Bill Lear wrote: > I've seen some mention of female unemployment rates, but nothing > during this downturn of how black/white rates compare, and would be > interested to see this, especially broken down by age. Anyone have > this?
U.S. BLS seasonally adjusted data from http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm PR = Participation rate (participation in labor force/population) EPR = Employment-population ratio UR = Official Unemployment Rate WHITE | BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN PR EPR UR | PR EPR UR 4/2008 66.2 63.3 4.4 | 64.0 58.4 8.8 12/2008 66.0 61.7 6.6 | 63.4 55.9 11.9 1/2009 65.9 61.3 6.9 | 63.4 55.4 12.6 2/2009 66.0 61.2 7.3 I 63.0 54.6 13.4 3/2009 66.0 60.8 7.9 | 62.4 54.1 13.3 4/2009 66.2 60.9 8.0 | 63.3 53.8 15.0 for the same dates, ratios (Black of African American)/(White) PR EPR UR 4/2009 96.7% 92.3% 200.0% 12/2009 96.1% 90.6% 180.3% 1/2009 96.2% 90.4% 182.6% 2/2009 95.5% 89.2% 183.6% 3/2009 94.5% 89.0% 168.4% 4/2009 95.6% 88.3% 187.5% Interestingly, the Black unemployment rate (though rising steeply) is falling relative to the White unemployment rate. But that's likely because of the fall of the participation rate and the employment population ratio. -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
