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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

Business Employment Dynamics

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

Consumer Expenditure Survey

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Import/Export Price Indexes

• Historic coffee prices percolated after a bitter global supply crisis 09/22/2023
• How currency appreciation can impact prices: the rise of the U.S. dollar 03/16/2023
• Exploring price increases in 2021 and previous periods of inflation 10/28/2022
• Inbound air freight prices go sky high in the midst of pandemic 06/22/2021
• How tariffs relate to BLS import and export price indexes 05/08/2020
• The relationship between crude oil prices and export prices of major agricultural commodities 04/11/2019
• The rise and fall of almond prices: Asia, drought, and consumer preference 10/12/2017
• Impact of the 2015 U.S. dollar rise on export prices and on the agricultural industry 12/20/2016
• Impact of the strengthening dollar on U.S. import prices in 2015 08/19/2016
• The 2014 plunge in import petroleum prices: What happened? 05/27/2015
• Analyzing alternatives to export price indexes 11/21/2014
• The impact of the falling yen on U.S. import prices 04/25/2014
• Forty Years of the BLS Export and Import Price Indexes: trends and competition 12/09/2013
• The reemergence of the United States as a global petroleum producer 08/12/2013
• Growing demand for fertilizer keeps prices high 05/10/2013
• Coal: A key player in expanded U.S. energy exports 02/12/2013
• Impact of the drought on corn exports: paying the price 11/08/2012

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 - 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 Compensation Survey

• How do retirement plans for private industry and state and local government workers compare? 01/10/2023
• 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
• 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
• Compensation trends into the 21st century 03/22/2019
• State and local government workers preparing for retirement: Do you understand your plan formula? 05/30/2018
• 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
• You’re getting a pension: What are your payment options? 06/17/2016
• Trends in employer costs for defined benefit plans 02/19/2016
• 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
• Disability insurance plans: trends in employee access and employer costs 02/24/2015
• 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
• Paid leave in private industry over the past 20 years 08/01/2013
• Compensation highlights in trade, transportation, and utilities industries 05/16/2013
• Retirement and medical benefits: Who has both? 04/16/2013
• 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
• Who has benefits in private industry in 2012? 09/12/2012

National Longitudinal Surveys

• How did employment change during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from a new BLS survey supplement 01/04/2022
• Men who do not work during their prime years: What do the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data reveal? 08/12/2019
• How has labor force participation among young moms and dads changed? A comparison of two cohorts 09/12/2014
• Long-term unemployment over men’s careers 08/16/2013
• Patterns of homeownership, delinquency, and foreclosure among youngest baby boomers 02/06/2013
• A comparison of college attendance and high school coursework from two cohorts of youth 10/01/2012

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

• 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
• Charging into the future: the transition to electric vehicles 02/16/2023
• Comparing occupational employment and wages in public and private elementary and secondary schools 02/07/2023
• How did employment change during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from a new BLS survey supplement 01/04/2022
• Solar and wind generation occupations: a look at the next decade 02/26/2021
• Holiday employment in retail trade 10/25/2019
• Safety First! Projected growth in safety inspection occupations 2016–26 04/16/2019
• The employment outlook for occupations tasked with building America’s infrastructure 10/30/2018
• High-tech industries: an analysis of employment, wages, and output 05/31/2018
• Restaurants help feed job growth: how the leisure and hospitality industry fared after the recent employment downturn 07/28/2014
• 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
• A look at teachers’ job requirements, employer costs, and benefits 10/31/2019

Producer Price Indexes

• 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
• Inbound air freight prices go sky high in the midst of pandemic 06/22/2021
• Trends in electricity prices during the transition away from coal 05/04/2021
• The effects of tariff rates on the U.S. economy: what the Producer Price Index tells us 10/20/2020
• International cotton trade and causes of price volatility in the United States 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
• The impact of the falling yen on U.S. import prices 04/25/2014
• 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

• Comparing occupational employment and wages in public and private elementary and secondary schools 02/07/2023
• Why did Rhode Island have slower employment growth than the nation during the recovery period, 2009–16? 09/21/2017
• Labor market risks of a magnitude-6.8 Hayward Fault earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area: an update 10/13/2016
• Employment patterns in political organizations 05/13/2016
• Employment and wage changes in oil-producing counties in the Bakken Formation, 2007–2011 04/26/2013
• Atlanta’s thriving air transportation industry: employment and wages, 1990–2010 08/19/2012