Figure 2From: Does leaving school in an economic downturn impact access to employer-sponsored health insurance?School-leavers as a proportion of eligible school-leavers vs. average annual state unemployment rates. Notes: The unit of observation is a school-leaving state in a year (N= 517). A cohort is defined as the number of school-leavers in the NLSY79 who left school in the same year/year. Sources: School-leaving cohort size: NLSY79. Eligible school-leaving cohort size: U.S. Census. Annual state unemployment rate: Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics.Back to article page