Charting the labor market: Data from the Current Population ...

Charting the labor market: Data from the Current Population Survey (CPS)

August 2, 2019

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Table of contents

1. Civilian labor force 2. Civilian labor force participation rate 3. Civilian employment 4. Employment-population ratio 5. Nonagricultural wage and salary employment 6. Nonagricultural self-employed, unincorporated 7. Part-time workers as a percent of total employed 8. Employed part time for economic reasons 9. Civilian unemployment 10. Civilian unemployment rate 11. Duration of unemployment 12. Long-term unemployed as a percent of total unemployed 13. Reasons for unemployment 14. Job losers by layoff status

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15. Unemployment rates for adult men, adult women, and teenagers 16. Unemployment rates by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity 17. Unemployment rates for persons 25 years and older by educational

attainment 18. Persons not in the labor force who want a job 19. Persons not in the labor force, selected indicators 20. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

Additional information available in The Employment Situation news release: news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Browse labor force concepts and data by subject: cps/cpsaz.htm

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Chart 1. Civilian labor force

Seasonally adjusted, 1990?2019

Numbers in thousands 165,000 160,000 155,000 150,000 145,000 140,000 135,000 130,000 125,000 120,000 115,000 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

165,000 160,000 155,000 150,000 145,000 140,000 135,000 130,000 125,000 120,000 115,000

Note: Shaded areas represent recessions as determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Data online at .

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Chart 2. Civilian labor force participation rate

Seasonally adjusted, 1990?2019

Percent

68.0

68.0

67.0

67.0

66.0

66.0

65.0

65.0

July 2019

64.0

64.0

63.0 percent

63.0

63.0

62.0

62.0

61.0

61.0

1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

Note: Shaded areas represent recessions as determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Data online at .

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