Table Data - Unemployed Persons in New Orleans-Metairie, LA (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in New Orleans-Metairie, LA (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT223538000000004A
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 10:31 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 33917
1991-01-01 39477
1992-01-01 47717
1993-01-01 48360
1994-01-01 46962
1995-01-01 42485
1996-01-01 39449
1997-01-01 32478
1998-01-01 30370
1999-01-01 27164
2000-01-01 27036
2001-01-01 28205
2002-01-01 29568
2003-01-01 29416
2004-01-01 27242
2005-01-01 .
2006-01-01 .
2007-01-01 16297
2008-01-01 20823
2009-01-01 30312
2010-01-01 34905
2011-01-01 34853
2012-01-01 32407
2013-01-01 30846
2014-01-01 30586
2015-01-01 29703
2016-01-01 27017
2017-01-01 23301
2018-01-01 22262
2019-01-01 20991
2020-01-01 49991
2021-01-01 32470
2022-01-01 18410
2023-01-01 18107
2024-01-01 20595

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