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• The data aren't quite ready yet.(Slants & Trends)

  - 2004-01-01

  THE DATA AREN'T QUITE READY YET, but next month, the Department of Commerce will update its employment projections for the decade, including the still-growing IT field. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics' BLS forecast does not get down to individual jobs, everyone expects the leading job-growth...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Are the large central cities of the Midwest reviving?

  - 2001-06-22

  Introduction and summary Most central cities of the large metropolitan areas of the Midwest showed signs of improvement during the 1990s compared with the previous two decades, according to such broad measures as population, employment, unemployment, and income. If such gains can be sustained,...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Chicago, Dye, FINANCE, income, Indianapolis, job, Midwest, Milwaukee, Paul, Regional, Retail, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Economic Time-Series Page.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-06-22

  URL: http://www.Economagic.com The Economagic Web site is a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time-series data useful for research and instruction. The database currently contains a wide variety of more than 100,000 economic data series collected from sources including the Federal Reserve...

  Tags: Banking, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Databases, HARDWARE, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, Storage, U.S. Department of Commerce

• Updated summary NIPA methodologies - national income and product accounts, 1997

  - 1997-09-01

  THIS REPORT PRESENTS summary descriptions of the principal source data and estimating methods used to prepare the current-dollar estimates of gross domestic product GDP and the estimates of real GDP.(1) These descriptions have been updated to reflect the methodological improvements that were introduced in the annual revision of the national...

  Tags: adjustment, BEA Systems Inc., Bureau of Labor Statistics, FINANCE, income, MARKETING, SALES, survey, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Government

• Personal consumer durables - 1991 U.S. Industrial Outlook

  - 1991-01-01

  Personal Consumer Durables Shipments of selected personal consumer durables are expected to decline 3.5 percent in 1991 in constant dollars, following a decline of 3.0 percent in 1990. Only shipments of motorcycles and bicycles, boosted by exports, are expected to increase in 1991, as shipments of the jewelry; dolls,...

  Tags: bicycle, Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, doll, game, import, income, Japan, jewelry, manufacturer, motorcycle, phone, Retail, SALES, U.S., U.S. Department of Commerce