Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Employed Persons in West Virginia

Title Employed Persons in West Virginia
Series ID LAUST540000000000005A
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 656870
1977-01-01 669206
1978-01-01 688764
1979-01-01 700171
1980-01-01 692508
1981-01-01 693944
1982-01-01 670683
1983-01-01 631004
1984-01-01 651199
1985-01-01 653421
1986-01-01 656873
1987-01-01 660265
1988-01-01 667193
1989-01-01 694291
1990-01-01 703120
1991-01-01 697664
1992-01-01 699043
1993-01-01 703598
1994-01-01 717787
1995-01-01 723841
1996-01-01 730389
1997-01-01 735590
1998-01-01 741971
1999-01-01 747578
2000-01-01 754457
2001-01-01 753657
2002-01-01 747040
2003-01-01 739896
2004-01-01 743989
2005-01-01 751202
2006-01-01 763325
2007-01-01 765517
2008-01-01 768294
2009-01-01 743870
2010-01-01 739891
2011-01-01 743346
2012-01-01 749587
2013-01-01 745849
2014-01-01 743955
2015-01-01 739455
2016-01-01 737205
2017-01-01 743786
2018-01-01 752602
2019-01-01 755523
2020-01-01 713044
2021-01-01 733825
2022-01-01 748269
2023-01-01 754986

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