Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Unemployed Persons in West Virginia

Title Unemployed Persons in West Virginia
Series ID LAUST540000000000004A
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 10:23 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 51004
1977-01-01 49745
1978-01-01 46684
1979-01-01 55466
1980-01-01 77857
1981-01-01 82499
1982-01-01 109569
1983-01-01 131558
1984-01-01 106987
1985-01-01 99067
1986-01-01 89997
1987-01-01 81581
1988-01-01 73635
1989-01-01 66400
1990-01-01 66351
1991-01-01 82910
1992-01-01 88446
1993-01-01 80497
1994-01-01 69621
1995-01-01 62657
1996-01-01 60577
1997-01-01 55276
1998-01-01 53062
1999-01-01 51674
2000-01-01 44624
2001-01-01 42939
2002-01-01 51669
2003-01-01 51945
2004-01-01 45538
2005-01-01 43355
2006-01-01 41585
2007-01-01 38788
2008-01-01 37960
2009-01-01 67400
2010-01-01 70210
2011-01-01 63222
2012-01-01 58435
2013-01-01 53632
2014-01-01 51778
2015-01-01 52071
2016-01-01 47899
2017-01-01 40958
2018-01-01 40813
2019-01-01 39351
2020-01-01 64095
2021-01-01 39791
2022-01-01 30436
2023-01-01 30656

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