Observation:
Q3 2024: 6,700 (+ more) Updated: Oct 28, 2024 1:17 PM CDTQ3 2024: | 6,700 | |
Q2 2024: | 6,600 | |
Q1 2024: | 5,800 | |
Q4 2023: | 4,500 | |
Q3 2023: | 3,700 | |
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Units:
Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average,Frequency:
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States
Units: Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Quarterly
The BLS defines discouraged workers as persons who are not in the labor force, want and are available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They are not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the prior 4 weeks, for the specific reason that they believed no jobs were available to them.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Not in Labor Force: Discouraged Workers for Missouri [DISCWORKMO], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DISCWORKMO, .