All Employees in goods producing industries, (thousands), total nonfarm payrolls, SA, monthly, US

Source: U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics Release: Employment Situation Frequency: Monthly Last Update: 2010-11-05 8:01 AM CDT Notes: Handbook of Methods Establishment Survey - (http://stats.bls.gov:80/opub/hom/homch2_itc.htm)

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Effective with the June 6, 2003 release, all historical establishment

survey data were reconstructed to reflect the switch from the Standard

Industrial Classification (SIC) system to the North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS).

This series runs for 73 years, 91 days from Jan 1939 to Apr 2012, with 880 valid data points. The maximum value of 25163 occurs for Jul 1979. The minimum value of 11098 occurs for Jan 1939. It has a median of 21890, a time-weighted average of 19752.82 and a standard deviation of 2926.4.