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In civilian labor force, female, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
60.6
Alexander
43.8
Bond
57.5
Boone
60.0
Brown
63.2
Bureau
57.4
Calhoun
51.8
Carroll
54.0
Cass
61.2
Champaign
59.4
Christian
56.2
Clark
60.9
Clay
57.6
Clinton
64.3
Coles
57.7
Cook
60.7
Crawford
55.6
Cumberland
57.3
De Witt
58.2
DeKalb
64.2
Douglas
55.2
DuPage
62.4
Edgar
57.0
Edwards
57.1
Effingham
59.4
Fayette
55.0
Ford
57.2
Franklin
49.7
Fulton
55.7
Gallatin
46.4
Greene
56.8
Grundy
61.9
Hamilton
48.0
Hancock
51.9
Hardin
42.8
Henderson
53.8
Henry
55.4
Iroquois
56.8
Jackson
55.7
Jasper
56.2
Jefferson
57.4
Jersey
58.2
Jo Daviess
57.1
Johnson
48.6
Kane
62.4
Kankakee
57.0
Kendall
66.9
Knox
52.7
Lake
61.7
LaSalle
57.8
Lawrence
56.0
Lee
58.3
Livingston
55.9
Logan
47.7
Macon
57.6
Macoupin
55.6
Madison
58.7
Marion
57.6
Marshall
54.9
Mason
54.4
Massac
47.1
McDonough
53.3
McHenry
64.4
McLean
63.1
Menard
60.9
Mercer
57.8
Monroe
65.2
Montgomery
52.5
Morgan
58.6
Moultrie
52.8
Ogle
59.6
Peoria
58.7
Perry
50.8
Piatt
64.1
Pike
52.4
Pope
34.0
Pulaski
44.1
Putnam
58.0
Randolph
52.8
Richland
55.5
Rock Island
59.2
Saline
50.8
Sangamon
60.9
Schuyler
57.9
Scott
57.4
Shelby
56.1
St. Clair
58.6
Stark
51.3
Stephenson
58.2
Tazewell
58.0
Union
48.7
Vermilion
52.9
Wabash
54.4
Warren
58.8
Washington
59.5
Wayne
51.9
White
52.2
Whiteside
57.6
Will
63.3
Williamson
54.4
Winnebago
59.9
Woodford
57.6
Value for Illinois (Percent): 60.3%
Data item: In civilian labor force, female, 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.
