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District of Columbia: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	District of Columbia
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Total Nonfarm
2019	794.3	796.0	796.3	796.4	796.2	798.6	798.6	799.0	799.2	800.6	803.4	802.0
2020	802.7	803.9	801.2	738.3	730.8	(p)740.5
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2019	15.1	15.0	14.9	14.8	14.9	14.9	14.7	14.8	14.7	14.8	14.7	14.7
2020	14.7	14.8	14.7	13.5	13.8	(p)14.7
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
2019	33.0	32.9	32.8	33.1	33.3	33.4	33.2	33.3	33.5	33.6	34.0	34.0
2020	34.0	34.2	34.4	29.9	29.5	(p)30.1
Information
2019	19.7	19.8	19.8	19.7	19.7	20.2	20.0	19.9	20.2	20.4	20.6	20.3
2020	20.7	20.8	21.0	20.4	19.1	(p)18.7
Financial Activities
2019	29.7	29.7	29.7	29.8	29.8	29.9	29.8	29.9	29.8	29.7	29.6	30.0
2020	29.7	29.9	29.9	29.4	29.6	(p)29.2
Professional & Business Services
2019	168.5	169.3	169.5	169.9	170.3	170.6	171.0	171.3	172.1	173.7	174.0	173.5
2020	173.8	173.4	174.4	170.0	165.7	(p)164.1
Education and Health Services
2019	131.3	130.9	131.3	130.9	130.8	131.4	130.7	130.3	129.1	128.7	129.0	128.2
2020	128.8	129.2	128.2	120.8	121.3	(p)122.2
Leisure & Hospitality
2019	81.6	81.8	81.8	81.6	81.5	81.8	82.0	81.8	82.1	81.7	82.1	81.3
2020	81.3	81.9	78.6	36.1	33.6	(p)43.3
Other Services
2019	76.7	77.0	77.1	77.1	77.1	77.3	77.7	77.5	77.5	77.9	78.1	78.9
2020	78.6	78.6	79.0	77.5	77.1	(p)76.2
Government
2019	237.4	238.3	238.1	238.1	237.4	237.7	238.2	238.9	238.8	238.7	239.9	239.7
2020	239.8	239.7	239.7	239.5	239.9	(p)240.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(seasonally adjusted data)
	District of Columbia
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Labor Force
2019	(r)406,773	(r)407,526	(r)408,166	(r)408,698	(r)409,126	(r)409,498	(r)410,015	(r)410,617	(r)411,296	(r)411,867	(r)411,999	(r)411,960
2020	413,042	414,353	420,505	402,453	387,790	(p)394,949
Employment
2019	(r)383,285	(r)384,015	(r)384,810	(r)385,659	(r)386,492	(r)387,260	(r)388,072	(r)388,842	(r)389,568	(r)390,098	(r)390,156	(r)390,081
2020	391,465	393,016	395,074	355,455	353,764	(p)361,033
Unemployment
2019	(r)23,488	(r)23,511	(r)23,356	(r)23,039	(r)22,634	(r)22,238	(r)21,943	(r)21,775	(r)21,728	(r)21,769	(r)21,843	(r)21,879
2020	21,577	21,337	25,431	46,998	34,026	(p)33,916
Unemployment Rate
2019	(r)5.8	(r)5.8	(r)5.7	(r)5.6	(r)5.5	(r)5.4	(r)5.4	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)5.3
2020	5.2	5.1	6.0	11.7	8.8	(p)8.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised