TABLE 1: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS FOR PERSONS 16 YEARS AND OVER
BY SEX AND RACE OR HISPANIC ORIGIN: HUNTERDON COUNTY 1990

                        POPULATION         CIVILIAN        CIVILIAN         CIVILIAN        UNEM-  CIV. LABOR
                  16 YEARS AND OVER    LABOR FORCE       EMPLOYED       UNEMPLOYED        PLOYMENT   FORCE
                      NUM.        %     NUM.        %     NUM.        %     NUM.        %   RATE   % POP. 16+

BOTH SEXES          84,625    100.0   60,121    100.0   58,463    100.0    1,658    100.0      2.8     71.0
 White              81,375     96.2   58,888     97.9   57,264     97.9    1,624     97.9      2.8     72.4
 Black               1,909      2.3      352      0.6      347      0.6        5      0.3      1.4     18.4
 American Indian,
  Eskimo, Aleut         67      0.1       44      0.1       42      0.1        2      0.1      4.5     65.7
 Asian & Pacific
  Islander           1,009      1.2      729      1.2      702      1.2       27      1.6      3.7     72.2
 Other Races           265      0.3      108      0.2      108      0.2        0      0.0      0.0     40.8
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 Hispanic Origin/1   1,456      1.7      719      1.2      699      1.2       20      1.2      2.8     49.4

MALES               41,929    100.0   33,925    100.0   32,978    100.0      947    100.0      2.8     80.9
 White              40,071     95.6   33,222     97.9   32,297     97.9      925     97.7      2.8     82.9
 Black               1,162      2.8      185      0.5      180      0.5        5      0.5      2.7     15.9
 American Indian,
  Eskimo, Aleut         47      0.1       29      0.1       29      0.1        0      0.0      0.0     61.7
 Asian & Pacific
  Islander             504      1.2      411      1.2      394      1.2       17      1.8      4.1     81.5
 Other Races           145      0.3       78      0.2       78      0.2        0      0.0      0.0     53.8
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 Hispanic Origin/1     688      1.6      425      1.3      415      1.3       10      1.1      2.4     61.8

FEMALES             42,696    100.0   26,196    100.0   25,485    100.0      711    100.0      2.7     61.4
 White              41,304     96.7   25,666     98.0   24,967     98.0      699     98.3      2.7     62.1
 Black                 747      1.7      167      0.6      167      0.7        0      0.0      0.0     22.4
 American Indian,
  Eskimo, Aleut         20      0.0       15      0.1       13      0.1        2      0.3     13.3     75.0
 Asian & Pacific
  Islander             505      1.2      318      1.2      308      1.2       10      1.4      3.1     63.0
 Other Races           120      0.3       30      0.1       30      0.1        0      0.0      0.0     25.0
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 Hispanic Origin/1     768      1.8      294      1.1      284      1.1       10      1.4      3.4     38.3

 1/ Hispanic origin is an ancestry not a race.  Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race.                       
 Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 3.                     
 PREPARED BY:  NEW JERSEY STATE DATA CENTER, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, NOVEMBER 1992.