HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

6. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex, age, and detailed ethnic group

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

Total1 Mexican Puerto Rican Cuban

2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,438 36,759 21,519 22,716 3,201 3,462 1,533 1,702

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,898 24,391 14,360 15,128 1,893 2,090 976 1,102

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 66.4 66.7 66.6 59.2 60.4 63.6 64.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,269 21,878 12,697 13,552 1,627 1,830 867 994

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 59.5 59.0 59.7 50.8 52.9 56.5 58.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,629 2,514 1,663 1,577 266 260 109 108

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5 10.3 11.6 10.4 14.1 12.4 11.2 9.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,540 12,368 7,159 7,588 1,307 1,372 558 601

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,753 18,434 11,321 11,639 1,533 1,631 772 842

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,576 14,026 8,841 9,024 964 1,065 551 579

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.5 76.1 78.1 77.5 62.9 65.3 71.4 68.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,049 12,643 7,850 8,137 822 926 484 525

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.9 68.6 69.3 69.9 53.7 56.8 62.7 62.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,527 1,383 991 887 141 140 67 55

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 9.9 11.2 9.8 14.7 13.1 12.2 9.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,177 4,408 2,480 2,615 569 565 221 262

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,941 16,555 10,096 10,375 1,362 1,470 721 790

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,030 13,407 8,452 8,587 920 1,021 538 565

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 81.0 83.7 82.8 67.5 69.4 74.6 71.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,685 12,212 7,592 7,835 793 902 474 512

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.3 73.8 75.2 75.5 58.2 61.4 65.8 64.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,345 1,195 859 751 127 119 63 53

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.3 8.9 10.2 8.7 13.8 11.6 11.8 9.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,911 3,149 1,644 1,788 442 449 183 225

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,685 18,324 10,198 11,078 1,668 1,831 761 861

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,322 10,365 5,519 6,105 930 1,025 424 522

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.9 56.6 54.1 55.1 55.7 55.9 55.8 60.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,220 9,235 4,848 5,414 805 904 383 469

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.3 50.4 47.5 48.9 48.2 49.4 50.3 54.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,102 1,130 672 690 125 120 42 53

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.8 10.9 12.2 11.3 13.5 11.7 9.8 10.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,363 7,959 4,679 4,973 738 807 337 339

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,090 16,548 9,110 9,883 1,513 1,664 726 809

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,902 9,853 5,227 5,763 893 973 415 505

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 59.5 57.4 58.3 59.0 58.4 57.2 62.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,918 8,858 4,638 5,166 782 864 375 457

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.5 53.5 50.9 52.3 51.7 51.9 51.6 56.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984 995 589 597 111 109 40 48

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 10.1 11.3 10.4 12.4 11.2 9.6 9.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,187 6,695 3,883 4,119 620 692 311 304

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,407 3,656 2,313 2,459 326 328 87 104

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965 1,131 681 778 81 97 23 32

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.3 30.9 29.4 31.7 24.8 29.5 26.3 30.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 808 467 550 52 64 17 25

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.5 22.1 20.2 22.4 16.0 19.5 20.1 23.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 324 214 228 29 33 5 7

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 28.6 31.4 29.3 35.7 34.0 – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,442 2,524 1,632 1,680 245 231 64 72

1 Includes persons of Central or South American origin and of other Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, not shown separately.

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 35,000).

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