This section of the Review not past nor futures the principal statistical series gathered and calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: series forward labor force; employment; unemployment; labor compensation; consumer husbandman and international prices; productivity; international comparisons; and injury and illness statistics.

This section of the Review not past nor futures the principal statistical series gathered and calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: series forward labor force; employment; unemployment; labor compensation; consumer husbandman and international prices; productivity; international comparisons; and injury and illness statistics. In the notes that chase the data in each collection of tables are briefly described; key-note definitions are given; notes in succession the data are set forth; and sources of additional information are cited,

General notes

The following notes apply to several tables in this section:

Seasonal adjustment. Certain monthly and quarterly data are adjusted to eliminate the efficiency on the data of like factors as climatic conditions, industry production schedules, opening and closing of gymnasiums holiday buying periods, and vacation practices, which might obviate short-term evaluation of the statistical series. Tables containing data that have been adjusted are identified as "seasonally adjusted." (All other data are not seasonally adjusted.) Seasonal purports are estimated on the basis of now passing and past experiences. When strange seasonal factors are computed each year, revisions may affect seasonally adjusted data for several preceding years.

Seasonally adjusted data appear in tables 1-14 17-21 48 and 52 Seasonally adjusted labor force data in tables 1 and 4-9 were revised in the February 2005 issue of the Review. Seasonally adjusted establishment scan data shown in tables 1 12-14 and 17 were revised in the March 2005 Review. A brief explanation of the seasonal adjustment methodology appears in "Notes forward the data."

Revisions in the productivity data in table 54 are usually introduced in the September issue. Seasonally adjusted indexes and percent changes from month-to-month and quarter-to-quarter are published for numerous Consumer and farmer Price Index series. However, seasonally adjusted indexes are not published for the U average All-Items CPL barely seasonally adjusted percent changes are available for this series.

Adjustments for price changes. a certain number of data--such as the "real" earnings shown in table 14--are adjusted to eliminate the power of changes in price. These adjustments are made at dividing current-dollar values by the Consumer Price Index or the appropriate element of the index, then multiplying according to 100. For example, given a passing from hand to hand hourly wage rate of $3 and a general price index number of 150 where 1982 = 100 the hourly rate intimateed in 1982 dollars is $2 ($3/150 x 100 = $2) The $2 (or any other resulting values) are described as "real," "constant," or "1982" dollars.

Sources of information

Data that postscript the tables in this section are published from the Bureau in a variety of sources. Definitions of each series and notes onward the data are contained in later sections of these Notes describing each place of data. For detailed descriptions of each data series, behold BLS Handbook of Methods, Bulletin 2490 Users also may wish to take counsel Major Programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Report 919 of recent origins releases provide the latest statistical information published from the Bureau; the major recurring releases are published according to the schedule appearing forward the back cover of this issue.

More information about labor force, craft and unemployment data and the household and establishment take a view ofs underlying the data are available in the Bureau's monthly publication, pursuit and Earnings. Historical unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data from the household view are available on the Internet:

wwwblsgov/eps/

Historically comparable unadjusted and seasonally adjusted data from the establishment examine also are available on the Internet:

wwwblsgov/ces/

Additional information onward labor force data for areas below the national on a level are provided in the BL annual report, Geographic Profile of calling and Unemployment.

For a comprehensive discussion of the calling Cost Index, see Employment preciousness Indexes and Levels, 1975-95, BL Bulletin 2466 The chiefly recent data from the Employee Benefits take a view of appear in the following Bureau of Labor Statistics bulletins: Employee Benefits in Medium and Large Firms: Employee Benefits in Small Private Establishments; and Employee Benefits in State and Local Governments

More detailed data forward consumer and producer prices are published in the monthly periodicals, The CPI Detailed Report and husbandman Price Indexes. For an overview of the 1998 revision of the CPI, view the December 1996 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Additional data in succession international prices appear in monthly just discovereds releases.

Listings of industries for which productivity indexes are available may be rest on the Internet:

wwwblsgov/lpc/

For additional information forward international comparisons data, see International Comparisons of Unemployment Bulletin 1979

Detailed data forward the occupational injury and illness series are published in Occupational Injuries and Illnesses in the United States, at Industry, a BLS annual bulletin.