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Report on the MLA Job Information List, 2013–14

MLA Office of ResearchWeb publication, fall 2014

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IN 2013–14, the number of jobs advertised in the MLA Job Information List (JIL) fell for the second year in a row. The JIL’s English edition announced 1,046 jobs, 96 (8.4%) fewer than in 2012–13; the foreign language edition announced 1,027 jobs, 75 (6.8%) fewer than in 2012–13. Figure 1 shows the trend lines for the number of jobs announced in each edition across the thirty-nine years from 1975–76 to 2013–14. The 1,046 jobs in the English edition for 2013–14 are 54 (4.9%) below the 1,100 advertised in 2009–10, the previous low point. The 1,027 jobs in the foreign language edition are just 5 (0.5%) above the 1,022 advertised in 2009–10. This past year marks the fifth consecutive year the number of jobs advertised in the JIL has re-mained at a trough level just above 1,000 jobs in each edition, matching the trough of the mid-1990s in both depth and duration. The 2013–14 totals are 780 (42.7%) below and 653 (38.9%) below the 2007–08 prerecession peaks of 1,826 jobs for the En glish edition and 1,680 jobs for the foreign language edition.

In addition to reading JIL listings to count the number of jobs ads announced, since 2000–01 the MLA’s office of research has done a machine analysis of the JIL database to develop information on the number and characteristics of the ads de-partments place. The number of ads is always somewhat smaller than the number of jobs the ads announce, since some ads announce more than one position. As shown in figure 2, in 2013–14 the English edition carried 928 ads from 613 departments in 521 separate institutions. Figure 3 shows the equivalent information for the foreign language edition, which in 2013–14 carried 945 ads from 616 departments in 418 separate institutions. In the English edition, 29 fewer departments placed ads in 2013–14 than 2012–13, and the number of ads declined by 83 (8.2%) from 2012–13. In the foreign language edition, 43 fewer departments placed ads in 2013–14 than in 2012–13, and the number of ads declined by 77 (7.5%). Figure 2 and figure 3 illustrate the contraction in job opportunities in English and the other modern lan-guages that began in 2008–09 and that has persisted over the five subsequent years. The 928 ads in the English JIL in 2013–14 is 718 (43.6%) below the 2007–08 peak of 1,646. The 945 ads in the foreign language JIL in 2013–14 is 576 (37.9%) below the 2007–08 peak of 1,521. Since 2007–08, in each edition, the number of depart-ments placing ads has dropped from well over 900 to just over 600.

Departments have been able to indicate the tenure status of positions they advertise since 2004–05. In 2013–14, of the 928 ads in the English JIL, 617 (66.5%) were tagged as advertising tenure-track positions, down both numerically (by 96) and as a percent of the total (by 4 percentage points) compared with 2012–13 (fig. 4). Of the 945 ads in the foreign language JIL, 496 (52.5%) were tagged as advertising tenure-track positions, 45 fewer than in 2012–13 but about even as a percentage of that year’s total (52.9%) (fig. 5).

The downturn in the number of ads since 2008 has been accompanied by a con-sistently lower percentage of each year’s total tagged as tenure-track. Over the five


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years from 2004–05 through 2008–09, ads tagged as tenure-track made up 75%–80% of ads in the English edition and 60%–65% of ads in the foreign language edi-tion. Over the five years since, the percentages have fallen ten percentage points—to 65%–70% of the English edition and to 50%–55% of the foreign language edi-tion. Two interpretations are possible to explain the consistently lower percentage of tenure-track ads in the foreign language edition compared with the English edition: programs in languages and literatures other than English have a higher percent-age of full-time non-tenure-track positions than do English language and literature programs, and foreign language programs have more occasion to seek national or international candidate pools for their full-time non-tenure-track positions than do En glish programs and hence use the JIL more often to advertise such positions.

Virtually all positions announced in the JIL are full-time, and the JIL thus affords no insight into hiring for the part-time faculty positions that are the fastest-growing segment of the academic workforce. Moreover, not all departments use the JIL to advertise faculty positions they seek to fill. Only a handful of two-year colleges use the JIL to advertise openings on their faculties. Despite these limitations, the num-ber of ads tagged as openings for full-time tenure-track assistant professors and non-tenure-track instructors does serve as a valuable barometer of trends in opportunities for full-time, entry-level academic employment in four-year institutions available to new and recent graduates of PhD programs.

This year’s 8.2% decline in the total number of ads in the English edition was matched by an 8.4% drop in the number of ads tagged as both tenure-track and assistant professor, from 513 in 2012–13 to 470 in 2013–14 (fig. 6). In the foreign language edition, the 5.6% decline in ads tagged as both tenure-track and assistant professor, from 393 in 2012–13 to 371 in 2013–14, was slightly less than the 7.5% decline in ads overall (fig. 7). Since 2009–10, about 50.0% of ads in the English edition and just under 40.0% of ads in the foreign language edition (but 35.3% in the recession year 2009–10) have called for tenure-track assistant professors. Before 2009–10, the percentage values held steady in a range several percentage points higher—between 52% and 57% in the English JIL and between 42% and 46% in the foreign language JIL. Also since 2009–10, ads that use “assistant professor” in combination with a tag for another rank have added another 8%–10% to the to-tal number of tenure-track assistant professor positions in the English edition and 6%–7% in the foreign language edition.

Table 1 and table 2 show how departments have tagged their ads using the four index terms for rank—instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and profes-sor—across the fourteen years from 2000–01 to 2013–14. Ads tagged solely “assis-tant professor” consistently predominate in both editions across the fourteen years for which these data are available, making up about 60%–65% of all ads in the En glish edition and about 50%–60% of all ads in the foreign language edition. The increase in the percentage of ads tagged “instructor” since 2007–08, especially in the foreign language edition, is notable. Ads for instructor positions now make up over a fifth of all ads in the foreign language edition.

Table 3 and table 4 provide additional detail about the tenure status of this past year’s ads, broken out by geographic region, in the English and foreign language



editions, respectively. Part A of each table shows the distribution of all ads pub-lished in an edition in 2013–14; part B shows the distribution of the ads for which departments used the tag “assistant professor,” including ads that used the assistant professor tag along with a tag for some other rank (e.g., “assistant professor or in-structor” or “assistant professor or associate professor”). The row percentage shows the percentage of ads in a given region that were tagged “tenure-track” or “non-tenure-track” or for which the tenure status was not specified. The column percent-age shows the percentage of ads within a given tenure category from institutions located in each geographic region. In the English edition, 67.4% of a total 870 ads from institutions in the eight regions that encompass the fifty states and the District of Columbia were tagged as tenure-track—as were 82.6% of the 631 ads that called for assistant professors (table 3A, table 3B). In the foreign language edition, 52.7% of a total 884 ads from institutions in the fifty states and the District of Columbia were tagged as tenure-track—as were 75.5% of the 550 ads that called for assistant professors (table 4A, table 4B). In both editions, New England had a notably lower percentage of ads tagged as tenure-track—56.1% in English and 42.7% in foreign languages, compared with 65% or higher and 50% or higher in English and foreign languages, respectively, in the other seven regions of the United States.

Table 5 (English edition) and table 6 (foreign language edition) show trends in the number and percentage of ads from the United States and its territories, Canada, and other countries across the fourteen years from 2000–01 to 2013–14. The per-centage distribution across the regions shows considerable stability throughout the much sharper fluctuations in the number of ads. Across the period, on average, the Mid-East and Southeast regions each claim roughly 20% of the ads in each edi-tion, followed by the Great Lakes with about 16%, the Far West with about 11%, the Plains and the Southwest with about 6%–7% each, and the Rocky Mountain states with about 3%. Ads from the New England states represent about 9% of all ads in the En glish edition and about 10% of all ads in the foreign language edition. Dropping back in this year’s English edition were ads for posts outside the United States and Canada. After increasing since 2008 to almost 5% of English ads, ads for posts overseas fell to 3.6% of the English edition’s 928 ads. In the foreign language edition, ads for posts overseas held steady from the previous two years at 4.4% of the edition’s 945 ads.

In 2013–14 the JIL introduced a unified search interface to give job seekers direct access to ads in both the English and the foreign language editions. Previously, the two editions had to be searched independently through separate interfaces and grids of index terms. Advertising departments now select search terms from three catego-ries: for language, for general fields of specialization applicable across English and other modern languages, and for specializations applicable chiefly to English (e.g., composition and rhetoric or British literature). The rearrangement means that the number of field terms departments used to tag ads in 2013–14 is not consistently comparable with counts from previous years.

This report follows the JIL’s new scheme of index and search terms by developing separate tables for the three categories. In the analysis of language categories, the 945 ads assigned to the foreign language edition are used as the basis for calculating



the percentage of ads tagged with each language term. In the analysis of the English field categories, the 928 ads assigned to the English edition are used as the basis for percentages. And in the analysis of the general field categories, the 1,671 total ads published in the JIL database are used.1 (For readers who are interested in recent trends, table 3 and table 4 in last year’s report show how departments used the search terms for field specialization and language to tag ads across the period from 2000–01 to 2012–13.)

Table 7A shows the tenure status of the 945 ads published in the JIL’s foreign language edition in 2013–14, broken out by the fourteen language fields; table 7B shows the distribution across languages for the 586 ads that were tagged for the rank of assistant professor (including ads that were also tagged for another rank). Table 7A shows that Spanish and Latin America had the largest share of ads and of ads for tenure-track positions: 37.7% of the 945 ads in the foreign language edition and 41.9% of the 496 ads tagged tenure-track; 58.4% of the 356 ads in Spanish and Latin America were tagged as tenure-track. French and francophone was next in share, with 203 (21.5%) of all 945 ads and 103 (20.8%) of the 496 tenure-track ads, followed by Germanic and Scandinavian, with 14.3% of all foreign language ads and 12.1% of tenure-track ads. Languages with the highest percentage of tenure-track ads were Spanish (58.4% of 356 ads), classical languages (53.3% of 15 ads), French (50.7% of 203 ads), and Arabic (50.0% of 46 ads). Languages with the low-est percentage of tenure-track ads were Russian and Slavic (31.6% of 38 ads), Ital-ian (32.7% of 55 ads), and Hebrew (33.3% of 12 ads). As shown in table 7B, 180 (75.3%) of the 239 ads for assistant professors in Spanish were tenure-track, as were 95 (75.4%) of the 126 ads for assistant professors in French and 51 (68.9%) of the 74 ads for assistant professors in German.

Table 8A shows the tenure status of the 928 ads published in the JIL’s English edition, broken out by the nine English field categories; table 8B shows the distribu-tion for the 667 ads that were tagged for the rank of assistant professor and for both assistant professor and another rank. Terms for the three writing fields were used for 55.9% of the 928 English ads: 31.8% tagged for composition and rhetoric, 9.2% for technical and business writing, and 15.0% for creative writing and journalism. Terms for the five literature fields were used for 64.4% of the 928 ads: 25.1% tagged for British literature, 19.5% for American literature, 6.5% for African American lit-erature, and 6.0% for other minority literatures. Because departments use more than one term to tag ads, these column percentages add up to more than 100%. Among the writing categories taken together, 62.8% of the 519 ads were tenure-track; by comparison, 68.9% of the 598 ads in the literature categories were tenure-track. The disparity in tenure status between writing and literature disappears in ads designated for assistant professors—80.6% of the 360 writing ads (and 81.6% of the 201 ads for composition and rhetoric) were tenure-track, compared with 81.1% of the 455 literature ads (and 80.1% of the 181 ads for British literature and 79.8% of the 129 ads for American literature).

Table 9A shows the tenure status of all 1,671 ads the JIL published in 2013–14, broken out by the thirteen general field categories used to tag ads across English and foreign languages; table 9B shows the distribution for the 1,147 ads for assistant

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professors (and ads tagged for assistant professor and another rank). Cultural studies was used to tag 222 (13.3%) of all 1,671 ads and 154 (13.4%) of the 1,147 ads for assistant professors. Among all ads, apart from the catchall category “other” (188 ads [11.3%]), those that departments labeled “interdisciplinary” had the next highest count (183 ads [11.0%]), followed by comparative literature (163 ads [9.8%]), linguis-tics and ESL (152 ads [9.1%]), generalist (149 ads [8.9%]), technology and digital media (143 ads [8.6%]), criticism and theory (103 ads [6.2%]), and film, drama, and speech (94 ads [5.6%]). Within the cultural studies category, 65.8% of the 222 ads were tagged tenure-track, as were 83.1% of the 154 ads for assistant professors. Of the 183 ads that departments indexed as interdisciplinary, 54.6% were tenure-track, as were 78.5% of the 107 ads for assistant professors. General fields with the highest percentage of tenure-track ads were world literature (77.5% of 71 ads); film, drama, and speech (74.5% of 94 ads); and postcolonial literature (73.5% of 49 ads).

A concluding series of tables shows the percentage distribution across the geo-graphic regions of ads tagged for the different field categories. Table 10 shows the geographic distribution of ads tagged for each of the thirteen language fields in the foreign language edition, table 11 the distribution of ads tagged for the nine English fields in the English edition, and table 12 the distribution of ads tagged for twelve of the general fields in both editions. These tables show where specializations are represented more, less, or equally strongly with the geographic distribution of ads published in the edition or database set to which they are keyed. For example, the Mid-East region claimed the largest share of the 945 ads in the foreign language edition (22.9%), with a somewhat outsize share (31.6%) of the 38 ads tagged for Russian and Slavic (table 10). Ads from the six New England states made up 8.8% of the 928 ads in the JIL’s English edition but claimed 11.5% of ads tagged for creative writing and journalism and 13.3% of ads tagged for literature in English other than British and American (table 11). The largest percentage of ads tagged for composi-tion and rhetoric were from the Southeast—23.7%, slightly above the 19.9% share the region claimed for the English edition as a whole. Of ads tagged for British lit-erature, 14.6% were from the Far West, somewhat above the region’s 11.6% share of ads in the English edition. Ads from the Great Lakes region made up 16.6% of all 1,671 ads the JIL published in 2013–14 but 24.5% of the 49 ads tagged for postco-lonial literature and 21.4% of the 103 ads tagged for criticism and theory (table 12).

Note

1. The 928 ads assigned to the English edition and the 945 assigned to the foreign language edition sum to a total greater than 1,671 because 202 interdisciplinary ads were placed in both editions.



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Non-tenure-track position

Other tenure-track position

Tenure-track assistant professor and some other rank (m

ore than one index term for rank chosen)

Tenure-track assistant professor



Table 1. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the English JIL

Indexed for Various Ranks, 2000–01 to 2013–14

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–112011–12

2012–132013–14

1,0251,006

963865

956914

1,005990

714562

643640

608573

63.2%65.5%

67.1%63.5%

63.9%61.7%

63.9%60.1%

58.1%58.3%

61.7%58.9%

60.1%61.5%

4430

3640

3546

3734

1825

2723

117

2.7%2.0%

2.5%2.9%

2.3%3.1%

2.4%2.1%

1.5%2.6%

2.6%2.1%

1.1%0.8%

123105

96122

122121

121125

10549

6390

7259

7.6%6.8%

6.7%9.0%

8.1%8.2%

7.7%7.6%

8.6%5.1%

6.0%8.3%

7.1%6.3%

6479

5244

5360

5370

5541

2426

3123

3.9%5.1%

3.6%3.2%

3.5%4.0%

3.4%4.3%

4.5%4.3%

2.3%2.4%

3.1%2.5%

1710

78

1313

912

89

98

41

1.0%0.7%

0.5%0.6%

0.9%0.9%

0.6%0.7%

0.7%0.9%

0.9%0.7%

0.4%0.1%

148123

113103

136125

130178

158157

120138

120103

9.1%8.0%

7.9%7.6%

9.1%8.4%

8.3%10.8%

12.9%16.3%

11.5%12.7%

11.9%11.3%

1722

1730

2124

2728

1710

1917

1912

1.0%1.4%

1.2%2.2%

1.4%1.6%

1.7%1.7%

1.4%1.0%

1.8%1.6%

1.9%1.3%

6265

5040

6251

7771

4528

2831

4723

3.8%4.2%

3.5%2.9%

4.1%3.4%

4.9%4.3%

3.7%2.9%

2.7%2.9%

4.6%2.4%

4639

4255

4261

4054

3823

3139

2826

2.8%2.5%

2.9%4.0%

2.8%4.1%

2.5%3.3%

3.1%2.4%

3.0%3.6%

2.8%2.8%

11

01

23

00

03

01

12

0.1%0.1%

0.0%0.1%

0.1%0.2%

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.3%

0.0%0.1%

0.1%0.2%

7457

6054

5564

7484

7057

7874

7053

4.6%3.7%

4.2%4.0%

3.7%4.3%

4.7%5.1%

5.7%5.9%

7.5%6.8%

6.9%5.7%

1,6211,537

1,4361,362

1,4971,482

1,5731,646

1,228964

1,0421,087

1,011928

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

Assistant professor or associate

professor

Assistant professor

Instructor or assistant professor

Assistant professor, associate

professor, or professor

Other com

binations that include assistant professor

Instructor

Associate professor

Associate professor or professor

Professor

Other com

binations that do not include assistant professor

Rank not specified or not

relevant

Total



Table 2. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the Foreign Language JIL

Indexed for Various Ranks, 2000–01 to 2013–14

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–112011–12

2012–132013–14

791739

765667

689686

791779

635452

503509

535483

57.4%59.0%

60.9%56.7%

55.2%55.5%

55.1%51.2%

56.0%49.5%

51.1%49.6%

52.3%50.8%

9371

5475

7269

6569

5246

5353

4830

6.7%5.7%

4.3%6.4%

5.8%5.6%

4.5%4.5%

4.6%5.0%

5.4%5.2%

4.7%3.2%

6562

7665

7661

7386

6436

5352

4147

4.7%4.9%

6.1%5.5%

6.1%4.9%

5.1%5.7%

5.6%3.9%

5.4%5.1%

4.0%4.9%

4247

3430

4249

4258

3626

1126

2821

3.0%3.8%

2.7%2.6%

3.4%4.0%

2.9%3.8%

3.2%2.8%

1.1%2.5%

2.7%2.2%

178

107

89

1217

88

84

62

1.2%0.6%

0.8%0.6%

0.6%0.7%

0.8%1.1%

0.7%0.9%

0.8%0.4%

0.6%0.2%

201183

171192

210219

301320

194220

218251

233209

14.6%14.6%

13.6%16.3%

16.8%17.7%

21.0%21.0%

17.1%24.1%

22.1%24.4%

22.8%22.4%

2011

811

1517

1424

1613

713

127

1.5%0.9%

0.6%0.9%

1.2%1.4%

1.0%1.6%

1.4%1.4%

0.7%1.3%

1.2%0.7%

4945

5048

5650

4943

3426

3221

2820

3.6%3.6%

4.0%4.1%

4.5%4.0%

3.4%2.8%

3.0%2.8%

3.2%2.0%

2.7%2.1%

3331

2726

2934

2943

2626

2840

3226

2.4%2.5%

2.1%2.2%

2.3%2.7%

2.0%2.8%

2.3%2.8%

2.8%3.9%

3.1%2.8%

00

01

00

12

23

00

22

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.1%

0.0%0.0%

0.1%0.1%

0.2%0.3%

0.0%0.0%

0.2%0.2%

6856

6154

5143

5980

6757

7258

5755

4.9%4.5%

4.9%4.6%

4.1%3.5%

4.1%5.3%

5.9%6.2%

7.3%5.6%

5.6%5.8%

1,3791,253

1,2561,176

1,2481,237

1,4361,521

1,134913

9851,027

1,022945

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

Total

Assistant professor

Instructor or assistant professor

Assistant professor or associate

professor

Assistant professor, associate

professor, or professor

Other com

binations that include assistant professor

Instructor

Associate professor

Associate professor or professor

Professor

Other com

binations that do not include assistant professor

Rank not specified or not

relevant



Table 3A. Tenure Status of All Ads in the 2013–14 English JIL , by Geographic Region

Tenure-TrackNon-Tenure-

TrackTenure Status Not Specified Total

50 states and DCNew England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Number of ads 46 25 11 82Row percentage 56.1% 30.5% 13.4% 100.0%Column percentage 7.5% 9.2% 28.2% 8.8%

Mid-East (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)Number of ads 135 58 6 199Row percentage 67.8% 29.1% 3.0% 100.0%Column percentage 21.9% 21.3% 15.4% 21.4%

Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)Number of ads 99 42 12 153Row percentage 64.7% 27.5% 7.8% 100.0%Column percentage 16.0% 15.4% 30.8% 16.5%

Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Number of ads 123 59 3 185Row percentage 66.5% 31.9% 1.6% 100.0%Column percentage 19.9% 21.7% 7.7% 19.9%

Plains (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)Number of ads 42 10 2 54Row percentage 77.8% 18.5% 3.7% 100.0%Column percentage 6.8% 3.7% 5.1% 5.8%

Rocky Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)Number of ads 20 4 0 24Row percentage 83.3% 16.7% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.2% 1.5% 0.0% 2.6%

Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)Number of ads 48 14 3 65Row percentage 73.8% 21.5% 4.6% 100.0%Column percentage 7.8% 5.1% 7.7% 7.0%

Far West (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)Number of ads 73 33 2 108Row percentage 67.6% 30.6% 1.9% 100.0%Column percentage 11.8% 12.1% 5.1% 11.6%Totals for 50 states and DC


Outlying areas (AS, FM, GU, MH, MP, PR, PW, VI)Number of ads 0 2 0 2Row percentage 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2%

CanadaNumber of ads 13 10 0 23Row percentage 56.5% 43.5% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 2.1% 3.7% 0.0% 2.5%

Other countriesNumber of ads 18 15 0 33Row percentage 54.5% 45.5% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 2.9% 5.5% 0.0% 3.6%

TotalsNumber of ads 617 272 39 928Row percentage 66.5% 29.3% 4.2% 100.0%Column percentage 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%



















Table 3B. Tenure Status of Ads Tagged for Assistant Professor or for Assistant Professor and Some Other Rank in the 2013–14 English JIL , by Geographic Region



Table 4A. Tenure Status of All Ads in the 2013–14 Foreign Language JIL , by Geographic Region



































Table 4B. Tenure Status of Ads Tagged for Assistant Professor or for Assistant Professor and Some Other Rank in the 2013–14 Foreign Language JIL , by Geographic Region



Table 5. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the English JIL

, 2000–01 to 2013–14, by Geographic R

egion

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–112011–12

2012–132013–14

New

England

145107

119131

127117

129125

11194

10086

10282

(CT, M

A, M

E, N

H, R

I, VT)

8.9%7.0%

8.3%9.6%

8.5%7.9%

8.2%7.6%

9.0%9.8%

9.6%7.9%

10.1%8.8%

Mid-E

ast311

295299

257319

310295

333238

192197

218211

199(D

C, D

E, M

D, N

J, NY

, PA

)19.2%

19.2%20.8%

18.9%21.3%

20.9%18.8%

20.2%19.4%

19.9%18.9%

20.1%20.9%

21.4%

Great Lakes

278283

250232

269227

247240

180175

160179

163153

(IL, IN, M

I, OH

, WI)

17.1%18.4%

17.4%17.0%

18.0%15.3%

15.7%14.6%

14.7%18.2%

15.4%16.5%

16.1%16.5%

Southeast

304310

259266

293324

362377

233203

211227

201185

(AL, A

R, FL, G

A, K

Y, LA

, MS

, NC

, SC

, TN, V

A, W

V)

18.8%20.2%

18.0%19.5%

19.6%21.9%

23.0%22.9%

19.0%21.1%

20.2%20.9%

19.9%19.9%

Plains

11283

9091

10181

98115

7857

6466

6654

(IA, K

S, M

N, M

O, N

D, N

E, S

D)

6.9%5.4%

6.3%6.7%

6.7%5.5%

6.2%7.0%

6.4%5.9%

6.1%6.1%

6.5%5.8%

Rocky M

ountain55

5842

3438

5145

4333

1928

2629

24(C

O, ID

, MT, U

T, WY

)3.4%

3.8%2.9%

2.5%2.5%

3.4%2.9%

2.6%2.7%

2.0%2.7%

2.4%2.9%

2.6%

Southw

est125

12094

92107

94102

119114

6671

7171

65(A

Z, NM

, OK

, TX)

7.7%7.8%

6.5%6.8%

7.1%6.3%

6.5%7.2%

9.3%6.8%

6.8%6.5%

7.0%7.0%

Far West

208204

189170

164176

193191

14781

132128

95108

(AK

, CA

, HI, N

V, O

R, W

A)

12.8%13.3%

13.2%12.5%

11.0%11.9%

12.3%11.6%

12.0%8.4%

12.7%11.8%

9.4%11.6%

Outlying areas

86

63

24

14

20

00

02

(AS

, FM, G

U, M

H, M

P, P

R, P

W, V

I)0.5%

0.4%0.4%

0.2%0.1%

0.3%0.1%

0.2%0.2%

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.0%

0.2%

3237

4450

4645

4537

2916

2124

2323

2.0%2.4%

3.1%3.7%

3.1%3.0%

2.9%2.2%

2.4%1.7%

2.0%2.2%

2.3%2.5%

3522

3627

2745

4248

5043

4953

5033

2.2%1.4%

2.5%2.0%

1.8%3.0%

2.7%2.9%

4.1%4.5%

4.7%4.9%

4.9%3.6%

812

89

48

1414

1318

99

00

0.5%0.8%

0.6%0.7%

0.3%0.5%

0.9%0.9%

1.1%1.9%

0.9%0.8%

0.0%0.0%

1,6211,537

1,4361,362

1,4971,482

1,5731,646

1,228964

1,0421,087

1,011928

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

Canada

Outside the U

nited States and C

anada

Unknow

n

Total



Table 6. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the Foreign Language JIL

, 2000–01 to 2013–14, by Geographic R

egion

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–112011–12

2012–132013–14

New

England

133105

132102

116100

146153

11795

106129

11889

(CT, M

A, M

E, N

H, R

I, VT)

9.6%8.4%

10.5%8.7%

9.3%8.1%

10.2%10.1%

10.3%10.4%

10.8%12.6%

11.5%9.4%

Mid-E

ast301

292264

224238

223312

313229

214215

211217

216(D

C, D

E, M

D, N

J, NY

, PA

)21.8%

23.3%21.0%

19.0%19.1%

18.0%21.7%

20.6%20.2%

23.4%21.8%

20.5%21.2%

22.9%

Great Lakes

234188

195209

195219

214216

190151

164166

163152

(IL, IN, M

I, OH

, WI)

17.0%15.0%

15.5%17.8%

15.6%17.7%

14.9%14.2%

16.8%16.5%

16.6%16.2%

15.9%16.1%

Southeast

242230

240233

257256

294303

211175

212187

204187

(AL, A

R, FL, G

A, K

Y, LA

, MS

, NC

, SC

, TN, V

A, W

V)

17.5%18.4%

19.1%19.8%

20.6%20.7%

20.5%19.9%

18.6%19.2%

21.5%18.2%

20.0%19.8%

Plains

11195

7381

97104

118113

8355

6057

6752

(IA, K

S, M

N, M

O, N

D, N

E, S

D)

8.0%7.6%

5.8%6.9%

7.8%8.4%

8.2%7.4%

7.3%6.0%

6.1%5.6%

6.6%5.5%

Rocky M

ountain43

3539

2847

5442

4044

2231

2731

25(C

O, ID

, MT, U

T, WY

)3.1%

2.8%3.1%

2.4%3.8%

4.4%2.9%

2.6%3.9%

2.4%3.1%

2.6%3.0%

2.6%

Southw

est86

7668

7886

6184

10577

6548

6064

67(A

Z, NM

, OK

, TX)

6.2%6.1%

5.4%6.6%

6.9%4.9%

5.8%6.9%

6.8%7.1%

4.9%5.8%

6.3%7.1%

Far West

154172

157158

159145

156181

10570

94114

9196

(AK

, CA

, HI, N

V, O

R, W

A)

11.2%13.7%

12.5%13.4%

12.7%11.7%

10.9%11.9%

9.3%7.7%

9.5%11.1%

8.9%10.2%

Outlying areas

138

78

63

54

50

00

02

(AS

, FM, G

U, M

H, M

P, P

R, P

W, V

I)0.9%

0.6%0.6%

0.7%0.5%

0.2%0.3%

0.3%0.4%

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.0%

0.2%

3633

4637

2443

4641

2525

1328

2117

2.6%2.6%

3.7%3.1%

1.9%3.5%

3.2%2.7%

2.2%2.7%

1.3%2.7%

2.1%1.8%

1412

2511

1720

1038

3629

3242

4542

1.0%1.0%

2.0%0.9%

1.4%1.6%

0.7%2.5%

3.2%3.2%

3.2%4.1%

4.4%4.4%

127

107

69

914

1212

106

10

0.9%0.6%

0.8%0.6%

0.5%0.7%

0.6%0.9%

1.1%1.3%

1.0%0.6%

0.1%0.0%

1,3791,253

1,2561,176

1,2481,237

1,4361,521

1,134913

9851,027

1,022945

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

Unknow

n

Total

Canada

Outside the U

nited States and C

anada





Spanish and Latin AmericaNumber of ads 208 137 11 356Row percentage 58.4% 38.5% 3.1% 100.0%Column percentage 41.9% 32.6% 37.9% 37.7%

PortugueseNumber of ads 15 17 0 32Row percentage 46.9% 53.1% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.0% 4.0% 0.0% 3.4%

French and francophoneNumber of ads 103 93 7 203Row percentage 50.7% 45.8% 3.4% 100.0%Column percentage 20.8% 22.1% 24.1% 21.5%

ItalianNumber of ads 18 34 3 55Row percentage 32.7% 61.8% 5.5% 100.0%Column percentage 3.6% 8.1% 10.3% 5.8%

Germanic and ScandinavianNumber of ads 60 70 5 135Row percentage 44.4% 51.9% 3.7% 100.0%Column percentage 12.1% 16.7% 17.2% 14.3%

Russian and SlavicNumber of ads 12 24 2 38Row percentage 31.6% 63.2% 5.3% 100.0%Column percentage 2.4% 5.7% 6.9% 4.0%

ArabicNumber of ads 23 22 1 46Row percentage 50.0% 47.8% 2.2% 100.0%Column percentage 4.6% 5.2% 3.4% 4.9%

ClassicalNumber of ads 8 6 1 15Row percentage 53.3% 40.0% 6.7% 100.0%Column percentage 1.6% 1.4% 3.4% 1.6%

HebrewNumber of ads 4 7 1 12Row percentage 33.3% 58.3% 8.3% 100.0%Column percentage 0.8% 1.7% 3.4% 1.3%

ChineseNumber of ads 36 38 0 74Row percentage 48.6% 51.4% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 7.3% 9.0% 0.0% 7.8%

JapaneseNumber of ads 17 22 0 39Row percentage 43.6% 56.4% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.4% 5.2% 0.0% 4.1%

Other languagesNumber of ads 17 18 0 35Row percentage 48.6% 51.4% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.4% 4.3% 0.0% 3.7%

No language specifiedNumber of ads 56 54 10 120Row percentage 46.7% 45.0% 8.3% 100.0%Column percentage 11.3% 12.9% 34.5% 12.7%

Total number of ads 496 420 29 945Total row percentage 52.5% 44.4% 3.1% 100.0%

Table 7A. Tenure Status of All Ads in the 2013–14 Foreign Language JIL , by Language





Spanish and Latin AmericaNumber of ads 180 54 5 239Row percentage 75.3% 22.6% 2.1% 100.0%Column percentage 41.3% 38.6% 50.0% 40.8%

PortugueseNumber of ads 13 4 0 17Row percentage 76.5% 23.5% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.0% 2.9% 0.0% 2.9%

French and francophoneNumber of ads 95 30 1 126Row percentage 75.4% 23.8% 0.8% 100.0%Column percentage 21.8% 21.4% 10.0% 21.5%

ItalianNumber of ads 17 7 2 26Row percentage 65.4% 26.9% 7.7% 100.0%Column percentage 3.9% 5.0% 20.0% 4.4%

Germanic and ScandinavianNumber of ads 51 23 0 74Row percentage 68.9% 31.1% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 11.7% 16.4% 0.0% 12.6%

Russian and SlavicNumber of ads 10 6 0 16Row percentage 62.5% 37.5% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 2.3% 4.3% 0.0% 2.7%

ArabicNumber of ads 22 5 1 28Row percentage 78.6% 17.9% 3.6% 100.0%Column percentage 5.0% 3.6% 10.0% 4.8%

ClassicalNumber of ads 7 0 0 7Row percentage 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 1.2%

HebrewNumber of ads 4 1 0 5Row percentage 80.0% 20.0% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 0.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.9%

ChineseNumber of ads 31 12 0 43Row percentage 72.1% 27.9% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 7.1% 8.6% 0.0% 7.3%

JapaneseNumber of ads 13 8 0 21Row percentage 61.9% 38.1% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.0% 5.7% 0.0% 3.6%

Other languagesNumber of ads 13 2 0 15Row percentage 86.7% 13.3% 0.0% 100.0%Column percentage 3.0% 142.9% 0.0% 256.0%

No language specifiedNumber of ads 38 9 1 48Row percentage 79.2% 18.8% 2.1% 100.0%Column percentage 8.7% 6.4% 10.0% 8.2%


Table 7B. Tenure Status of All Ads Tagged for Assistant Professor or for Assistant Professor and Some Other Rank in the 2013–14 Foreign Language JIL , by Language





WritingComposition and rhetoric


Technical and business writingNumber of ads 50 30 5 85Row percentage 58.8% 35.3% 5.9% 100.0%Column percentage 8.1% 11.0% 12.8% 9.2%

Creative writing and journalismNumber of ads 89 42 8 139Row percentage 64.0% 30.2% 5.8% 100.0%Column percentage 14.4% 15.4% 20.5% 15.0%Total for writing


LiteratureBritish literature


American literature (chiefly United States)Number of ads 118 59 4 181Row percentage 65.2% 32.6% 2.2% 100.0%Column percentage 19.1% 21.7% 10.3% 19.5%

African American literatureNumber of ads 42 17 1 60Row percentage 70.0% 28.3% 1.7% 100.0%Column percentage 6.8% 6.3% 2.6% 6.5%

Literature in English other than British and AmericanNumber of ads 49 9 2 60Row percentage 81.7% 15.0% 3.3% 100.0%Column percentage 7.9% 3.3% 5.1% 6.5%

Other minority literaturesNumber of ads 41 13 2 56Row percentage 73.2% 23.2% 3.6% 100.0%Column percentage 6.6% 4.8% 5.1% 6.0%Total for literature


English educationNumber of ads 33 17 1 51Row percentage 64.7% 33.3% 2.0% 100.0%Column percentage 5.3% 6.3% 2.6% 5.5%


Table 8A. Tenure Status of All Ads in the 2013–14 English JIL , by English Field Category





WritingComposition and rhetoric


Technical and business writingNumber of ads 47 7 2 56Row percentage 83.9% 12.5% 3.6% 100.0%Column percentage 8.7% 6.6% 11.1% 8.4%

Creative writing and journalismNumber of ads 79 20 4 103Row percentage 76.7% 19.4% 3.9% 100.0%Column percentage 14.5% 18.9% 22.2% 15.4%Total for writing


LiteratureBritish literature


American literature (chiefly United States)Number of ads 103 24 2 129Row percentage 79.8% 18.6% 1.6% 100.0%Column percentage 19.0% 22.6% 11.1% 19.3%

African American literatureNumber of ads 36 9 1 46Row percentage 78.3% 19.6% 2.2% 100.0%Column percentage 6.6% 8.5% 5.6% 6.9%

Literature in English other than British and AmericanNumber of ads 43 4 2 49Row percentage 87.8% 8.2% 4.1% 100.0%Column percentage 7.9% 3.8% 11.1% 7.3%

Other minority literaturesNumber of ads 38 6 1 45Row percentage 84.4% 13.3% 2.2% 100.0%Column percentage 7.0% 5.7% 5.6% 6.7%Total for literature


English educationNumber of ads 29 5 1 35Row percentage 82.9% 14.3% 2.9% 100.0%Column percentage 5.3% 4.7% 5.6% 5.2%


Table 8B. Tenure Status of Ads Tagged for Assistant Professor or for Assistant Professor and Some Other Rank in the 2013–14 English JIL , by English Field Category





Comparative literatureNumber of ads 103 56 4 163Row percentage 63.2% 34.4% 2.5% 100.0%Column percentage 10.2% 9.2% 7.1% 9.8%

Criticism and theoryNumber of ads 71 28 4 103Row percentage 68.9% 27.2% 3.9% 100.0%Column percentage 7.1% 4.6% 7.1% 6.2%

Cultural studiesNumber of ads 146 68 8 222Row percentage 65.8% 30.6% 3.6% 100.0%Column percentage 14.5% 11.2% 14.3% 13.3%

Film, drama, and speechNumber of ads 70 23 1 94Row percentage 74.5% 24.5% 1.1% 100.0%Column percentage 7.0% 3.8% 1.8% 5.6%

GeneralistNumber of ads 78 66 5 149Row percentage 52.3% 44.3% 3.4% 100.0%Column percentage 7.7% 10.9% 8.9% 8.9%

InterdisciplinaryNumber of ads 100 72 11 183Row percentage 54.6% 39.3% 6.0% 100.0%Column percentage 9.9% 11.8% 19.6% 11.0%

Linguistics and ESLNumber of ads 89 60 3 152Row percentage 58.6% 39.5% 2.0% 100.0%Column percentage 8.8% 9.9% 5.4% 9.1%

Postcolonial literatureNumber of ads 36 11 2 49Row percentage 73.5% 22.4% 4.1% 100.0%Column percentage 3.6% 1.8% 3.6% 2.9%

Technology and digital mediaNumber of ads 94 42 7 143Row percentage 65.7% 29.4% 4.9% 100.0%Column percentage 9.3% 6.9% 12.5% 8.6%

World literatureNumber of ads 55 14 2 71Row percentage 77.5% 19.7% 2.8% 100.0%Column percentage 5.5% 2.3% 3.6% 4.2%

Department chair or other administratorNumber of ads 45 23 12 80Row percentage 56.3% 28.8% 15.0% 100.0%Column percentage 4.5% 3.8% 21.4% 4.8%

Other academic specializationsNumber of ads 90 80 18 188Row percentage 47.9% 42.6% 9.6% 100.0%Column percentage 8.9% 13.2% 32.1% 11.3%

NonacademicNumber of ads 0 7 2 9Row percentage 0.0% 77.8% 22.2% 100.0%Column percentage 0.0% 1.2% 3.6% 0.5%

Total number of ads 1,007 608 56 1,671Total row percentage 60.3% 36.4% 3.4% 100.0%

Table 9A. Tenure Status of All Ads in the 2013–14 JIL , by General Field Category





Comparative literatureNumber of ads 94 19 2 115Row percentage 81.7% 16.5% 1.7% 100.0%Column percentage 10.5% 8.4% 7.7% 10.0%

Criticism and theoryNumber of ads 60 10 1 71Row percentage 84.5% 14.1% 1.4% 100.0%Column percentage 6.7% 4.4% 3.8% 6.2%

Cultural studiesNumber of ads 128 24 2 154Row percentage 83.1% 15.6% 1.3% 100.0%Column percentage 14.3% 10.6% 7.7% 13.4%

Film, drama, and speechNumber of ads 65 10 1 76Row percentage 85.5% 13.2% 1.3% 100.0%Column percentage 7.3% 4.4% 3.8% 6.6%

GeneralistNumber of ads 73 32 2 107Row percentage 68.2% 29.9% 1.9% 100.0%Column percentage 8.2% 14.1% 7.7% 9.3%

InterdisciplinaryNumber of ads 84 21 2 107Row percentage 78.5% 19.6% 1.9% 100.0%Column percentage 9.4% 9.3% 7.7% 9.3%

Linguistics and ESLNumber of ads 76 17 2 95Row percentage 80.0% 17.9% 2.1% 100.0%Column percentage 8.5% 7.5% 7.7% 8.3%

Postcolonial literatureNumber of ads 35 5 2 42Row percentage 83.3% 11.9% 4.8% 100.0%Column percentage 3.9% 2.2% 7.7% 3.7%

Technology and digital mediaNumber of ads 83 10 3 96Row percentage 86.5% 10.4% 3.1% 100.0%Column percentage 9.3% 4.4% 11.5% 8.4%

World literatureNumber of ads 52 8 1 61Row percentage 85.2% 13.1% 1.6% 100.0%Column percentage 5.8% 3.5% 3.8% 5.3%

Department chair or other administratorNumber of ads 11 0 2 13Row percentage 84.6% 0.0% 15.4% 100.0%Column percentage 1.2% 0.0% 7.7% 1.1%

Other academic specializationsNumber of ads 79 19 4 102Row percentage 77.5% 18.6% 3.9% 100.0%Column percentage 8.8% 8.4% 15.4% 8.9%

Total number of ads 894 227 26 1,147Total row percentage 77.9% 19.8% 2.3% 100.0%

Table 9B. Tenure Status of Ads Tagged for Assistant Professor or for Assistant Professor and Some Other Rank in the 2013–14 JIL , by General Field Category



Table 10. Percentage of Ads in the 2013–14 Foreign Language JIL

Tagged for Language Fields, by Geographic R

egion

Spanish and

Latin Am

ericaP

ortugueseFrench and

FrancophoneItalian

Germ

anic and S

candinavianR

ussianand S

lavicA

rabicC

lassicalH

ebrewC

hineseJapanese

Other

LanguagesN

o Language S

pecifiedA

ll Ads

New

England

(CT, M

A, M

E, N

H, R

I, VT)

9.00.0

9.921.8

10.47.9

8.70.0

8.35.4

7.78.6

8.39.4

Mid-E

ast (D

C, D

E, M

D, N

J, NY

, PA

)20.2

21.925.6

21.822.2

31.615.2

20.033.3

21.67.7

25.729.2

22.9

Great Lakes

(IL, IN, M

I, OH

, WI)

16.918.8

15.812.7

19.310.5

19.620.0

16.717.6

28.217.1

16.716.1

Southeast

(AL, A

R, FL, G

A, K

Y, LA

, M

S, N

C, S

C, TN

, VA

, WV

)22.2

12.520.7

18.223.0

15.819.6

13.38.3

20.317.9

14.314.2

19.8

Plains

(IA, K

S, M

N, M

O, N

D, N

E, S

D)

7.30.0

4.41.8

3.72.6

2.26.7

0.04.1

0.05.7

3.35.5

Rocky M

ountain (C

O, ID

, MT, U

T, WY

)3.7

0.01.5

1.82.2

2.62.2

0.00.0

1.42.6

0.00.8

2.6

Southw

est (A

Z, NM

, OK

, TX)

8.19.4

6.45.5

4.410.5

10.96.7

0.04.1

5.12.9

7.57.1

Far West

(AK

, CA

, HI, N

V, O

R, W

A)

10.428.1

10.810.9

9.67.9

8.726.7

25.010.8

20.517.1

11.710.2

Outlying areas

(AS

, FM, G

U, M

H, M

P, P

R,

PW

, VI)

0.30.0

0.50.0

0.70.0

0.06.7

0.00.0

0.00.0

0.00.2

Canada

0.60.0

2.03.6

2.22.6

0.00.0

0.01.4

5.12.9

2.51.8

Outside the U

nited States

and Canada

1.49.4

2.51.8

2.27.9

13.00.0

8.313.5

5.15.7

5.84.4

Total100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0

Num

ber of ads (basis for percentages)

35632

20355

13538

4615

1274

3935

120945



Table 11. Percentage of Ads in the 2013–14 English JIL Tagged for English Fields, by G

eographic Region

Com

position and R

hetoricTechnical and

Business W

ritingC

reative Writing

and JournalismB

ritish Literature

Am

erican Literature

(Chiefly U

S)

African A

merican

Literature

Literature in E

nglish Other

Than British and

Am

erican O

ther Minority

LiteraturesE

nglish E

ducationA

ll Ads

New

England (C

T, MA

, ME

, NH

, RI, V

T)9.2

5.911.5

10.37.7

8.313.3

12.52.0

8.8

Mid-E

ast (D

C, D

E, M

D, N

J, NY, P

A)

18.016.5

20.917.6

19.330.0

21.723.2

19.621.4

Great Lakes

(IL, IN, M

I, OH

, WI)

16.618.8

20.915.0

15.520.0

20.014.3

19.616.5

Southeast

(AL, A

R, FL, G

A, K

Y, LA,

MS

, NC

, SC

, TN, V

A, W

V)

23.727.1

19.417.2

17.723.3

13.316.1

21.619.9

Plains (IA

, KS

, MN

, MO

, ND

, NE

, SD

)7.5

7.17.2

3.05.5

5.03.3

3.67.8

5.8

Rocky M

ountain (C

O, ID

, MT, U

T, WY)

2.74.7

2.23.9

2.80.0

0.03.6

0.02.6

Southw

est (A

Z, NM

, OK

, TX)5.8

12.95.8

7.38.3

5.010.0

12.55.9

7.0

Far West

(AK

, CA

, HI, N

V, O

R, W

A)

12.23.5

10.114.6

16.03.3

10.07.1

13.711.6

Outlying areas

(AS

, FM, G

U, M

H, M

P, P

R,

PW

, VI)

0.70.0

0.00.9

1.13.3

0.00.0

3.90.2

Canada

1.03.5

0.74.3

0.60.0

5.05.4

0.02.5

Outside the U

nited States

and Canada

2.70.0

1.46.0

5.51.7

3.31.8

5.93.6

Total100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0

Num


29585

139233

18160

6056

51928



Table 12. Percentage of Ads in the 2013–14 JIL D

atabase Tagged for General Fields, by G

eographic Region

Com

parative Literature

Criticism

and Theory

Cultural

Studies

Film, D

rama,

and Speech

Generalist

InterdisciplinaryLinguistics and E

SL

Postcolonial Literature

Technology and D

igital Media

World Literature

Other A

cademic

Specializations

Nonacadem

icA

ll Ads

New

England

(CT, M

A, M

E, N

H, R

I, VT)

9.89.7

8.610.6

5.47.7

5.34.1

6.34.2

7.40.0

9.5

Mid-E

ast (D

C, D

E, M

D, N

J, NY, P

A)

25.224.3

26.128.7

11.425.1

20.420.4

34.314.1

25.544.4

21.4

Great Lakes

(IL, IN, M

I, OH

, WI)

16.621.4

18.014.9

22.114.8

18.424.5

12.619.7

18.111.1

16.6

Southeast

(AL, A

R, FL, G

A, K

Y, LA,

MS

, NC

, SC

, TN, V

A, W

V)

13.511.7

16.716.0

23.515.3

22.412.2

27.319.7

14.422.2

20.8

Plains

(IA, K

S, M

N, M

O, N

D, N

E, S

D)

1.81.9

3.25.3

10.14.9

5.310.2

4.25.6

3.70.0

5.7

Rocky M

ountain (C

O, ID

, MT, U

T, WY)

1.23.9

1.80.0

2.71.1

1.34.1

2.85.6

0.00.0

2.8

Southw

est (A

Z, NM

, OK

, TX)

5.55.8

5.94.3

8.78.2

7.910.2

2.18.5

9.00.0

6.8

Far West

(AK

, CA

, HI, N

V, O

R, W

A)

14.110.7

10.413.8

8.113.1

12.54.1

7.011.3

11.211.1

10.7

Outlying areas

(AS

, FM, G

U, M

H, M

P, P

R,

PW

, VI)

0.00.0

0.00.0

1.30.0

0.70.0

0.00.0

0.50.0

0.2

Canada

2.55.8

4.50.0

1.34.9

1.32.0

1.42.8

3.70.0

2.0

Outside the U

nited States

and Canada

9.84.9

5.06.4

5.44.9

4.68.2

2.18.5

6.411.1

3.6

Total100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

100.0100.0

Num


163103

22294

149183

15249

14371

1889

1,671

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