Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Louisiana

Title Unemployed Persons in Louisiana
Series ID LAUST220000000000004A
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 1:10 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 101349
1977-01-01 110874
1978-01-01 113734
1979-01-01 114578
1980-01-01 124421
1981-01-01 155356
1982-01-01 188379
1983-01-01 216327
1984-01-01 195374
1985-01-01 221008
1986-01-01 239003
1987-01-01 224138
1988-01-01 197518
1989-01-01 143938
1990-01-01 116433
1991-01-01 137477
1992-01-01 149402
1993-01-01 141997
1994-01-01 148907
1995-01-01 134347
1996-01-01 128079
1997-01-01 117772
1998-01-01 111670
1999-01-01 99963
2000-01-01 104041
2001-01-01 113788
2002-01-01 120235
2003-01-01 126492
2004-01-01 115833
2005-01-01 148943
2006-01-01 82997
2007-01-01 83226
2008-01-01 96660
2009-01-01 139159
2010-01-01 155377
2011-01-01 153050
2012-01-01 140247
2013-01-01 134689
2014-01-01 133456
2015-01-01 134391
2016-01-01 128085
2017-01-01 107693
2018-01-01 101405
2019-01-01 97394
2020-01-01 176744
2021-01-01 115187
2022-01-01 75948
2023-01-01 77355
2024-01-01 89552
2025-01-01 90009

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