Sector-level gender shares underestimate state-reported unemployment insurance data: State-reported UI claims data and imputed data, by gender, March 15 through April 4, 2020

Minnesota North Dakota Nevada
State UI data as reported Sector-based UI prediction State UI data as reported Sector-based UI prediction State UI data as reported Sector-based UI prediction
Week ending March 21 62.8% 47.9% 55.1% 45.6% NA 45.7%
Week ending March 28 54.2% 44.1% 53.2% 41.3% 50.6% 43.4%
Week ending April 4 50.5% 44.7% 51.0% 41.2% 51.4% 43.3%
Three-week average 55.9% 45.6% 52.5% 42.0% 51.1% 44.2%

Note: Sector-based UI estimates use the gender shares within each sector for each state and apply those directly to the sectors with UI claims.

Source: EPI analysis of state-level gender-specific UI initial claims data for Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nevada; sector-specific initial UI claims data for Alabama, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, and Washington; and EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0 Version 1.0 (2020), https://microdata.epi.org

View the underlying data on epi.org.