NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Not in Labor Force: Discouraged Workers for Arizona Series ID: DISCWORKAZ Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Release: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Quarterly Units: Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average Date Range: 2003-10-01 to 2024-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-04-26 11:02 AM CDT Notes: 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. DATE VALUE 2003-10-01 6800 2004-01-01 6600 2004-04-01 5800 2004-07-01 6500 2004-10-01 6200 2005-01-01 6600 2005-04-01 7300 2005-07-01 7000 2005-10-01 7100 2006-01-01 6900 2006-04-01 7500 2006-07-01 7400 2006-10-01 7000 2007-01-01 7700 2007-04-01 6400 2007-07-01 6500 2007-10-01 7100 2008-01-01 8400 2008-04-01 8500 2008-07-01 8100 2008-10-01 7600 2009-01-01 8600 2009-04-01 13500 2009-07-01 15800 2009-10-01 17300 2010-01-01 21900 2010-04-01 20000 2010-07-01 21500 2010-10-01 24500 2011-01-01 20100 2011-04-01 20700 2011-07-01 20400 2011-10-01 19900 2012-01-01 18300 2012-04-01 16600 2012-07-01 15200 2012-10-01 17700 2013-01-01 17600 2013-04-01 18400 2013-07-01 22600 2013-10-01 20700 2014-01-01 19600 2014-04-01 19900 2014-07-01 19400 2014-10-01 20100 2015-01-01 20900 2015-04-01 19800 2015-07-01 16900 2015-10-01 13900 2016-01-01 12300 2016-04-01 13700 2016-07-01 14300 2016-10-01 12300 2017-01-01 13100 2017-04-01 10700 2017-07-01 8200 2017-10-01 9200 2018-01-01 9800 2018-04-01 8700 2018-07-01 8200 2018-10-01 6400 2019-01-01 4600 2019-04-01 5300 2019-07-01 6400 2019-10-01 5400 2020-01-01 4900 2020-04-01 4300 2020-07-01 3000 2020-10-01 4400 2021-01-01 4800 2021-04-01 6000 2021-07-01 6500 2021-10-01 6600 2022-01-01 5800 2022-04-01 5200 2022-07-01 4300 2022-10-01 3300 2023-01-01 5800 2023-04-01 6700 2023-07-01 8500 2023-10-01 8300 2024-01-01 8800