Employment-unemployment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States ....United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 |
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adjusted for seasonal adjusted Seasonally adjusted allied products Bureau of Labor census Civilian employment Civilian labor force Civilian noninstitutional population civilian workers computed Consumer Price Index DATA Not seasonally discouraged workers Employment status estimate Fabricated metal force Participation rate Goods-producing growth HOUSEHOLD DATA Table household survey identical numbers appear increase January Job losers jobless rate justments kindred products labor force Participation Labor Statistics manufacturing month Nonagricultural industries Nondurable noninstitutional population Civilian nonsupervisory workers NORWOOD Numbers in thousands official procedure Participation rate Employed Payroll employment payrolls by industry PLEWES population Civilian labor private nonagricultural payrolls production or nonsupervisory Reentrants Representative HAMILTON resident Armed Forces Retail trade revised sample sampling error seasonally adjusted columns seasonally adjusted Seasonally Senator SARBANES span standard error Statistics Canada table B-2 Total employed Transportation and public unem Unemployed Unemployment rate weather weekly earnings weeks Women X-11 ARIMA method
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Page 9 - B-2.) largely reflecting the changes in employment, the index of aggregate weekly hours of private production or nonsupervisory workers rose 0.6 percent in January to 129.6 (1977=100), while the manufacturing index fell by the same amount to 93.9.
Page 12 - Sampl1ng errors for mon1hly surveys are reduced when 1he da1a are cumula1ed for several mon1hs, such as quar1erly or annually. Also, as a general rule, 1he smaller 1he es11ma1e, 1he larger 1he sampl1ng error.
Page 38 - ... had been critical of the statistical system before. Representative HAMILTON. Trying to improve it? Mrs. NORWOOD. Who seems to understand, and in fact, he will be visiting us and I hope that we'll have an opportunity to have you talk with him about the need for objective data. Representative HAMILTON.
Page 35 - You run into the same thing? Mrs. NORWOOD. Yes, we are. What we've found is that we still get very high response rates, but we're finding that it is much more of a selling job than it used to be. And we are having to put more of our resources into working with reporters to explain to them how important this is and how they, themselves, can use the data. Representative HAMILTON.
Page 31 - The gross national product fixed weight price index also rose 6.5 percent in the first quarter, compared to 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter. Now, is the evidence developing here that inflation is accelerating? Is that a valid conclusion? Mrs. NORWOOD. The first quarter of this year certainly shows an acceleration of inflation. The question is, are those permanent factors which will remain through the whole year, or not? Representative HAMILTON.
Page 9 - In the goods-producing sector, construction employment increased by 105,000 (seasonally adjusted) in January, following a 50,000 decrease in December due to unusually poor weather. In contrast, the weather in January was unusually mild. Job cutbacks continued in manufacturing, with employment falling by 110,000 over the month. Temporary plant shutdowns in the auto industry accounted for most of the over-the-month decrease.
Page 31 - What do you think? Mrs. NORWOOD. I guess that I would say that in apparel, it's fairly clear that we've had the bulge and it would be unusual if we continued to have apparel prices pushing up the index. Food is often related to the weather, and it's hard to know what's going to happen. Representative HAMILTON.
Page 9 - Force (Household Survey Data) Total civilian employment held at 117.9 million in January, seasonally adjusted, and the employment-population ratio was essentially unchanged at 62.9 percent. The civilian labor force (124.4 million) and the labor force participation rate (66.4 percent) were also little changed in January. (See table A-2.) Industry Payroll...
Page 34 - Now, do most of those mothers work full time or part time, or can your statistics tell? Mrs. NORWOOD. Most women work full time. Obviously, a somewhat smaller proportion of those mothers with very young children work full time, but a significant proportion of them do. And I do want to point...