Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT191978000000004A
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 2024-01-01
Last Updated 2025-04-29 10:24 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.

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DATE VALUE
1990-01-01 8654
1991-01-01 9618
1992-01-01 9608
1993-01-01 9918
1994-01-01 8070
1995-01-01 7785
1996-01-01 8062
1997-01-01 7403
1998-01-01 6487
1999-01-01 5828
2000-01-01 6908
2001-01-01 8634
2002-01-01 11249
2003-01-01 12528
2004-01-01 13647
2005-01-01 12874
2006-01-01 11169
2007-01-01 11857
2008-01-01 13698
2009-01-01 20910
2010-01-01 20323
2011-01-01 19120
2012-01-01 17287
2013-01-01 16393
2014-01-01 14843
2015-01-01 12797
2016-01-01 12228
2017-01-01 10763
2018-01-01 9409
2019-01-01 10251
2020-01-01 20330
2021-01-01 14694
2022-01-01 10678
2023-01-01 11221
2024-01-01 12237

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