The unemployment rate measures unemployment within the civilian non-institutional population aged 16 years and older. June 2010 state figures are preliminary.
Data for Puerto Rico are derived from a monthly household survey similar to the Current Population Survey.
Sources:
State and territory figures from the Table 3, Regional and State Employment and Unemployment: June 2009, and Unemployment rates by State, seasonally adjusted: June 2009 and 2010, Bureau of Labor Statistics, available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.t03.htm.
