Manufacturing Productivity: Output per hour of all persons, by industry /1 Manufacturing Durable Goods Nondurable Goods ------------- ------------- ---------------- 1977 20.80 19.19 23.16 1978 20.90 19.17 23.46 1979 21.13 18.88 24.70 1980 21.00 19.15 23.79 1981 21.96 19.94 25.04 1982 22.57 20.25 26.16 1983 23.77 21.28 27.64 1984 24.81 22.82 27.75 1985 25.76 23.40 29.34 1986 25.94 23.78 29.16 1987 27.74 25.55 30.96 1988 28.81 26.95 31.50 1989 28.61 26.84 31.15 1990 28.83 27.18 31.14 1991 28.87 27.11 31.25 1992 29.53 27.88 31.72 1993 30.04 28.84 31.65 1994 31.39 30.68 32.36 /1 Output is chained 1992 dollar gross product originating by industry published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in Table 14 (page 154) of the August 1996. Hours of all persons are constructed by assuming that self-employed workers work the same number of hours annually as full-time employees. Annual hours of full-time employees are constructed by dividing hours worked by full-time and part-time employees by the number of full-time-equivalent employees. Self-employed workers are constructed by subtracting full-time-equivalent employees from persons engaged in production. See Tables 6.5c, 6.8c, 6.9c in the National Income and Product Accounts. Data for 1987 to 1994 are reported using 1987 SIC definitions; data for 1977 to 1986 are reported using 1972 SIC definitions. Productivity levels in the earlier period are adjusted by setting the 1987 levels of productivity equal for the two definitions. Where the two sets of SIC codes were not comparable, we followed BEAs instructions and merged series. These are indicated by footnotes. Finally, there are some series breaks for the number of self-employed workers in the two-digit industries between 1991 and 1992.