Georgia labor market indicators ; Georgia unemployment rates by county

Georgia Labor Market Indicators

March

February

LABOR FORCE

1999

1999

Unemployment rate (Ga.) Civilian labor force (OOO's)
Employed Unemployed Unemployment rate (U.S.)
(not seasonally adjusted)

4.2 4,038.5 3 ,870.2
168.3 4.4

4.1 4,024.9 3,858.2
166.7 4.7

March 1998
4.3 4,006.2 3,832.0
174.2 5.0

Unemployment Rates - Georgia and the U.S.
6.0% 1-;:::::======:::;------,-----1 6.0%
I I-Georgia U.S.

5.0%

,...... -.. 5.0%

4.0%

4.0%

3.0% +------ - - - - - - - - -- ->--- -----+ 3.0%
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

1998

1999

EMPLOYMENT (OOO's) Mining Construction Manufacturing Transportation and public utilities Trade Finance, insurance, and real estate Services Government
Total nontarm employment

March 1922
8.0 189.2 594 .9 249.6 935.7 206.1 1,030.3 599 .0 3,812.8

February 12211
8.0 186.8 595.2 247.8 924.2 204.9 1,021.8 596.7 3,785.4

March 12!1~
7.8 171.8 591.8 237.6 917.5 195.9 982.8 588.8 3,694.0

Average weekly hours in manufacturing Georgia - March 1999

Tranapottatlon equlpnwnt Prlmar;im11talti Pper &a111ed
Ston., clay & glaH Furnltwe & 11xturws
Fabricated n.tal -ii!.' Chtimieal & allled
Food & kindred T extlle mlll product
Lumber &wood lnduatra.l rTWchlnery
Apparel \ ,(

36.5
35

4S.4 44.5 44.0 43.8, 41.9 42.A 41.7 41.l 4J.I 41.1 40.8 39.8

40

45

Hours

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Georgia Department of Labor M,i9hael !,. Thurmond. Commissioner
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..... Georgia Unemployment Rates by County

Feb Mer

Illar Feb Mar

1999 11199 1998

1999 11199 11198

"Appling Atkinson
Bacon Baker
'Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow
' Ben Hill Berrien
'Bbb Bleckley erantley
Brooks
Bryan
Bulloch eurke
Butts
calhoun
Camden Candler Carroll
Catoosa "Charlton
Chatham Chattahoochee
Chattooga Cherokee
Clarke 'Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb
"Coffee
'Colquill Columbia Cook
Coweta "Crawford
i~1e
Dawson
"Decatur DeKab Dod~e
ooo
'Dougherty Douglas 'Early Echols Effingham 'Ebert "Emanuel Evans "Fannin
Fayette 'Floyd Forsyth
Franklin Fulton Gilmer
'Glascock Glynn Gordon 'Grady Greene
Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson
Harris '"Han '"Heard Henry
Houston '"Irwin Jackson Jasper

7.9 8.4 11 .1 5.4 5.5 9.7
5.8 5.8 10.6 7.2 7.7 12.1
5.8 6.8 4.8 3.8 3.4 4.3 3.9 3.4 4.5 5.6 4.5 4.9 5.3 5.6 5.4 3.5 3.6 4.0 5 .6 5 .4 6.4
3.9 3.7 5.1 6.4 6.5 6.2 3.6 5.0 7.1 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.5 2.6 4.2 10.4 10.9 13.1 4.1 3.4 5.2 9.4 10.8 8 .8
3.6 3.6 4.3 3.7 3.9 6.1 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.0 3.8 4.3
4.7 4.9 4.0 4.4 4.5 4.6 7.2 7.3 7.2 3.6 3.3 4.0 2.4 2.3 2.5 3.2 2.7 3.4
6.8 6.9 7.1 4.0 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.5 3.4 2.7 2.6 2.7 4.7 5.1 5.9 5.3 4.3 4.8 3.4 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.6 5.1 2.9 2.9 3.3 4.5 3.9 4.9 7.6 6.8 7.7 4.1 4.6 4.8 2.0 2.2 2.1 4.8 4.7 5.0 4.0 3.9 4.0 4.3 4.6 6.9 7.1 6.0 9.7 9.5 9.7 8.9 3.1 2.9 3.3 8 .7 8.9 8.5
3.2 81 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.1 7.0 7.4 8.8 6.6 7.3 8.1 3.5 3.8 4.6 5 .6 7.7 5.8 2.1 1.9 2.4 4.9 4.5 5.1 2.0 1.9 1.8 3.8 2.9 4.1 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.4 5.3 6.5 7.7 9.6 15.0 3.3 3.4 3.5 9.0 6.3 4.5
5.7 5.9 6.2 6.7 5.4 6.8 2.6 2.5 2.5 3.9 3.5 35 3.5 2.7 3.2 13.6 156 9.0 5.0 6.1 6.5 3.2 3.5 2.4 4.7 4.6 48 7.0 6.1 4.5 2.3 2.0 2.5 3.7 34 3.8 4.7 4.4 5.5 3.9 3.5 4.6 3.4 3.7 3.7

Current month higher than national rate

'Jeff Davia Jefferson Jenkins
Johnson
'Jones *Lamar
Lanter Laurens 'Lee
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Long Lowndes
Lu!ll'kin 'McOuffJe Mcintosh
Macon
Madison Marion
'Meriwether Miller
'M~chell
Monroe
'Montgomery
Morgan
Murray "Muscogee
Newton
Oconee
Oglethorpe Paulding
'Peach Pickens
"P~rce
Pike 'Polk Pulas ki Putnam Quitman
Rabun 'Randolph 'Richmond Rockdale ' Schley
"Screven "Seminole 'Spalding 'Stephens "Stewart 'Sumter
'Tabot *Taliaferro '"Tattnall
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*Terrell 1"homas 'Tift
'Toombs "Towns
"Treutlen 'Troup *Turner 'Twiggs Union
:W.~k;r
Walton *Ware --Warren washington
~j;~~er
'Wheeler 'Whne WhnfJeld Wilcox --Wilkes --Wilkinson
'Worth

6.2 7.1 13.7 13.3
3.8 4.1 9.5 11 .5
5.0 5.3
4.9 4.0 1.9 6.3
6.5 9.1 5.9 6.3 6.3 6.4 8.0 7.6
3.2 3.1 3.4 6.9 2.4 2.2 8 .3 6.3
4.3 4.2 8.7 10.2 3.3 3.3
5.0 4.3
5.5 5.4 4.3 4.6
9.0 8.3 5.0 4.4 11.2 9.3 4.1 4.2 3.2 3.9 5.4 5.8 3.9 3.9 2.0 1.8
3.6 4.1 2.3 2.2 6.3 4.7 3.4 3.3 5 .9 5.6
3.8 3.0 5.5 5.9 4.2 4.4 3.4 3.5 3.1 2.8 3.0 2.6
10.4 9.1 6.1 6.1 2.7 2.8 5.2 4.5
6.7 6.1 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.6 7.2 5.8
5.3 6.1 6.8 7.0 5.3 5.4 4.8 5.7
6.8 6.0 6.0 5.5 5.5 5.7 12.1 10.4 5.1 5.6 5.4 5.2 8.7 8 .1
5.3 5.0 9.9 9.0
5.2 5.2 12.7 10.8
5.1 6.6 3.3 4.1 4.6 4.3 4.5 4.6 3.8 3.9 5.7 5.4 10.8 11.0 6.3 6.3 5.9 7.0 7.0 6.3 9.3 8.3 5.4 5.4 2.3 2.8 4.4 4.4 5.2 8.3 9.7 9.7
9.4 7.8

7 .3
10.0 5.6 14.2
4.4 4.3
2.6 6.6
5.5 7.5
7.2 4.1
4.0 6.5 8.2 5.4
11 .6 3.5 5.2
4 .5 3 .7 9.2
7 .8 10.6
3 .5 5 .1
5.0 4.8
2.3 4.1
2.5 6.6
3.5 5.6
4 .3 6.1 6 .7
4 .1 7 .1 3.9
10.7 7 .1
3 .0 4.9
8.3 4.3
5.0 5.1
5.7
8.9 4.3 9.6 6.2
6.6 6.9
13.9 4.0
6.1 8.9
6.4 9.1
5.0 15.5
6.3 5.4 3.0
5.4 3.3 4.8 11.5 9.4
7.8 4.6 8.1 4.0 3.7 7.5
7.8 6.9
7.9

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