August 9, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Productivity jumps in second quarter
Productivity, as
measured by output per hour, increased at a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 5.3 percent in the nonfarm business sector during the second
quarter of 2000, after rising 1.9 percent in the first quarter.
![Growth in output per hour of all persons, nonfarm business, seasonally adjusted, 1998 III-2000 II (percent change from previous quarter at annual rate)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925071137im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Aug/wk1/art03.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Output in nonfarm business rose 5.9 percent in the second quarter,
after increasing 5.2 percent during the first quarter of 2000. Hours of
all persons working in the sector increased 0.5 percent in the second
quarter. This was the smallest increase in hours since the first quarter
of 1996 (when they fell 0.1 percent) and followed a 3.2 percent rise in
the first quarter of 2000.
These data are a product of the BLS Quarterly
Labor Productivityprogram. Data
are subject to revision. Additional information is available in "Productivity
and Costs, Second Quarter 2000,"
news release USDL 00-225. Â
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