Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Mississippi

Title Unemployed Persons in Mississippi
Series ID LAUST280000000000004A
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 63213
1977-01-01 71529
1978-01-01 68366
1979-01-01 58200
1980-01-01 76614
1981-01-01 89769
1982-01-01 116234
1983-01-01 128057
1984-01-01 115064
1985-01-01 115957
1986-01-01 129875
1987-01-01 114809
1988-01-01 96269
1989-01-01 90271
1990-01-01 88742
1991-01-01 98678
1992-01-01 95266
1993-01-01 81576
1994-01-01 78263
1995-01-01 77504
1996-01-01 75457
1997-01-01 72463
1998-01-01 66786
1999-01-01 65382
2000-01-01 69772
2001-01-01 70617
2002-01-01 82785
2003-01-01 79970
2004-01-01 81311
2005-01-01 101147
2006-01-01 81734
2007-01-01 79750
2008-01-01 87071
2009-01-01 117956
2010-01-01 133240
2011-01-01 131799
2012-01-01 117246
2013-01-01 108576
2014-01-01 94803
2015-01-01 81682
2016-01-01 75629
2017-01-01 66211
2018-01-01 62528
2019-01-01 70214
2020-01-01 99139
2021-01-01 68194
2022-01-01 47849
2023-01-01 38965
2024-01-01 40753
2025-01-01 49529

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