AND EARNING

AND

MONTHLY REPORT O THE LABOR FORCE

LABOR TURNOVER

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4 Summary Employment and Unemployment Developments,
January 1968

6 Charts

11 The Method of Seasonal Adjustment for Labor Force Series

14 Revised Seasonally Adjusted Labor Force Series

23 Statistical Tables

113 Technical Note

STATISTICAL TABLES

SECTION A-LABOR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT, AND
UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD DATA

Page

Employment Status

23 A- 1: Employment status of the noninstitutional population, 1929 to date 24 A- 2: Employment status of the noninstitutional population 16 years and over by sex, 1947 to date

A- 3: Employment status of the noninstitutional population by age, sex, and color

Labor force by age, sex, and color

Employment status of persons 16-21 years of age in the noninstitutional population by color and sex

A- 6: Employment status of the noninstitutional population 16 years and over by color, age, and sex

A- 7: Full

and part-time status of the civilian labor force by age and sex

Characteristics of the Unemployed

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27 A- 4: 29 A- 5:

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A-15: Employed persons by age and sex

A-16: Employed persons by occupation group, age, and sex

A-17: Employed persons by major occupation group, color, and sex
A-18: Employed persons by class of worker, age, and sex

A-19: Employed persons with a job but not at work by reason, pay status,
and sex

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A-20: Persons at work by type of industry and hours of work

39 A-21: Persons at work 1-34 hours by usual status and reason working

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A- 8: Unemployed persons by age and sex

A- 9: Unemployed persons by marital status, age, sex, and color
A-10: Unemployed persons by occupation of last job and sex

A-11: Unemployed persons by industry of last job and sex

A-12: Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

A-13: Unemployed persons by duration, sex, age, color, and marital status
A-14: Unemployed persons by duration, occupation, and industry of last job

Characteristics of the Employed

part-time

39 A-22: Nonagricultural workers by full- or part-time status

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A-23: Persons at work in nonagricultural industries by full- or part-time status, age, sex, color, and marital status

A-24: Persons at work in nonfarm occupations by full- or part-time status and sex

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Data on 14 and 15 Year-olds

44 A-25: Employment status of 14-15 year-olds by sex and color 44 A-26: Employed 14-15 year-olds by sex, major occupation group, and class of worker

Seasonally Adjusted Data

A-27: Employment status of the noninstitutional population by age and sex, seasonally adjusted

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A-28: Employment status by color, sex, and age, seasonally adjusted
A-29: Major unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

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48 A-30: Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment, seasonally

adjusted

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A-31: Rates of unemployment by age and sex, seasonally adjusted

49 A-32: Employed persons by age and sex, seasonally adjusted

SECTION B-EMPLOYMENT - ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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State and Area

B-7: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls for States and selected areas, by industry division. SECTION C-HOURS AND EARNINGS

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92

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National

79 C-1: Gross hours and earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls, 1947 to date

Gross hours and earnings of production workers, by industry Employment, hours, and indexes of earnings in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government

93

94

95

National

B-1: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry division, 1919 to date

B-2: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry

B-3: Women employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry

96

1

B-4: Indexes of employment on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry
division, 1919 to date, monthly data seasonally adjusted
B-5: Employees on nonagricultural payrolls, by industry, seasonally
adjusted

B-6: Production workers on manufacturing payrolls, by industry,
seasonally adjusted

107

C-2:
C-3:

110 111

State and Area

C-9: Gross hours and earnings of production workers on manufacturing payrolls, by State and selected areas SECTION D-LABOR TURNOVER ESTABLISHMENT DATA

ESTABLISHMENT DATA

C-4: Average hourly earnings excluding overtime of production workers on manufacturing payrolls, by industry

C-5: Gross and spendable average weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonagricultural payrolls, in

current and 1957-59 dollars

C-6: Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours and payrolls in industrial and
construction activities

C-7: Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers
on private nonagricultural payrolls, seasonally adjusted
C-8: Indexes of aggregate weekly man-hours in industrial and
construction activities, seasonally adjusted

100

D-1: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, 1957 to date

101 D-2: Labor turnover rates, by industry

105

D-3: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, by sex and major industry'
D-4: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing, 1957 to date, seasonally

106

adjusted

National

State and Area

D-5: Labor turnover rates in manufacturing for selected States and areas SECTION E-UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DATA

E-1: Insured unemployment under State programs

E-2: Insured unemployment in 150 major labor areas