Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category Sept.
2016		 July
2017		 Aug.
2017		 Sept.
2017		 Change from:
Aug.
2017-
Sept.
2017

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 254,091 255,151 255,357 255,562 205

Civilian labor force

 159,830 160,494 160,571 161,146 575

Participation rate

 62.9 62.9 62.9 63.1 0.2

Employed

 151,926 153,513 153,439 154,345 906

Employment-population ratio

 59.8 60.2 60.1 60.4 0.3

Unemployed

 7,904 6,981 7,132 6,801 -331

Unemployment rate

 4.9 4.3 4.4 4.2 -0.2

Not in labor force

 94,261 94,657 94,785 94,417 -368

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 4.9 4.3 4.4 4.2 -0.2

Adult men (20 years and over)

 4.6 4.0 4.1 3.9 -0.2

Adult women (20 years and over)

 4.4 4.0 4.0 3.9 -0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 15.9 13.2 13.6 12.9 -0.7

White

 4.4 3.8 3.9 3.7 -0.2

Black or African American

 8.3 7.4 7.7 7.0 -0.7

Asian

 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.7 -0.3

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 6.4 5.1 5.2 5.1 -0.1

Total, 25 years and over

 4.1 3.6 3.8 3.5 -0.3

Less than a high school diploma

 8.5 6.9 6.0 6.5 0.5

High school graduates, no college

 5.2 4.5 5.1 4.3 -0.8

Some college or associate degree

 4.2 3.7 3.8 3.6 -0.2

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.3 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs

 3,930 3,378 3,523 3,359 -164

Job leavers

 900 757 804 738 -66

Reentrants

 2,327 2,083 2,132 2,079 -53

New entrants

 802 703 656 669 13

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,584 2,133 2,222 2,226 4

5 to 14 weeks

 2,220 2,017 2,015 1,874 -141

15 to 26 weeks

 1,164 957 1,055 963 -92

27 weeks and over

 1,963 1,785 1,740 1,733 -7

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 5,874 5,282 5,255 5,122 -133

Slack work or business conditions

 3,587 3,161 3,266 3,121 -145

Could only find part-time work

 1,972 1,754 1,645 1,733 88

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 20,742 21,260 21,447 21,011 -436

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,844 1,629 1,548 1,569 -

Discouraged workers

 553 536 448 421 -

- 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: October 06, 2017