TABLE F-6. Number of new permanent nonfarm dwelling units started, by ownership and location, and construction cost 1 1 Excludes temporary units, conversions, dormitory accommodations, trailers, and military barracks; includes prefabricated housing if permanent. These estimates are based on (1) monthly building-permit reports adjusted for lapsed permits and for lag between permit issuance and the start of construction, (2) continuous field surveys in nonpermit-issuing places, and (3) reports of public construction contract awards. Private construction costs are based on permit valuation adjusted for understatement of costs shown on permit applications. Public construction costs are based on contract values or estimated construction costs for individual projects. Not available. 'Preliminary. • Revised. NOTE: For a description of these series, see Techniques of Preparing Major BLS Statistical Series, BLS Bull. 1168 (1954). SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 1 TABLE G-1. Injury-frequency rates 1 for selected manufacturing industries-Continued 1 The injury-frequency rate is the average number of disabling work injuries for each million employee-hours worked. A disabling work injury is any injury occurring in the course of and arising out of employment, which (a) results in death or permanent physical impairment, or (b) makes the injured worker unable to perform the duties of any regularly established job which is open and available to him throughout the hours corresponding to his regular shift on any one or more days after the day of injury (including Sundays, days off, or plant shutdowns). The term "injury" includes occupational disease. Rates are preliminary and subject to revision when final annual data become available. Monthly Labor Review UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR • BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor-in-Chief CONTENTS Special Articles 855 Involuntary Retirement Provisions 861 Military Manpower Requirements and Supply, 1959-63 868 872 The Influence of Bargained Wage Increases on Prices Structural Determinants of Cost Inflation and Remedial Measures Summaries of Studies and Reports 876 Long-Term Factors in Labor Mobility and Unemployment 887 Earnings in Selected Wholesale Trade Industries, June 1958 894 In-Plant Feeding Practices in Factories 899 Wage Chronology No. 14: Ford Motor Co.-Supplement No. 3—1955-59 How American Buying Habits Change A New Publication on City Worker Family Expenditures • Traces revolutionary changes in living standards of American workers • Brings together, for the first time, findings of studies which the Labor Written for popular consumption, but contains tables and charts For copies of How American Buying Habits Change, send check or money order (do not send cash) payable to the Superintendent of Documents. Mail your order to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C., or to any of the following Bureau of Labor Statistics Regional Offices: |