Data Sources:

• U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2001–2010

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Definitions:

• Unemployed persons: Persons 16 and over who have no employment, are available for work, except for temporary illness, and have made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the previous 4-week period. Persons waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off are not classified as unemployed.
• Unemployment rate: The number unemployed as a percentage of the labor force

Explanations and Caveats:

• Official unemployment data reflects only those persons who are in the labor force and actively looking for work. The universe of persons who are not employed also includes those who are unable to work because of a disability and those “discouraged workers” who have stopped looking for work.
• Unemployment data presented in this section are not seasonally adjusted.
• ODJFS Columbus MSA unemployment rates by race and gender are estimates and should not be compared with unemployment data from the ODJFS Labor Force Statistics.

Update Status:

March 2012