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U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force |
1.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force |
1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) |
3.4 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers |
3.6 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force |
4.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force |
6.3 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.2 |
NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. |