Table Data - Unemployed Persons in North Carolina

Title Unemployed Persons in North Carolina
Series ID LAUST370000000000004A
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 2:50 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 162863
1977-01-01 158030
1978-01-01 126202
1979-01-01 135480
1980-01-01 181527
1981-01-01 187631
1982-01-01 275050
1983-01-01 267938
1984-01-01 201695
1985-01-01 177785
1986-01-01 171028
1987-01-01 150482
1988-01-01 124800
1989-01-01 123017
1990-01-01 143145
1991-01-01 208833
1992-01-01 224926
1993-01-01 185085
1994-01-01 162762
1995-01-01 163617
1996-01-01 168812
1997-01-01 152030
1998-01-01 140197
1999-01-01 133516
2000-01-01 154829
2001-01-01 229749
2002-01-01 274856
2003-01-01 268227
2004-01-01 235277
2005-01-01 227473
2006-01-01 211853
2007-01-01 215687
2008-01-01 273142
2009-01-01 504634
2010-01-01 503397
2011-01-01 482302
2012-01-01 451402
2013-01-01 363832
2014-01-01 284820
2015-01-01 267225
2016-01-01 243142
2017-01-01 220100
2018-01-01 196676
2019-01-01 192479
2020-01-01 350162
2021-01-01 241681
2022-01-01 190977
2023-01-01 183682
2024-01-01 191776

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