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 Florida Series ID: DISCWORKFL 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 25000 2004-01-01 25500 2004-04-01 27500 2004-07-01 26700 2004-10-01 27200 2005-01-01 26700 2005-04-01 24700 2005-07-01 24900 2005-10-01 25300 2006-01-01 24000 2006-04-01 23600 2006-07-01 19800 2006-10-01 15800 2007-01-01 17000 2007-04-01 16900 2007-07-01 19100 2007-10-01 22500 2008-01-01 25100 2008-04-01 26500 2008-07-01 29000 2008-10-01 36100 2009-01-01 39700 2009-04-01 51400 2009-07-01 64100 2009-10-01 72900 2010-01-01 81500 2010-04-01 89000 2010-07-01 94600 2010-10-01 106600 2011-01-01 107100 2011-04-01 98000 2011-07-01 97800 2011-10-01 88100 2012-01-01 91800 2012-04-01 94100 2012-07-01 88400 2012-10-01 92800 2013-01-01 88300 2013-04-01 86000 2013-07-01 92300 2013-10-01 79400 2014-01-01 75700 2014-04-01 71700 2014-07-01 62300 2014-10-01 60100 2015-01-01 58000 2015-04-01 60800 2015-07-01 57000 2015-10-01 55700 2016-01-01 54700 2016-04-01 50800 2016-07-01 55100 2016-10-01 52500 2017-01-01 49400 2017-04-01 46200 2017-07-01 36800 2017-10-01 34900 2018-01-01 32900 2018-04-01 29100 2018-07-01 30100 2018-10-01 29700 2019-01-01 31900 2019-04-01 32800 2019-07-01 29000 2019-10-01 30500 2020-01-01 31400 2020-04-01 41200 2020-07-01 53500 2020-10-01 64000 2021-01-01 63400 2021-04-01 66400 2021-07-01 54800 2021-10-01 42100 2022-01-01 38900 2022-04-01 24000 2022-07-01 30700 2022-10-01 30000 2023-01-01 31600 2023-04-01 33200 2023-07-01 28800 2023-10-01 29000 2024-01-01 29300