State Overview -- Missouri Full-Time and Part-time Employment 1990-2000 - Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis Reports
The Regional Economic Information System, of the US Department of Commerce' Bureau of Economic Analysis, produces detailed reports of income, employment and other data for each county for each calendar year. These data, when they become available, are reported to the Missouri public on the OSEDA web site. There is an 18-month lag between the end of the calendar year for which data are reported and when those reports are made available to the public. The BEA reports on amount and sources of personal income (another section of OSEDA regional profiles), full- and part-time employment, farm income and expenses for the 2000 calendar year. They were made available to the public in July 2002.
Missouri Full-time and Part-time Employment
BEA reports of total full- and part time employment (for nation, states, counties) divide total employment by type and industry as shown in Table 1. The two types are "wage and salary employment" and "proprietors' employment". Proprietors are those who own and operate their own businesses. Proprietors are reported as farm and nonfarm.
The combination of those two types is equal to total full-and part-time employment. As shown in Table 1 wage and salary employment in 2000 was 2,896,354 (82.4 percent of total employment) and proprietors' employment was 619,484 (17.6 percent of total). Those two types add to 3,515,838, Missouri's total employment in 2000.
Industry employment is reported as farm employment and nonfarm employment. Nonfarm employment is further divided into "private" employment and "government" employment. As reported in Table 1 farm employment in 2000 was 123,331, 3.5 percent of total employment, and nonfarm employment was 3,392,507, 96.5 percent of total employment. Together farm and nonfarm employment add to total employment.
Industry employment is also reported as two inclusive categories: private and government. In 2000, private nonfarm employment totaled 2,925,685 (83.2 percent of total) and government employment was 466,822 (13.28 percent of total). Together those two account for total nonfarm employment. The table further divides private nonfarm employment into nine sector categories such as manufacturing, construction, etc. Government employment is divided into federal civilian workers, military, and state and local government workers.
By far the largest industry sector employer in 2000 was "Services" which accounted for 29.5 percent of total full- and part-time employment in 2000. Within the government employment category more than 78 percent were state and local government employees. Military employment (38,782 in 2000) is counted in those places where military personnel are stationed. In Missouri those concentrations would be in Pulaski County - Fort Leonard Wood and Johnson County - Whiteman Air Force Base.
Changes in Full- and Part-time Employment 1990-2000
Total full-and part-time employment in Missouri increased from 2,994,201 in 1990 to 3,515,838 in 2000 - an increase of 17.4 percent. That is a significant increase considering that Missouri population only increased by 9.3 percent from 1990-2000. That growth in employment was made possible by several trends occurring in the 1990s, such as:
- There was a continuing trend toward more mothers and housewives taking employment outside the home.
- There was growth in the number of multiple jobholders. One significant example is that Table 1 reports 111,000 persons employed as farm proprietors. However, agricultural census data show that more than two-thirds of workers reported as farmers also hold a full- or part-time job off the farm.
- Unemployment declined significantly during the 1990s. A part of the increase in total employment from 1990 to 2000 was that a significant number of Missourians who were unemployed in 1990 were employed in 2000.
- There was a continuing trend of high school and/or college students working part-time while going to school.
Despite these trends there were many Missouri localities that were experiencing labor shortages by the late 1990s. A major contributing factor to increased number of employed persons was growth in jobs throughout Missouri and other states during the 1990s.
The most important change in employment during the 1990s was that there were more than 521,000 more Missourians employed in 2000 than in 1990. Despite that increase the distribution of employment among the sectors remained remarkably stable during the 1990s. For example:
- There was no change in the proportion of wage and salary workers in comparison to proprietors. Wage and salary workers counted for 82.9 percent of employed persons in 1990 and 82.4 percent in 2000. Accordingly, proprietors accounted for 17.1 percent of employed persons in 1990 and 17.6 percent in 2000.
- Nonfarm workers accounted for 95.7 percent of the employed in 1990 and 96.5 percent in 2000.
- The private sector accounted for 82.2 percent of the nonfarm workers in 1990 and government workers accounted for 13.5 percent. In 2000 private sector nonfarm workers accounted for 83.2 percent of employment and government workers accounted for 13.3 percent.
There were, however, some relatively significant changes in the distribution of employment among the industry sectors. Some of these changes were as follows:
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- The major increases:
- Persons employed in services increased from 797,000 in 1990 to 1.038 million workers in 2000 - an increase of 30.2 percent.
- Persons employed in construction increased from 145,600 in 1990 to 207,500 in 2000 - an increase of 43 percent.
- Retail employment increased from 493,000 in 1990 to 585,000 in 2000 - an increase of 18.5 percent.
- Persons employed in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate increased from 214,000 in 1990 to 268,000 in 2000 - an increase of 25.0 percent.
- The decreases:
- Manufacturing employment declined from 449,000 in 1990 to 412,000 in 2000 - a decline of 8.2 percent
- Federal civilian employment declined from 71,900 in 1990 to 62,000 in 2000 - a decline of 13.8 percent.
- Farm employment declined from 128,000 in 1990 to 123,300 in 2000 - a decline of 3.7 percent.
Following sections on employment will report changes in total full- and part-time employment for Missouri counties and regions. Map 1 gives an overview of change in employment among the counties.
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