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Regional variation in employment

July 24, 2002

The proportion of the population with jobs was the highest in the Midwest in 2000.

Employment-population ratio by region, 2000
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Among Midwesterners, 67.4 percent of the population was employed on average in 2000. The percentages for the other three regions were clustered within a narrow range: 64.7 percent of those in the West were employed, 63.4 percent in the South, and 62.8 percent in the Northeast.

In the nation as a whole, 64.5 percent of the population had jobs.

These data on employment are a product of the Current Population Survey. Additional information is available from Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2000 (PDF 994K) (BLS Bulletin 2550).

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Regional variation in employment at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2002/jul/wk4/art03.htm (visited October 12, 2024).

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