For the Record - July 24, 2008

California jobless rate: An article in Saturday’s Section A about California’s June unemployment used percentages to quantify the kinds of jobs lost. As a correction published Sunday said, the statistics should have been expressed in terms of thousands of jobs lost. The Sunday correction included corrections in five categories but failed to include one statistic from the article: The article cited a 2.1% drop in construction jobs in June compared with May; it should have listed that June decline as a loss of 2,100 jobs. The other correct figures are: the number of government workers fell by 6,000; professional and business positions declined by 5,200; manufacturing jobs fell by 4,400; the information sector declined by 2,600 jobs; and retail trade positions dropped by 2,500.