Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category June
2016		 Apr.
2017		 May
2017		 June
2017		 Change from:
May
2017-
June
2017

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 253,397 254,588 254,767 254,957 190

Civilian labor force

 158,889 160,213 159,784 160,145 361

Participation rate

 62.7 62.9 62.7 62.8 0.1

Employed

 151,090 153,156 152,923 153,168 245

Employment-population ratio

 59.6 60.2 60.0 60.1 0.1

Unemployed

 7,799 7,056 6,861 6,977 116

Unemployment rate

 4.9 4.4 4.3 4.4 0.1

Not in labor force

 94,508 94,375 94,983 94,813 -170

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 4.9 4.4 4.3 4.4 0.1

Adult men (20 years and over)

 4.5 4.0 3.8 4.0 0.2

Adult women (20 years and over)

 4.5 4.1 4.0 4.0 0.0

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 15.9 14.7 14.3 13.3 -1.0

White

 4.4 3.8 3.7 3.8 0.1

Black or African American

 8.6 7.9 7.5 7.1 -0.4

Asian

 3.5 3.2 3.6 3.6 0.0

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 5.8 5.2 5.2 4.8 -0.4

Total, 25 years and over

 4.0 3.6 3.6 3.7 0.1

Less than a high school diploma

 7.5 6.5 6.1 6.4 0.3

High school graduates, no college

 5.1 4.6 4.7 4.6 -0.1

Some college or associate degree

 4.2 3.7 4.0 3.8 -0.2

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.6 2.4 2.3 2.4 0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs

 3,767 3,538 3,327 3,444 117

Job leavers

 838 789 804 820 16

Reentrants

 2,275 2,032 2,100 2,043 -57

New entrants

 892 712 656 682 26

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,418 2,335 2,154 2,305 151

5 to 14 weeks

 2,157 2,135 1,960 1,933 -27

15 to 26 weeks

 1,140 1,108 1,157 948 -209

27 weeks and over

 1,986 1,626 1,663 1,664 1

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 5,820 5,272 5,219 5,326 107

Slack work or business conditions

 3,438 3,174 3,082 3,286 204

Could only find part-time work

 2,030 1,802 1,789 1,727 -62

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 20,542 20,700 21,020 20,791 -229

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,779 1,534 1,475 1,582 -

Discouraged workers

 502 455 355 514 -

- 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: July 07, 2017