Observation:
Q3 2022: 7,200 (+ more) Updated: Oct 28, 2022Q3 2022: | 7,200 | |
Q2 2022: | 4,200 | |
Q1 2022: | 5,300 | |
Q4 2021: | 5,700 | |
Q3 2021: | 9,000 | |
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Units:
Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average,Frequency:
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release: Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States
Units: Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Quarterly
The BLS defines discouraged workers as persons who are not in the labor force, want and are available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They are not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the prior 4 weeks, for the specific reason that they believed no jobs were available to them.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Not in Labor Force: Discouraged Workers for Missouri [DISCWORKMO], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DISCWORKMO, September 25, 2023.