Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted (BLS Statistic Table)

Bureau of Labor Statistics ^ | 2 Nov 12 | Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category	Oct. 2011	Aug. 2012	Sept. 2012	Oct. 2012	Change from: Sept. 2012- Oct. 2012
Employment status
Civilian noninstitutional population	240,269	243,566	243,772	243,983	211
Civilian labor force	154,057	154,645	155,063	155,641	578
Participation rate	64.1	63.5	63.6	63.8	0.2
Employed	140,297	142,101	142,974	143,384	410
Employment-population ratio	58.4	58.3	58.7	58.8	0.1
Unemployed	13,759	12,544	12,088	12,258	170
Unemployment rate	8.9	8.1	7.8	7.9	0.1
Not in labor force	86,213	88,921	88,710	88,341	-369
Unemployment rates
Total, 16 years and over	8.9	8.1	7.8	7.9	0.1
Adult men (20 years and over)	8.7	7.6	7.3	7.3	0.0
Adult women (20 years and over)	7.9	7.3	7.0	7.2	0.2
Teenagers (16 to 19 years)	24.0	24.6	23.7	23.7	0.0
White	8.0	7.2	7.0	7.0	0.0
Black or African American	15.0	14.1	13.4	14.3	0.9
Asian (not seasonally adjusted)	7.3	5.9	4.8	4.9	-
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	11.4	10.2	9.9	10.0	0.1
Total, 25 years and over	7.7	6.8	6.6	6.6	0.0
Less than a high school diploma	13.8	12.0	11.3	12.2	0.9
High school graduates, no college	9.5	8.8	8.7	8.4	-0.3
Some college or associate degree	8.2	6.6	6.5	6.9	0.4
Bachelor's degree and higher	4.4	4.1	4.1	3.8	-0.3
Reason for unemployment
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	7,924	7,003	6,535	6,575	40
Job leavers	1,068	942	957	1,010	53
Reentrants	3,387	3,318	3,306	3,300	-6
New entrants	1,291	1,277	1,247	1,301	54
Duration of unemployment
Less than 5 weeks	2,676	2,844	2,542	2,632	90
5 to 14 weeks	3,285	2,868	2,826	2,851	25
15 to 26 weeks	2,029	1,845	1,860	1,836	-24
27 weeks and over	5,839	5,033	4,844	5,002	158
Employed persons at work part time
Part time for economic reasons	8,790	8,031	8,613	8,344	-269
Slack work or business conditions	5,839	5,217	5,523	5,219	-304
Could only find part-time work	2,538	2,507	2,572	2,614	42
Part time for noneconomic reasons	18,401	18,996	18,736	18,923	187
Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)
Marginally attached to the labor force	2,555	2,561	2,517	2,433	-
Discouraged workers	967	844	802	813	-
- Over-the-month changes are not displayed for not seasonally adjusted data. NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

[OrioleFan]

I have a couple of questions. Was last month’s data adjusted for the California unemployment numbers that were left out? Did California report this month?

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Did the east coast states hit by Sandy report?

At this point the Obama people (and any agency under their control/influence) have shown so many times their willingness to give a rosy report whenever Obama needs to be bailed out - followed by an “adjustment” when the eyes are off the subject. As with everything else, the question is how this report may have distorted, manipulated, and hidden the truth. The same people who considered it fine to take out from Obama’s birth certificate the notations showing that it is actually legally non-valid cannot be trusted to handle details with integrity.

At this point if Obama yelled “fire” in a crowded theater, most people would just yawn and wonder what Obama was up to. He’s a pathological liar.

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I was under the impression that they had incorporated California’s data, but I really don’t know.

[xzins]

I think the career civilians in the government are seeing that Obama might not get another term. I would think that would change the way they view his future ability to help them and/or protect them.

[OrioleFan]

California wasn’t reported last month. I was joking this morning if California wasn’t reported this month, a household survey of near 3 million would get the unemployment rate below 7. The unemployment number is meaningless anymore - thanks to Obama. It is being used in conjunction with the oversampled polling to depress the Republican party vote.

Hopefully the Tea Party will be out in full force on election day, and we can figure out what the deal is with the household survey and the skewed polling in a Romney administration.

I think there will be a massive backlash against the MSM after the election - one way or the other. They are way out of control.