WWC snapshot of http://stats.bls.gov/payroll.htm taken on Sat Jun 10 19:48:38 1995
Nonfarm Payroll Statistics from the Current Employment Statistics Survey
The Current Employment Statistics program, a monthly survey conducted by State employment security agencies in cooperation with BLS, provides employment data collected from payroll records of business establishments.
Current news releases
Historical time series available via gopher
Data available
- Total employment in major nonfarm industry divisions, 1919 to current year.
- Total employment in about 660 industries.
- Production or nonsupervisory workers in over 500 private nonfarm industries.
- Women employees in nearly 600 industries.
- Diffusion indexes of employment change in 356 private nonfarm industries and 139 manufacturing industries.
- Total employment by major industry division for each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and over 270 areas.
- Average hours and earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers in private nonfarm industries, beginning as early as 1909.
- Average hours and earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers in over 500 private nonfarm industries; overtime hours in 324 manufacturing industries.
- Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls in major, private nonfarm industries.
- Average earnings, excluding overtime, in major manufacturing industries.
- Real average weekly earnings (earnings adjusted for price changes) for major industry groups.
- Average hours and earnings in manufacturing industries for each State, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and over 180 major labor areas.
Coverage
- Payroll employment in nonfarm industries.
- Hours and earnings: Production workers in mining and manufacturing, construction workers in the con-struction industry, and nonsupervisory workers in nonmanufacturing industries.
Reference period
- Monthly, pay period including the 12th of the month.
Source of data
- Current Employment Statistics program, a Federal-State cooperative program; sample of over 390,000 establishments in 1994, covering about 42 percent of total employment; mail survey, (Form BLS 790); touch-tone data entry, and computer-assisted telephone interviews.
Forms of publication
- Monthly news releasesùThe Employment Situationùabout 3 weeks after reference period, Real Earnings in (month)ùabout 5 weeks after reference period, and State and Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemploymentùabout 8 weeks after reference period. Electronic access available.
- Monthly periodicalùEmployment and Earningsù5 weeks after reference period for national data; 9 weeks for State and area data. Historical and annual bulletinùEmployment, Hours, and Earnings, United States.
- Historical data in the Handbook of Labor Statistics, Employment, Hours, and Earnings, United States, 1909-90; Employment, Hours, and Earnings, United States, 1981-93; and Employment, Hours, and Earnings, States and Areas, 1972-87.
- Data files on diskette and tapeùhistorical and current data for many of the monthly series.
Uses
- Economic indicators.
- Plant location planning.
- Wage negotiations.
- Adjustment of labor costs in escalation of long-term contracts
- Economic research and planning.
- Regional analysis.
- Industry studies.
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