Table Data - Employed Persons in the District of Columbia

Title Employed Persons in the District of Columbia
Series ID LAUCN110010000000005A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1990-01-01 to 2024-01-01
Last Updated 2025-03-05 2:57 PM CST
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.

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.

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DATE VALUE
1990-01-01 309911
1991-01-01 297431
1992-01-01 290571
1993-01-01 288338
1994-01-01 285301
1995-01-01 273946
1996-01-01 265134
1997-01-01 262397
1998-01-01 267943
1999-01-01 285387
2000-01-01 292683
2001-01-01 292370
2002-01-01 288115
2003-01-01 287520
2004-01-01 290249
2005-01-01 298978
2006-01-01 303975
2007-01-01 311724
2008-01-01 316700
2009-01-01 309461
2010-01-01 313065
2011-01-01 313812
2012-01-01 329836
2013-01-01 338943
2014-01-01 345622
2015-01-01 355188
2016-01-01 362794
2017-01-01 369762
2018-01-01 373835
2019-01-01 378727
2020-01-01 355967
2021-01-01 353551
2022-01-01 374524
2023-01-01 385980
2024-01-01 394332

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