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: Unemployed Persons in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA (MSA) Series ID: LAUMT511398000000004A Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Release: Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Annual Units: Persons Date Range: 1990-01-01 to 2023-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-05-01 10:36 AM CDT Notes: These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey. Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed. For more details, see the release's frequently asked questions (https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm). DATE VALUE 1990-01-01 7292 1991-01-01 7128 1992-01-01 5404 1993-01-01 5288 1994-01-01 3896 1995-01-01 3407 1996-01-01 4144 1997-01-01 2710 1998-01-01 2273 1999-01-01 2400 2000-01-01 2638 2001-01-01 3756 2002-01-01 4095 2003-01-01 4064 2004-01-01 4049 2005-01-01 3650 2006-01-01 3112 2007-01-01 3594 2008-01-01 4550 2009-01-01 7352 2010-01-01 7502 2011-01-01 6367 2012-01-01 5768 2013-01-01 5607 2014-01-01 4921 2015-01-01 4142 2016-01-01 4169 2017-01-01 3803 2018-01-01 2857 2019-01-01 2721 2020-01-01 5176 2021-01-01 2997 2022-01-01 2635 2023-01-01 2794