Figure 7 is titled "Serious Mental Illness among Adults Aged 26 to 49, by Current Employment Status: 2002." It is a bar graph, where the horizontal axis represents current employment status and the vertical axis represents percent with serious mental illness. There are four categories of current employment status: employed full-time, employed part-time, unemployed, and other. For each category of current employment status, the percentage with serious mental illness is as follows:

Of those employed full-time, 7.9% have serious mental illness (SMI).
Of those employed part-time, 11.4% have SMI.
Of those unemployed, 14.2% have SMI.
Of those in the other category, 15.5% have SMI.

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