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Longitudinal data

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Data in which the same units are observed over multiple time periods. Another term for longitudinal data is panel data. For example, the BLS National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) programme collects ...

Data are presented for four major regions: Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. * Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, ...

Hourly compensation

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Compensation costs are defined as the sum of wage and salary accruals and supplements to wages and salaries. Wage and salary accruals consist of the monetary remuneration of employees, including the ...

Lost-worktime cases involving days away from work

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Cases resulting in days away from work, or a combination of days away from work and days of restricted work activity.

Lost-worktime cases

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Cases involving days away from work, or days of restricted work activity, or both.

Relative importance

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BLS publishes what is called a "relative importance" for each commodity and commodity grouping. The relative importance of an item represents its basic value weight, including any imputations, ...

Alternative employment arrangements

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BLS has collected data for workers in four types of alternative employment arrangements: 1) independent contractors, 2) on-call workers, 3) temporary help agency workers, and 4) workers provided by ...