January 10, 2003 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Consumer-related jobs most important to farming and nondurables among goods producers
Consumer expenditures on the products of the goods-producing sector are
projected to increase by 5.2 percent over the 2000-2010 period. The jobs
associated with those expenditures would be most important to the
agriculture, forestry, and fishing and nondurable goods manufacturing
industries.
![Consumer-related employment as share of total, goods-producing industries, 2010 (projected)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921184050im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2003/jan/wk1/art05.gif)
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Consumer-related employment is projected to account for 69.3 percent of total employment in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing industries and 63.1 percent of employment in nondurables factories in 2010.
In other goods-producing industries, the share of 2010 employment attributable to consumers is projected to range from 10.8 percent in construction to 24.5 percent in durables manufacturing to 26.1 percent in mining.
This analysis is the product of the Employment Projections program. For more information, see
"Consumer spending: an engine
for U.S. job
growth," by Mitra Toossi, Monthly Labor Review, November 2002.
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