Disconnected Youth represents the percentage of youth in a county who are between the ages of 16 and 19, who are not enrolled in school, and who are unemployed or not in the labor force.

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimate includes data collected over a 60-month period. The date of the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, they do not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some considerations that single-year estimates do not. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010–2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011–2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see "Section 3: Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates" on publication page 13 (file page 19) of the 2018 ACS General Handbook for a more thorough clarification. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf


   

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Percent
Name 2024 Preceding
Period
Year Ago
from Period
Androscoggin County
8.76208 8.96780 8.96780
Aroostook County
8.29251 7.57525 7.57525
Cumberland County
4.53200 5.45455 5.45455
Franklin County
13.18111 13.49535 13.49535
Hancock County
9.47162 5.89844 5.89844
Kennebec County
4.02553 3.70868 3.70868
Knox County
9.58379 9.71660 9.71660
Lincoln County
11.75182 13.72110 13.72110
Oxford County
7.46826 7.66577 7.66577
Penobscot County
3.58779 4.01643 4.01643
Piscataquis County
28.67012 22.97735 22.97735
Sagadahoc County
6.35220 6.63689 6.63689
Somerset County
11.14313 9.67296 9.67296
Waldo County
7.90929 5.06260 5.06260
Washington County
6.63021 6.92464 6.92464
York County
4.98714 5.53899 5.53899
   

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