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United States: Nonfarm employment and labor force data

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	United States
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2008	138,080	137,936	137,814	137,654	137,517	137,356	137,228	137,053	136,732	136,352	135,755	135,074
2009	134,333	(P) 133,682	(P) 133,019
Mining and Logging
2008	748	750	756	756	763	770	777	787	794	794	793	789
2009	781	(P) 772	(P) 754
Construction
2008	7,489	7,445	7,401	7,337	7,293	7,232	7,201	7,177	7,131	7,066	6,939	6,841
2009	6,706	(P) 6,599	(P) 6,473
Manufacturing
2008	13,744	13,692	13,643	13,586	13,556	13,505	13,454	13,387	13,322	13,203	13,082	12,902
2009	12,640	(P) 12,471	(P) 12,310
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2008	26,717	26,655	26,629	26,562	26,503	26,467	26,425	26,354	26,257	26,157	26,005	25,843
2009	25,735	(P) 25,614	(P) 25,502
Information
2008	3,022	3,025	3,023	3,017	3,013	3,006	2,995	2,990	2,986	2,982	2,965	2,940
2009	2,924	(P) 2,917	(P) 2,907
Financial Activities
2008	8,229	8,211	8,204	8,190	8,179	8,162	8,154	8,141	8,115	8,088	8,043	8,010
2009	7,954	(P) 7,910	(P) 7,867
Professional & Business Services
2008	18,069	18,018	17,954	17,950	17,887	17,824	17,788	17,727	17,675	17,612	17,488	17,356
2009	17,205	(P) 17,027	(P) 16,894
Educational & Health Services
2008	18,613	18,657	18,698	18,752	18,798	18,843	18,888	18,950	18,957	18,981	19,044	19,080
2009	19,119	(P) 19,141	(P) 19,149
Leisure & Hospitality
2008	13,534	13,529	13,528	13,512	13,495	13,490	13,473	13,454	13,428	13,395	13,344	13,304
2009	13,268	(P) 13,240	(P) 13,200
Other Services
2008	5,524	5,533	5,537	5,541	5,542	5,535	5,536	5,530	5,532	5,535	5,509	5,477
2009	5,461	(P) 5,448	(P) 5,425
Government
2008	22,391	22,421	22,441	22,451	22,488	22,522	22,537	22,556	22,535	22,539	22,543	22,532
2009	22,540	(P) 22,543	(P) 22,538
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
(seasonally adjusted data, in thousands)
	United States
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2008	(1) 153,873	153,498	153,843	153,932	154,510	154,400	154,506	154,823	154,621	154,878	154,620	154,447
2009	(1) 153,716	154,214	154,048
Employment
2008	(1) 146,317	146,075	146,023	146,257	145,974	145,738	145,596	145,273	145,029	144,657	144,144	143,338
2009	(1) 142,099	141,748	140,887
Unemployment
2008	7,555	7,423	7,820	7,675	8,536	8,662	8,910	9,550	9,592	10,221	10,476	11,108
2009	11,616	12,467	13,161
Unemployment Rate
2008	4.9	4.8	5.1	5.0	5.5	5.6	5.8	6.2	6.2	6.6	6.8	7.2
2009	7.6	8.1	8.5
Footnotes (1) Data affected by changes in population controls.