Labor Force Statistics

The table below provides information concerning Pottawatomie County’s annual labor force and employment statistics. This information was derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Location Quotients (LQs) are ratios that allow an area’s distribution of employment by industry to be compared to a reference or base area’s distribution. LQs also allow areas to be easily compared to each other.

If an LQ is equal to 1, then the industry has the same share of its area employment as it does in the reference area. An LQ greater than 1 indicates an industry with a greater share of the local area employment than is the case in the reference area. For example (assuming the U.S. as the reference area), Las Vegas will have an LQ greater than 1 in the Leisure and Hospitality industry because this industry makes up a larger share of the Las Vegas employment total than it does for the country as a whole.