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Table 1: Growth Rates of Labor Productivity in Transportation and U.S. Business

(Growth Rates - annual, percentage)

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	1990-2000	1990-2001	1990-1995	1995-2000	1995-2001
Air transportation	2.4	1.6	4.2	0.6	−0.6
Line-haul railroads	5.2	5.3	5.7	4.6	5.0
General freight trucking - long distance	1.7	1.4	1.5	2.0	1.3
U.S. Business	2.0	2.0	1.4	2.6	2.5

Source: The data on which these growth rates are based were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics internet site. For the three transportation industries: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/opt/dipts/ipr.aiin.txt. For Private Business: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet.

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