20 Terms
Contributors in Labor statistics
Labor statistics
most significant source of postsecondary education
Labor; Labor statistics
An occupation is classified into 1 of 11 categories that best describes the postsecondary education or training needed by most workers to become fully qualified in the occupation. The categories are ...
work relationship
Labor; Labor statistics
An employee must have had a verifiable work relationship with his or her employer to be included in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. A work relationship exists if an event or exposure ...
slowdown
Labor; Labor statistics
An effort, typically organized by a union, in which employees decrease productivity in order to bring pressure upon management. Generally a slowdown is used as an alternative to a strike and is seen ...
touchtone data entry (TDE)
Labor; Labor statistics
An automated method of collecting data in which respondents call a toll-free number and enter their data using a touchtone telephone.
mean wage
Labor; Labor statistics
An average wage; an occupational mean wage estimate is calculated by summing the wages of all the employees in a given occupation and then dividing the total wages by the number of employees.
terms of trade
Labor; Labor statistics
Allocation of inputs into two or more economies that take advantage of differences in comparative advantages and, through specialization, improve the production of the economies. Note that a change ...
time/index series
Labor; Labor statistics
A way of expressing, in percentage terms, the change in some variable from a given point in time to another point in time. For example, suppose output increased by 10 percent from an initial year ...
