TABLE E-1. Work stoppages resulting from labor-management disputes 1

1 Estimated monetary value of new construction put in place during the periods shown, including major additions and alterations but excluding maintenance and repair. These figures differ from permit-valuation data reported in the tabulations for building-permit activity (tables F-3, F-4, and F-5) and the data on value of contract awards (table F-2).

Includes revisions made annually. Data have been revised from 1946 and complete monthly detail for 1945-58 is available upon request. Preliminary.

Expenditures by privately owned public utilities for nonresidential build. Ing are included under "Public utilities."

Includes Federal contributions toward construction of private nonprofit hospital facilities under the National Hospital Program.

Includes nonhousekeeping public residential construction as well as housekeeping units.

Covers all building and nonbuilding construction, except production facilities (which are included in public industrial building), and Armed Forces housing under the Capehart program (which is included in public residential building).

NOTE: For a description of these series, see Techniques of Preparing Major BL8 Statistical Series, BLS Bull. 1168 (1954). See also Technical Note on Revised Estimates of Residential Additions and Alterations, 1945–56 (In Monthly Labor Review, August 1957. p. 973).

SOURCE: Joint estimates of the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration.

Responsibility for the collection and compilation of all statistics on housing and con-
struction activity was shifted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Bureau of the
Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce on July 1, 1959. Future issues of the
Review will no longer include the building and construction tables (F-1 through F-6).
These series are being continued by the Bureau of the Census and current data may be
obtained from that agency.

TABLE F-2. Contract awards: Public construction, by ownership and type of construction1

TABLE F-3. Building-permit activity: Valuation, by private-public ownership, class of construction and type of building 1

1

All building construction..

Private.

Public..

2, 304. 3 2, 120. 2 1, 463. 51, 374. 41, 335. 81, 499. 81, 907. 71, 857. 31, 942, 01, 952. 62, 042. 61, 920. 11, 810. 31, 523. 8 20,086. 2, 044.9 1, 938. 2 1, 287. 21, 181. 2 1, 148. 21, 359. 71, 689. 61, 597. 21, 665. 61, 732. 91, 703. 11, 557. 71, 570. 31, 315.7 17, 291. 259.4 182.0 176.3 193.1 187.7 140. 1 218.0 260. 1 276.4 219.8 339. 5 362. 4

240.0 208.1 2,795.

issuance or contract-awarded dates and start of construction, these data do
not represent the volume of building construction started.
2 Revised.

Includes a retroactive building permit issued during the month for a steel
plant, valued at $120 million, which was actually begun early in 1957.
NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal
totals.

1 Data relate to building construction authorized by local building permits in all localities (over 7,000) having building-permit systems-rural nonfarm as well as urban. Figures on the amount of construction contracts awarded for Federal projects and for public housing (Federal, State, and local) in permit-issuing places are added to the valuation data (estimated cost entered by builders on building-permit applications) for privately owned projects; construction undertaken by State and local governments is reported by local officials. Because permit valuations generally understate the actual cost of construction and because of lapsed permits and the lag between permit TABLE F-4. Building-permit activity: Valuation, by class of construction and geographic region 1

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1

Class of construction and geographic region

1959

Valuation (in millions of dollars)

1958

1958

All building construction 3.
Northeast.

North Central..

Apr. Mar.' Feb. Jan. Dec. Nov. Oct. Sept. Aug. July June May Apr. Mar. Total

2, 304. 3 2, 120.2 1, 463. 51, 374. 41, 335. 81, 499. 81, 907. 71, 857. 31, 942. 01, 952. 62, 042. 61, 920. 11, 810. 31, 523. 8 20,086.9 471.5 517.4 349.3 276.3 269. 2 325. 2 358. 4 385.3 397. 1

364. 2 387. 1 380.4 360.8 273.8

3, 918.9

666.6

1

TABLE F-5. Building-permit activity: Valuation, by metropolitan-nonmetropolitan location and State 1