Special Purpose Files - Industry Employment and Output

This page contains links to the industry employment projections files released in February of 2004 as well as the related industry employment and output data used to develop those projections. The projections are available only on a national basis and only for the year 2012. The historical data are available on an annual basis and also only on a national basis.

These files are available

Contact: Jay Berman, 202-691-5692

• Documentation files
• Industry sector plan; 184 detailed industries and 108 aggregate sectors
• Industry sector plan; text file suitable for use as stubs in a spreadsheet
• Notes on the sources and development of the historical data
• Data files (in ASCII format)
• Historical data
• Industry employment
• Industry output, with preliminary data for the years 2001-2002
• Projected data
• Industry output and employment projections for the year 2012

Format of data files

The data values are in row and column formats, with each column separated by a tab character, and each row being a new line. The first row is a header row in each of the files, indicating the meaning of the data in each column. The first two values in each row are integer values that indicate the data series and industry respectively. The remaining values in each row are the data for the years 1958 through 2002 for the employment data and 1972 through 2002 for the industry output data. The projections data file has historical data for 2002 as well as the projections for the year 2012. The projections file only contains series 1-7. A period (".") denotes missing values.

	        DATA SERIES CODES
  '1'   Domestic industry output, millions of current dollars
  '2'   Domestic industry output, millions of chain weighted
	(1996) dollars
  '3'   Industry output chain weighted deflator, 1996=1000
  '4'   Total jobs, thousands
  '5'   Total hours of all persons, millions
  '6'   Wage and salary jobs, thousands
  '7'   Wage and salary hours, millions
  '8'   Production worker jobs, thousands
  '9'   Production worker hours, millions
 '10'   Self-employed and unpaid family worker jobs, thousands
 '11'   Self-employed and unpaid family worker hours, millions

Last Modified Date: February 11, 2004

URL: http://www.bls.gov/EMP