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U-1 People unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force |
1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
U-2 Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force |
2.2 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) |
4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers |
4.4 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other people marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force |
5.1 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
U-6 Total unemployed, plus all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all people marginally attached to the labor force |
7.8 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
NOTE: People 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. People 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. |