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The majority of US states saw unemployment fall last year, the latest data has shown. Only two states saw yearly average unemployment rates go up in 2013. That compares to 43 where rates fell. They were also down in the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed. Meanwhile, five states saw unchanged unemployment rates. Among all the states, 25 - as well as the District of Columbia - saw rates go down to a significant degree. Nevada had the largest slip of all of these, with a 1.7 percentage point fall. Its employment rate was the largest though - 9.8 per cent. By contrast, the smallest unemployment rate - 2.9 per cent - was seen in North Dakota. Meanwhile, each region saw a significant fall in unemployment rates, compared to 2012. The biggest among the four regions was seen in the West, where the rate was down 1.2 percentage points. Here, the jobless rate was significantly above the US average last year, at eight per cent. No other region had a jobless rate significantly above that seen for the US as a whole. The Souths rate was seven per cent, and so significantly under the overall US figure, unlike the rate seen in any other region. Six geographic divisions out of nine saw significant falls in their unemployment rate. The Pacific saw the biggest of these - a 1.4 percentage point slip - but also has the largest rate of unemployment among the divisions, at 8.4 per cent. Unemployment was lowest in West North Central, at 5.2 per cent. The Bureau also revealed that last year no region saw an alteration to its employment- to-population ratio that was statistically significant. This measures the proportion of people over 16 that are civilians and are not institutionalized, but are in employment. The biggest ratio - 60.5 per cent - was seen in The Midwest, against a US-wide 58.6 per cent. One division - East South Central - saw a statistically significant alteration on this measure last year, and is also the division with the smallest proportion of people employed, at 54.4 per cent. At state level, eight states saw falls in employment-to-population ratio. The biggest of these - 1.1 percentage points - happened in Tennessee. Meanwhile, the biggest hike in this measure was seen in Utah - 1.4 percentage points - with two other states also seeing significant hikes. It was found that 22 states, as well as the District of Columbia, saw employment-to- population ratios significantly over the ratio for the US overall.ADNFCR-1275-ID-801701421-ADNFCR
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:51:08 +0000

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