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                       |        Labor force participation rate\1\               |         Employment/population ratio\2\
                       |--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------
     Age, sex, and     |      |           |        |          College           |      |           |        |          College
    race/ethnicity     |      | Less than |        |----------------------------|      | Less than |        |----------------------------
                       |Total |   high    |  High  |  Some   |Associ-|Bachelor's|Total |   high    |  High  |  Some   |Associ-|Bachelor's
                       |      |  school   | school |college, |  ate  |degree or |      |  school   | school |college, |  ate  |degree or
                       |      |graduate\3\|graduate|no degree|degree |  higher  |      |graduate\3\|graduate|no degree|degree |  higher
-----------------------|------|-----------|--------|---------|-------|----------|------|-----------|--------|---------|-------|----------
           1           |  2   |     3     |   4    |    5    |   6   |    7     |  8   |     9     |   10   |   11    |  12   |    13
-----------------------|------|-----------|--------|---------|-------|----------|------|-----------|--------|---------|-------|----------
  16 to 19 years old\4\| 53.5 |      46.8 |   70.3 |    63.8 |  71.4 |     57.8 | 44.2 |      37.1 |   60.0 |    58.4 |  63.4 |     54.1
Men ...................| 54.8 |      48.6 |   73.9 |    62.7 |  63.4 |     52.2 | 44.7 |      38.1 |   62.6 |    56.9 |  47.1 |     46.0
Women .................| 52.2 |      44.9 |   66.9 |    64.6 |  74.9 |     66.8 | 43.8 |      35.9 |   57.4 |    59.6 |  70.6 |     66.9
White\5\ ..............| 57.1 |      50.6 |   72.5 |    66.3 |  77.8 |     49.2 | 48.8 |      41.7 |   63.9 |    61.5 |  71.2 |     49.2
Black\5\ ..............| 39.9 |      33.5 |   62.3 |    49.4 |  40.3 |     43.9 | 25.7 |      20.0 |   42.5 |    40.2 |  13.6 |     44.2
Hispanic\6\ ...........| 45.4 |      38.8 |   65.5 |    61.0 |  99.1 |     66.5 | 34.4 |      27.8 |   53.3 |    52.4 |  83.6 |     53.7
                       |      |           |        |         |       |          |      |           |        |         |       |
  20 to 24 years old\4\| 76.6 |      62.9 |   81.2 |    74.1 |  85.5 |     85.5 | 69.7 |      51.2 |   72.4 |    69.4 |  81.1 |     80.8
Men ...................| 83.1 |      81.1 |   90.0 |    76.1 |  86.7 |     86.3 | 75.4 |      68.2 |   80.6 |    71.3 |  82.7 |     80.6
Women .................| 70.3 |      42.3 |   71.2 |    72.2 |  84.5 |     85.1 | 64.0 |      32.0 |   63.0 |    67.6 |  79.8 |     81.0
White\5\ ..............| 78.7 |      66.0 |   83.0 |    75.8 |  86.5 |     87.1 | 72.7 |      55.6 |   75.3 |    71.8 |  82.4 |     82.6
Black\5\ ..............| 68.7 |      49.5 |   74.3 |    69.0 |  81.3 |     81.4 | 56.5 |      31.8 |   60.0 |    60.5 |  74.5 |     74.3
Hispanic\6\ ...........| 71.9 |      65.7 |   75.9 |    74.1 |  82.2 |     80.8 | 63.7 |      56.6 |   66.5 |    67.2 |  79.7 |     74.5
                       |      |           |        |         |       |          |      |           |        |         |       |
  25 and older ........| 66.7 |      39.9 |   65.4 |    72.6 |  79.2 |     81.0 | 63.8 |      36.4 |   62.3 |    69.5 |  76.6 |     79.0
Men ...................| 76.0 |      52.1 |   76.5 |    80.2 |  87.2 |     85.8 | 72.7 |      47.5 |   72.9 |    77.0 |  84.3 |     83.9
Women .................| 58.3 |      29.2 |   56.4 |    65.8 |  73.2 |     75.4 | 55.7 |      26.6 |   53.7 |    62.8 |  70.8 |     73.3
White\5\ ..............| 66.7 |      40.0 |   64.8 |    71.7 |  78.8 |     80.6 | 64.1 |      36.7 |   62.1 |    69.0 |  76.3 |     78.7
Black\5\ ..............| 66.0 |      36.2 |   69.7 |    78.4 |  83.8 |     85.6 | 61.1 |      31.7 |   64.0 |    72.5 |  80.0 |     82.8
Hispanic\6\ ...........| 67.5 |      55.3 |   74.3 |    79.0 |  81.5 |     83.1 | 62.4 |      49.5 |   69.2 |    74.2 |  77.1 |     80.2
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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, Industry and Occupation tables, unpublished data. (This table was prepared April 1996.)