1 TABLE F-5. Building-permit activity: Valuation, by metropolitan-nonmetropolitan location and State 1 TABLE F-6. Number of new permanent nonfarm dwelling units started, by ownership and location, and construction cost 1 1 Excludes temporary units, conversions, dormitory accommodations, trailers, and military barracks; includes prefabricated housing if permanent. These estimates are based on (1) monthly building-permit reports adjusted for lapsed permits and for lag between permit issuance and the start of construction, (2) continuous field surveys in nonpermit-issuing places, and (3) reports of public construction contract awards. Private construction costs are based on permit valuation adjusted for understatement of costs shown on permit applications. Public construction costs are based on contract values or estimated construction costs for individual projects. 2 Not available. • Revised. NOTE: For a description of these series, see Techniques of Preparing Major BLS Statistical Series, BLS Bull. 1168 (1954). SOURCE: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. TABLE G-1. Injury-frequency rates 1 for selected manufacturing industries-Continued 1 The injury-frequency rate is the average number of disabling work injuries for each million employee-hours worked. A disabling work injury is any injury occurring in the course of and arising out of employment, which (a) results in death or permanent physical impairment, or (b) makes the injured worker unable to perform the duties of any regularly established job which is open and available to him throughout the hours corresponding to his regular shift on any one or more days after the day of injury (including Sundays, days off, or plant shutdowns). The term "injury" includes occupational disease. Rates for 1957 and 1958 have been revised on the basis of the more compre hensive final annual survey for 1957. revision when final annual data become available. Insufficient data to warrant presentation of average. NOTE: These data are compiled in accordance with the American Standard Method of Recording and Measuring Work Injury Experience, approved by the American Standards Association, 1954. Rates for 1958 may be subject to further Information on concepts, methodology, etc., is given in Techniques of Preparing Major BLS Statistical Series, BLS Bull. 1168 (1954). SOURCE: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1959 Monthly Labor Review UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor-in-Chief MARY S. BEDELL, Executive Editor CONTENTS 129 129 131 134 137 140 142 151 157 Special Articles Wages, Union Policy, and Inflation Policy Approaches to the Prevention of Wage Inflation Wage Policy and Economic Activity Organized Labor and the Cost of Living Economic Considerations in Wage Determination Single Consumers' Spending Patterns in Three Periods Summaries of Studies and Reports Footwear: Prices and Average Factory Values NLRB's "Brown-Olds" Remedy for Illegal Hiring Arrangements 160 Labor's Aims in Adjusting to the New Technology |