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Thursday, August 06, 2015
From September 2014 to December 2014, gross job gains in Oklahoma totaled 85,104 while gross job losses numbered 69,389, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman noted that gross job gains exceeded gross job losses by 15,715, the second highest level since the series began in September 1992. During the previous quarter, gross job gains exceeded gross job losses by 6,816.
The change in the number of jobs over time is the net result of increases and decreases in employment that occur at all businesses in the economy. Business Employment Dynamics (BED) statistics track these changes in employment at private business establishments from the third month of one quarter to the third month of the next. Gross job gains are the sum of increases in employment from expansions at existing establishments and the addition of new jobs at opening establishments. Gross job losses are the result of contractions in employment at existing establishments and the loss of jobs at closing establishments. The difference between the number of gross job gains and the number of gross job losses is the net change in employment. (See the Technical Note for more information.)
The number of gross job gains in Oklahoma rose by 8,608 between September and December 2014. (See chart 1.) Oklahoma’s gross job gains have remained above 75,000 for seven consecutive quarters. Gross job losses edged down 291 in the three months ended in December 2014, after falling by more than 6,000 in the previous quarter. During the most recent five-year period, job losses in the state peaked in December 2013 when more than 77,000 jobs were lost.
Gross job gains represented 6.7 percent of private sector employment in Oklahoma in the quarter ended December 2014; nationally gross job gains accounted for 6.6 percent of private sector employment. (See chart 2.) With few exceptions, Oklahoma’s rates of gross job gains have generally tracked with the U.S. rates. In the fourth quarter of 2014, Oklahoma’s rate of gross job losses as a percent of private sector employment was 5.5 percent compared to the national rate of 5.6 percent. The rate of gross job losses in Oklahoma generally mirrored the national rate until December 2012, but had exhibited greater variability in recent quarters before remaining at 5.5 percent in both the third and fourth quarters of 2014.
During the fourth quarter 2014, gross job gains exceeded gross job losses in all 11 industry sectors in Oklahoma. For example, opening and expanding establishments in professional and business services created more than 16,600 jobs during the period, though nearly 13,000 jobs were lost at closing and contracting establishments. The resulting net gain of 3,697 jobs was the largest of any sector in the fourth quarter 2014. In education and health services, a gain of approximately 10,000 jobs at opening and expanding establishments more than offset the loss of nearly 7,700 jobs at closing and contracting establishments and resulted in a net gain of 2,322 jobs in the three months ended in December 2014. Other industries showing net job gains of more than 1,000 included leisure and hospitality (1,904), retail trade (1,603), manufacturing (1,463), and transportation and warehousing (1,074). (See table 1.)
BED data for the states have been included in table 2 of this release. For more information on the Business Employment Dynamics data, visit the BED web site at www.bls.gov/bdm/.
The Business Employment Dynamics release for First Quarter 2015 are scheduled to be released on Wednesday, November 18, 2015.
With the processing of fourth quarter 2014 BED data, BLS implemented a new statistical matching process used in the longitudinal linking of Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data. Tabulations from this quarter forward will reflect this new methodology. For additional details on this new methodology, please see the article "A Simplified Approach to Administrative Record Linkage in the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages" available at: www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2014/pdf/st140020.pdfwww.bls.gov/osmr/pdf/st140020.pdf.
The Business Employment Dynamics (BED) data are a product of a federal-state cooperative program known as Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), or the ES-202 program. The BED data are compiled from existing quarterly QCEW records. The QCEW reports are sent by the State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) to BLS and form the basis of the Bureau’s QCEW program and establishment universe sampling frame. These reports are also used to produce the QCEW data on total employment and wages. Other important Bureau uses of the QCEW reports are in the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program. The CES program produces monthly estimates of employment, net changes, and earnings by detailed industry.
In the BED program, the QCEW records are linked across quarters to provide a longitudinal history for each establishment. The linkage process allows the tracking of net employment changes at the establishment level, which in turn allows the estimation of jobs gained at opening and expanding establishments and jobs lost at closing and contracting establishments.
The change in the number of jobs over time is the net result of increases and decreases in employment that occur at all businesses in the economy. BED statistics track these changes in employment at private business establishments from the third month of one quarter to the third month of the next. Gross job gains are the sum of increases in employment from expansions at existing establishments and the addition of new jobs at opening establishments. Gross job losses are the result of contractions in employment at existing establishments and the loss of jobs at closing establishments. The difference between the number of gross jobs gained and the number of gross jobs lost is the net change in employment.
Gross job gains and gross job losses are expressed as rates by dividing their levels by the average of employment in the current and previous quarters. The rates are calculated for the components of gross job gains and gross job losses and then summed to form their respective totals. These rates can be added and subtracted just as their levels can. For instance, the difference between the gross job gains rate and the gross job losses rate is the net growth rate.
The formal definitions of employment changes are as follows:
Openings. These are either establishments with positive third month employment for the first time in the current quarter, with no links to the prior quarter, or with positive third month employment in the current quarter following zero employment in the previous quarter.
Expansions. These are establishments with positive employment in the third month in both the previous and current quarters, with a net increase in employment over this period.
Closings. These are either establishments with positive third month employment in the previous quarter, with no employment or zero employment reported in the current quarter.
Contractions. These are establishments with positive employment in the third month in both the previous and current quarters, with a net decrease in employment over this period.
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Category | Gross job gains and job losses (3 months ended) |
Gross job gains and job losses as a percent of employment (3 months ended) |
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Dec. 2013 | Mar. 2014 | June 2014 | Sept. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | Dec. 2013 | Mar. 2014 | June 2014 | Sept. 2014 | Dec. 2014 | |
Total private (1) |
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Gross job gains |
77,204 | 76,411 | 77,458 | 76,496 | 85,104 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.7 |
At expanding establishments |
61,498 | 62,366 | 63,658 | 62,772 | 68,544 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.4 |
At opening establishments |
15,706 | 14,045 | 13,800 | 13,724 | 16,560 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
Gross job losses |
77,423 | 74,634 | 76,244 | 69,680 | 69,389 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
At contracting establishments |
62,601 | 57,401 | 61,316 | 59,560 | 56,663 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
At closing establishments |
14,822 | 17,233 | 14,928 | 10,120 | 12,726 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 |
Net employment change (2) |
-219 | 1,777 | 1,214 | 6,816 | 15,715 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
Construction |
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Gross job gains |
8,536 | 8,094 | 7,302 | 8,396 | 8,295 | 11.2 | 10.7 | 9.8 | 11.3 | 10.9 |
At expanding establishments |
6,729 | 6,373 | 5,662 | 6,722 | 6,698 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 9.0 | 8.8 |
At opening establishments |
1,807 | 1,721 | 1,640 | 1,674 | 1,597 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
Gross job losses |
8,233 | 9,109 | 10,080 | 6,584 | 7,377 | 10.8 | 12.0 | 13.5 | 8.9 | 9.8 |
At contracting establishments |
6,704 | 6,732 | 8,362 | 5,326 | 5,814 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 11.2 | 7.2 | 7.7 |
At closing establishments |
1,529 | 2,377 | 1,718 | 1,258 | 1,563 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
Net employment change (2) |
303 | -1,015 | -2,778 | 1,812 | 918 | 0.4 | -1.3 | -3.7 | 2.4 | 1.1 |
Manufacturing |
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Gross job gains |
4,348 | 5,655 | 5,455 | 4,668 | 5,541 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
At expanding establishments |
3,998 | 4,586 | 5,118 | 4,381 | 5,109 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
At opening establishments |
350 | 1,069 | 337 | 287 | 432 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Gross job losses |
5,147 | 3,975 | 4,060 | 4,323 | 4,078 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
At contracting establishments |
3,870 | 3,160 | 3,516 | 3,857 | 3,534 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
At closing establishments |
1,277 | 815 | 544 | 466 | 544 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Net employment change (2) |
-799 | 1,680 | 1,395 | 345 | 1,463 | -0.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Wholesale trade |
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Gross job gains |
3,320 | 3,296 | 3,005 | 3,317 | 3,388 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
At expanding establishments |
2,668 | 2,668 | 2,468 | 2,651 | 2,655 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
At opening establishments |
652 | 628 | 537 | 666 | 733 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
Gross job losses |
2,881 | 2,753 | 3,150 | 2,704 | 2,993 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
At contracting establishments |
2,269 | 2,020 | 2,473 | 2,174 | 2,284 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
At closing establishments |
612 | 733 | 677 | 530 | 709 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
Net employment change (2) |
439 | 543 | -145 | 613 | 395 | 0.7 | 0.9 | -0.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
Retail trade |
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Gross job gains |
11,567 | 10,004 | 11,249 | 10,836 | 11,373 | 6.5 | 5.6 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.3 |
At expanding establishments |
9,818 | 8,523 | 9,682 | 9,254 | 9,990 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 |
At opening establishments |
1,749 | 1,481 | 1,567 | 1,582 | 1,383 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
Gross job losses |
10,306 | 10,932 | 10,339 | 10,343 | 9,770 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
At contracting establishments |
8,701 | 9,307 | 9,124 | 9,464 | 8,436 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
At closing establishments |
1,605 | 1,625 | 1,215 | 879 | 1,334 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
Net employment change (2) |
1,261 | -928 | 910 | 493 | 1,603 | 0.7 | -0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
Transportation and warehousing |
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Gross job gains |
2,454 | 3,243 | 2,243 | 2,296 | 2,961 | 5.5 | 7.2 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 6.5 |
At expanding establishments |
1,820 | 2,581 | 1,871 | 2,017 | 2,516 | 4.1 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.5 |
At opening establishments |
634 | 662 | 372 | 279 | 445 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
Gross job losses |
2,309 | 2,319 | 3,150 | 2,544 | 1,887 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 5.7 | 4.2 |
At contracting establishments |
1,808 | 1,592 | 2,544 | 2,195 | 1,479 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
At closing establishments |
501 | 727 | 606 | 349 | 408 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
Net employment change (2) |
145 | 924 | -907 | -248 | 1,074 | 0.3 | 2.1 | -2.0 | -0.6 | 2.3 |
Information |
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Gross job gains |
910 | 778 | 944 | 899 | 1,152 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 5.2 |
At expanding establishments |
694 | 662 | 807 | 677 | 705 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
At opening establishments |
216 | 116 | 137 | 222 | 447 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
Gross job losses |
986 | 882 | 986 | 925 | 879 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
At contracting establishments |
871 | 695 | 704 | 767 | 768 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
At closing establishments |
115 | 187 | 282 | 158 | 111 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
Net employment change (2) |
-76 | -104 | -42 | -26 | 273 | -0.3 | -0.6 | -0.2 | -0.1 | 1.2 |
Financial activities |
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Gross job gains |
4,181 | 3,623 | 3,841 | 3,988 | 4,506 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.8 |
At expanding establishments |
3,088 | 2,940 | 2,942 | 3,207 | 3,549 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
At opening establishments |
1,093 | 683 | 899 | 781 | 957 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 |
Gross job losses |
4,047 | 4,079 | 3,929 | 3,201 | 3,816 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
At contracting establishments |
2,984 | 3,012 | 2,917 | 2,558 | 2,961 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
At closing establishments |
1,063 | 1,067 | 1,012 | 643 | 855 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
Net employment change (2) |
134 | -456 | -88 | 787 | 690 | 0.2 | -0.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
Professional and business services |
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Gross job gains |
14,663 | 14,378 | 14,390 | 13,206 | 16,688 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 9.0 |
At expanding establishments |
11,111 | 11,955 | 11,683 | 10,395 | 13,553 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 7.3 |
At opening establishments |
3,552 | 2,423 | 2,707 | 2,811 | 3,135 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
Gross job losses |
14,062 | 13,296 | 14,093 | 13,100 | 12,991 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.0 |
At contracting establishments |
11,163 | 10,379 | 10,349 | 11,033 | 10,241 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 5.5 |
At closing establishments |
2,899 | 2,917 | 3,744 | 2,067 | 2,750 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 1.5 |
Net employment change (2) |
601 | 1,082 | 297 | 106 | 3,697 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
Education and health services |
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Gross job gains |
8,960 | 8,809 | 8,816 | 8,587 | 10,017 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
At expanding establishments |
7,521 | 7,164 | 7,582 | 6,746 | 7,661 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.8 |
At opening establishments |
1,439 | 1,645 | 1,234 | 1,841 | 2,356 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
Gross job losses |
9,762 | 9,234 | 8,094 | 9,034 | 7,695 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
At contracting establishments |
7,889 | 7,036 | 6,328 | 7,169 | 6,123 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.0 |
At closing establishments |
1,873 | 2,198 | 1,766 | 1,865 | 1,572 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
Net employment change (2) |
-802 | -425 | 722 | -447 | 2,322 | -0.4 | -0.2 | 0.4 | -0.3 | 1.2 |
Leisure and hospitality |
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Gross job gains |
11,642 | 12,001 | 12,695 | 12,664 | 13,545 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.6 |
At expanding establishments |
8,964 | 9,481 | 9,601 | 10,404 | 9,942 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 6.3 |
At opening establishments |
2,678 | 2,520 | 3,094 | 2,260 | 3,603 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.3 |
Gross job losses |
12,368 | 11,463 | 12,174 | 11,130 | 11,641 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.4 |
At contracting establishments |
10,346 | 8,493 | 10,280 | 10,195 | 10,102 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.4 |
At closing establishments |
2,022 | 2,970 | 1,894 | 935 | 1,539 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
Net employment change (2) |
-726 | 538 | 521 | 1,534 | 1,904 | -0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 |
Other services (3) |
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Gross job gains |
2,422 | 2,529 | 2,762 | 2,459 | 2,761 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 7.3 | 8.2 |
At expanding establishments |
1,830 | 2,102 | 2,178 | 1,983 | 2,081 | 5.4 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 6.2 |
At opening establishments |
592 | 427 | 584 | 476 | 680 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
Gross job losses |
3,066 | 2,688 | 2,783 | 2,551 | 2,569 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 7.6 |
At contracting establishments |
2,592 | 1,883 | 2,100 | 2,067 | 1,865 | 7.6 | 5.6 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 5.5 |
At closing establishments |
474 | 805 | 683 | 484 | 704 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
Net employment change (2) |
-644 | -159 | -21 | -92 | 192 | -1.9 | -0.5 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.6 |
(1) Includes unclassified sector not shown separately. |
State | Gross job gains as a percent of employment (3 months ended) |
Gross job losses as a percent of employment (3 months ended) |
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Dec. 2013 |
Mar. 2014 |
June 2014 |
Sept. 2014 |
Dec. 2014 |
Dec. 2013 |
Mar. 2014 |
June 2014 |
Sept. 2014 |
Dec. 2014 |
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United States(1) |
6.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.6 |
Alabama |
6.0 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
Alaska |
10.1 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 9.6 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 10.3 |
Arizona |
6.7 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
Arkansas |
6.0 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
California |
7.3 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 |
Colorado |
6.9 | 6.7 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.1 |
Connecticut |
5.3 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
Delaware |
6.6 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 6.1 | 5.4 |
District of Columbia |
5.8 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
Florida |
7.0 | 6.5 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 6.0 |
Georgia |
6.8 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.6 |
Hawaii |
5.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
Idaho |
8.3 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 7.3 | 6.5 |
Illinois |
5.8 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.5 |
Indiana |
6.1 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.0 |
Iowa |
6.0 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.6 |
Kansas |
6.2 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.3 |
Kentucky |
6.5 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.3 |
Louisiana |
6.7 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
Maine |
7.0 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 7.2 |
Maryland |
6.4 | 5.9 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 6.2 |
Massachusetts |
5.4 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 |
Michigan |
6.0 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
Minnesota |
5.6 | 5.3 | 6.5 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.1 | 5.9 | 5.4 |
Mississippi |
6.6 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 6.0 | 5.2 |
Missouri |
6.0 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 6.3 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.1 |
Montana |
8.2 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.0 |
Nebraska |
6.3 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 5.6 |
Nevada |
6.3 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.3 |
New Hampshire |
6.8 | 5.7 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.0 |
New Jersey |
6.4 | 5.9 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 6.1 |
New Mexico |
6.9 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.0 |
New York |
6.6 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 5.8 |
North Carolina |
6.4 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
North Dakota |
8.2 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
Ohio |
6.0 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.1 |
Oklahoma |
6.2 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
Oregon |
6.9 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.3 |
Pennsylvania |
5.4 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.8 |
Rhode Island |
6.2 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.6 |
South Carolina |
6.7 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.0 |
South Dakota |
6.9 | 6.3 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.8 |
Tennessee |
6.3 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.7 |
Texas |
6.1 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
Utah |
7.4 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 5.8 |
Vermont |
7.6 | 6.7 | 7.4 | 6.8 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 6.7 |
Virginia |
5.7 | 5.3 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.5 |
Washington |
6.9 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 5.9 |
West Virginia |
6.5 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 6.6 | 6.0 |
Wisconsin |
5.7 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.1 |
Wyoming |
9.4 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.1 |
Puerto Rico |
6.6 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 6.5 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 5.0 |
Virgin Islands |
5.5 | 4.9 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
(1) Totals for the United States do not include data for Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. |
Last Modified Date: Thursday, August 06, 2015