Bureau of Labor Statistics
URL: http://www.bls.gov/
- Press releases on employment and unemployment, earnings, employment cost index, consumer prices, producer prices, productivity, collective bargaining, and union membership
- Time series on employment, prices, and productivity
- The Data option under the main web page is arranged by various retrieval options; these options are subdivided by subject
- Use the Search option for a subject approach to various retrieval options
- Web pages which combine all retrieval options include
- Collective Bargaining
- Consumer Expenditure Survey
- Consumer Price Index (change in cost of living)
- Covered Employment and Wages (unemployment insurance)
- Current Employment Statistics (employment, earnings)
- Current Population Survey (employment, unemployment, earnings)
- Employee Benefits Survey
- Employment Cost Trends
- Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities
- Labor Productivity
- Local Area Unemployment
- Mass Layoffs
- National Compensation Survey (wages by occupation for metropolitan areas)
- National Longitudinal Survey (demographic and household characteristics)
- Occupational Compensation Survey
- Occupational Employment Statistics (wages by occupation)
- Producer Price Index
- State and Area Current Employment Statistics (employment, hours, earnings)
- BLS Handbook of Methods
- History and methodology of labor force, employment, earnings, productivity, safety, and price index data
- Available in HTML or Adobe Acrobat format
- Monthly Labor Review
- Full text of articles on labor topics and legislation beginning 1997
- Report on the American Workforce
- Annual report with in-depth focus on different issues (e.g. "just in time" supplies, work time v. leisure time)
- Appendix summarizes employment, unemployment, and earnings data on a national level
- HTML interface with pdf text




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