US 2nd-quarter productivity report has errors-BLS

Published: 11 Aug 2009 17:16:12 PST

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 - A report on second-quarter U.S. productivity released earlier on Tuesday contained mistakes on compensation and unit labor costs, but the errors would not affect overall productivity data, the Department of Labor said.

It said it would issue a corrected version "as soon as possible. The department earlier reported non-farm productivity, a gauge of hourly output per worker, had surged at 6.4 percent rate in the second quarter after gaining 0.3 percent in the first quarter.