Table Data - Employed Persons in Mississippi

Title Employed Persons in Mississippi
Series ID LAUST280000000000005A
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 906906
1977-01-01 922082
1978-01-01 941591
1979-01-01 963423
1980-01-01 971384
1981-01-01 962010
1982-01-01 943935
1983-01-01 937718
1984-01-01 964335
1985-01-01 997274
1986-01-01 1009647
1987-01-01 1023741
1988-01-01 1033719
1989-01-01 1059150
1990-01-01 1086267
1991-01-01 1083527
1992-01-01 1096607
1993-01-01 1130009
1994-01-01 1164543
1995-01-01 1175329
1996-01-01 1185156
1997-01-01 1197656
1998-01-01 1206306
1999-01-01 1215767
2000-01-01 1238637
2001-01-01 1223497
2002-01-01 1209132
2003-01-01 1227417
2004-01-01 1237961
2005-01-01 1220952
2006-01-01 1205091
2007-01-01 1220905
2008-01-01 1214914
2009-01-01 1157722
2010-01-01 1179529
2011-01-01 1214986
2012-01-01 1213864
2013-01-01 1167411
2014-01-01 1151809
2015-01-01 1178159
2016-01-01 1193662
2017-01-01 1205122
2018-01-01 1205086
2019-01-01 1208957
2020-01-01 1148454
2021-01-01 1193565
2022-01-01 1213137
2023-01-01 1211931
2024-01-01 1234022
2025-01-01 1246084

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