Appendix: Statistical Tables

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Section

1. General conditions in the labor market
2. Employment and the labor force
3. Wages and productivity
4. Earnings, prices, and expenditures
5. Benefits and working conditions
6. Unemployment
7. International comparisons

he tables in this appendix to the Report on the American Workforce are organized along thematic lines, rather than by the program office responsible for collecting them. This extends to the ideas suggested in Background Paper No. 22, National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, "Improving the Presentation of Employment and Unemployment Statistics." Unless noted otherwise, data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Technical descriptions of their sources, methods, and limitations are found in BLS Handbook of Methods, Bulletin 2490 (1997).