January 1994 — 1994-03-02

January unemployment rates, seasonally adjusted, ranged from a high of 11.0 percent in West Virginia to a low of 2.3 percent in South Dakota, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Double-digit unemployment rates also were recorded in the District of Columbia (10.9 percent), Rhode Island (10.5 percent), and California (10.1 percent). In addition to South Dakota, Nebraska (2.5 percent) and Utah (3.2 percent) reported very low unemployment rates. The national unemployment rate in January was 6.7 percent. January 1994 data cannot be directly compared with prior estimates because of the introduction of a number of significant methodological changes. (See the box note.) The impact of the introduction of the redesigned Current Population Survey, affecting all data series coming from or incorporating the survey data, cannot be quantified on a state basis.