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Parkersburg

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Parkersburg Area Economic Summary
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
 Economic Summary Aug 2017
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Aug 2017

Parkersburg-Vienna, WV Economy at a Glance:

Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
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Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 38.4 38.5 38.2 38.8 38.8 (p)39.5

Employment(1)

 35.8 36.0 35.9 36.7 37.1 (p)37.4

Unemployment(1)

 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.1 1.7 (p)2.1

Unemployment Rate(2)

 6.7 6.6 6.0 5.3 4.4 (p)5.3

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 39.8 39.7 40.0 40.5 40.7 (p)40.6

12-month % change

 -1.5 -1.2 -2.0 -1.9 -2.2 (p)-0.2

Manufacturing(3)

 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 (p)2.5

12-month % change

 -7.4 -3.8 -3.8 -3.8 -3.8 (p)-3.8

Education and Health Services(3)

 7.1 7.1 7.1 7.2 7.1 (p)7.0

12-month % change

 1.4 1.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 (p)0.0

Government(3)

 7.5 7.7 7.8 7.8 7.7 (p)7.6

12-month % change

 1.4 4.1 2.6 1.3 -4.9 (p)7.0

Footnotes
 (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(p) Preliminary