Talk:Working time/Archives/2019

2016 data for "Average annual hours actually worked per worker" does not appear to match source cited
For the 2016 data the article cites #31 https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS

The table in the article for 2016 lists U.S. as 2428 hours, China as 2392, etc. However for 2016 the cited link shows U.S. at 1781 hours, China is not listed in the table in the cited link, etc.

Bad data / wrong source / numbers in table for a different statistic not matching heading? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.221.131.50 (talk) 02:37, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Dead link source at the U.S. BLS
I happened to look at this article yesterday, and I noticed that a cited source at the URL ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/opt/lpr/histmfgsic.zip is tagged with Dead link. Sure enough, that link is dead and not fixable with info from https://archive.org/. Having looked that far, I went to http://bls.gov and tried to find it. I didn't find it but I did find a way to ask for help there, so I asked for help. I got an unexpectedly helpful response saying: "[...] it appears that the file to which the article refers was moved to https://www.bls.gov/mfp/historicmfgsic.zip, which contains data for superseded historical SIC measures for manufacturing sectors and 2-digit SIC manufacturing industries, 1949-2001. This is accessible in the tables section of our Multifactor Productivity (MFP) website at https://www.bls.gov/mfp/#tables.

There are additional, updated tables and charts for multifactor productivity in that section of the website and at https://www.bls.gov/mfp/mprdload.htm. For data related specifically to the productivity and costs of labor, please see our Labor Productivity and Costs website at https://www.bls.gov/lpc/.

Please let me know if you have additional questions, or e-mail productivity@bls.gov."

This is more than I expected, but this article is outside of my usual interest areas and I don't have the topical expertise to be sure that if I tried to fix the cite I would do justice to the assertion it was cited to support. Also, I think that my time is better spent on articles more aligned with my interest areas. So, I'm just passing the info above along here and suggesting that someone with more of an interest in this particular article than I have use this information to fix the cite. I have the email address of the person who sent me the response, but I'm not going to include that in this comment; if that info is needed, please let me know. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:32, 2 August 2019 (UTC)