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LAUS Unemployment Rate for January 1997
(Not Seasonally Adjusted)


Editor's Note: As Trends (hard copy) went to print this month, the January 1997 unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) for the fifty states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had not yet been released by the federal government. Therefore, this data (see below) has not yet been presented in hard copy; however, Trends will present the January 1997 unemployment rates with the February data in our next issue (hard copy).

The slight delay in the release of the data was due to the recent benchmarking of Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) data for 1996. The 1996 annual unemployment data AND nonagricultural wage and salary employment will be released next month as well.


STATE RATE (%)
Puerto Rico 12.6
Alaska 9.4
West Virginia 8.3
District of Columbia 8.1
California 7.3
New Mexico 7.1
New York 6.9
Louisiana 6.8
Idaho 6.5
New Jersey 6.5
Oregon 6.5
Kentucky 6.3
Washington 6.2
Arkansas 6.0
Connecticut 5.9
Mississippi 5.9
Montana 5.9
Ohio 5.9
Texas 5.9
United States 5.9
Hawaii 5.8
Rhode Island 5.8
South Carolina 5.8
Wyoming 5.8
Illinois 5.7
Tennessee 5.7
Delaware 5.6
Maine 5.6
Michigan 5.5
Pennsylvania 5.3
Florida 5.1
Nevada 5.1
Missouri 5.0
Vermont 5.0
Arizona 4.9
Maryland 4.8
Massachusetts 4.8
Kansas 4.6
Oklahoma 4.5
Virginia 4.5
Alabama 4.4
Georgia 4.4
Iowa 4.4
North Carolina 4.4
Wisconsin 4.3
Minnesota 4.2
Colorado 4.1
North Dakota 3.9
South Dakota 3.8
New Hampshire 3.7
Indiana 3.5
Utah 3.3
Nebraska 3.1



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