Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Charleston, WV (MSA)

Title Unemployed Persons in Charleston, WV (MSA)
Series ID LAUMT541662000000004A
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 7464
1991-01-01 9428
1992-01-01 10617
1993-01-01 9878
1994-01-01 8390
1995-01-01 7335
1996-01-01 7074
1997-01-01 6380
1998-01-01 6170
1999-01-01 6197
2000-01-01 5784
2001-01-01 5372
2002-01-01 6262
2003-01-01 5948
2004-01-01 5149
2005-01-01 5101
2006-01-01 4539
2007-01-01 4261
2008-01-01 3964
2009-01-01 7137
2010-01-01 7906
2011-01-01 7336
2012-01-01 7104
2013-01-01 6480
2014-01-01 6312
2015-01-01 6223
2016-01-01 5737
2017-01-01 5012
2018-01-01 4922
2019-01-01 4492
2020-01-01 8339
2021-01-01 4916
2022-01-01 3488
2023-01-01 3402
2024-01-01 3618
2025-01-01 3815

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