Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Alaska

Title Unemployed Persons in Alaska
Series ID LAUST020000000000004A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1976-01-01 to 2025-01-01
Last Updated 2026-04-16 1:08 PM CDT
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.

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
1976-01-01 12606
1977-01-01 16929
1978-01-01 19419
1979-01-01 16757
1980-01-01 17983
1981-01-01 18454
1982-01-01 21667
1983-01-01 23835
1984-01-01 24736
1985-01-01 25277
1986-01-01 29073
1987-01-01 26439
1988-01-01 23090
1989-01-01 19193
1990-01-01 19785
1991-01-01 23024
1992-01-01 25512
1993-01-01 22936
1994-01-01 22785
1995-01-01 22102
1996-01-01 22924
1997-01-01 21786
1998-01-01 19815
1999-01-01 20142
2000-01-01 20079
2001-01-01 20186
2002-01-01 23456
2003-01-01 25531
2004-01-01 25063
2005-01-01 23844
2006-01-01 23035
2007-01-01 21884
2008-01-01 23039
2009-01-01 28179
2010-01-01 28946
2011-01-01 27700
2012-01-01 25837
2013-01-01 25160
2014-01-01 24493
2015-01-01 22779
2016-01-01 23864
2017-01-01 23815
2018-01-01 21566
2019-01-01 19732
2020-01-01 28577
2021-01-01 22436
2022-01-01 15512
2023-01-01 15245
2024-01-01 16362
2025-01-01 17206

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