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District of Columbia: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	District of Columbia
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2018	779.9	787.9	791.2	793.3	791.1	793.9	801.5	787.6	791.4	797.6	795.4	795.0	792.2
2019	786.4	791.3	794.1	796.7	791.7	799.0	809.7	799.0	799.4	805.1	808.3	(p)805.7
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2018	15.2	15.5	15.8	16.0	15.9	16.1	15.9	15.7	15.6	15.6	15.4	15.3	15.7
2019	15.2	15.2	15.3	15.5	15.7	15.9	16.1	16.1	15.9	15.9	15.8	(p)15.5
Manufacturing
2018	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
2019	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.4	(p)1.4
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2018	33.0	33.0	33.1	33.0	33.1	33.1	33.2	32.9	33.1	33.6	33.5	33.6	33.2
2019	32.6	32.4	32.8	33.2	33.1	33.3	33.7	33.1	32.9	32.9	33.7	(p)33.8
Information
2018	18.3	18.7	18.7	18.9	19.0	19.7	19.8	19.4	19.4	19.7	19.8	20.0	19.3
2019	19.7	19.9	19.9	20.1	19.8	20.1	20.3	20.2	20.1	20.6	20.7	(p)20.4
Financial Activities
2018	29.4	29.6	29.6	29.5	29.7	30.1	30.2	30.1	29.8	29.7	29.7	29.5	29.7
2019	29.4	29.2	29.5	29.7	29.6	30.0	30.2	30.2	29.9	30.2	29.8	(p)30.2
Professional & Business Services
2018	165.4	166.5	166.7	166.7	167.0	169.6	168.9	167.9	167.4	169.0	167.6	169.1	167.7
2019	169.1	169.4	167.9	166.6	166.9	170.4	170.7	170.3	169.7	172.9	173.1	(p)172.9
Educational & Health Services
2018	128.9	132.9	133.0	133.1	129.4	126.2	125.6	126.6	131.3	134.0	135.3	133.4	130.8
2019	130.7	133.6	133.8	133.9	128.9	127.9	128.3	129.9	132.3	135.0	136.3	(p)134.1
Leisure & Hospitality
2018	75.0	76.9	79.4	81.2	81.6	82.0	80.5	79.3	80.3	80.9	79.8	79.5	79.7
2019	77.2	78.2	81.5	82.6	83.5	83.3	83.0	82.7	82.8	82.4	82.1	(p)81.0
Other Services
2018	75.3	75.9	76.1	76.2	76.3	77.2	77.3	76.5	76.0	76.5	76.2	76.1	76.3
2019	74.9	75.5	75.4	76.6	76.5	78.5	79.4	79.1	77.3	77.6	77.9	(p)78.3
Government
2018	238.1	237.6	237.5	237.4	237.8	238.5	248.7	237.8	237.2	237.3	236.8	237.2	238.5
2019	236.3	236.6	236.7	237.1	236.3	238.2	246.6	236.0	237.1	236.3	237.5	(p)238.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Schedule of Upcoming Releases State Employment and Unemployment

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(not seasonally adjusted data)
	District of Columbia
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2018	402,925	406,696	406,065	405,784	404,595	408,862	411,058	401,594	400,542	402,446	402,811	401,943	404,610
2019	404,656	407,959	410,240	412,561	413,491	415,985	418,613	407,033	407,982	408,339	415,128	(p)414,297
Employment
2018	379,238	382,573	382,874	384,850	383,058	384,262	386,472	378,443	378,348	381,131	382,248	382,184	382,140
2019	380,317	383,439	387,443	391,633	391,728	391,618	393,749	384,949	386,277	386,504	394,588	(p)393,853
Unemployment
2018	23,687	24,123	23,191	20,934	21,537	24,600	24,586	23,151	22,194	21,315	20,563	19,759	22,470
2019	24,339	24,520	22,797	20,928	21,763	24,367	24,864	22,084	21,705	21,835	20,540	(p)20,444
Unemployment Rate
2018	5.9	5.9	5.7	5.2	5.3	6.0	6.0	5.8	5.5	5.3	5.1	4.9	5.6
2019	6.0	6.0	5.6	5.1	5.3	5.9	5.9	5.4	5.3	5.3	4.9	(p)4.9
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Schedule of Upcoming Releases State Employment and Unemployment

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District of Columbia: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted