For the Record - July 20, 2008

California jobless rate: An article in Saturday’s Section A about California’s June unemployment statistics used percentages in quantifying job losses of varying types. The statistics should have been rendered in terms of thousands of jobs lost. Therefore, the number of government workers fell by 6,000, not 6%; professional and business positions declined by 5,200, not 5.2%; manufacturing jobs fell by 4,400, not 4.4%; and the information sector declined by 2,600 jobs, not 2.6%. Retail trade positions dropped by 2,500, not 2.5%.