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- Nonfarm business productivity, second quarter 2012 (09/06/2012)
- Time use of youths of immigrant and native-born parents, 2003–2010 (07/12/2012)
- Time spent working, 2011 (07/02/2012)
- Eldercare in 2011 (06/26/2012)
- First quarter 2012 nonfarm business sector productivity (06/07/2012)
- Nonfarm business labor productivity, first quarter 2012 (05/04/2012)
- Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011 (04/06/2012)
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2006–2010 (09/02/2011)
- Time spent in leisure activities, 2010 (06/27/2011)
- Average time spent caring for household children, 2005–2009 (07/01/2010)
- Percent of men and women engaged in household activities, 2009 (06/29/2010)
- Hours spent on childcare by mothers and fathers, 2003–07 (12/09/2009)
- Hours spent doing unpaid household work by age and sex, 2003–07 (08/06/2009)
- Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
- Comparisons of full- and part-time hourly earnings, 2007 (07/28/2009)
- Time spent in household activities, 2008 (06/29/2009)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2008 (06/25/2009)
- Working at home, 2003-2007 (06/23/2009)
- Which workers spend the most time working at home? (04/28/2009)
- Involuntary part-time work (01/06/2009)
- Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
- Household activities in 2007 (06/27/2008)
- Average hours that men and women worked in 2007 (06/26/2008)
- Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/2008)
- Retirement benefits of State and local government workers (03/26/2008)
- Working at home in 2006 (07/13/2007)
- Household activities in 2006 (07/03/2007)
- Average hours of work of men and women, 2006 (07/02/2007)
- The average day, 2006 (06/29/2007)
- Men's and women's work hours, 2005 (10/04/2006)
- Time spent at work in 2004 (10/07/2005)
- Leisure activities in 2004 (10/06/2005)
- The average day in 2004 (09/22/2005)
- Formal flexitime programs not common (07/07/2005)
- Flexible work schedules in 2004 (07/05/2005)
- Absence rates and industry, 2004 (02/15/2005)
- Absence rates and occupation, 2004 (02/14/2005)
- Hours: Two surveys compared (01/06/2005)
- Women work more hours per week than in the past (04/27/2004)
- Hours, earnings, and payrolls in August (09/08/2003)
- Part-time for economic reasons (01/29/2003)
- Farm jobs and managerial positions have lowest absence rate (01/28/2003)
- Earnings of part-timers (07/02/2002)
- Paid by the hour in 2001 (06/27/2002)
- One in 7 work evening, night, other shifts (04/30/2002)
- Over one quarter of full-time workers have flexible schedules (04/19/2002)
- About one in ten 16-year-old students working more than half-time (10/10/2001)
- Are youths working more now than in the past? (10/05/2001)
- Working more than one job in 2000 (09/21/2001)
- Lowest absence rate in farm jobs (03/23/2001)
- Reasons for working part time (03/21/2001)
- How seven pluses and a zero make a small minus for working hours (01/29/2001)
- Fewer hours, fewer benefits (09/21/2000)
- Average weekly hours drop in all retail trade industries (09/19/2000)
- Changes in average weekly hours, 1964-99 (09/06/2000)
- Executives most likely to have flexible work hours (07/26/2000)
- Longer hours at the top? (06/21/2000)
- Growth and overtime higher in durables factories (04/11/2000)
- Transportation equipment makers added the most overtime (03/31/2000)
- Overtime contributes to factory recovery (03/24/2000)
- Part-time workers in 1998 (02/23/2000)
- Full-time working couples more common (11/02/1999)
- Most hours in private sector now supplied by those with more than a high school education (09/29/1999)
- Hours worked for women with children rise (09/22/1999)
- Temps work same hours as other services workers (09/15/1999)
- Workweeks shorter in 1998 (04/02/1999)
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