for the period July 1945 to date will be presented in an early issue of the Monthly Labor Review.

Source of data. Data for the Federal executive service are reported through the Civil Service Commission, whereas data for the legislative and judicial services and Government corporations are reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment on Federal forceaccount construction is included in both the executive branch (tables 3 and 4) and in construction employment (table 2 in the section, Construction).

Military personnel and pay figures are reported monthly to the Bureau of Labor Statistics but are published here only quarterly. Mimeographed tables giving civilian employment and military personnel and pay, monthly, 1939 to date, and civilian pay rolls, monthly, 1943 to date, are available upon request.

TABLE 3.-Employment and pay rolls for regular Federal services and for Government corporations in selected months

Includes employees on force-account construction. Beginning July 1945, data include clerks at thirdclass post offices who were previously working on a contract basis. Data exclude substitute rural mail

carriers.

Data are for employees of the Panama Railroad Company, the Federal Reserve banks, and banks of the Farm Credit Administration. Data for other Government corporations are included under the executive service.

Employment is as of the first of the calendar month.

Subject to revision.

Data are for all pay periods ending within the calendar month. Beginning July 1945, this ordinarily represents pay for 4 weeks but in November 1946 it represents pay for 6 weeks for most employees.

TABLE 4.-Employment and pay rolls for the executive branch of the Federal Government in selected months 1

1 Includes employees on force-account construction.

2 Covers War and Navy Departments, Maritime Commission, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, The Panama Canal, Price Decontrol Board, Philippine War Damage Commission, and the emergency war agencies.

3 Beginning July 1945, data include clerks at third-class post offices who previously were working on a contract basis. Data exclude substitute rural mail carriers.

Includes Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone.

Employment is as of the first of the calendar month.

Subject to revision.

7 Data are for all pay periods ending within the calendar month. Beginning July 1945, this ordinarily represents pay for 4 weeks, but in November 1946 it represents pay for 6 weeks for most employees.

Detailed Reports for Industrial and Business
Employment, October 1946

MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are presented below for more than 150 manufacturing industries and for 27 nonmanufacturing industries including water transportation and class 1 steam railroads. Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls for the period ending nearest the 15th of the month.

TABLE 1.—Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries 1

TABLE 1.-Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries 1Continued

TABLE 1.-Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries —— Continued

October 1946 estimates are based on reports from 33,700 cooperating establishments covering 7,378,000 production workers. Estimates for the major industry groups have been adjusted to levels indicated by final 1944 data made available by the Bureau of Employment Security of the Federal Security Agency. Estimates for individual industries have been adjusted to levels indicated by the 1939 Census of Manufac tures but not to Federal Security Agency data. For this reason, together with the fact that this Bureau has not prepared estimates for certain industries, the sum of the individual industry estimates will not agree with the totals shown for the major industry groups.