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 766):

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 47 rows and 61 columns.

See text, this section. Minus sign (-) indicates decrease

Footnotes

1. Refers to gross sectoral
   product, annual-weighted.
2. Hours at work of all persons engaged in the business
   and nonfarm business sectors (employees, proprietors, and unpaid family
   workers); employees’ and proprietors’ hours in manufacturing.
3. Wages and salaries of employees plus employers’
   contributions for social insurance and private benefit plans. Also
   includes an estimate of same for self-employed. Real compensation
   deflated by the consumer price index research series, see text,
   Section 14, Prices.
4. Hourly compensation divided by output per hour.
5. All changes are from the immediate prior year.