508 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 3.—Indicators of Nebraska business activity 
. 
1966 
1967 
Change, 
percent 
Personal income: 
. 
 
 
 Total millions~. 
Per capita                                         
Bank debits millions.. 
$4,181 
$2,905 
$2,262 
'  $4,216 P $2,938 
NA 
+0.8 
+1.1 
New construction: 
 
 
 
   Building permits do....Highway construction contracts awarded doW..Cash
receipts from farm marketing doW..Mineral production do~..Work force: 
$94.0 
$42.2 
$1,855.8 
$78.5 
$138.1 
$32.8 
~ $1,820.1 $70.9 
+46.9 
—22.3 
—1.9 
—9.7 
Total labor force (monthly estimated work force average) 
thousands - 
633 
637 
+0.6 
   Total employment do......   Total unemployment do..~..   Unemployment
rate percent..Employment:   Total agricultural thousands~ 
617 
16 
2.6 
 
120.4 
621 
16 
2.5 
 
114.2 
+0.6 
  
—3.8 
 
—5.2 
Total non-agricultural do...~ 
 Mining do~~ Contract construction do~~ 
432.0 
1.8 
23.4 
442.6 
1.7 
23.3 
+2.5 
—5.6 
—0.4 
Manufacturing do..~Finance, insurance, real estate do...,.. 
74.9 
26.0 
80.2 
26.2 
+7.1 
+0.8 
Transportation and utilities do~..Trade do...~ 
36.5 
108.6 
36.3 
109.0 
—0.5 +0.4 
Services and miscellaneous do - - - 
69.8 
72.8 
+4.3 
Government do.,.._ 
91.0 
93.1 
+2.3 
P Preliminary. NA Not available. 
 
 
 
 Sources: Survey of Current Business; Engineering News-Record; Statistical
Reporting Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Denver, Cob.; State of
Nebraska; U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 
 
 
Table 4.—Employment and injury experience in the mineral industries

Year and industry 
Average 
men 
working 
daily 
Days 
active 
Man- 
days 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Man- 
hours 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Number of 
injuries 
—— ——— Fatal Non- 
fatal 
Injury rates per 
million man-hours 
——~—-——— 
 Fre- Se- 
quency verity 
1966: 
Nonmetal           
Sand and gravel      
Stone              
Total            
1967:~ 
Nonmetal           
Sand and gravel      
Stone              
Total'           
66 
1,063 
516 
231 
209 
290 
15 
222 
150 
136 
2,050 
1,229 
 7 
 1 20 
 10 
51.47 95610.24 8,3408.13 275 
 
1,645 
235 
387 
3,415 
1 37 
11.13 2,141 
 
45 
880 
525 
231 
203 
266 
10 
178 
140 
82 
1,703 
1,167 
 2 
 1 10 
 20 
24.49 1476.46 3,83517.14 444 
 
1,450 
227 
328 
2,951 
1 32 
11.18 2,392 
P Preliminary. 
Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
zation near Beilvue; emergency bank protection at Cedar Island on the North
Platte River near La Platte; flood protection, Stage II, near Norfolk; Salt
Creek project channel improvements on levees through Lincoln, Stage II, Salt
Creek and its tributaries; flood protection, Blackbird 
 
Creek near Macy, Missouri River Basin; flood protection at Hooper, Elkhorn
River Basin; bank stabilization on the Missouri River in the vicinity of
Plattsmouth; and emergency levee repairs on the Platte River in Saunders
County near Ashland.