Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Unemployed Persons in the District of Columbia

Title Unemployed Persons in the District of Columbia
Series ID LAUST110000000000004A
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 10:17 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 28779
1977-01-01 28235
1978-01-01 25880
1979-01-01 22583
1980-01-01 24003
1981-01-01 26961
1982-01-01 31994
1983-01-01 34332
1984-01-01 28347
1985-01-01 25740
1986-01-01 23792
1987-01-01 20519
1988-01-01 16508
1989-01-01 15249
1990-01-01 19606
1991-01-01 24572
1992-01-01 27157
1993-01-01 26331
1994-01-01 24608
1995-01-01 25937
1996-01-01 24488
1997-01-01 23318
1998-01-01 24387
1999-01-01 20056
2000-01-01 17678
2001-01-01 20152
2002-01-01 21564
2003-01-01 22457
2004-01-01 25412
2005-01-01 22223
2006-01-01 20258
2007-01-01 19486
2008-01-01 22899
2009-01-01 33836
2010-01-01 34575
2011-01-01 35821
2012-01-01 32764
2013-01-01 31590
2014-01-01 29263
2015-01-01 26890
2016-01-01 24571
2017-01-01 23938
2018-01-01 22402
2019-01-01 22198
2020-01-01 30541
2021-01-01 25708
2022-01-01 18435
2023-01-01 19537

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