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April 2004

Alternative measures of supervisory employee hours and productivity growth

Lucy P. Eldridge, Marilyn E. Manser, Phyllis F. Otto

An evaluation of new estimates of nonproduction and supervisory employee hours finds that the procedure currently used by BLS to estimate nonproduction and supervisory employee hours for the major sector productivity statistics does not misstate past productivity trends, but does undercount the number of hours worked.

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