[lbo-talk] NYC EPRs

[Doug Henwood]

There was a query here the other day about employment in New York 
City. Information on metro area and large city participation rates 
and employment/population ratios (EPR - the share of the 
noninstitutionalized adult population that's employed) can be found 
at <http://bls.gov/opub/gp/gpsec3.htm>. They're 2002 averages - 
nothing more recent is available. But they'll give a ballpark idea of 
what NYC is like.

In mid-2002, the U.S. national EPR was 62.8. The BLS doesn't publish 
separate estimates of NYC's noninsitutional pop (a concept, by the 
way, that excludes the incarcerated, no small number), but we can 
guess at it from figures given for employment and the participation 
rate. Based on those estimates, were NYers employed at the national 
rate, there would have been nearly 500,000 more people working in 
2002.

Doug

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EMPLOYMENT/POPULATION RATIOS, NEW YORK CITY, 2002

                  all        white      black    Hispanic
Total            54.7       54.7       52.6       58.9
Men              61.7       62.6       55.7       62.6
Women            48.7       47.7       50.3       45.2
age 16-19        26.4       26.8       25.6       25.3