StateMaster - Iowan Labor statistics

Employment Ratio	76.1	[6th of 51]
Mean Travel Time to Work	18.2	[44th of 51]
Percent of Workers Who Traveled to Work by Carpool	9.6 %	[32nd of 51]
Textile product mills > Production workers (average per year)	739	[29th of 32]
Textile product mills > Production workers hours	103,000	[32nd of 32]
Total Manufacturing > Number of employees	217,229	[23rd of 51]
Total Manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	157,675	[20th of 51]
Total Manufacturing > Production workers hours	326,297,000	[21st of 51]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Number of employees	1,641	[42nd of 46]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	13,196	[20th of 46]
Transportation equipment manufacturing > Production workers hours	26,441,000	[25th of 46]
Unemployment > Rate	3.9%	[33rd of 50]
Unemployment Rate > 2004	4.8	[32nd of 51]
Unemployment Rate > January, 2006	4.1	[33rd of 51]
Union affiliation > Percent Represented by Unions	13.5	[21st of 50]
Union affiliation > Percent Union Members	11.5	[24th of 50]
US minimum wages > State > Level	$7.25	[14th of 50]
Wood product manufacturing > Number of employees	10,578	[18th of 45]
Wood product manufacturing > Production workers (average per year)	8,322	[19th of 45]
Wood product manufacturing > Production workers hours	18,834,000	[17th of 45]

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SOURCES: American Community Survey 2004 ; Annual Survey of Manufactures, 2004 ; Wikipedia: List of U.S. states by unemployment rate; Wikipedia: List of U.S. states by unemployment rate ; Wikipedia: Union affiliation by U.S. state; Wikipedia: List of U.S. minimum wages

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