March 4, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Productivity in the fourth quarter of 2010

Previous and revised productivity and related measures, nonfarm business and manufacturing, fourth quarter 2010 (quarterly percent change at seasonally adjusted annual rates)
Industry sector and measure	Quarterly percent change at annual rate
Industry sector and measure	Previous	Revised
Nonfarm business
Productivity	2.6	2.6
Output	4.5	4.0
Hours	1.8	1.4
Unit labor costs	-0.6	-0.6
Manufacturing
Productivity	5.8	5.9
Output	3.7	4.4
Hours	-2.0	-1.4
Unit labor costs	-2.9	-2.7

These data are featured in the TED article, Productivity in the fourth quarter of 2010.

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