TABLE F-6. Number of new permanent nonfarm dwelling units started, by ownership and location and construction cost1 Excludes temporary units, conversions, dormitory accommodations, trailers, and military barracks; includes prefabricated housing if permanent. These estimates are based on (1) monthly building-permit reports adjusted for lapsed permits and for lag between permit issuance and the start of construction, (2) continuous field surveys in nonpermit-issuing places, and (3) reports of public construction contract awards. Private construction costs are based on permit valuation adjusted for understatement of costs shown on permit applications. Public construction costs are based on contract values or estimated construction costs for individual projects. TABLE G-1. 1 Injury-frequency rates 1 for selected manufacturing industries-Continued Fabricated plastics products.. 13.3 18.0 10.9 Miscellaneous manufacturing. 4.8 13.3 13.2 11.8 12.5 5.6 4.6 5.1 1 The injury-frequency rate is the average number of disabling work injuries for each million employee-bours worked. A disabling work injury is any injury occurring in the course of and arising out of employment, which (a) results in death or any degree of permanent physical impairment, or (b) makes the injured worker unable to perform the duties of any regularly established job which is open and available to him throughout the hours corresponding to his regular shift on any one or more days after the day of injury (including Sundays, days off, or plant shutdowns). The term "injury" includes occupational disease. 11.2 13.9 11.6 10.6 11.5 11.8 3.5 4.4 5.6 5.0 4.4 5.5 2 Rates are preliminary and subject to revision when final annual averages become available. 3 Insufficient data to warrant presentation of average. NOTE: These data are compiled in accordance with the American Standard Method of Recording and Measuring Work Injury Experience, approved by the American Standards Association, 1954. Information on concepts, methodology, etc., is given in Techniques of Preparing Major BLS Statistical Se ies, BLS Bull. 1168 (1954). SOURCE: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1958 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR • BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor-in-Chief CONTENTS 845 854 862 866 866 868 871 877 879 882 886 888 III 891 891 892 896 899 898 906 914 Special Articles Characteristics of Pension Plans Evolution in the Worker's Housing Since 1900 Summaries of Studies and Reports The Role of Government in Manpower Policy Arbitration and Industrial Jurisprudence A Survey of Training Needs for Skilled Metal Trades Workers Labor-Management Relations Under the Railway Labor Act, 1934-57 Wage Chronology No. 6: Armour and Co.-Supplement No. 5-1956-58 Wholesale Price Movements in Three Recessions Departments The Labor Month in Review Union Conventions, September 16 to October 15, 1958 Conferences and Institutes, September 16 to October 15, 1958 Significant Decisions in Labor Cases Chronology of Recent Labor Events Erratum Book Reviews and Notes Current Labor Statistics August 1958. Vol. 81. No. 8 Digest of One Hundred Selected Pension Plans This bulletin (No. 1232) presents the principal features of one hundred pension plans in effect during the winter 1957-58. These features, which are summarized in a form suitable for quick reference, include: * Participation requirements Normal, early, and disability retirement Benefit amounts ★ Compulsory and automatic retirement ★ Vesting ★ Survivor options and death benefits ★ Plan administration ★ Financing An article entitled "Characteristics of Pension Plans" analyzing the principal provisions of these plans appears on page 845 of this issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Send order (accompanied by check or money order) to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C., or to any of the following Bureau of Labor Statistics regional offices: |