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Show County unemployment far below the national average CLEARFIELD In spite of job losses throughout much of the nation and parts of Utah during 1990, Davis County's economy ' continued at a healthy pace, the Davis County Job Service manager Jack Bailey said. Average level of joblessness : stood at just over four percent during dur-ing 1990. An average of 3,226 workers were out of jobs. That compared well with the state 1 average unemployment of 4.3 per-1 per-1 cent, and was far below the national average which hovered at a level one percent or higher during the ver growth occurred in all sectors during dur-ing 1990. Mining grew by more than two percent; construction, 6.1 percent; manufacturing, three percent, per-cent, utilities, 2.8; trade, 4.1; finance, 2.7; services, 7.4, and government, 1.7 percent. Looking at the February 1991 jobs picture, Davis County's unemployment stood at 3.5 percent, considerably lower than the state's 4.4 percent, or Weber County's 4.7 percent. These Utah levels were about two percentage points below national jobless figures. "Although the U.S continues to see increasing unemployment, Utah's job growth is strong and joblessness has actually dropped," Bailey emphasized. "However, Utah is not completely oblivious to this national downturn. We are beginning to see our share of job layoffs. Fortunately, most sectors of the economy are producing sufficient suffi-cient numbers of jobs to keep labor force employment at a healthy, vibrant level." The Job Service manager believes the state as a whole will continue to "weather the national economic storm nicely." j At the same time, job growth continued at a brisk pace in Davis bounty, Bailey said. A five percent jrowth rate was registered, well ibove the state increase of 4.2 percent. per-cent. Davis fared better than the Iiree percent registered by the Wasatch Wa-satch Front North region as a whole, tkat includes Davis, Weber and Morgan counties. In 1990 the number seeking enployment edged upward to a 7S.339 average, although some months recorded more than 80,000 in the job force. The number working work-ing rose to 76,113. Of that number, nearly 60,000 were working at jobs within the county, meaning more than three-fourths of those employed held positions inside Dai is County, accenting the broadening scope and number of jobs' available here, Bailey said. For the state as a whole, job |