据联邦劳工统计局报道，由于该行业损失了61,000个工作岗位，这是2月份的就业情况恶化，自去年四月以来的第一次下降，其失业率上升。

这latest monthly BLS employment report, released on March 5, showed that construction’s February jobless rate climbed to 9.6% from January’s 9.4%. The rate also was much higher than the February 2020 level of 5.5%.

同期，2月份的总建筑就业人数下降了308,000个工作岗位，即4％。

According to BLS revised figures, the February results marked the first monthly falloff in construction jobs since April 2020 when the industry’s total employment plummeted by more than 1 million.

When BLS reported preliminary January figures early last month, they showed a loss of 3,000 jobs. But the bureau now has revised the January numbers upward, to show a modest gain for that month of 1,000.

除了建筑的一个细分市场中，所有其他部门都在2月失去了工作。例外是住宅大楼，增加了5300个职位。

这nonresidential specialty trade contractors segment was hit hardest, shedding 36,700 jobs in February.

Heavy and civil engineering construction, which includes infrastructure work, lost 20,800. Residential specialty trade contractors showed a drop of 5,500 jobs, and the nonresidential building sector’s employment decreased by 3,300.

Architectural and engineering services, a separate BLS category from construction, recorded a modest gain of 1,700 jobs.

ABC, AGC economists' analyses

Ken Simonson, Associated General Contractors of America's chief economist, said that construction's February falloff in jobs continues the nonresidential sectors downturn that started before that month's severe cold wave and losses in electric power.

在一个陈述, Simonson added, "Despite recovery in some parts of the economy, private nonresidential construction is still experiencing many canceled and postponed projects and few new starts."

但是联合建筑商和承包商首席经济学家阿尼尔班·巴苏（Anirban Basu）在陈述BLS的建设数字“不应引起非住宅建筑行业利益相关者的警报”。

Basu said "weather-related interruptions" in the southern U.S. probably led to "some temporary job loss."

这BLS figures for job gains or losses are adjusted for seasonal variations; the bureau's unemployment rates are not seasonally adjusted.

故事更新于20121年3月5日。进行行业经济学家的分析。