| Three
different sets of employment statistics are presented on the AK DOL&WD
website: 1) Current
Employment Statistics (CES); 2) Employment and Earnings (E&E); and
3) civilian employment calculated as part of the program that
generates unemployment rates. |
| The CES and E&E data sets both count the number
of jobs by place
of work.
Neither includes business owners, the self-employed, unpaid
family workers, or private household workers.
If someone holds more than one job, they may be counted more
than once. CES employment
data are released monthly for the state as a whole and for the
state’s six economic regions. E&E
employment data are released quarterly (with a time lag of six to nine
months) for the state as a whole and for all of the state’s boroughs
and census areas. |
| CES data are considered the state and nation’s
official industry employment time series.
E&E data are primarily used when more geographic detail is
needed and for earnings data. |
| Unlike the two industry employment data sets, civilian
employment estimates generated in the
calculation of unemployment rates count the number
of working people by where
they live.
This includes business owners, the self-employed, unpaid family
workers, private household workers, and wage and salary workers.
A person with more than one job is only counted once. |
|
| 2005
Annual Average Labor Statistics in Alaska by Borough |
| |
Labor
Force |
Employment |
Unemployment |
Unemployment
Rate |
Rank |
| Aleutians East Borough |
1,052 |
952 |
100 |
9.5% |
14 |
| Aleutians West Borough |
3,106 |
2,929 |
177 |
5.7% |
4 |
| Anchorage Municipality |
147,838 |
139,888 |
7,950 |
5.4% |
2 |
| Bethel Census Area |
7,006 |
6,113 |
893 |
12.7% |
24 |
| Bristol Bay Borough |
983 |
926 |
57 |
5.8% |
5 |
| Denali Borough |
1,579 |
1,477 |
102 |
6.5% |
7 |
| Dillingham Census Area |
2,047 |
1,829 |
218 |
10.6% |
19 |
| Fairbanks Northstar Borough |
44,602 |
42,012 |
2,590 |
5.8% |
6 |
| Haines Borough |
1,445 |
1,316 |
129 |
8.9% |
13 |
| Juneau Borough |
18,083 |
17,121 |
962 |
5.3% |
1 |
| Kenai Peninsula Borough |
24,925 |
22,787 |
2,138 |
8.6% |
12 |
| Ketchikan Gateway Borough |
7,818 |
7,283 |
535 |
6.8% |
8 |
| Kodiak Island Borough |
6,034 |
5,529 |
505 |
8.4% |
11 |
| Lake and Peninsula Borough |
952 |
874 |
78 |
8.2% |
10 |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
34,836 |
32,322 |
2,514 |
7.2% |
9 |
| Nome Census Area |
3,885 |
3,414 |
471 |
12.1% |
23 |
| North Slope Borough |
3,645 |
3,295 |
350 |
9.6% |
15 |
| Northwest Arctic Borough |
3,150 |
2,782 |
368 |
11.7% |
21 |
| Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan
Census Area |
2,521 |
2,187 |
334 |
13.2% |
25 |
| Sitka Borough |
4,691 |
4,434 |
257 |
5.5% |
3 |
| Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census
Area |
1,830 |
1,589 |
241 |
13.2% |
26 |
| Southeast Fairbanks Census Area |
3,261 |
2,925 |
336 |
10.3% |
18 |
| Valdez-Cordova Census Area |
5,171 |
4,677 |
494 |
9.6% |
16 |
| Wade Hampton Census Area |
2,520 |
1,995 |
525 |
20.8% |
27 |
| Wrangell-Peterson Census Area |
2,910 |
2,617 |
293 |
10.1% |
17 |
| Yakatat Borough |
316 |
282 |
34 |
10.8% |
20 |
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area |
3,100 |
2,735 |
365 |
11.8% |
22 |
| Alaska Total |
339,305 |
316,289 |
23,016 |
6.8% |
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