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In civilian labor force, total, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
62.9
Allegheny
64.7
Armstrong
57.4
Beaver
61.9
Bedford
57.6
Berks
65.2
Blair
58.7
Bradford
56.8
Bucks
67.5
Butler
63.7
Cambria
55.0
Cameron
55.1
Carbon
59.6
Centre
57.3
Chester
68.6
Clarion
58.2
Clearfield
54.3
Clinton
59.3
Columbia
56.7
Crawford
58.3
Cumberland
64.5
Dauphin
65.6
Delaware
64.9
Elk
62.7
Erie
60.5
Fayette
53.9
Forest
13.6
Franklin
62.8
Fulton
58.9
Greene
49.7
Huntingdon
51.8
Indiana
56.2
Jefferson
58.1
Juniata
59.2
Lackawanna
59.5
Lancaster
66.3
Lawrence
58.3
Lebanon
64.2
Lehigh
65.3
Luzerne
61.0
Lycoming
60.3
McKean
56.8
Mercer
56.0
Mifflin
58.7
Monroe
61.4
Montgomery
68.2
Montour
59.7
Northampton
63.4
Northumberland
57.3
Perry
63.6
Philadelphia
60.6
Pike
57.3
Potter
51.4
Schuylkill
56.4
Snyder
63.1
Somerset
54.8
Sullivan
52.6
Susquehanna
56.3
Tioga
56.5
Union
49.8
Venango
56.3
Warren
57.7
Washington
61.2
Wayne
51.5
Westmoreland
60.9
Wyoming
60.3
York
65.6
Value for Pennsylvania (Percent): 62.6%
Data item: In civilian labor force, total, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
Civilian Labor Force consists of people classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the criteria described below.
Employed - This category includes all civilians 16 years old and over who either (1) were "at work," that is, those who did any work at all during the reference week as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession, worked on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (2) were "with a job but not at work," that is, those who did not work during the reference week but had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent due to illness, bad weather, industrial dispute, vacation, or other personal reasons. Excluded from the employed are people whose only activity consisted of work around the house or unpaid volunteer work for religious, charitable, and similar organizations; also excluded are all institutionalized people and people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Employment Status."
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
