Table Data - Employed Persons in Rhode Island

Title Employed Persons in Rhode Island
Series ID LAUST440000000000005A
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 406183
1977-01-01 412920
1978-01-01 422337
1979-01-01 434112
1980-01-01 436578
1981-01-01 440637
1982-01-01 433169
1983-01-01 439467
1984-01-01 462114
1985-01-01 474815
1986-01-01 485007
1987-01-01 494704
1988-01-01 500922
1989-01-01 498693
1990-01-01 490495
1991-01-01 480033
1992-01-01 481436
1993-01-01 483173
1994-01-01 479776
1995-01-01 478728
1996-01-01 490230
1997-01-01 502017
1998-01-01 506553
1999-01-01 515704
2000-01-01 520737
2001-01-01 517273
2002-01-01 521396
2003-01-01 528692
2004-01-01 525298
2005-01-01 533200
2006-01-01 540396
2007-01-01 540744
2008-01-01 523792
2009-01-01 503921
2010-01-01 504776
2011-01-01 502241
2012-01-01 506709
2013-01-01 511388
2014-01-01 520813
2015-01-01 530870
2016-01-01 535153
2017-01-01 543009
2018-01-01 548595
2019-01-01 553361
2020-01-01 517492
2021-01-01 543488
2022-01-01 557492
2023-01-01 564141
2024-01-01 568593
2025-01-01 566687

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