| The following Employment Cost Index files are on the BLS internet in the subdirectory | |
| pub/time.series/ec: | |
| contact.doc - Contacts for BLS surveys | |
| ec.compensation - Comp_code mapping file | |
| ec.data.0.Current- Employment Cost Index data for current year | |
| ec.data.1.AllData- All Employment Cost Index data | |
| ec.doc - General information | |
| ec.group - Group_code mapping file | |
| ec.ownership - Ownership_code mapping file | |
| ec.period - Period_code mapping file | |
| ec.periodicity - Periodicity_code mapping file | |
| ec.series - All series and their beginning dates | |
| Both of the above data files (ec.data.0.Current & ec.data.1.AllData) have the following | |
| format: | |
| series_id period | |
| | | | |
| --------- --- | |
| ECU12803Q 1993 Q01 0.3 | |
| ---- --- | |
| | | | |
| year value | |
| The series_id can be broken down into: | |
| Series ownership_code | |
| | comp_code | | |
| | | | | |
| -- - - | |
| EC U 1 280 3 Q | |
| - - - | |
| | | | | |
| | group_code | | |
| seasonal periodicity_code | |
| CODE DEFINITIONS | |
| Series: EC - Employment Cost Index | |
| seasonal: U - unadjusted data | |
| S - seasonally adjusted data | |
| comp_code: 1 - Total Compensation | |
| 2 - Wages and salaries | |
| 3 - Benefits | |
| group_code: Industry, occupation classification codes | |
| see pub/time.series/ec/ec.group for a detailed | |
| explanation of all group codes. | |
| ownership_code: 1 - Civilian | |
| 2 - Private | |
| 3 - State and Local government | |
| periodicity_code: I - Index | |
| Q - 3 month percent change | |
| A - 12 month percent change | |
| period: Q01 - 1st Quarter | |
| Q02 - 2nd Quarter | |
| Q03 - 3rd Quarter | |
| Q04 - 4th Quarter | |
| Q05 - Annual Average (NOT USED) | |