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The Current Employment Statistics Program provides employment, paid hours, and earnings information on a national basis in considerable industrial detail. The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data each month from a sample of establishments in all nonfarm activities including government. The data include series for total employment; number of women employees; number of production or nonsupervisory employees; and for both all employees and for production and nonsupervisory employees, average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, average weekly earnings, and average weekly overtime hours. Overtime hoursare produced for manufacturing industries only.