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United States: 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	United States
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2019	147,879	148,684	149,359	150,430	151,109	151,739	150,699	151,141	151,556	152,570	153,177	(p)152,934	(p)150,940
2020	(p)150,102
Mining and Logging
2019	733	730	731	732	739	746	746	744	738	743	729	(p)713	(p)735
2020	(p)702
Construction
2019	7,069	7,062	7,170	7,377	7,540	7,699	7,753	7,760	7,700	7,720	7,609	(p)7,447	(p)7,492
2020	(p)7,238
Manufacturing
2019	12,737	12,762	12,774	12,775	12,810	12,922	12,919	12,929	12,880	12,820	12,871	(p)12,874	(p)12,839
2020	(p)12,773
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2019	27,598	27,351	27,358	27,425	27,554	27,698	27,671	27,619	27,575	27,793	28,350	(p)28,584	(p)27,715
2020	(p)27,747
Information
2019	2,799	2,830	2,838	2,832	2,842	2,874	2,883	2,887	2,860	2,875	2,900	(p)2,897	(p)2,860
2020	(p)2,846
Financial Activities
2019	8,618	8,633	8,658	8,678	8,707	8,783	8,836	8,835	8,775	8,804	8,805	(p)8,820	(p)8,746
2020	(p)8,746
Professional & Business Services
2019	20,709	20,841	20,908	21,169	21,239	21,428	21,456	21,521	21,479	21,676	21,727	(p)21,597	(p)21,313
2020	(p)21,128
Educational & Health Services
2019	23,724	24,044	24,113	24,206	24,121	23,939	23,863	23,980	24,257	24,561	24,682	(p)24,630	(p)24,177
2020	(p)24,390
Leisure & Hospitality
2019	15,739	15,841	16,090	16,406	16,788	17,219	17,289	17,244	16,759	16,648	16,439	(p)16,455	(p)16,576
2020	(p)16,120
Other Services
2019	5,775	5,797	5,833	5,882	5,913	5,970	5,979	5,951	5,894	5,907	5,911	(p)5,902	(p)5,893
2020	(p)5,867
Government
2019	22,378	22,793	22,886	22,948	22,856	22,461	21,304	21,671	22,639	23,023	23,154	(p)23,015	(p)22,594
2020	(p)22,545
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
(not seasonally adjusted data, in thousands)
	United States
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2019	(1)162,104	162,793	162,823	162,097	162,655	164,120	164,941	164,019	163,943	164,576	164,386	164,007	163,539
2020	(1)163,497
Employment
2019	(1)154,964	156,167	156,441	156,710	157,152	157,828	158,385	157,816	158,478	159,067	158,945	158,504	157,538
2020	(1)156,994
Unemployment
2019	7,140	6,625	6,382	5,387	5,503	6,292	6,556	6,203	5,465	5,510	5,441	5,503	6,001
2020	6,504
Unemployment Rate
2019	4.4	4.1	3.9	3.3	3.4	3.8	4.0	3.8	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.7
2020	4.0
Footnotes (1) Data affected by changes in population controls.