NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: Unemployed Persons in Reading, PA (MSA) Series ID: LAUMT423974000000004A 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 2023-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-05-01 10:46 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. For more details, see the release's frequently asked questions (https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm). DATE VALUE 1990-01-01 9393 1991-01-01 11146 1992-01-01 11735 1993-01-01 10127 1994-01-01 8846 1995-01-01 8541 1996-01-01 8165 1997-01-01 7940 1998-01-01 8138 1999-01-01 7731 2000-01-01 7757 2001-01-01 9353 2002-01-01 11654 2003-01-01 11473 2004-01-01 10195 2005-01-01 9758 2006-01-01 9007 2007-01-01 8930 2008-01-01 11069 2009-01-01 17636 2010-01-01 17642 2011-01-01 16136 2012-01-01 15839 2013-01-01 14524 2014-01-01 11711 2015-01-01 10682 2016-01-01 10508 2017-01-01 10028 2018-01-01 9251 2019-01-01 9436 2020-01-01 19943 2021-01-01 12859 2022-01-01 8594 2023-01-01 7481