Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Columbia, SC (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in Columbia, SC (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT451790000000004A
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 2:49 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 12261
1991-01-01 14694
1992-01-01 16596
1993-01-01 18358
1994-01-01 14171
1995-01-01 11790
1996-01-01 12748
1997-01-01 10066
1998-01-01 7978
1999-01-01 9369
2000-01-01 10720
2001-01-01 13884
2002-01-01 16142
2003-01-01 18832
2004-01-01 20377
2005-01-01 20536
2006-01-01 20397
2007-01-01 18478
2008-01-01 22253
2009-01-01 33175
2010-01-01 34733
2011-01-01 33484
2012-01-01 29768
2013-01-01 24766
2014-01-01 21711
2015-01-01 21267
2016-01-01 17982
2017-01-01 15879
2018-01-01 12614
2019-01-01 10249
2020-01-01 20380
2021-01-01 14582
2022-01-01 12320
2023-01-01 11789
2024-01-01 16905
2025-01-01 18549

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