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Show Utah's teen workforce tops national average jj By TOM BUSSELBERG 1 LEARFIELD If you're between be-tween 16 and 19 years old, chances are you either held a summer job or are still working at least part-time. 1 1 Seven in 10 in that age group are included in the latest labor force statistics, says Jack Bailey, Clearfield Clear-field Job Service manager. I A teenager in Utah is more likely to find himself tn the work force than nationally, where just over half in that 16-19 group held down jobs. ,lf you're male, and over 16, chances are just over four in five you'll be working. For females, that rate stands at just under three jn five. For both sexes, it's higher part of the working world, at just under three-fourths. Male participation rates aver aged higher than women's in every age category. Female rates surpassed those of their counterparts across the country coun-try overall, but not so for ages 25-44 25-44 when Utah women fell behind. Married men were the most likely like-ly to be working, at just over four in five overall. For females, on the.' other hand, that highest rate; occured for single, never-married women, at just under three in four, Mr. Bailey says. Some 54.2 percent of the state's married women were working or looking for work in 1985. Perhaps surprisingly, the group! of widowed separated and di- : j More Utah teenagers find jobs than national average. ; ; f than the national average: five per-(cent per-(cent for males and nearly two per-scent per-scent for females. I Those higher overall figures re-l re-l fleet upon the state's higher-than-taverage number of youth. By the I same token, higher levels of participation parti-cipation in the labor market can also result in a higher unemployment unemploy-ment rate since teenaters invariably invari-ably reflect the highest joblessness ;rate, Mr. Bailey notes. i Although men might envy the statistic that they're "most likely" to be working between 35-44, at 95.8 percent, women in the 20-24 year-old group are most likely to be vorced men and women showed the lowest participation rate, he says. ; For Davis County in July, some 80,700 were listed in the civilian labor force. That reflects a gain of just over 2,000, or 2.6 percent, over a year ago. Jobs available totalled 52,970, a gain of 760 over the same time in 1985, Mr. Bailey notes. Those figures compare to state gains slightly less in the labor force up to 746,150, or nearly, 17,000 more over a year ago; statewide state-wide job gains rose from 622,000 to 635,000, for a 2.2 percent climb. |