Employment in the Health Service Industries statistics

[In thousands (5,278 represents 5,278,000). Annual averages of monthly figures. Covers all full- and part-time employees who worked during, or received pay for, any part of the pay period including the 12th of the month. Based on data from establishment reports. Excludes proprietors, the self-employed, farm workers, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and Armed Forces. Establishment data shown here conform to industry definitions in the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification and are adjusted to March 1996 employment benchmarks, and reflect historical corrections to previously published data. Based on the Current Employment Statistics Program; see Appendix III]


	1987
INDUSTRY	SIC	1980	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
	Code ¹

Health services ²	80	5,278	6,293	6,528	6,794	7,105	7,463	7,814	8,183	8,490	8,756	8,992	9,230	9,478	9,703	9,846	9,973
Offices and clinics of MDs	801	802	1,028	1,081	1,139	1,200	1,268	1,338	1,405	1,463	1,506	1,545	1,609	1,678	1,739	1,803	1,865
Offices and clinics of dentists	802	(NA)	439	458	470	484	500	513	528	541	556	574	592	611	629	646	667
Offices and clinics of other practitioners	804	96	165	182	198	221	248	277	304	327	353	378	397	417	435	450	452
Nursing and personal care facilities	805	997	1,198	1,245	1,283	1,311	1,356	1,415	1,493	1,533	1,585	1,649	1,691	1,730	1,756	1,762	1,755
Skilled nursing care facilities	8051	(NA)	791	833	869	907	936	989	1,067	1,094	1,147	1,221	1,253	1,295	1,335	1,348	1,343
Intermediate care facilities	8052	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	204	193	200	211	217	215	206	211	211	206	201	202
Other, n.e.c. ³	8059	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	200	227	227	215	222	224	222	227	225	215	213	211

Hospitals	806	2,750	2,997	3,037	3,142	3,294	3,439	3,549	3,655	3,750	3,779	3,763	3,772	3,812	3,860	3,926	3,970
General medical and surgical hospitals	8062	(NA)	2,811	2,841	2,924	3,047	3,174	3,268	3,359	3,449	3,475	3,459	3,474	3,514	3,561	3,625	3,660
Psychiatric hospitals	8063	(NA)	59	67	78	92	99	104	106	102	99	97	91	87	83	80	82
Specialty hospitals, exc. psychiatric	8069	(NA)	126	130	140	155	165	176	190	199	205	207	208	210	217	222	228

Medical and dental laboratories	807	(NA)	119	127	135	146	158	166	173	180	187	189	190	194	197	199	202
Home health care services	808	(NA)	(NA)	179	196	216	244	291	345	398	469	559	629	675	710	672	655

NA Not available.
1 Based on the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification code; see text, Section 17, Business.
2 Includes other industries not shown separately.
3 N.e.c. means not elsewhere classified.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletins 2445 and 2481, and Employment and Earnings, March and June issues.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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