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In civilian labor force, total, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
45.2
Alcorn
55.4
Amite
47.3
Attala
51.6
Benton
47.5
Bolivar
47.6
Calhoun
50.5
Carroll
45.7
Chickasaw
52.9
Choctaw
50.6
Claiborne
40.8
Clarke
54.2
Clay
53.8
Coahoma
56.8
Copiah
51.9
Covington
54.5
DeSoto
68.4
Forrest
60.2
Franklin
48.5
George
49.7
Greene
37.8
Grenada
53.1
Hancock
54.6
Harrison
58.7
Hinds
61.8
Holmes
42.7
Humphreys
52.5
Issaquena
36.5
Itawamba
52.4
Jackson
59.5
Jasper
51.7
Jefferson
34.6
Jefferson Davis
49.2
Jones
56.3
Kemper
44.4
Lafayette
58.7
Lamar
64.5
Lauderdale
54.8
Lawrence
52.5
Leake
54.3
Lee
62.4
Leflore
46.1
Lincoln
51.1
Lowndes
56.5
Madison
68.3
Marion
47.4
Marshall
53.0
Monroe
54.0
Montgomery
53.5
Neshoba
59.3
Newton
53.1
Noxubee
53.3
Oktibbeha
55.5
Panola
51.7
Pearl River
53.4
Perry
51.8
Pike
49.2
Pontotoc
59.7
Prentiss
51.6
Quitman
52.7
Rankin
64.1
Scott
56.8
Sharkey
50.4
Simpson
54.4
Smith
54.0
Stone
55.6
Sunflower
46.1
Tallahatchie
37.7
Tate
57.3
Tippah
56.2
Tishomingo
55.0
Tunica
61.8
Union
58.8
Walthall
50.5
Warren
56.7
Washington
55.9
Wayne
56.4
Webster
51.2
Wilkinson
37.9
Winston
53.7
Yalobusha
57.3
Yazoo
43.4
Value for Mississippi (Percent): 57.0%
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.
