Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Pennsylvania

Title Unemployed Persons in Pennsylvania
Series ID LAUST420000000000004A
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 1:07 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 411104
1977-01-01 402406
1978-01-01 371639
1979-01-01 376388
1980-01-01 444788
1981-01-01 454615
1982-01-01 591259
1983-01-01 596162
1984-01-01 480535
1985-01-01 437035
1986-01-01 386942
1987-01-01 321339
1988-01-01 291692
1989-01-01 283537
1990-01-01 318988
1991-01-01 403171
1992-01-01 434623
1993-01-01 402604
1994-01-01 372396
1995-01-01 347484
1996-01-01 330144
1997-01-01 310447
1998-01-01 284182
1999-01-01 272974
2000-01-01 257938
2001-01-01 298279
2002-01-01 345808
2003-01-01 350322
2004-01-01 334179
2005-01-01 314047
2006-01-01 297490
2007-01-01 293581
2008-01-01 347552
2009-01-01 515841
2010-01-01 518813
2011-01-01 491802
2012-01-01 489419
2013-01-01 456023
2014-01-01 383096
2015-01-01 351208
2016-01-01 347381
2017-01-01 322633
2018-01-01 287132
2019-01-01 282102
2020-01-01 573879
2021-01-01 380235
2022-01-01 269662
2023-01-01 240858
2024-01-01 250635
2025-01-01 279784

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