–19 (01/26/2021)
Forty years of falling manufacturing employment (11/20/2020)
The 2020 census and CES employment (02/27/2020)
An average mystery in hours and earnings data entails a weighty explanation (06/07/2018)
Restaurants help feed job growth: how the leisure and hospitality industry fared after the recent employment downturn (07/28/2014)
Why are there revisions to the jobs numbers? (07/10/2013)
Careers in the growing field of information technology services (04/09/2013)

Current Population Survey

Golden years: older Americans at work and play (05/29/2025)
Resilience through two recessions: veterans in the labor market since 2003 (05/31/2023)
How do jobseekers search for jobs? New data on applications, interviews, and job offers (11/13/2020)
People who are not in the labor force: why aren't they working? (12/30/2015)
Trends in unemployment and other labor market difficulties (11/06/2014)

Employee Benefits Survey

How do retirement plans for private industry and state and local government workers compare? (01/10/2023)

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Employer-provided bonuses: what are they, what types of businesses offer them, and who receives them? (12/16/2020)
A look at teachers' job requirements, employer costs, and benefits (10/31/2019)
Compensation trends into the 21st century (03/22/2019)
How pay and benefits change as job level rises: data from the National Compensation Survey (06/23/2017)
Defined contribution retirement plans: Who has them and what do they cost? (12/07/2016)
Trends in employer costs for defined benefit plans (02/19/2016)
Disability insurance plans: trends in employee access and employer costs (02/24/2015)
Paid leave in private industry over the past 20 years (08/01/2013)
Compensation highlights in trade, transportation, and utilities industries (05/16/2013)
Employment-based health benefits in small and large private establishments (04/05/2013)
Retirement costs for defined benefit plans higher than for defined contribution plans (12/12/2012)

Employment Projections

What’s behind the projected construction employment growth from 2023 to 2033? (03/03/2025)
Projected employment growth for community and social service occupations, 2022–32 (02/14/2024)
Charging into the future: the transition to electric vehicles (02/16/2023)
Recovering from the pandemic: A bright outlook for the personal care service industry (05/20/2022)
Retail trade employment: before, during, and after the pandemic (04/19/2022)
What the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic could mean for the future of IT jobs (02/24/2022)
Artificial intelligence: taking on a bigger role in our future security (05/03/2021)
We can manage: employment trends for management occupations (03/25/2021)
Why computer occupations are behind strong STEM employment growth in the 2019–29 decade (01/19/2021)
Inside the decline of sales occupations (05/05/2020)
Safety First! Projected growth in safety inspection occupations 2016–26 (04/16/2019)
Ahead of the pack: why are veterinary occupations growing much faster than average? (03/01/2019)
The employment outlook for occupations tasked with building America’s infrastructure (10/30/2018)
In the money: occupational projections for the financial industry (10/26/2018)
You don't need to walk it off: occupations that help to diagnose and treat sports injuries (08/01/2018)
Big data adds up to opportunities in math careers (06/04/2018)
High-tech industries: an analysis of employment, wages, and output (05/31/2018)
So you want to be in pictures: jobs in video production (04/02/2018)
Healthcare jobs you can get without a bachelor’s degree (11/23/2016)
The high-tech industry, what is it and why it matters to our economic future (05/17/2016)

Green Technologies and Practices

Reduce, reuse, recycle: green technologies and practices at work (03/25/2013)

Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities

Illnesses caused by viruses (COVID-19) among healthcare and social assistance workers occurred at a rate about five times greater than all workers in 2020 (05/17/2023)
Understanding latency in fatal occupational injuries (04/01/2021)
Nearly 50 years of occupational safety and health data (07/17/2020)
Fatal occupational injuries to independent workers (08/09/2019)
The facts of the faller: Occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to loggers 2006–2015 (04/17/2018)
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries commemorates 20 years of occupational safety and health data (10/17/2014)
Fatal injuries and nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving insects, arachnids, and mites (08/06/2014)
Death on the job: fatal work injuries in 2011 (08/29/2013)
Injuries, illnesses, and fatal injuries in mining in 2010 (01/22/2013)
Facts of the catch: occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to fishing workers, 2003–2009 (08/17/2012)

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey

Texas: job openings and labor turnover state spotlight (11/10/2022)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for States in 2020 (10/25/2021)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for Southern states in 2018 (12/17/2020)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for Midwestern states in 2018 (12/11/2020)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for Metropolitan Statistical Areas in 2019 (09/10/2020)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for Western States in 2018 (07/08/2020)
Job openings and labor turnover trends for Northeastern states in 2018 (02/12/2020)
Which industries are filling job openings and which industries are not? Exploring the JOLTS hires-per-job-opening ratio (10/22/2018)
Exploring labor market trends through JOLTS firm-size data (08/01/2018)
Measuring employer and employee confidence in the economy: the quits-to-layoffs-and-discharges ratio (03/26/2018)

Modeled Wage Estimates

Comparisons of hourly wage estimates by location, work levels, hours, and other factors (05/27/2020)

National Compensation Survey

How do retirement plans for private industry and state and local government workers compare? (01/10/2023)
Has the required skill level of part-time jobs changed over time? (07/29/2019)
The National Compensation Survey: a look at variable premium medical care plans (05/14/2019)
State and local government workers preparing for retirement: Do you understand your plan formula? (05/30/2018)
You're getting a pension: What are your payment options? (06/17/2016)
Access to specific provisions of employer-provided benefits: new estimates (09/25/2015)
Selected characteristics of savings and thrift plans for private industry workers (07/01/2015)
A look at today's pension equity plans (04/15/2015)
Understanding health plan types: What’s in a name? (01/16/2015)
Access to dependent care reimbursement accounts and workplace-funded childcare (01/07/2015)
An analysis of multiemployer pension plans (10/15/2014)
Employer-sponsored benefits extended to domestic partners (03/28/2014)
Retirement and medical benefits: Who has both? (04/16/2013)
Who has benefits in private industry in 2012? (09/12/2012)

National Compensation Survey - Wages

Wage differentials: how jobseekers can use them to analyze occupational wage and cost of living data by U.S. area (09/16/2014)

National Longitudinal Surveys

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

Employment and wages for alternate definitions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations (06/09/2025)
As manufacturing sector changes, production occupations disappear: an analysis of employment from 2007–20 (11/14/2023)
Do you want to work where the people are? These jobs are most common in areas with high (or low) population growth (04/10/2023)
Comparing occupational employment and wages in public and private elementary and secondary schools (02/07/2023)
Solar and wind generation occupations: a look at the next decade (02/26/2021)
Holiday employment in retail trade (10/25/2019)
High-tech industries: an analysis of employment, wages, and output (05/31/2018)
Measuring occupational concentration by industry (02/19/2014)
Reduce, reuse, recycle: green technologies and practices at work (03/25/2013)
Employment and wages in community and social service occupations (10/31/2012)

Occupational Requirements Survey

Minds at work: what’s required according to the Occupational Requirements Survey (03/19/2021)

Price and Index Number Research

What is driving increases in healthcare spending? Observations from BLS disease-based price indexes (12/04/2020)

Producer Price Indexes

The impact of COVID on the price of steel in three phases (05/13/2025)
Debunking 8 common misconceptions about the Producer Price Index (06/26/2024)
How have the pandemic and online spending affected Black Friday shopping? Analyzing retail trade margins 2009–22 (12/01/2023)
Nonresidential building construction overhead and profit markups: 2018 through 2022 (11/28/2023)
High grain prices rippled throughout the economy (04/05/2023)
Exploring price increases in 2021 and previous periods of inflation (10/28/2022)
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect input costs for U.S. producers? A review based on BLS input cost indexes (12/16/2021)
Trends in electricity prices during the transition away from coal (05/04/2021)
International cotton trade and causes of price volatility in the United States (10/20/2020)
The effects of tariff rates on the U.S. economy: what the Producer Price Index tells us (10/20/2020)
A historical look at soybean price increases: What happened since the year 2000? (03/12/2020)
Why the prices of natural and synthetic rubber do not always bounce together (02/14/2020)
Nonresidential building construction overhead and profit markups: an update (01/11/2019)
Drilling deep into PPI indexes to understand regional variations in natural gas price movements (02/21/2018)
Nailing down the price of new nonresidential building construction: expanding the PPI to include indexes by region and type of contractor (07/31/2017)
The cost of care: new insights into healthcare spending growth (06/14/2017)
The cost of crisis: why stock fees rise when markets slip (02/06/2017)
What happened to ethanol producer prices after passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard? (07/12/2016)
Producer prices in 2015: Services inflation slows, goods prices continue to decrease (02/26/2016)
As crude oil plunges, retail gasoline margins spike, then retreat (12/10/2015)
Gasoline prices: cyclical trends and market developments (05/18/2015)
Producer inflation in 2014: energy prices drop but prices for services advance (02/23/2015)
Oil extraction surges with the help of sand (11/17/2014)
Trends in producer prices between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail trade establishments (08/18/2014)
Examining trends in the nonresidential building construction producer price indexes (PPIs) (05/14/2014)
Improvements to the Producer Price Index measure: the Final-Demand–Intermediate-Demand system (02/26/2014)
Highlights of the 2013 PPI User Survey (08/13/2013)
The effects of shale gas production on natural gas prices (05/14/2013)
Gold prices during and after the Great Recession (02/19/2013)
Will the 2012 drought have a bigger impact on grocery prices than the 1988 drought? (11/13/2012)
Wholesale and retail Producer Price Indexes: margin prices (08/13/2012)
Bureau of Labor Statistics introduces new locality of origin import price indexes by industry sector (08/09/2012)

Productivity

The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity (10/31/2024)
A “tail” of productivity in pet care services: new technology enables rapid growth (06/27/2024)
Why are average weekly hours worked declining? (04/29/2024)
Tracking productivity in line-haul railroads (03/25/2024)
Checking out productivity in grocery stores (12/18/2019)
Productivity trends in the wired and wireless telecommunications industries (05/30/2019)
Understanding the labor productivity and compensation gap (06/06/2017)
Below trend: the U.S. productivity slowdown since the Great Recession (01/31/2017)
What can labor productivity tell us about the U.S. economy? (05/29/2014)

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages