Technical information: (202) 691-6392 USDL 07-0112 http://www.bls.gov/mls/ For release: 10:00 A.M. EST Media contact: 691-5902 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 MASS LAYOFFS IN DECEMBER 2006 AND ANNUAL TOTALS FOR 2006 In December, employers took 1,201 mass layoff actions, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single establishment, and the number of workers involved totaled 133,818, on a seasonally adjusted basis. The number of mass layoff events decreased by 19 from the prior month, and the number of associated initial claims de- creased by 2,522. During December, 390 mass layoff events were reported in the manufacturing sector, seasonally adjusted, resulting in 53,828 ini- tial claims. Both the number of events and the number of initial claims in manufacturing were lower in December than a month earlier. (See table 1.) The national unemployment rate was 4.5 percent in December, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from the prior month and down from 4.9 percent a year earlier. Total nonfarm payroll employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 167,000 over the month and by 1.8 million over the year. Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted) The 10 industries reporting the highest numbers of mass layoff initial claims, not seasonally adjusted, accounted for 36 percent of the total initial claims in December. The industry with the highest number of initial claims was highway, street, and bridge construction with 19,021, followed by school and employee bus transportation with 14,747, and food service contractors with 13,903. Together, these three industries accounted for 19 percent of all initial claims due to mass layoffs during the month. (See table A.) The manufacturing sector accounted for 33 percent of all mass layoff events and 41 percent of all related initial claims filed in December; a year earlier, manufacturing made up 30 percent of events and 38 percent of initial claims. In December 2006, the number of manufacturing claimants was highest in transportation equipment manufacturing (38,811, mostly in motor vehicle manufacturing), followed by food manufacturing (8,557), and wood products manufacturing (6,359). (See table 3.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Mass Layoff Data | | | | Seasonally adjusted mass layoff data have been revised using | | updated seasonal adjustment factors that incorporate 2006 data. | | Seasonally adjusted estimates back to January 2002 were subject | | to revision. Revised seasonally adjusted data for January 2003 | | forward are shown in table 1. The originally published and re- | | vised figures for January 2002-December 2006 are available at | | http://www.bls.gov/mls/home.htm, along with additional informa- | | tion about the revisions. | ------------------------------------------------------------------- - 2 - Table A. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in December 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | December peak Industry |Initial |-------------------------- | claims | Year | Initial claims ------------------------------------------|----------------------------------- | | | Highway, street, and bridge construction..| 19,021 | 2005 | 20,088 School and employee bus transportation....| 14,747 | 2006 | 14,747 Food service contractors..................| 13,903 | 2006 | 13,903 Temporary help services...................| 12,647 | 2005 | 16,656 Heavy duty truck manufacturing............| 7,443 | 2006 | 7,443 Light truck and utility vehicle | | | manufacturing..........................| 6,888 | 2000 | 7,338 Motion picture and video production.......| 6,541 | 1998 | 16,192 Motor home manufacturing..................| 4,257 | 2006 | 4,257 Automobile manufacturing..................| 4,123 | 2005 | 9,021 Discount department stores................| 3,255 | 2006 | 3,255 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Construction accounted for 19 percent of mass layoff events and 14 percent of initial claims in December, mostly from heavy and civil engi- neering construction. Administrative and waste services comprised 11 percent of events and 9 percent of initial claims filed over the month, with the majority of layoffs in temporary help services. Accommodation and food services made up 8 percent of events and associated initial claims, mainly from food service contractors. Seven percent of all mass layoff events and 8 percent of related initial claims filed were from transportation and warehousing, primarily from the school and employee bus transportation industry. Government establishments accounted for 3 percent of events and 2 percent of initial claims filed, largely from educational services. On a not seasonally adjusted basis, the number of mass layoff events in December, at 2,249, was down by 74 from a year earlier, and the number of associated initial claims increased by 245 to 254,503. (See table 2.) The largest over-the-year increases in initial claims were reported in transportation equipment manufacturing (+4,303), machinery manufacturing (+2,585), and electrical equipment and appliance manufacturing (+1,985). For transportation equipment manufacturing, states with the largest over- the-year increases in initial claims were Kentucky (+3,826), Iowa (+2,561), Minnesota (+2,423), Virginia (+2,109), and Ohio (+2,065). The largest over- the-year decreases in mass layoff initial claims were reported in administra- tive and support services (-5,409), food manufacturing (-2,124), and heavy and civil engineering construction (-1,709). Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted) Among the four census regions, the highest number of initial claims in December due to mass layoffs was in the Midwest, 109,495. Transportation equipment manufacturing and heavy and civil engineering construction to- gether accounted for 34 percent of all mass layoff initial claims in that region during the month. The South had the second largest number of initial claims among the regions, 54,023, followed by the West, 50,247, and the North- east 40,738. (See table 5.) The number of initial claimants in mass layoffs decreased over the year in three of the four regions--the West (-3,149), the Midwest (-2,167), and the Northeast (-2,159). The South experienced the only regional increase (+7,720). Five geographic divisions had over-the-year decreases in the numbers of initial claims associated with mass layoffs, with the largest decrease in the East North Central division (-7,215), followed by the Pacific division (-2,989). Of the four divisions with over-the-year in- creases, the largest were in the East South Central (+7,523) and West North Central (+5,048). Among the states, California recorded the highest number of initial claims filed due to mass layoff events in December (34,848), followed by Michigan (22,842), Illinois (17,195), Kentucky (15,975), and Ohio (15,848). These five states accounted for 40 percent of all mass layoff events and 42 percent of all associated initial claims for unemployment insurance. (See table 6.) Kentucky had the largest over-the-year increase in the number of initial claims (+6,109), mostly due to layoffs in transportation equipment manufac- turing. States having the next largest increases in initial claims were Iowa (+2,981), Maryland (+2,825), New York (+2,824), and Ohio (+2,789). The largest over-the-year decreases in claims occurred in Michigan (-7,614), Georgia (-4,553), and California (-4,078). - 3 - Table B. Number of mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, 1996-2006 -------------------------------------------------------- | | Year | Layoff events | Initial claimants for | | unemployment insurance -------------------------------------------------------- | | 1996........| 14,111 | 1,437,628 1997........| 14,960 | 1,542,543 1998........| 15,904 | 1,771,069 1999........| 14,909 | 1,572,399 2000........| 15,738 | 1,835,592 2001........| 21,467 | 2,514,862 2002........| 20,277 | 2,245,051 2003........| 18,963 | 1,888,926 2004........| 15,980 | 1,607,158 2005........| 16,466 | 1,795,341 2006........| 13,998 | 1,484,391 -------------------------------------------------------- Review of 2006 During 2006, 13,998 mass layoff events occurred in the nation, resulting in 1,484,391 initial claims filings for unemployment insurance. In 2005, there were 16,466 events and 1,795,341 initial claimants. The total number of initial claims for 2006 was the lowest reported for any January-December period since 1996. (See table B.) The 10 industries with the highest number of mass layoff initial claims accounted for 31 percent of the total in 2006. (See table C.) Temporary help services and school and employee bus transportation ranked 1 and 2 among these 10 industries in both 2006 and 2005. Heavy duty truck manufac- turing and discount department stores entered the top 10 industries in terms of initial claims. These industries replaced motor vehicle seating and trim manufacturing and elementary and secondary schools. Manufacturing accounted for 31 percent of all mass layoff events and 39 percent of initial claims filed during 2006. A year earlier, manufacturing accounted for 29 percent of events and 37 percent of initial claims. Initial claim filings were most numerous in transportation equipment (221,383) fol- lowed by food manufacturing (62,927) and machinery manufacturing, (40,069). During 2006, the largest declines in initial claims occurred in transporta- tion equipment manufacturing (-32,351) and food manufacturing (-13,999). The largest over-the-year increase in initial claims occurred in machinery manufacturing (+6,356). The number of initial claims filed in 2006 due to mass layoffs was higher in the Midwest (508,798) than in any other region. Layoffs in transportation equipment manufacturing accounted for 31 percent of the claims in the Midwest. Administrative and support services, machinery manufacturing, and heavy and civil engineering construction accounted for an additional 16 percent of layoffs in that region in 2006. The fewest number of mass layoff initial claims was reported in the North- east region (254,684). In 2006, mass layoff initial claims decreased in all four of the regions. The largest declines were in the South (-172,613) and Midwest (-63,152). In 2005, the South experienced a substantial increase of initial claimants in Louisiana and Mississippi as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, California recorded the largest number of initial claims filed in mass layoff events in 2006 (317,907), 21 percent of the national total. The states with the next highest numbers of initial claims were Michigan (127,964), Pennsylvania (89,559), Ohio (80,291), and New York (76,638). Fifty percent of events and 47 percent of all initial claims were from these five states. Louisiana reported the largest over-the-year decrease in initial claims (-107,685), followed by California (-42,231) and Ohio (-32,874). The largest over-the-year increases were reported in Maryland (+6,773) and Kentucky (+6,168). - 4 - Table C. Industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims in 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2006 | 2005 Industry |----------------------------------- | Initial | | Initial | | claims | Rank | claims | Rank ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | Temporary help services.......................| 93,740 | 1 | 111,110 | 1 School and employee bus transportation........| 74,116 | 2 | 73,797 | 2 Automobile manufacturing......................| 59,711 | 3 | 54,800 | 3 Food service contractors......................| 52,428 | 4 | 49,942 | 5 Motion picture and video production...........| 50,553 | 5 | 54,769 | 4 Highway, street, and bridge construction......| 36,264 | 6 | 45,581 | 6 Professional employer organizations...........| 25,291 | 7 | 30,882 | 9 Heavy duty truck manufacturing................| 25,280 | 8 | 18,142 | 16 Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing.| 24,181 | 9 | 34,378 | 8 Discount department stores....................| 22,372 | 10 | 20,896 | 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note The monthly data series in this release cover mass layoffs of 50 or more workers beginning in a given month, regardless of the duration of the layoffs. For private nonfarm establishments, information on the length of the layoff is obtained later and issued in a quarterly release that reports on mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days (referred to as "extended mass layoffs"). The quarterly release provides more information on the industry classification and location of the establishment and on the demographics of the laid-off workers. Because monthly figures include short-term layoffs of 30 days or less, the sum of the figures for the 3 months in a quarter will be higher than the quarterly figure for mass layoffs of more than 30 days. (See table 4.) See the Technical Note for more detailed definitions. ______________________________ The report on Extended Mass Layoffs in the Fourth Quarter of 2006 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, February 13. The report on Mass Layoffs in January 2007 is scheduled to be released on Friday, February 23. - 5 - Technical Note The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program is a federal-state program that uses a standardized, automated approach to identifying, describing, and tracking the effects of major job cutbacks, using data from each state's unemployment insurance database. Each month, states report on establishments which have at least 50 initial claims filed against them during a consecutive 5-week period. These establishments then are con- tacted by the state agency to determine whether these separations lasted 31 days or longer, and, if so, other information concerning the layoff is collected. States report on layoffs lasting more than 1 month on a quart- erly basis. A given month contains an aggregation of the weekly unemployment insurance claims filings for the Sunday through Saturday weeks in that month. All weeks are included for the particular month, except if the first day of the month falls on Saturday. In this case, the week is included in the prior month's tabulations. This means that some months will contain 4 weeks and others, 5 weeks, the number of weeks in a given month may be different from year to year, and the number of weeks in a year may vary. Therefore, analysis of over-the-month and over-the-year change in not seasonally adjusted series should take this calendar effect into consideration. The MLS program resumed operations in April 1995 after it had been terminated in November 1992 due to lack of funding. Prior to April 1995, monthly layoff statistics were not available. Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; TDD message referral phone number: 1-800-877-8339. Definitions Initial claimant. A person who files any notice of unemployment to initiate a request either for a determination of entitlement to and eligibility for compensation, or for a subsequent period of unemployment within a benefit year or period of eligibility. Mass layoff event. Fifty or more initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits filed against an establishment during a 5-week period, regardless of duration. Seasonal adjustment Effective with the release of data for January 2005, BLS began publish- ing six seasonally adjusted monthly MLS series. The six series are the numbers of mass layoff events and mass layoff initial claims for the total, private nonfarm, and manufacturing sectors. Seasonal adjustment is the process of estimating and removing the effect on time series data of regularly recurring seasonal events such as changes in the weather, holidays, and the beginning and ending of the school year. The use of seasonal adjustment makes it easier to observe fundamental changes in time series, particularly those associated with general economic expan- sions and contractions. The MLS data are seasonally adjusted using the X-12-ARIMA seasonal adjust- ment method on a concurrent basis. Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all available monthly estimates, including those for the current month, in devel- oping seasonal adjustment factors. Revisions to the most recent 5 years of seasonally adjusted data will be made once a year with the issuance of December data. Before the data are seasonally adjusted, prior adjustments are made to the original data to adjust them for differences in the number of weeks used to calculate the monthly data. Because weekly unemployment insurance claims are aggregated to form monthly data, a particular month's value could be calculated with 5 weeks of data in one year and 4 weeks in another. The effects of these differences could seriously distort the seasonal factors if they were ignored in the seasonal adjustment process. These effects are modeled in the X-12-ARIMA program and are permanently removed from the final seasonally adjusted series. Table 1. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, January 2003 to December 2006,seasonally adjusted Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing Date Initial Initial Initial Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants 2003 January..................... 1,347 133,398 1,166 119,292 382 45,042 February.................... 1,848 192,197 1,664 178,963 650 81,370 March....................... 1,787 174,936 1,592 159,242 610 73,015 April....................... 1,707 172,348 1,557 162,117 634 82,756 May......................... 1,731 184,479 1,550 170,984 635 87,049 June........................ 1,733 164,442 1,523 147,609 638 68,976 July........................ 1,649 164,146 1,443 148,650 567 72,023 August...................... 1,498 169,799 1,362 156,687 546 74,509 September................... 1,562 147,054 1,370 132,262 479 57,332 October..................... 1,536 158,137 1,328 140,298 420 52,105 November.................... 1,366 138,079 1,223 126,597 377 49,716 December.................... 1,412 139,423 1,243 127,356 445 50,923 2004 January..................... 1,428 146,692 1,232 128,191 394 45,544 February.................... 1,320 134,626 1,170 122,329 367 40,849 March....................... 1,372 139,716 1,237 130,737 401 59,987 April....................... 1,374 140,190 1,202 124,962 349 38,197 May......................... 1,209 113,091 1,047 99,615 330 38,965 June........................ 1,403 141,048 1,231 128,137 366 47,015 July........................ 1,330 137,484 1,180 126,106 372 51,424 August...................... 1,394 127,671 1,224 113,376 345 36,963 September................... 1,277 125,351 1,154 115,343 338 46,955 October..................... 1,288 132,250 1,172 122,831 362 47,571 November.................... 1,314 130,558 1,171 118,904 378 46,276 December.................... 1,170 114,641 1,013 103,434 301 33,022 2005 January..................... 1,489 160,986 1,353 150,640 383 56,133 February.................... 1,172 123,377 1,045 112,752 358 45,794 March....................... 1,219 132,035 1,079 122,013 377 55,061 April....................... 1,263 137,381 1,132 126,747 398 60,826 May......................... 1,226 133,221 1,085 120,899 382 54,886 June........................ 1,194 126,834 1,074 117,712 359 57,018 July........................ 1,248 131,500 1,101 118,800 353 47,136 August...................... 1,109 123,125 986 111,879 338 46,915 September................... 2,217 292,177 1,998 246,227 419 56,289 October..................... 1,098 108,665 977 99,402 321 44,666 November.................... 1,167 115,803 1,036 104,576 330 43,307 December.................... 1,253 135,721 1,125 124,632 372 48,592 2006 January..................... 1,112 109,429 984 99,277 282 29,911 February.................... 1,065 112,742 973 105,055 329 46,548 March....................... 1,105 120,954 1,003 112,730 335 50,149 April....................... 1,175 121,376 1,041 111,369 365 48,038 May......................... 1,098 113,195 982 103,839 297 42,993 June........................ 1,130 123,558 1,007 113,037 331 40,500 July........................ 1,160 118,843 1,038 109,509 372 49,069 August ..................... 1,218 131,105 1,083 120,923 367 58,983 September................... 1,158 120,795 1,043 111,876 392 46,802 October..................... 1,186 119,914 1,069 111,036 401 55,795 November.................... 1,220 136,340 1,111 127,286 411 60,599 December.................... 1,201 133,818 1,099 124,526 390 53,828 NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect updated seasonal adjustment factors. Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, January 2003 to December 2006, not seasonally adjusted Total Private nonfarm Manufacturing Date Initial Initial Initial Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants 2003 January..................... 2,315 225,430 2,130 210,918 822 90,244 February.................... 1,363 124,965 1,222 116,264 435 48,161 March....................... 1,207 113,026 1,099 104,468 390 41,063 April....................... 1,581 161,412 1,470 152,937 499 62,349 May......................... 1,703 174,204 1,538 160,729 499 61,278 June........................ 1,691 157,552 1,336 127,743 389 40,845 July........................ 2,087 226,435 1,815 206,901 946 136,410 August...................... 1,258 133,839 1,163 124,131 405 52,620 September................... 868 82,647 756 73,914 271 31,428 October..................... 1,523 158,240 1,265 137,706 438 53,741 November.................... 1,438 138,543 1,234 123,524 408 48,419 December.................... 1,929 192,633 1,793 182,750 648 77,915 2004 January..................... 2,428 239,454 2,226 220,687 848 89,551 February.................... 941 84,201 832 76,577 240 23,043 March....................... 920 92,554 847 87,782 258 34,686 April....................... 1,458 157,314 1,316 142,657 343 36,172 May......................... 988 87,501 878 78,786 219 22,141 June........................ 1,379 134,588 1,077 110,804 222 27,307 July........................ 2,094 253,929 1,860 234,877 885 145,895 August ..................... 809 69,033 745 63,876 194 17,698 September................... 708 68,972 637 63,102 189 25,808 October..................... 1,242 127,918 1,101 117,375 372 48,265 November.................... 1,399 130,423 1,201 115,549 412 44,243 December.................... 1,614 161,271 1,487 152,092 436 50,726 2005 January..................... 2,564 263,952 2,421 253,409 823 108,985 February ................... 810 74,644 722 68,372 230 24,931 March....................... 806 88,937 733 83,793 246 33,030 April....................... 1,373 158,582 1,263 148,133 395 59,129 May......................... 986 101,358 891 93,332 249 30,424 June........................ 1,157 120,463 941 103,307 216 32,783 July........................ 1,981 244,216 1,745 222,377 856 136,210 August...................... 645 67,582 598 63,484 188 22,531 September................... 1,662 213,281 1,505 179,042 318 47,497 October..................... 905 91,941 757 80,694 249 37,276 November.................... 1,254 116,127 1,079 102,182 363 41,442 December.................... 2,323 254,258 2,168 242,753 706 96,382 2006 January..................... 1,245 117,946 1,123 108,701 331 35,097 February.................... 719 66,555 658 62,208 210 24,892 March....................... 921 111,838 856 106,177 285 44,688 April....................... 1,140 121,589 1,038 112,964 296 39,538 May......................... 872 84,809 794 78,663 192 23,570 June........................ 1,489 164,761 1,224 140,687 319 41,095 July........................ 1,511 166,857 1,335 154,342 648 96,152 August...................... 708 72,844 656 69,054 203 28,494 September................... 865 87,699 785 81,274 296 39,076 October..................... 964 98,804 820 88,133 311 46,737 November.................... 1,315 136,186 1,172 125,009 455 58,473 December.................... 2,249 254,503 2,126 244,783 735 105,462 Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance Initial claimants for Mass layoff events unemployment insurance Industry December October November December December October November December 2005 2006 2006 2006 2005 2006 2006 2006 Seasonally adjusted Total...................................... 1,253 1,186 1,220 1,201 135,721 119,914 136,340 133,818 Total, private nonfarm........................... 1,125 1,069 1,111 1,099 124,632 111,036 127,286 124,526 Manufacturing................................ 372 401 411 390 48,592 55,795 60,599 53,828 Not seasonally adjusted Total (1).................................. 2,323 964 1,315 2,249 254,258 98,804 136,186 254,503 Total, private................................. 2,237 913 1,273 2,176 246,748 93,939 132,337 248,383 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting... 69 93 101 50 3,995 5,806 7,328 3,600 Total, private nonfarm......................... 2,168 820 1,172 2,126 242,753 88,133 125,009 244,783 Mining....................................... 33 (2) 7 28 2,802 (2) 648 3,048 Utilities.................................... (2) - 3 3 (2) - 161 154 Construction................................. 478 100 212 423 40,395 6,445 17,364 36,426 Manufacturing................................ 706 311 455 735 96,382 46,737 58,473 105,462 Food..................................... 88 56 59 80 10,681 5,246 7,222 8,557 Beverage and tobacco products............ 11 9 8 6 800 711 502 468 Textile mills............................ 23 11 14 18 3,823 1,388 2,247 2,480 Textile product mills.................... 7 (2) 9 9 743 (2) 1,325 758 Apparel.................................. 19 9 6 21 2,297 667 820 2,323 Leather and allied products.............. 9 (2) (2) 5 1,032 (2) (2) 493 Wood products............................ 54 35 53 59 5,319 3,548 5,044 6,359 Paper.................................... 8 6 9 13 943 456 854 1,415 Printing and related support activities.. 16 5 (2) 12 1,870 315 (2) 1,178 Petroleum and coal products.............. 14 (2) 8 14 1,478 (2) 635 1,396 Chemicals................................ 10 4 6 7 862 332 489 608 Plastics and rubber products............. 60 13 24 48 5,605 1,295 2,716 5,674 Nonmetallic mineral products............. 58 11 17 56 5,756 787 1,991 5,824 Primary metals........................... 40 15 28 38 4,265 1,349 3,154 4,714 Fabricated metal products................ 38 16 35 57 3,815 1,395 3,710 5,346 Machinery................................ 31 24 34 38 3,091 5,167 6,563 5,676 Computer and electronic products......... 16 8 21 24 1,290 631 1,711 2,085 Electrical equipment and appliances...... 18 9 11 25 3,716 1,879 2,588 5,701 Transportation equipment................. 144 55 79 159 34,508 19,224 13,352 38,811 Furniture and related products........... 27 11 21 34 2,769 1,040 2,075 4,510 Miscellaneous manufacturing.............. 15 6 9 12 1,719 629 1,145 1,086 Wholesale trade.............................. 37 13 17 26 3,214 829 1,328 2,119 Retail trade................................. 113 75 54 109 10,856 6,557 4,681 13,055 Transportation and warehousing............... 161 31 48 165 19,173 3,053 3,583 19,172 Information.................................. 36 23 20 33 6,572 2,516 6,096 7,949 Finance and insurance........................ 20 26 23 34 1,284 2,123 1,376 2,687 Real estate and rental and leasing........... 9 3 5 8 1,203 416 270 442 Professional and technical services.......... 64 17 27 50 6,663 1,325 3,137 5,572 Management of companies and enterprises...... (2) (2) 5 3 (2) (2) 387 130 Administrative and waste services............ 259 140 158 258 27,527 12,596 12,907 22,076 Educational services......................... 5 (2) 3 4 353 (2) 200 288 Health care and social assistance............ 35 9 21 31 2,731 546 1,696 2,450 Arts, entertainment, and recreation.......... 26 22 27 26 1,869 1,475 2,266 1,760 Accommodation and food services.............. 158 40 81 175 19,293 2,583 9,883 20,735 Other services, except public administration. 19 5 6 14 1,527 287 553 1,198 Unclassified................................. 4 - - 1 295 - - 60 Government....................................... 86 51 42 73 7,510 4,865 3,849 6,120 Federal...................................... 18 16 10 12 1,568 1,721 970 1,215 State........................................ 16 17 12 16 1,750 1,489 1,057 1,517 Local........................................ 52 18 20 45 4,192 1,655 1,822 3,388 1 Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia. 2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards. NOTE: Dash represents zero. Seasonally adjusted data have been revised to reflect updated seasonal adjustment factors. Table 4. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, October 2004 to December 2006, not seasonally adjusted Private nonfarm Total mass layoffs Extended mass layoffs Date Mass layoffs lasting more than 30 days Realization rates (1) Initial Initial Initial Initial Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants Events claimants 2004 October.................. 1,242 127,918 1,101 117,375 November................. 1,399 130,423 1,201 115,549 December................. 1,614 161,271 1,487 152,092 Fourth Quarter........... 4,255 419,612 3,789 385,016 1,427 262,049 37.7 68.1 2005 January.................. 2,564 263,952 2,421 253,409 February................. 810 74,644 722 68,372 March.................... 806 88,937 733 83,793 First Quarter............ 4,180 427,533 3,876 405,574 1,142 185,486 29.5 45.7 April.................... 1,373 158,582 1,263 148,133 May...................... 986 101,358 891 93,332 June..................... 1,157 120,463 941 103,307 Second Quarter........... 3,516 380,403 3,095 344,772 1,203 212,673 38.9 61.7 July..................... 1,981 244,216 1,745 222,377 August .................. 645 67,582 598 63,484 September................ 1,662 213,281 1,505 179,042 Third Quarter............ 4,288 525,079 3,848 464,903 1,136 190,186 29.5 40.9 October.................. 905 91,941 757 80,694 November................. 1,254 116,127 1,079 102,182 December................. 2,323 254,258 2,168 242,753 Fourth Quarter........... 4,482 462,326 4,004 425,629 1,400 246,181 35.0 57.8 2006 January.................. 1,245 117,946 1,123 108,701 February................. 719 66,555 658 62,208 March.................... 921 111,838 856 106,177 First Quarter ........... 2,885 296,339 2,637 277,086 963 192,793 36.5 69.6 April.................... 1,140 121,589 1,038 112,964 May...................... 872 84,809 794 78,663 June..................... 1,489 164,761 1,224 140,687 Second Quarter .......... 3,501 371,159 3,056 332,314 1,353 263,787 44.3 79.4 July..................... 1,511 166,857 1,335 154,342 August................... 708 72,844 656 69,054 September................ 865 87,699 785 81,274 Third Quarter............ 3,084 327,400 2,776 304,670 (2)(p) 836 (2)(p)104,458 (p)30.1 (p)34.3 October.................. 964 98,804 820 88,133 November................. 1,315 136,186 1,172 125,009 December................. 2,249 254,503 2,126 244,783 Fourth Quarter........... 4,528 489,493 4,118 457,925 1 The event realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff events lasting more than 30 days. The initial claimant realization rate is the percentage of all private nonfarm mass layoff initial claimants associated with layoffs lasting more than 30 days. 2 These quarterly numbers are provisional and will be revised as more data on these layoffs become available. Experience suggests that the number of extended mass layoff events is generally revised upwards by less than 10 percent and the number of initial claimants associated with such events increases by 25-40 percent. p = preliminary. Table 5. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance by census region and division, not seasonally adjusted Initial claimants for Mass layoff events unemployment insurance Census region and division December October November December December October November December 2005 2006 2006 2006 2005 2006 2006 2006 United States (1) .. 2,323 964 1,315 2,249 254,258 98,804 136,186 254,503 Northeast................... 445 143 207 412 42,897 13,504 20,723 40,738 New England............. 83 14 25 60 9,110 966 2,090 6,612 Middle Atlantic......... 362 129 182 352 33,787 12,538 18,633 34,126 South....................... 371 183 227 416 46,303 23,687 27,536 54,023 South Atlantic.......... 180 111 113 202 23,506 9,228 12,800 22,765 East South Central...... 113 46 54 126 14,562 11,517 6,109 22,085 West South Central...... 78 26 60 88 8,235 2,942 8,627 9,173 Midwest..................... 942 223 429 898 111,662 28,833 49,067 109,495 East North Central...... 708 177 333 674 85,681 22,646 39,291 78,466 West North Central...... 234 46 96 224 25,981 6,187 9,776 31,029 West........................ 565 415 452 523 53,396 32,780 38,860 50,247 Mountain................ 88 35 49 82 7,995 3,180 4,457 7,835 Pacific................. 477 380 403 441 45,401 29,600 34,403 42,412 1 See footnote 1, table 3. NOTE: The States (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the census divisions are: New England: New York, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; South Atlantic: Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; Mountain: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington. Table 6. State distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, not seasonally adjusted Initial claimants for Mass layoff events unemployment insurance State December October November December December October November December 2005 2006 2006 2006 2005 2006 2006 2006 Total (1).............. 2,323 964 1,315 2,249 254,258 98,804 136,186 254,503 Alabama.................. 24 5 12 30 2,119 467 1,512 3,438 Alaska................... - 4 6 (2) - 266 716 (2) Arizona.................. 4 3 (2) 5 387 295 (2) 406 Arkansas................. 6 - 5 7 989 - 1,014 836 California............... 415 336 327 374 38,926 25,931 27,433 34,848 Colorado................. 16 6 9 15 1,536 517 691 1,483 Connecticut.............. 9 (2) 3 4 897 (2) 318 452 Delaware................. - - - - - - - - District of Columbia..... (2) - - (2) (2) - - (2) Florida.................. 61 56 35 57 5,288 3,289 2,207 4,697 Georgia.................. 42 16 28 42 8,974 2,207 3,904 4,421 Hawaii................... 6 5 (2) (2) 510 422 (2) (2) Idaho.................... 17 6 12 11 1,240 664 963 1,191 Illinois................. 144 39 55 149 16,869 5,508 5,849 17,195 Indiana.................. 98 19 44 82 12,226 4,281 7,285 10,123 Iowa..................... 61 15 19 62 7,058 2,664 2,352 10,039 Kansas................... 18 3 7 23 1,779 176 822 2,626 Kentucky................. 62 24 24 64 9,866 9,645 3,341 15,975 Louisiana................ 13 4 13 9 868 365 1,229 901 Maine.................... 7 (2) 4 6 449 (2) 322 452 Maryland................. - 6 9 28 - 574 1,236 2,825 Massachusetts............ 29 10 9 22 3,229 707 665 2,256 Michigan................. 222 43 82 184 30,456 6,432 10,636 22,842 Minnesota................ 64 10 39 52 6,016 880 3,360 7,545 Mississippi.............. (2) 3 8 6 (2) 202 443 569 Missouri................. 63 13 26 75 7,912 901 2,448 9,687 Montana.................. 9 5 7 6 682 672 789 513 Nebraska................. 20 4 (2) 8 2,605 345 (2) 815 Nevada................... 24 4 15 26 2,315 274 1,704 2,076 New Hampshire............ 12 - (2) 8 1,386 - (2) 793 New Jersey............... 96 15 47 91 8,631 1,043 7,197 7,948 New Mexico............... 7 6 5 10 766 465 258 1,180 New York................. 91 39 33 106 8,907 4,575 2,918 11,731 North Carolina........... 19 7 13 16 1,999 592 1,423 1,511 North Dakota............. 4 (2) 4 (2) 320 (2) 406 (2) Ohio..................... 133 35 48 137 13,059 2,890 4,998 15,848 Oklahoma................. 9 4 5 11 780 691 890 1,152 Oregon................... 32 19 32 41 3,830 1,818 2,668 4,862 Pennsylvania............. 175 75 102 155 16,249 6,920 8,518 14,447 Rhode Island............. 17 - (2) 11 2,441 - (2) 1,885 South Carolina........... 20 16 16 17 3,376 1,837 1,994 2,836 South Dakota............ 4 - - (2) 291 - - (2) Tennessee................ 25 14 10 26 2,408 1,203 813 2,103 Texas.................... 50 18 37 61 5,598 1,886 5,494 6,284 Utah..................... 11 (2) - 9 1,069 (2) - 986 Vermont.................. 9 (2) 6 9 708 (2) 582 774 Virginia................. 35 9 11 35 3,638 598 1,979 5,969 Washington............... 24 16 36 21 2,135 1,163 3,390 2,350 West Virginia............ (2) (2) (2) 4 (2) (2) (2) 318 Wisconsin................ 111 41 104 122 13,071 3,535 10,523 12,458 Wyoming.................. - 3 - - - 179 - - Puerto Rico.............. 10 6 7 17 1,698 729 626 1,977 1 See footnote 1, table 3. 2 Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards. NOTE: Dash represents zero.