USDL-12-2120
For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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MASS LAYOFFS — SEPTEMBER 2012
Employers took 1,316 mass layoff actions in September involving 122,462 workers as measured by new
filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. (Data are seasonally adjusted.) Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers from a
single employer. Mass layoff events in September increased by 49 from August, while the number of
associated initial claims decreased by 4,992. In September, 366 mass layoff events were reported in the
manufacturing sector resulting in 39,748 initial claims. Mass layoff data are identified using
administrative data sources without regard to layoff duration. (See table 1 and the note at the end of this
release.)
Chart 1. Mass layoff initial claims and unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, September 2001‐September 2012 Unemployment Rate
14.0
Initial Claims
350,000
300,000
12.0
250,000
10.0
200,000
8.0
150,000
6.0
100,000
4.0
50,000
2.0
0
Sep‐01
Sep‐02
Sep‐03
Sep‐04
Total mass layoff initial claims
Sep‐05
Sep‐06
Sep‐07
Sep‐08
Manufacturing mass layoff initial claims
Sep‐09
Sep‐10
Sep‐11
0.0
Sep‐12
Unemployment rate
The national unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in September, down from 8.1 percent the prior month
and from 9.0 percent a year earlier. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 114,000 over the
month and by 1,806,000 over the year.
Industry Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
The number of mass layoff events in September was 811, not seasonally adjusted, resulting in 70,570
initial claims for unemployment insurance. (See table 2.) Over the year, the number of average weekly
mass layoff events for September decreased by 35 to 203, and associated average weekly initial claims
decreased by 5,803 to 17,643. Thirteen of the 19 major industry sectors in the private economy reported
over-the-year decreases in average weekly initial claims, with the largest decrease occurring in
Table A. Six-digit NAICS industries with the largest number of mass layoff initial claims
in September 2012, private nonfarm, not seasonally adjusted
September peak
Industry
Initial claims
Year
Initial claims
1
Temporary help services ........................................
Motion picture and video production ........................
1
Professional employer organizations .......................
Heavy duty truck manufacturing ................................
Warehouse clubs and supercenters ...........................
Food service contractors ..........................................
Supermarkets and other grocery stores .....................
Light truck and utility vehicle manufacturing ...............
Tire manufacturing, except retreading ........................
Discount department stores ......................................
6,131
3,647
1,593
1,544
1,494
1,466
1,151
(2)
(2)
819
1
See the Technical Note for more information on these industries.
2
Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
2001
1997
2008
2000
2009
2001
2005
2000
1996
2005
12,752
11,176
4,520
4,198
1,705
1,631
4,873
3,688
1,249
3,550
construction. (See table 3.) In September 2012, the six-digit industry with the largest number of private
nonfarm initial claims due to mass layoffs was temporary help services. (See table A.)
In September, the manufacturing sector accounted for 29 percent of mass layoff events and 34 percent of
associated initial claims in the private economy. Within manufacturing, the numbers of mass layoff
claimants were highest in transportation equipment and in food. Eleven of the 21 manufacturing
subsectors experienced over-the-year decreases in average weekly initial claims. (See table 3.)
Geographic Distribution (Not Seasonally Adjusted)
Among the census regions, the South registered the largest number of initial claims due to mass layoffs
in September. Three of the 4 regions experienced over-the-year decreases in average weekly initial
claims, with the largest decrease occurring in the West. (See table 4.)
Among the states, California recorded the highest number of mass layoff initial claims in September,
followed by Pennsylvania and New York. Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia experienced
over-the-year decreases in average weekly initial claims, led by California and Pennsylvania. (See
table 4.)
Note
The monthly data series in this release cover mass layoffs of 50 or more workers beginning in a given
month, regardless of the duration of the layoffs. For private nonfarm establishments, information on the
length of the layoff is obtained later and issued in a quarterly release that reports on mass layoffs lasting
more than 30 days (referred to as "extended mass layoffs"). The quarterly release provides more
information on the industry classification and location of the establishment and on the demographics of
the laid-off workers. The monthly data series in this release are subjected to average weekly analysis,
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which mitigates the effect of differing lengths of months. See the Technical Note for more detailed
definitions and for a description of average weekly analysis.
____________
The Extended Mass Layoffs news release for Third Quarter 2012 is scheduled to be released on
Thursday, November 8, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. (EST). The Mass Layoffs news release for October is
scheduled to be released on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. (EST).
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Technical Note
The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program is a federalstate program that uses a standardized automated approach to
identifying, describing, and tracking the effects of major job
cutbacks, using data from each state's unemployment
insurance database. Each month, states report on employers
which have at least 50 initial claims filed against them during
a consecutive 5-week period. These employers then are
contacted by the state agency to determine whether these
separations lasted 31 days or longer, and, if so, other
information concerning the layoff is collected. States report
on layoffs lasting more than 1 month on a quarterly basis.
The monthly data present preliminary mass layoff
activity in the reference month and are not revised in
subsequent months except in special circumstances (e.g.,
layoffs in states affected by Hurricane Katrina). Counts of
initial claims associated with mass layoff events reflect
activity through the end of the reference month. Additional
mass layoff event and initial claims activity received after
data for the reference month have been published by BLS are
not updated in the monthly mass layoff series and, therefore,
may not match revised mass layoff data issued in state
publications. However, any additional mass layoff
information meeting the extended mass layoff criteria will be
reflected in BLS’ quarterly publication of extended mass
layoff data.
A given month contains an aggregation of the weekly
unemployment insurance claims filings for the Sunday
through Saturday weeks in that month. All weeks are
included for the particular month, except if the first day of the
month falls on Saturday. In this case, the week is included in
the prior month's tabulations. This means that some months
will contain 4 weeks and others, 5 weeks. The number of
weeks in a given month may be different from year to year,
and the number of weeks in a year may vary. Therefore, data
users who intend to perform analysis of over-the-year change
in the not seasonally adjusted series should use the average
weekly mass layoff figures displayed in tables 3 and 4 of this
release. The average weekly adjustment process produces a
consistent series for each month across all years, permitting
over-the-year analysis to be performed using strictly
comparable data.
The MLS program resumed operations in April 1995
after it had been terminated in November 1992 due to lack of
funding. Prior to April 1995, monthly layoff statistics were
not available.
Information in this release will be made available to
sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone:
(202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339
Definitions
Average weekly mass layoff events and initial claimants.
The number of events and initial claimants in a given month
divided by the number of weeks contained within that month.
Employer. Employers in the MLS program include
those covered by state unemployment insurance laws.
Information on employers is obtained from the Quarterly
Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program, which
is administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Industry. Employers are classified according to the 2007
version of the North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS). For temporary help and professional employer
organization industries, monthly MLS-related statistics
generally reflect layoffs related to underlying client
companies in other industries. An individual layoff action at a
client company can be small, but when initial claimants
associated with many such layoffs are assigned to a
temporary help or professional employer organization firm, a
mass layoff event may trigger.
Initial claimant. A person who files any notice of unemployment to initiate a request either for a determination of
entitlement to and eligibility for compensation, or for a
subsequent period of unemployment within a benefit year or
period of eligibility.
Mass layoff event. Fifty or more initial claims for
unemployment insurance benefits filed against an employer
during a 5-week period, regardless of duration.
Seasonal adjustment
Effective with the release of data for January 2005, BLS
began publishing six seasonally adjusted monthly MLS
series. The six series are the numbers of mass layoff events
and mass layoff initial claims for the total, private nonfarm,
and manufacturing sectors.
Seasonal adjustment is the process of estimating and
removing the effect on time series data of regularly recurring
seasonal events such as changes in the weather, holidays, and
the beginning and ending of the school year. The use of
seasonal adjustment makes it easier to observe fundamental
changes in time series, particularly those associated with
general economic expansions and contractions.
The MLS data are seasonally adjusted using the X-12ARIMA seasonal adjustment method on a concurrent basis.
Concurrent seasonal adjustment uses all available monthly
estimates, including those for the current month, in
developing seasonal adjustment factors. Revisions to the most
recent 5 years of seasonally adjusted data will be made once a
year with the issuance of December data. Before the data are
seasonally adjusted, prior adjustments are made to the
original data to adjust them for differences in the number of
weeks used to calculate the monthly data. Because weekly
unemployment insurance claims are aggregated to form
monthly data, a particular month's value could be calculated
with 5 weeks of data in 1 year and 4 weeks in another. The
effects of these differences could seriously distort the
seasonal factors if they were ignored in the seasonal
adjustment process. These effects are modeled in the X-12ARIMA program and are permanently removed from the
final seasonally adjusted series.
Table 1. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, October 2008 to September 2012,
seasonally adjusted
Total
Date
Private nonfarm
Manufacturing
Initial
claimants
Events
Initial
claimants
Events
Initial
claimants
2008
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
2,201
2,406
2,437
226,853
239,239
244,889
2,043
2,247
2,261
213,454
225,404
230,621
698
907
935
93,252
103,836
116,181
2009
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
2,254
3,059
2,999
2,566
2,710
2,466
2,186
2,340
2,261
1,969
1,757
1,719
235,371
326,392
299,322
249,129
284,468
247,597
222,941
216,047
214,018
195,752
164,454
155,056
2,083
2,901
2,800
2,349
2,516
2,257
1,979
2,115
2,048
1,772
1,588
1,543
221,653
310,378
282,414
232,632
267,869
230,502
203,911
197,172
198,761
178,172
151,172
140,835
726
1,251
1,230
1,007
1,181
1,048
636
751
786
571
472
424
92,293
145,839
154,168
116,051
147,184
137,649
75,728
77,894
91,125
65,217
52,855
44,096
2010
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
1,707
1,631
1,676
1,637
1,608
1,695
1,519
1,588
1,510
1,654
1,592
1,477
168,044
156,292
149,816
154,558
150,996
151,435
138,091
159,329
133,576
149,589
161,145
135,849
1,529
1,465
1,469
1,452
1,357
1,475
1,316
1,399
1,295
1,446
1,410
1,271
154,187
141,831
134,518
138,503
130,273
132,742
122,162
136,697
115,349
132,146
145,494
121,171
471
374
356
368
302
325
304
390
328
354
360
322
53,817
43,620
40,705
44,506
29,932
33,298
32,253
43,154
34,333
38,937
39,977
36,267
2011
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
1,536
1,434
1,275
1,548
1,600
1,513
1,562
1,551
1,447
1,335
1,332
1,384
148,952
131,569
115,391
145,836
144,412
143,384
145,078
164,275
147,353
118,924
131,627
145,648
1,348
1,242
1,118
1,383
1,404
1,334
1,348
1,347
1,306
1,205
1,192
1,238
131,869
116,745
102,722
131,317
127,793
128,410
125,285
149,874
134,038
107,330
120,760
130,583
337
297
251
341
374
344
346
382
364
341
324
351
37,477
26,696
28,988
37,053
39,180
36,265
36,312
49,194
38,026
33,926
36,563
39,081
2012
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
1,434
1,293
1,273
1,388
1,380
1,317
1,340
1,267
1,316
129,920
119,463
121,310
135,600
130,191
131,406
137,420
127,454
122,462
1,298
1,153
1,125
1,222
1,222
1,171
1,208
1,148
1,198
119,102
108,577
109,421
120,213
117,654
118,451
127,092
117,952
113,824
341
282
261
287
264
267
364
314
366
33,597
27,388
26,348
33,243
29,675
29,093
44,920
38,667
39,748
Events
Table 2. Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, October 2008 to September 2012,
not seasonally adjusted
Total
Date
Private nonfarm
Manufacturing
Events
Initial
claimants
Events
Initial
claimants
Events
Initial
claimants
2008
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
2,125
2,574
3,377
221,784
241,589
351,305
1,917
2,389
3,232
205,553
226,657
340,220
689
997
1,378
100,457
107,620
172,529
2009
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
3,806
2,262
2,191
2,547
2,738
2,519
3,054
1,428
1,371
1,934
1,870
2,310
388,813
218,438
228,387
256,930
289,628
256,357
336,654
125,024
123,177
193,904
164,496
214,648
3,633
2,173
2,107
2,385
2,572
2,051
2,659
1,334
1,258
1,678
1,679
2,166
375,293
210,755
221,397
243,321
274,047
216,063
296,589
117,193
115,141
172,883
150,751
203,655
1,461
945
940
887
1,005
674
1,133
436
448
566
517
615
172,757
103,588
114,747
100,872
123,683
85,726
154,208
41,151
51,126
69,655
55,053
64,540
2010
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
2,860
1,183
1,197
1,840
1,354
1,861
2,124
976
920
1,642
1,676
1,931
278,679
102,818
111,727
199,690
123,333
171,190
206,254
92,435
77,654
148,638
158,048
184,130
2,682
1,091
1,111
1,697
1,170
1,355
1,732
897
806
1,373
1,477
1,763
265,074
96,022
105,514
184,654
109,203
125,872
172,248
83,021
67,987
127,865
142,591
172,881
962
282
273
424
216
212
532
230
187
351
389
465
104,846
30,728
29,745
55,178
19,334
21,083
64,200
23,088
19,403
40,861
41,383
52,816
2011
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
October ........................................................
November ....................................................
December ....................................................
2,558
1,024
908
1,750
1,367
1,661
2,176
961
1,189
1,101
1,393
2,433
246,463
85,585
85,095
189,919
119,911
159,930
216,774
99,213
117,232
96,914
127,750
263,665
2,372
919
844
1,625
1,221
1,238
1,759
875
1,095
950
1,245
2,258
229,765
78,718
80,014
176,478
108,531
122,821
174,078
93,159
107,300
83,748
117,474
247,916
693
222
191
397
270
226
602
228
296
265
349
658
75,006
18,471
20,869
47,104
25,199
22,986
71,814
26,916
32,058
28,447
37,799
75,033
2012
January ........................................................
February .......................................................
March ...........................................................
April ..............................................................
May ..............................................................
June .............................................................
July ...............................................................
August ..........................................................
September ...................................................
1,705
895
1,125
1,421
1,201
1,890
1,515
1,063
811
141,703
73,974
117,817
146,358
109,259
198,537
157,753
104,045
70,570
1,587
820
1,040
1,293
1,081
1,485
1,321
992
749
132,754
69,076
110,954
132,697
100,434
158,334
144,340
97,694
66,214
415
196
242
256
186
255
559
251
221
38,021
16,555
24,241
32,518
18,800
28,570
74,963
31,193
22,748
Table 3. Industry distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance, not seasonally adjusted
1
Mass layoff totals
Industry
Events
Average weekly mass layoffs
Events
Initial claimants
Initial claimants
September September September September September September September September
2011
2012
2011
2012
2011
2012
2011
2012
1,189
1,108
13
811
768
19
117,232
108,119
819
70,570
67,323
1,109
238
222
3
203
192
5
23,446
21,624
164
17,643
16,831
277
Total, private nonfarm ..................................................
Mining .........................................................................
Utilities ........................................................................
Construction ...............................................................
Construction of buildings ........................................
Heavy and civil engineering construction ...............
Specialty trade contractors .....................................
Manufacturing ............................................................
Food .......................................................................
Beverage and tobacco products ............................
Textile mills ............................................................
Textile product mills ...............................................
Apparel ...................................................................
Leather and allied products ....................................
Wood products .......................................................
Paper ......................................................................
Printing and related support activities ....................
Petroleum and coal products .................................
Chemicals ..............................................................
Plastics and rubber products ..................................
Nonmetallic mineral products .................................
Primary metals .......................................................
Fabricated metal products ......................................
Machinery ...............................................................
Computer and electronic products .........................
Electrical equipment and appliances ......................
Transportation equipment ......................................
Furniture and related products ...............................
Miscellaneous manufacturing .................................
1,095
749
7
107,300
66,214
891
219
187
2
21,460
16,554
223
Wholesale trade .........................................................
4
Retail trade .............................................................
Building material and garden supply stores ...........
Food and beverage stores .....................................
Clothing and clothing accessories stores ...............
General merchandise stores ..................................
4
Transportation and warehousing .............................
Truck transportation ...............................................
Transit and ground passenger transportation ........
Support activities for transportation ........................
Information .................................................................
Finance and insurance ...............................................
Real estate and rental and leasing .............................
Professional and technical services ...........................
Management of companies and enterprises ..............
Administrative and waste services .............................
Educational services ..................................................
Health care and social assistance ..............................
Arts, entertainment, and recreation ............................
Accommodation and food services ............................
Accommodation .....................................................
Food services and drinking places .........................
Other services, except public administration ..............
Unclassified ................................................................
Government ...................................................................
Federal .......................................................................
State ...........................................................................
State government education .................................
Local ...........................................................................
Local government education .................................
2
Total .......................................................................
Total, private ..................................................................
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting ....................
1
(3)
3
150
27
38
85
296
58
7
11
(3)
11
(3)
21
6
6
(3)
65
17
13
35
221
41
7
5
4
4
(3)
8
(3)
159
10,813
1,933
3,353
5,527
32,058
6,532
656
1,784
(3)
993
(3)
4,765
1,174
1,104
2,487
22,748
3,143
560
858
318
255
(3)
1,662
544
451
(3)
660
(3)
5
14
3
8
20
22
19
17
38
18
7
(3)
3
3
7
7
8
17
12
22
12
14
30
9
3
(3)
376
1,011
363
869
2,010
3,069
1,235
1,872
6,006
1,342
912
(3)
203
235
541
1,180
547
1,877
1,007
2,748
711
1,739
4,582
942
314
16
120
10
26
7
34
49
5
26
5
36
22
20
86
8
19
7
36
29
4
10
3
33
13
1,316
12,805
1,331
2,104
613
5,644
4,611
673
1,970
890
6,431
1,821
(3)
39
3
186
12
39
27
82
33
49
12
-
(3)
24
6
131
5
28
30
43
19
24
4
-
81
17
33
13
31
20
43
1
11
4
31
22
(3)
1
30
5
8
17
59
12
1
2
(3)
2
(3)
4
1
1
(3)
16
4
3
9
55
10
2
1
1
1
(3)
2
(3)
32
2,163
387
671
1,105
6,412
1,306
131
357
(3)
199
(3)
332
109
90
(3)
1,191
294
276
622
5,687
786
140
215
80
64
(3)
165
(3)
1
3
1
2
4
4
4
3
8
4
1
(3)
1
1
2
2
2
4
3
6
3
4
8
2
1
(3)
75
202
73
174
402
614
247
374
1,201
268
182
(3)
51
59
135
295
137
469
252
687
178
435
1,146
236
79
1,646
6,930
741
1,219
399
3,433
2,132
211
792
166
4,673
1,085
3
24
2
5
1
7
10
1
5
1
7
4
5
22
2
5
2
9
7
1
3
1
8
3
263
2,561
266
421
123
1,129
922
135
394
178
1,286
364
412
1,733
185
305
100
858
533
53
198
42
1,168
271
(3)
6,476
182
17,285
791
2,711
2,092
6,357
3,079
3,278
1,067
-
(3)
1,793
638
10,087
294
1,962
2,173
3,635
1,268
2,367
451
-
(3)
8
1
37
2
8
5
16
7
10
2
-
(3)
6
2
33
1
7
8
11
5
6
1
-
(3)
1,295
36
3,457
158
542
418
1,271
616
656
213
-
(3)
448
160
2,522
74
491
543
909
317
592
113
-
9,113
1,685
2,857
1,171
4,571
3,741
3,247
85
949
463
2,213
1,711
16
3
7
3
6
4
11
3
1
8
6
1,823
337
571
234
914
748
812
21
237
116
553
428
2
Data were reported by all states and the District of Columbia.
lengths of months. There were 5 weeks in September 2011
3
Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
and 4 weeks in September 2012. Average weekly events
4
Includes other industries not shown.
and initial claimants may not sum to subtotals and totals
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
Average weekly analysis mitigates the effect of differing
due to rounding.
Table 4. Region and state distribution: Mass layoff events and initial claimants for unemployment insurance,
not seasonally adjusted
Mass layoff totals
Events
Census region and state
September
2011
Average weekly mass layoffs¹
Initial Claimants
September
2012
September
2011
September
2012
Events
September
2011
Initial Claimants
September
2012
September
2011
September
2012
Total ² ................................................
1,189
811
117,232
70,570
238
203
23,446
17,643
Northeast .............................................
Connecticut ......................................
Maine ...............................................
Massachusetts .................................
New Hampshire ...............................
New Jersey ......................................
New York .........................................
Pennsylvania ...................................
Rhode Island ....................................
Vermont ...........................................
286
4
3
8
143
3
4
26
46
61
3
-
26,131
242
194
617
12,110
200
418
2,156
4,140
5,026
170
-
57
1
1
2
36
1
1
7
12
15
1
-
5,226
48
39
123
3,028
50
105
539
1,035
1,257
43
-
South ...................................................
Alabama ...........................................
Arkansas ..........................................
Delaware ..........................................
District of Columbia ..........................
Florida ..............................................
Georgia ............................................
Kentucky ..........................................
Louisiana .........................................
Maryland 4 ........................................
Mississippi .......................................
North Carolina ..................................
Oklahoma ........................................
South Carolina .................................
Tennessee .......................................
Texas ...............................................
Virginia .............................................
West Virginia ....................................
Midwest ................................................
Illinois ...............................................
Indiana .............................................
Iowa .................................................
Kansas .............................................
Michigan ..........................................
Minnesota ........................................
Missouri ...........................................
Nebraska .........................................
North Dakota ....................................
Ohio .................................................
South Dakota ...................................
Wisconsin ........................................
West .....................................................
Alaska ..............................................
Arizona .............................................
California ..........................................
Colorado ..........................................
Hawaii ..............................................
Idaho ................................................
Montana ...........................................
Nevada ............................................
New Mexico .....................................
Oregon .............................................
Utah .................................................
Washington ......................................
Wyoming ..........................................
Puerto Rico ......................................
(3)
40
91
132
(3)
4
311
14
9
(3)
(3)
69
28
20
16
9
8
44
3
20
10
48
8
(3)
219
48
22
8
3
31
6
21
3
37
40
373
6
9
297
7
(3)
253
9
5
57
18
19
27
11
12
37
(3)
5
(3)
37
12
156
27
15
9
6
23
6
13
(3)
(3)
30
(3)
21
259
(3)
3
213
4
4
5
3
13
(3)
(3)
(3)
14
4
11
-
(3)
7
(3)
3,922
7,664
12,300
(3)
537
28,956
1,419
825
23,427
1,396
598
3,549
1,477
1,556
2,039
919
910
3,622
(3)
(3)
4,538
3,256
2,202
1,554
617
521
5,449
372
1,944
846
4,470
569
(3)
758
(3)
3,485
2,615
-
(3)
21,885
5,092
2,179
741
334
2,186
419
1,520
578
4,985
3,851
14,914
2,481
1,317
919
798
1,808
507
1,908
(3)
(3)
2,532
(3)
1,742
40,260
532
678
33,690
680
20,119
(3)
207
16,581
307
296
(3)
365
228
1,274
(3)
8
18
26
(3)
62
3
2
(3)
(3)
14
6
4
3
2
2
9
1
4
2
10
2
(3)
44
10
4
2
1
6
1
4
1
7
8
75
1
2
59
1
(3)
(3)
(3)
574
(3)
13
-
(3)
1,082
-
3
1
2
-
3
2,823
446
7
33
(3)
1
1
3
(3)
1,178
329
1,006
-
9
(3)
632
1
63
2
1
14
5
5
7
3
3
9
(3)
(3)
1
9
3
-
39
7
4
2
2
6
2
3
(3)
(3)
(3)
8
5
65
(3)
1
53
1
1
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
2
(3)
784
1,533
2,460
(3)
107
5,791
284
165
(3)
(3)
908
651
440
311
123
104
1,090
74
389
169
894
114
(3)
4,377
1,018
436
148
67
437
84
304
116
997
770
8,052
106
136
6,738
136
(3)
73
46
255
5,857
349
150
887
369
389
510
230
228
906
(3)
190
(3)
871
654
3,729
620
329
230
200
452
127
477
(3)
(3)
633
(3)
436
5,030
(3)
52
4,145
77
74
(3)
(3)
144
(3)
158
3
-
(3)
236
66
201
-
1
565
112
2
(3)
271
-
1
4
2
due to a change in MLS unemployment insurance procedures.
NOTE: Dash represents zero.
See footnote 1, table 3.
See footnote 2, table 3.
3
Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.
Data starting in June 2012 may not be comparable to prior data