Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted
[Numbers in thousands]
Category Jan.
2011		 Nov.
2011		 Dec.
2011		 Jan.
2012		 Change from:
Dec.
2011-
Jan.
2012

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 238,704 240,441 240,584 242,269 -

Civilian labor force

 153,250 153,937 153,887 154,395 -

Participation rate

 64.2 64.0 64.0 63.7 -

Employed

 139,330 140,614 140,790 141,637 -

Employment-population ratio

 58.4 58.5 58.5 58.5 -

Unemployed

 13,919 13,323 13,097 12,758 -

Unemployment rate

 9.1 8.7 8.5 8.3 -

Not in labor force

 85,454 86,503 86,697 87,874 -

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 9.1 8.7 8.5 8.3 -

Adult men (20 years and over)

 8.9 8.3 8.0 7.7 -

Adult women (20 years and over)

 7.9 7.8 7.9 7.7 -

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 25.4 23.7 23.1 23.2 -

White

 8.1 7.6 7.5 7.4 -

Black or African American

 15.7 15.5 15.8 13.6 -

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)

 6.9 6.5 6.8 6.7 -

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 12.0 11.4 11.0 10.5 -

Total, 25 years and over

 7.6 7.3 7.2 7.0 -

Less than a high school diploma

 14.3 13.3 13.8 13.1 -

High school graduates, no college

 9.4 8.8 8.7 8.4 -

Some college or associate degree

 8.1 7.6 7.7 7.2 -

Bachelor's degree and higher

 4.2 4.4 4.1 4.2 -

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs

 8,463 7,599 7,602 7,321 -

Job leavers

 914 1,005 953 939 -

Reentrants

 3,351 3,355 3,399 3,325 -

New entrants

 1,337 1,276 1,280 1,253 -

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,659 2,510 2,669 2,486 -

5 to 14 weeks

 3,012 2,896 2,858 2,884 -

15 to 26 weeks

 2,253 2,087 2,039 1,980 -

27 weeks and over

 6,205 5,680 5,588 5,518 -

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 8,449 8,469 8,098 8,230 -

Slack work or business conditions

 5,772 5,578 5,305 5,372 -

Could only find part-time work

 2,472 2,496 2,419 2,551 -

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 17,923 18,363 18,372 18,636 -

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force

 2,800 2,591 2,540 2,809 -

Discouraged workers

 993 1,096 945 1,059 -

- December - January changes in household data are not shown due to the introduction of updated population controls.
NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

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Last Modified Date: February 03, 2012