Numbers of the Day

The unemployment rate through June 2012 in Oklahoma if you include all workers who report that they need a full-time job, but don’t have one; up from 8.4 percent three years ago.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Annual average employee contribution for a family health insurance plan in Oklahoma in 2011, up $731 from the previous year

Source: Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research

Number of years since Oklahoma has adjusted the gasoline tax for inflation

Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute

Percentage of mortgages in Oklahoma that are past due or seriously delinquent, compared to 18.3 percent nationally, 1^st Qtr 2012

Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted through natural gas consumption in Oklahoma, more than both coal (35.6) and petroleum (33.6) in 2009

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

Percentage of Oklahomans who say they keep a firearm in or around their home

Source: CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey

Oklahoma’s rank nationally for the percentage of children receiving basic early childhood immunizations (Diptheria, Tetanus, Whooping cough, Polio, Meningitis, Hepatitis B), 2011

Source: United Health Foundation

Number of businesses in Oklahoma with less than 20 employees, 86.1 percent of all employer firms in 2009

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration

Number of women in the Oklahoma State Senate; there were more women in the state senate 25 years ago in 1987 (6), than there are today.

Source: Center for American Women and Politics

Amount gross production taxes from oil and natural gas contributed to the state’s General Revenue Fund in July 2012

Source: Office of State Finance