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US employment history 1939-2013

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Published: 2013-02-21
Notes:

Notice that, since 1960, Total Govt Employment as a total of all employment has ranged between 14% and 16%.

Today is it around 14%, which is typical during times of no active wars.

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Title Series ID Vintage
Date
Units Freq Seas
Adj
Updated
All Employees, Federal CES9091000001 2013-02-21 Thous. of Persons M SA 2013-02-01
All Employees: Government USGOVT 2013-02-21 Thous. of Persons M SA 2013-02-01
All Employees, Local Government CES9093000001 2013-02-21 Thous. of Persons M SA 2013-02-01
All Employees, State Government CES9092000001 2013-02-21 Thous. of Persons M SA 2013-02-01
All Employees: Total Nonfarm Payrolls PAYEMS 2013-02-21 Thous. of Persons M SA 2013-02-01

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Abbreviations

Frequency (Freq)

A = Annual, SA = Semiannual, Q = Quarterly, M = Monthly, BW = Biweekly, W = Weekly, D = Daily, NA = Not Applicable

Seasonal Adjustment (Seas Adj)

SA = Seasonally Adjusted, NSA = Not Seasonally Adjusted, SAAR = Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, SSA = Smoothed Seasonally Adjusted, NA = Not Applicable

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