Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category	Aug. 2021	June 2022	July 2022	Aug. 2022	Change from: July 2022- Aug. 2022
Employment status
Civilian noninstitutional population	261,611	263,835	264,012	264,184	172
Civilian labor force	161,505	164,023	163,960	164,746	786
Participation rate	61.7	62.2	62.1	62.4	0.3
Employed	153,167	158,111	158,290	158,732	442
Employment-population ratio	58.5	59.9	60.0	60.1	0.1
Unemployed	8,339	5,912	5,670	6,014	344
Unemployment rate	5.2	3.6	3.5	3.7	0.2
Not in labor force	100,106	99,812	100,051	99,438	-613

Unemployment rates
Total, 16 years and over	5.2	3.6	3.5	3.7	0.2
Adult men (20 years and over)	5.1	3.3	3.2	3.5	0.3
Adult women (20 years and over)	4.8	3.3	3.1	3.3	0.2
Teenagers (16 to 19 years)	11.3	11.0	11.5	10.4	-1.1
White	4.5	3.3	3.1	3.2	0.1
Black or African American	8.7	5.8	6.0	6.4	0.4
Asian	4.5	3.0	2.6	2.8	0.2
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	6.2	4.3	3.9	4.5	0.6

Total, 25 years and over	4.5	3.0	2.8	3.0	0.2
Less than a high school diploma	7.8	5.8	5.9	6.2	0.3
High school graduates, no college	5.9	3.6	3.6	4.2	0.6
Some college or associate degree	4.9	3.1	2.8	2.9	0.1
Bachelor's degree and higher	2.7	2.1	2.0	1.9	-0.1

Reason for unemployment
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	4,441	2,645	2,547	2,720	173
Job leavers	830	832	842	898	56
Reentrants	2,446	1,990	1,826	1,836	10
New entrants	514	464	460	440	-20

Duration of unemployment
Less than 5 weeks	2,110	2,262	2,080	2,223	143
5 to 14 weeks	1,927	1,552	1,772	1,807	35
15 to 26 weeks	1,248	753	718	885	167
27 weeks and over	3,105	1,336	1,067	1,137	70

Employed persons at work part time
Part time for economic reasons	4,481	3,621	3,924	4,149	225
Slack work or business conditions	3,187	2,366	2,697	2,769	72
Could only find part-time work	1,017	914	910	979	69
Part time for noneconomic reasons	20,330	20,602	21,103	21,044	-59

Persons not in the labor force
Marginally attached to the labor force	1,576	1,504	1,545	1,434	-111
Discouraged workers	389	364	424	366	-58
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: September 02, 2022