February 3, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Productivity, output, and hours worked, fourth quarter 2011

Percent change in productivity, output, and hours from fourth quarter 2010 to fourth quarter 2011 (p)
Industry	Productivity	Output	Hours
Nonfarm business	0.5	2.3	1.8
Business	0.2	2.0	1.8
Manufacturing
Total	1.7	4.3	2.5
Durable goods	3.0	7.4	4.3
Nondurable goods	1.6	1.2	-0.4
Footnotes: (p) preliminary

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