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 Pennsylvania Series ID: DISCWORKPA 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 17500 2004-01-01 17300 2004-04-01 15600 2004-07-01 16300 2004-10-01 11800 2005-01-01 12900 2005-04-01 14900 2005-07-01 14700 2005-10-01 20300 2006-01-01 19900 2006-04-01 17800 2006-07-01 18900 2006-10-01 13000 2007-01-01 13700 2007-04-01 14500 2007-07-01 12800 2007-10-01 14500 2008-01-01 12800 2008-04-01 13200 2008-07-01 13800 2008-10-01 12900 2009-01-01 13600 2009-04-01 16800 2009-07-01 21900 2009-10-01 25200 2010-01-01 27200 2010-04-01 30500 2010-07-01 33500 2010-10-01 41800 2011-01-01 45200 2011-04-01 41200 2011-07-01 38300 2011-10-01 30100 2012-01-01 31500 2012-04-01 33400 2012-07-01 36100 2012-10-01 36200 2013-01-01 33700 2013-04-01 32900 2013-07-01 31700 2013-10-01 34500 2014-01-01 40200 2014-04-01 39500 2014-07-01 37400 2014-10-01 36300 2015-01-01 28500 2015-04-01 27900 2015-07-01 26100 2015-10-01 23200 2016-01-01 22300 2016-04-01 22100 2016-07-01 18200 2016-10-01 21800 2017-01-01 22300 2017-04-01 21700 2017-07-01 23400 2017-10-01 22300 2018-01-01 19600 2018-04-01 16300 2018-07-01 15300 2018-10-01 13400 2019-01-01 15000 2019-04-01 17500 2019-07-01 18100 2019-10-01 16800 2020-01-01 13000 2020-04-01 13000 2020-07-01 14600 2020-10-01 14800 2021-01-01 17000 2021-04-01 16300 2021-07-01 13800 2021-10-01 14300 2022-01-01 16600 2022-04-01 17600 2022-07-01 18500 2022-10-01 19000 2023-01-01 15600 2023-04-01 14300 2023-07-01 15400 2023-10-01 13500 2024-01-01 13500