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Unemployment: <br />Average Duration of Claims, 1997 <br />Weeks NC: 2nd-lowest length of claims in the US. <br />20 <br />14.6 <br />16 9.75 12.4 <br />12 <br />8 <br />4 <br />0 <br />m V m m ~ a <br />o ~ 2 ~ ~ a N <br />c c <br />r ~ ~ ~ r ~ <br />m E ~ ~ <br />r m 0 p <br />V Q <br />source: Employment Security Commission of NC <br />Unemployment <br />Parelleling national and statewide trends, unemployment in the County is significantly lower. <br />today that it was during any period since 1991. The most recent figures, from 1997, approximate <br />the County's average unemployment rate to be 1.4%, a 0.6 point drop from the 1991 rate of <br />2.0%. This level of decline is lower than that experienced by the nation, state, region and <br />selected Triangle communities. <br />C.) Demographic Information <br />Gender <br />Nineteen seventy marked the last census year in which males constituted the majority of Orange <br />County's population. In 1970 males accounted for 52% of the County's population, by 1980 that <br />had .declined. to 48% and has remained so ever since. As of July 1997, female residents <br />accounted for 52% of the County's population. The shift from majority male to majority female <br />can be traced to the period between 1967 and 1977, when female student enrollment at LTNC-CH <br />increased by approximately 119%. Since then the gender profile of the County has paralleled <br />that of North Carolina and the Triangle J Region. <br />Percent of Female Residents ,1970-1997 <br /> 1970 1980 1990 1997 <br />Oran e 48% 52% 53% 52% <br />Trian le J 51% 52% 52% 52% <br />NC 51% 51% 52% 52% <br />Source: US Census ,Woods and Poole Economics Inc. and NC Office of State Planning <br />6 <br />