Manufacturing employment hard hit during the 2007-09 recession

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Barker, Megan M ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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1. The data on employment used in this article are from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, which is a monthly survey of approximately 140,000 nonfarm businesses and government agencies representing approximately 440,000 individual worksites
2. For more information on the program's concepts and methodology, see "Technical Notes to Establishment Survey Data" at www.bls.gov/web/cestn2.htm.
3. CES data are available at www.bls.gov/ces.
4. The CES data used in this article are seasonally adjusted
5. Recessions are identified by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). According to the NBER, the most recent recession began December 2007 and ended June 2009. The previous two recessions were from March 2001 to November 2001 and from July 1990 to March 1991.
6. For a complete list of business cycle dates, please consult the NBER webpage at www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html (visited Nov. 2, 2010).
7. The Conference Board, "Global Business Cycle Indicators," www.conference-board.org/data/bcicountry.cfm?cid=1 (visited Apr. 6, 2011).
8. Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Economic Accounts, Supplemental Estimates: Motor Vehicles, www.bea.gov/national/xls/gap_hist.xls (visited Feb. 7, 2011).
9. U.S. Census Bureau, www.census.gov (visited Apr. 4, 2011).
10. Julie Hatch and Angela Clinton, " Job growth in the 1990s: a retrospect," Monthly Labor Review, December 2000, pp. 3-18, www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/12/art1full.pdf (visited Apr. 6, 2011).