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title: "Appendix A: Trends in Unemployment"
description: "Annual unemployment rates based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Current Population Survey are shown below. These differ from the monthly unemployment rates reported in the Overview."
date: "2012-01-26"
authors:
  - name: "Paul Taylor"
    job_title: "Former Author of The Next America and the former Vice President of Pew Research Center"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/paul-taylor/"
  - name: "Mark Hugo Lopez"
    job_title: "Director, Race and Ethnicity Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/mark-hugo-lopez/"
  - name: "Gabriel Velasco"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Seth Motel"
    job_title: "Former Research Analyst"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/seth-motel/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2012/01/26/appendix-a-trends-in-unemployment/"
---

# Appendix A: Trends in Unemployment

Annual unemployment rates based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Current Population Survey are shown below. These differ from the monthly unemployment rates reported in the Overview.

![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/01/2012-nsl-economy-15.png)

![](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/01/2012-nsl-economy-16.png)

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**Next:** [Appendix B: Trends in Poverty Rates](https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2012/01/26/appendix-b-trends-in-poverty-rates.md)