Title: Not in Labor Force: Discouraged Workers for Oregon Series ID: DISCWORKOR 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 2023-10-01 Last Updated: 2024-01-26 11:02 AM CST 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 9000 2004-01-01 9400 2004-04-01 10900 2004-07-01 9600 2004-10-01 8000 2005-01-01 7200 2005-04-01 6000 2005-07-01 6000 2005-10-01 6500 2006-01-01 5700 2006-04-01 4900 2006-07-01 5600 2006-10-01 4600 2007-01-01 4300 2007-04-01 5000 2007-07-01 3700 2007-10-01 3700 2008-01-01 3400 2008-04-01 3200 2008-07-01 2900 2008-10-01 2500 2009-01-01 4700 2009-04-01 6500 2009-07-01 7000 2009-10-01 8700 2010-01-01 9200 2010-04-01 10200 2010-07-01 11800 2010-10-01 12600 2011-01-01 11000 2011-04-01 8600 2011-07-01 8600 2011-10-01 9200 2012-01-01 8300 2012-04-01 8000 2012-07-01 7100 2012-10-01 4500 2013-01-01 5500 2013-04-01 5600 2013-07-01 5400 2013-10-01 5900 2014-01-01 5400 2014-04-01 6100 2014-07-01 6900 2014-10-01 7000 2015-01-01 7900 2015-04-01 7900 2015-07-01 8400 2015-10-01 8700 2016-01-01 7900 2016-04-01 7200 2016-07-01 5600 2016-10-01 6300 2017-01-01 5600 2017-04-01 4900 2017-07-01 4600 2017-10-01 3400 2018-01-01 3300 2018-04-01 4100 2018-07-01 4400 2018-10-01 4400 2019-01-01 4200 2019-04-01 3400 2019-07-01 2800 2019-10-01 1400 2020-01-01 1600 2020-04-01 3100 2020-07-01 3900 2020-10-01 7100 2021-01-01 7900 2021-04-01 8300 2021-07-01 7200 2021-10-01 4400 2022-01-01 4300 2022-04-01 2500 2022-07-01 3300 2022-10-01 3600 2023-01-01 2600 2023-04-01 3400 2023-07-01 3000 2023-10-01 2900