TABLE 1: LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS FOR PERSONS 16 YEARS AND OVER
BY SEX AND RACE OR HISPANIC ORIGIN: SALEM 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 50,430 100.0 31,339 100.0 29,766 100.0 1,573 100.0 5.0 62.1
White 42,664 84.6 26,850 85.7 25,833 86.8 1,017 64.7 3.8 62.9
Black 6,950 13.8 3,985 12.7 3,491 11.7 494 31.4 12.4 57.3
American Indian,
Eskimo, Aleut 156 0.3 101 0.3 80 0.3 21 1.3 20.8 64.7
Asian & Pacific
Islander 203 0.4 153 0.5 148 0.5 5 0.3 3.3 75.4
Other Races 457 0.9 250 0.8 214 0.7 36 2.3 14.4 54.7
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Hispanic Origin/1 726 1.4 377 1.2 317 1.1 60 3.8 15.9 51.9
MALES 23,762 100.0 17,158 100.0 16,326 100.0 832 100.0 4.8 72.2
White 20,256 85.2 14,866 86.6 14,326 87.7 540 64.9 3.6 73.4
Black 3,062 12.9 1,956 11.4 1,717 10.5 239 28.7 12.2 63.9
American Indian,
Eskimo, Aleut 63 0.3 48 0.3 36 0.2 12 1.4 25.0 76.2
Asian & Pacific
Islander 115 0.5 101 0.6 96 0.6 5 0.6 5.0 87.8
Other Races 266 1.1 187 1.1 151 0.9 36 4.3 19.3 70.3
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Hispanic Origin/1 438 1.8 300 1.7 240 1.5 60 7.2 20.0 68.5
FEMALES 26,668 100.0 14,181 100.0 13,440 100.0 741 100.0 5.2 53.2
White 22,408 84.0 11,984 84.5 11,507 85.6 477 64.4 4.0 53.5
Black 3,888 14.6 2,029 14.3 1,774 13.2 255 34.4 12.6 52.2
American Indian,
Eskimo, Aleut 93 0.3 53 0.4 44 0.3 9 1.2 17.0 57.0
Asian & Pacific
Islander 88 0.3 52 0.4 52 0.4 0 0.0 0.0 59.1
Other Races 191 0.7 63 0.4 63 0.5 0 0.0 0.0 33.0
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Hispanic Origin/1 288 1.1 77 0.5 77 0.6 0 0.0 0.0 26.7
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.