Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 602):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 45 rows and 9 columns.

In thousands (136,891 represents 136,891,000), except percent. Annual averages of monthly figures. Based on the Current Population Survey; see text, Section 1, Population, and Appendix III. Based on the industrial classifications derived from those used in the 2000 census and are not comparable to those used in the 1990 Census. See text, this section. Historical data, which are not comparable to these data, are available in table 619 on the 2004-2005 Statistical Abstract CD-Rom

Footnotes

1. Data not strictly comparable with data
   for earlier years. See text, this section, and February 1994, March 1996,
   February 1997-99, and February 2003-07 issues of Employment and Earnings.
2. Persons in this race group only. See footnote 3, Table 570.
3. Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin may be of any race.