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  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    View data of the unemployment rate, or the number of people 16 and over actively searching for a job as a percentage of the total labor force.

  • Number, Weekly, Seasonally Adjusted 1967-01-07 to 2024-04-27 (2 days ago)

    Continued claims, also referred to as insured unemployment, is the number of people who have already filed an initial claim and who have experienced a week of unemployment and then filed a continued claim to claim benefits for that week of unemployment. Continued claims data are based on the week of unemployment, not the week when the initial claim was filed.

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1972 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000006

  • Thousands of Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13000000 The Unemployment Level is the aggregate measure of people currently unemployed in the US. Someone in the labor force is defined as unemployed if they were not employed during the survey reference week, were available for work, and made at least one active effort to find a job during the 4-week survey period. The Unemployment Level is collected in the CPS and published by the BLS. It is provided on a monthly basis, so this data is used in part by macroeconomists as an initial economic indicator of current trends. The Unemployment Level helps government agencies, financial markets, and researchers gauge the overall health of the economy. Note that individuals that are not employed but not actively looking for a job are not counted as unemployed. For instance, declines in the Unemployment Level may either reflect movements of unemployed individuals into the labor force because they found a job, or movements of unemployed individuals out of the labor force because they stopped looking to find a job. For more information, see: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES Overview (https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesprog.htm) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS Handbook of Methods: Chapter 2. Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Establishment Survey (https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/ces-20110307.pdf)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1994 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13327709

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1972 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000031

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000024

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1967 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14023621

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    To obtain estimates of women worker employment, the ratio of weighted women employees to the weighted all employees in the sample is assumed to equal the same ratio in the universe. The current month's women worker ratio, thus, is estimated and then multiplied by the all-employee estimate. The weighted-difference-link-and-taper formula (described in the source) is used to estimate the current month's women worker ratio. This formula adds the change in the matched sample's women worker ratio (the weighted-difference link) to the prior month's estimate, which has been slightly modified to reflect changes in the sample composition (the taper). The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000002

  • Number, Weekly, Seasonally Adjusted 1967-01-28 to 2024-04-27 (2 days ago)

    Continued claims, also referred to as insured unemployment, is the number of people who have already filed an initial claim and who have experienced a week of unemployment and then filed a continued claim to claim benefits for that week of unemployment. Continued claims data are based on the week of unemployment, not the week when the initial claim was filed.

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1955 to Mar 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRUNTTTT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: CAN All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Apr 1929 to Jun 1942 (2012-08-17)

    Series Is Presented Here As Three Variables--(1)--Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1929-1942 (2)--Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1940-1946 (3)--Original Data, 1947-1966. Source: National Industrial Conference Board, Published By G.H. Moore, Business Cycle Indicators, Vol. Ii, P. 35 And 123. This NBER data series m08292a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html. NBER Indicator: m08292a

  • Thousands of Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1994 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13026638

  • Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Dec 2000 to Jan 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Data Filters: REF_AREA: USA MEASURE: VAC_U UNIT_MEASURE: PS TRANSFORMATION: _Z ADJUSTMENT: Y SECTOR: S1 FREQ: M All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD (year), (dataset name), (data source) DOI or https://data-explorer.oecd.org/ (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/). (accessed on (date)).

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Mar 1973 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000009

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1970 to Feb 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRUN64TT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: JPN All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1954 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000003

  • Weeks, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13008275

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Thousands of Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13008636

  • Thousands of Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13000001

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1855 to Dec 2016 (2017-08-23)

    This series was constructed by the Bank of England as part of the Three Centuries of Macroeconomic Data project by combining data from a number of academic and official sources. For more information, please refer to the Three Centuries spreadsheet at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/research-datasets. Users are advised to check the underlying assumptions behind this series in the relevant worksheets of the spreadsheet. In many cases alternative assumptions might be appropriate. Users are permitted to reproduce this series in their own work as it represents Bank calculations and manipulations of underlying series that are the copyright of the Bank of England provided that underlying sources are cited appropriately. For appropriate citation please see the Three Centuries spreadsheet for guidance and a list of the underlying sources.

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1992 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14027660

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000001

  • Thousands of Persons, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    To obtain estimates of women worker employment, the ratio of weighted women employees to the weighted all employees in the sample is assumed to equal the same ratio in the universe. The current month's women worker ratio, thus, is estimated and then multiplied by the all-employee estimate. The weighted-difference-link-and-taper formula (described in the source) is used to estimate the current month's women worker ratio. This formula adds the change in the matched sample's women worker ratio (the weighted-difference link) to the prior month's estimate, which has been slightly modified to reflect changes in the sample composition (the taper). The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13000002

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1994 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13327707

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1992 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14027662

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14024887

  • Growth rate previous period, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1969 to Jan 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Data Filters: REF_AREA: DEU MEASURE: REG_UNE UNIT_MEASURE: PS TRANSFORMATION: G1 ADJUSTMENT: Y SECTOR: S1 FREQ: M All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD (year), (dataset name), (data source) DOI or https://data-explorer.oecd.org/ (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/). (accessed on (date)).

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jul 1990 to Jan 2023 (2023-03-15)

    OECD descriptor ID: LRHUTTTT OECD unit ID: STSA OECD country ID: EA17 All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database),http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission.

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13025670

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Weekly, Seasonally Adjusted 1971-01-02 to 2024-04-27 (2 days ago)

    The insured unemployment rate (% of covered employment) is Continued Claims (also called insured unemployment) divided by Covered Employment.

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1983 to Feb 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRHUTTTT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: FRA All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1994 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13327708

  • Percent, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted Q1 1971 to Q4 2023 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRUN64TT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: GBR All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Weeks, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jul 1967 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS13008276

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1983 to Dec 2023 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRHUTTTT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: GBR All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted Q2 1940 to Q4 1946 (2012-08-17)

    Series Is Presented Here As Three Variables--(1)--Seasonally Adjusted, 1929-1942 (2)--Seasonally Adjusted, 1940-1946 (3)--Original Data, 1947-1966. Data Are Unemployment Expressed As A Percentage Of The Civilian Labor Force. Source: United States Bureau Of The Census, Current Population Reports: Labor Force Series P-50, Nos. 2, 13, And 19 (1940-1946, 1947-1948, And 1949 Annual Reports). Data Were Derived From NBER Series On Unemployment And Civilian Labor Force. This NBER data series q08292b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html. NBER Indicator: q08292b

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1991 to Feb 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRHUTTTT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: DEU All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1948 to Apr 2024 (May 3)

    The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' The source code is: LNS14000012

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1976 to Mar 2024 (Apr 22)

  • Percent, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted Q3 2000 to Q4 2023 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRUN64TT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: ZAF All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission

  • Percent, Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted Jan 1983 to Feb 2024 (Apr 10)

    OECD Descriptor ID: LRHUTTTT OECD unit ID: PC OECD country ID: ITA All OECD data should be cited as follows: OECD, "Main Economic Indicators - complete database", Main Economic Indicators (database), https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/data-00052-en (Accessed on date) Copyright, 2016, OECD. Reprinted with permission


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