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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
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Certification and licensing status of the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years and over by employment status
(See other file formats and annual average tables or tables for other years.)
| Employment status | Number of people (in thousands) | Percent distribution | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | With a certification or license(1) | Without a certification or license | Total | With a certification or license(1) | Without a certification or license | |||||
| Total | With a certification, but no license | With a license(2) | Total | With a certification, but no license | With a license(2) | |||||
| Civilian noninstitutional population | 273,653 | 46,107 | 4,828 | 41,279 | 227,546 | 100.0 | 16.8 | 1.8 | 15.1 | 83.2 |
| Civilian labor force | 170,807 | 40,156 | 4,175 | 35,981 | 130,651 | 100.0 | 23.5 | 2.4 | 21.1 | 76.5 |
| Employed | 163,493 | 39,294 | 4,037 | 35,257 | 124,199 | 100.0 | 24.0 | 2.5 | 21.6 | 76.0 |
| Usually work full time | 134,927 | 33,771 | 3,570 | 30,201 | 101,156 | 100.0 | 25.0 | 2.6 | 22.4 | 75.0 |
| Usually work part time | 28,566 | 5,523 | 467 | 5,056 | 23,042 | 100.0 | 19.3 | 1.6 | 17.7 | 80.7 |
| Unemployed | 7,314 | 862 | 138 | 724 | 6,453 | 100.0 | 11.8 | 1.9 | 9.9 | 88.2 |
| Not in the labor force | 102,846 | 5,951 | 653 | 5,298 | 96,895 | 100.0 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 5.2 | 94.2 |
| Footnotes | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Certifications are issued by a non-governmental certification body and convey that an individual has the knowledge or skill to perform a specific job. A license is awarded by a government agency and conveys a legal authority to work in an occupation. Full time is 35 hours or more per week; part time is less than 35 hours. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. (Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown.) As a result, 2025 annual estimates are not strictly comparable with annual averages for other years. | ||||||||||
Last Modified Date: February 20, 2026