Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Employed Persons in California

Title Employed Persons in California
Series ID LAUST060000000000005A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1976-01-01 to 2023-01-01
Last Updated 2024-03-01 10:22 AM CST
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.

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
1976-01-01 8985601
1977-01-01 9509331
1978-01-01 10131743
1979-01-01 10586188
1980-01-01 10806362
1981-01-01 10939299
1982-01-01 10932263
1983-01-01 11094344
1984-01-01 11634051
1985-01-01 12035026
1986-01-01 12436979
1987-01-01 12939298
1988-01-01 13390021
1989-01-01 13797192
1990-01-01 14267872
1991-01-01 13949676
1992-01-01 13871386
1993-01-01 13809100
1994-01-01 13943532
1995-01-01 14068313
1996-01-01 14268104
1997-01-01 14795185
1998-01-01 15213328
1999-01-01 15576819
2000-01-01 16011619
2001-01-01 16160509
2002-01-01 16081472
2003-01-01 16081515
2004-01-01 16293555
2005-01-01 16593622
2006-01-01 16797845
2007-01-01 16955400
2008-01-01 16856082
2009-01-01 16193122
2010-01-01 16078454
2011-01-01 16220602
2012-01-01 16541039
2013-01-01 16887864
2014-01-01 17264518
2015-01-01 17647409
2016-01-01 17965407
2017-01-01 18258064
2018-01-01 18469910
2019-01-01 18589551
2020-01-01 17037036
2021-01-01 17568743
2022-01-01 18348916
2023-01-01 18388329

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