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Unemployment Rate (1) Graph 10-Year History 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4
Change in Payroll Employment (2) Graph 10-Year History 324 208 96 85 128 (P) 96 (P)
Average Hourly Earnings (3) Graph 10-Year History 15.59 15.63 15.66 15.71 15.75 (P) 15.78 (P)
Consumer Price Index (4) Graph 10-Year History 0.2 0.6 0.3 -0.1 0.1  
Producer Price Index (5) Graph 10-Year History 0.7 0.7 (P) -0.3 (P) 0.1 (P) -0.1 (P)  
U.S. Import Price Index (6) Graph 10-Year History 0.2 1.5 -0.2 0.4 1.4 0.2
Employment Cost Index (7) Graph 10-Year History 0.9  
Productivity (8) Graph 10-Year History 2.5  

Footnotes:
(P) Preliminary
(1) In percent, seasonally adjusted. Annual averages are available for Not Seasonally Adjusted data.
(2) Number of jobs, in thousands, seasonally adjusted
(3) For production and nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted
(4) All items, U.S. city average, all urban consumers, 1982-84=100, 1-month percent change, seasonally adjusted
(5) Finished goods, 1982=100, 1-month percent change, seasonally adjusted
(6) All imports, 1-month percent change, not seasonally adjusted
(7) Compensation, all civilian workers, quarterly data, 3-month percent change, seasonally adjusted
(8) Output per hour, nonfarm business, quarterly data, percent change from previous quarter at annual rate, seasonally adjusted

Data extracted on: October 14, 2004

Source: U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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