Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Ames, IA (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in Ames, IA (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT191118000000004A
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 2025-01-01
Last Updated 2026-05-19 2:53 PM 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.

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DATE VALUE
1990-01-01 2126
1991-01-01 2298
1992-01-01 2105
1993-01-01 1896
1994-01-01 1791
1995-01-01 1710
1996-01-01 1630
1997-01-01 1568
1998-01-01 1543
1999-01-01 1322
2000-01-01 1141
2001-01-01 1393
2002-01-01 1713
2003-01-01 1861
2004-01-01 1910
2005-01-01 1976
2006-01-01 1702
2007-01-01 1858
2008-01-01 2090
2009-01-01 3320
2010-01-01 3120
2011-01-01 2868
2012-01-01 2534
2013-01-01 2432
2014-01-01 2168
2015-01-01 1891
2016-01-01 1742
2017-01-01 1488
2018-01-01 1266
2019-01-01 1412
2020-01-01 2593
2021-01-01 2066
2022-01-01 1621
2023-01-01 1687
2024-01-01 1750
2025-01-01 2061

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