Federal Reserve Economic Data

Table Data - Civilian Labor Force in the District of Columbia

Title Civilian Labor Force in the District of Columbia
Series ID LAUST110000000000006A
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 2024-01-01
Last Updated 2025-03-05 2:57 PM CST
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 332022
1977-01-01 327546
1978-01-01 332994
1979-01-01 329713
1980-01-01 324450
1981-01-01 312403
1982-01-01 314538
1983-01-01 322552
1984-01-01 330555
1985-01-01 334848
1986-01-01 337669
1987-01-01 346386
1988-01-01 348762
1989-01-01 336112
1990-01-01 329771
1991-01-01 322090
1992-01-01 317759
1993-01-01 314634
1994-01-01 309896
1995-01-01 299691
1996-01-01 289593
1997-01-01 285675
1998-01-01 292067
1999-01-01 305367
2000-01-01 310269
2001-01-01 312061
2002-01-01 308513
2003-01-01 308588
2004-01-01 313827
2005-01-01 319639
2006-01-01 322752
2007-01-01 330000
2008-01-01 338728
2009-01-01 342159
2010-01-01 347000
2011-01-01 348987
2012-01-01 362244
2013-01-01 370166
2014-01-01 374518
2015-01-01 381549
2016-01-01 386834
2017-01-01 393816
2018-01-01 396377
2019-01-01 400977
2020-01-01 386856
2021-01-01 379236
2022-01-01 393025
2023-01-01 405631
2024-01-01 416148

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