Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category Apr.
2018		 Feb.
2019		 Mar.
2019		 Apr.
2019		 Change from:
Mar.
2019-
Apr.
2019

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 257,272 258,392 258,537 258,693 156

Civilian labor force

 161,551 163,184 162,960 162,470 -490

Participation rate

 62.8 63.2 63.0 62.8 -0.2

Employed

 155,216 156,949 156,748 156,645 -103

Employment-population ratio

 60.3 60.7 60.6 60.6 0.0

Unemployed

 6,335 6,235 6,211 5,824 -387

Unemployment rate

 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.6 -0.2

Not in labor force

 95,721 95,208 95,577 96,223 646

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.6 -0.2

Adult men (20 years and over)

 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.4 -0.2

Adult women (20 years and over)

 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.1 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 13.0 13.4 12.8 13.0 0.2

White

 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.1 -0.3

Black or African American

 6.5 7.0 6.7 6.7 0.0

Asian

 2.8 3.1 3.1 2.2 -0.9

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 4.8 4.3 4.7 4.2 -0.5

Total, 25 years and over

 3.3 3.1 3.1 2.9 -0.2

Less than a high school diploma

 5.8 5.3 5.9 5.4 -0.5

High school graduates, no college

 4.3 3.8 3.7 3.5 -0.2

Some college or associate degree

 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.1 -0.3

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.1 0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs

 2,965 2,857 2,837 2,651 -186

Job leavers

 812 840 779 737 -42

Reentrants

 2,001 1,905 2,007 1,926 -81

New entrants

 615 623 614 530 -84

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,121 2,194 2,126 1,904 -222

5 to 14 weeks

 1,975 1,810 1,815 1,842 27

15 to 26 weeks

 1,018 942 950 854 -96

27 weeks and over

 1,311 1,271 1,305 1,230 -75

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 4,952 4,310 4,499 4,654 155

Slack work or business conditions

 2,990 2,792 2,909 2,891 -18

Could only find part-time work

 1,564 1,347 1,329 1,446 117

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 21,295 21,153 21,297 21,322 25

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,362 1,424 1,357 1,417 -

Discouraged workers

 408 428 412 454 -

- Over-the-month changes are not displayed for not seasonally adjusted data.
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: May 03, 2019