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Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ (MSA)

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Title Unemployed Persons in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT421090000000004A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1990-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-05-01 10:46 AM CDT
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.

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DATE VALUE
1990-01-01 18665
1991-01-01 23228
1992-01-01 26657
1993-01-01 23223
1994-01-01 21337
1995-01-01 19810
1996-01-01 20232
1997-01-01 18089
1998-01-01 16732
1999-01-01 15753
2000-01-01 14439
2001-01-01 17096
2002-01-01 21666
2003-01-01 22561
2004-01-01 21095
2005-01-01 19971
2006-01-01 19369
2007-01-01 18872
2008-01-01 23618
2009-01-01 36387
2010-01-01 37760
2011-01-01 35926
2012-01-01 35751
2013-01-01 32341
2014-01-01 26410
2015-01-01 23421
2016-01-01 22566
2017-01-01 21886
2018-01-01 20333
2019-01-01 19664
2020-01-01 40127
2021-01-01 26760
2022-01-01 18160
2023-01-01 16718

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