Midwesterners most likely to have job

Monthly Labor Review, Sept, 2001

The proportion of the population with jobs was the highest in the Midwest in 1999. Among Midwesterners, 67.3 percent of the population was employed on average in 1999. The percentages for the other three regions were clustered within a narrow range: 64.3 percent of those in the West were employed, 63.2 percent in the South, and 62.5 percent in the Northeast.

In the Nation as a whole, 64.3 percent of the population had jobs. Additional information is available from Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 1999 (BLS Bulletin 2537).