Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2020

Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data

Edited by Mary Meghan Ryan

Not available to order

Publication date:

30 June 2020

Length of book:

484 pages

Publisher

Bernan Press

ISBN-13: 9781641434072

The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. It allows the user to understand recent developments as well as to compare today's economy with past history. This edition includes new tables on employee benefits and occupational safety and health.

The
Handbook is a comprehensive reference providing an abundance of data on a variety of topics including:

  • Employment and unemployment;
  • Earnings;
  • Prices;
  • Productivity;
  • Consumer expenditures;
  • Occupational safety and health;
  • Union membership;
  • Working poor
  • And much more!

Features of the publication
In addition to over 215 tables that present practical data, the
Handbook provides:

  • Introductory material for each chapter that contains highlights of salient data and figures that call attention to noteworthy trends in the data
  • Notes and definitions, which contain concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derived
  • References to more comprehensive reports which provide additional data and more extensive descriptions of estimation methods, sampling, and reliability measures