Table Data - Employed Persons in South Dakota

Title Employed Persons in South Dakota
Series ID LAUST460000000000005A
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 301348
1977-01-01 307876
1978-01-01 312458
1979-01-01 315185
1980-01-01 315306
1981-01-01 315201
1982-01-01 313776
1983-01-01 315041
1984-01-01 318122
1985-01-01 321042
1986-01-01 324617
1987-01-01 326706
1988-01-01 329421
1989-01-01 332550
1990-01-01 337114
1991-01-01 342935
1992-01-01 348771
1993-01-01 354717
1994-01-01 363701
1995-01-01 372091
1996-01-01 378386
1997-01-01 383346
1998-01-01 387372
1999-01-01 392099
2000-01-01 396817
2001-01-01 400076
2002-01-01 402798
2003-01-01 406457
2004-01-01 409493
2005-01-01 412628
2006-01-01 417669
2007-01-01 420861
2008-01-01 421598
2009-01-01 419499
2010-01-01 419777
2011-01-01 422548
2012-01-01 425255
2013-01-01 427715
2014-01-01 432490
2015-01-01 436406
2016-01-01 439437
2017-01-01 442052
2018-01-01 445918
2019-01-01 451532
2020-01-01 445476
2021-01-01 457014
2022-01-01 465035
2023-01-01 470972
2024-01-01 476298
2025-01-01 481500

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