Covered employers are those employers required to pay unemployment insurance. While covered employers exclude certain categories of employees such as sole proprietors, church employees or elected officials, they represent an estimated 95 percent of all employees in the state. Most recent data available is estimated from data available for the January through June 1994 and then multiplied by two as a preliminary estimate. Actual 1994 annual average wage data will not be available until summer of 1995. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Labor Market Information.
Unemployment rate represents the percent of the civilian labor force who are unemployed.
An unemployed person is a person age 16 or older who is not working but who is either available for and actively seeking work or who has been laid off subject to call-back. Most recent data available is for 1994. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Labor Market Information. Percentage point increase in mothers in the workforce represents the increase in the percent of all mothers of children under age 18 in the labor force between 1980 and 1990. Most recent data available is for 1990.