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Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the non-seasonally adjusted data reflects the actual unemployment rate, the seasonally adjusted data removes time from the equation.
Key employment statistics and ratios for December 2018 Number of persons in U.S. labor force and number employed. The gap is the number unemployed, which peaked at 15.4 million in October 2009 and fell to 7.4 million by November 2016. [22] The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has defined the basic employment concepts as follows: [23]
A 2006 forecast by Federal Reserve economists (before the Great Recession that began in December 2007) estimated the LFPR would be below 64% by 2016, close to the 62.7% average that year. [ 39 ] The LFPR decreases when the percentage increase in the defined population (denominator) is greater than the percentage increase in the labor force (i.e ...
U.S. states by net employment rate (% of population 16 and over) 2022 [1]; National rank State Employment rate in % (total population) Annual change (%)
The Current Population Survey (CPS) [1] is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Employment Situation. [ 2 ]
The closely-watched employment report was published days before the presidential election and on the heels of acceleration in economic growth. US employment growth solid, wages jump in October ...
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...
July’s unemployment rate, the most recent figure available, was 4.3%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. That’s up from 3.5% a year ago.