Detailed Reports for Industrial and Business Employment, December 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 I 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 [In thousands] TABLE 1.—Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries —–—–—– Continued 1 December 1946 estimates are based on reports from 32,800 cooperating establishments covering 7,335,000 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 Manufactures 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. Revisions have been made as follows in the data for earlier months; Machine-tool accessories.-October 1945 through September 1946 to 44.7, 43.9, 45.1, 45.7, 45.5, 45.9, 46.1, 45.9, 47.4, 47.5, 49.1, and 50.6, respectively. EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS 1939-100 INDEX WAGE EARNERS AND WAGE EARNER PAY ROLL 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS TABLE 2.-Indexes of production-worker employment and pay rolls in manufacturing industries1 [1939 average=100] Hardware.. Plumbers' supplies.. Stoves, oil burners, and heating equipment not elsewhere classified.. Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings..... Stamped and enameled ware and galvanizing. Metal doors, sash, frames, molding, and trim. Forgings, iron and steel Wrought pipe, welded and heavy-riveted. Electrical machinery.. Electrical equipment. Radios and phonographs. Communication equipment. Machinery, except electrical. Machinery and machine-shop products. Tractors.. Agricultural machinery excluding tractors. Machine-tool accessories 1. Textile machinery. Pumps and pumping equipment.. Cash registers, adding and calculating machines. Sewing machines, domestic and industrial.. Refrigerators and refrigeration equipment. Transportation equipment, except automobiles. Locomotives. Cars, electric- and steam-railroad. Aircraft and parts, excluding aircraft engines. Shipbuilding and boatbuilding. Automobiles..... Nonferrous metals and their products.. Smelting and refining, primary, of nonferrous metals.. Alloying and rolling and drawing of nonferrous metals except aluminum. Clocks and watches.. 130.5 129.9 132.9 116.8 244. 5 232.6 248.8 202.3 135.9 136.3 132.7 131.7 239.6 240.7 231.3 199. 7 133.4 134. 6 135.9 108. 7 261.7 261.7 265. 1 200.0 179.8 177.3 167.4 149.7 404. 7 389.9 368.9 301. 7 175.0 172.4 174.9 151. 5 360. 8 348.8 355.8 272.5 Jewelry (precious metals) and jewelers' findings. 124.5 120.4 120.8 Silverware and plated ware.. 124. 7 124.3 121.6 1548 152.5 152. 3 217.7 216.3 214.9 145. 1 146. 2 142.2 See footnotes at end of table. |