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Table 378. Labor force participation of persons 16 years old and over, by highest level of education, age, sex, and race/ethnicity: 2001

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                        |        Labor force participation rate\1\     |       Employment/population ratio\2\
                        |______________________________________________|_______________________________________________
     Age, sex, and      |     | Less |      |         College          |     | Less |      |         College
     race/ethnicity     |     | than | High |__________________________|     | than | High |___________________________
                        |     |high  |school| Some   |Associ-| Bache-  |     |high  |school| Some   |Associ-|  Bache-
                        |Total|school|gradu-|college,|  ate  |  lor's  |Total|school|gradu-|college,|  ate  |  lor's
                        |     |gradu-| ate  |   no   |degree |degree or|     |gradu-| ate  |   no   |degree |degree or
                        |     |ate\3\|      | degree |       | higher  |     |ate\3\|      | degree |       |  higher
________________________|_____|______|______|________|_______|_________|_____|______|______|________|_______|__________
           1            |  2  |  3   |  4   |   5    |   6   |    7    |  8  |  9   |  10  |   11   |  12   |    13
________________________|_____|______|______|________|_______|_________|_____|______|______|________|_______|__________
   16 to 19 years old\4\|50.0 | 43.1 | 67.3 |   58.8 |  65.6 |     --- |42.7 | 35.6 | 58.4 |   54.0 |  62.0 |      ---
Men ................... |50.7 | 44.3 | 70.6 |   56.7 |  66.6 |     --- |42.6 | 36.1 | 61.4 |   51.6 |  61.8 |      ---
Women ..................|49.4 | 41.7 | 64.4 |   60.5 |  64.9 |     --- |42.7 | 35.1 | 55.7 |   56.0 |  62.2 |      ---
White, non-Hispanic ....|54.9 | 48.1 | 71.2 |   61.9 |  67.0 |     --- |48.4 | 41.4 | 63.7 |   57.8 |  63.2 |      ---
Black\5\................|37.7 | 32.1 | 54.4 |   45.4 |   --- |     --- |26.8 | 21.5 | 40.1 |   38.0 |   --- |      ---
Hispanic\6\ ............|46.9 | 40.0 | 66.7 |   62.6 |   --- |     --- |38.6 | 31.9 | 55.8 |   57.0 |   --- |      ---
                        |     |      |      |        |       |         |     |      |      |        |       |
   20 to 24 years old\4\|77.1 | 70.1 | 81.0 |   73.1 |  83.8 |    84.6 |70.8 | 59.1 | 73.3 |   68.7 |  80.0 |     79.7
Men ................... |81.5 | 81.3 | 87.3 |   73.8 |  87.8 |    85.3 |74.2 | 69.4 | 78.8 |   69.1 |  83.2 |     79.5
Women ..................|72.9 | 55.8 | 73.8 |   72.4 |  80.5 |    84.1 |67.4 | 46.0 | 67.1 |   68.4 |  77.4 |     79.9
White, non-Hispanic ....|79.9 | 73.0 | 83.7 |   75.2 |  84.9 |    86.7 |74.5 | 62.6 | 76.9 |   71.5 |  81.1 |     82.0
Black\5\................|70.0 | 59.0 | 73.7 |   68.7 |  80.7 |    80.0 |58.6 | 40.5 | 61.2 |   61.0 |  74.5 |     74.0
Hispanic\6\ ............|75.8 | 73.1 | 79.0 |   73.5 |  81.0 |    83.1 |69.6 | 65.1 | 73.2 |   68.5 |  79.7 |     78.0
                        |     |      |      |        |       |         |     |      |      |        |       |
   25 and older ........|67.4 | 43.6 | 64.4 |   71.9 |  77.9 |    79.0 |64.9 | 40.4 | 61.7 |   69.4 |  75.6 |     77.2
Men ................... |75.9 | 55.6 | 74.4 |   78.9 |  85.3 |    84.4 |73.1 | 52.0 | 71.3 |   76.2 |  82.7 |     82.5
Women ..................|59.7 | 32.7 | 55.8 |   65.8 |  72.3 |    73.3 |57.5 | 30.0 | 53.5 |   63.4 |  70.3 |     71.6
White, non-Hispanic ....|66.8 | 36.5 | 62.5 |   69.9 |  77.3 |    78.5 |64.8 | 34.4 | 60.3 |   67.7 |  75.4 |     76.9
Black\5\................|68.2 | 40.0 | 69.2 |   78.0 |  80.9 |    83.7 |63.9 | 35.2 | 64.0 |   74.0 |  76.9 |     81.5
Hispanic\6\ ............|69.7 | 59.4 | 73.9 |   80.2 |  81.2 |    82.1 |66.0 | 54.9 | 70.7 |   77.2 |  78.2 |     79.2
________________________|_____|______|______|________|_______|_________|_____|______|______|________|_______|__________

---Not available.
\1\Percent of the civilian population who are employed or seeking employment.
\2\Number of persons employed as a percent of civilian population.
\3\Includes persons reporting no school years completed.
\4\Excludes persons enrolled in school.
\5\Includes persons of Hispanic origin.
\6\Hispanics may be of any race.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, unpublished tabulations of annual averages from the Current Population Survey. (This table was prepared July 2002.)


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