SMU Data and Models
March 12, 2019
BLS: Employment by Industry for February
Written by Peter Wright
Construction employment was promoted by good weather in January with a reversal in February, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
In February, 25,000 jobs were created in the private sector and government lost 5,000. Table 1 breaks total employment down into service and goods-producing industries and then into private and government employees. Most of the goods-producing employees work in manufacturing and construction, and the components of these two sectors of most relevance to steel people are broken out in Table 1.
