Codes and Frequencies
Description
Discouraged worker's reason for not job seeking last 4 weeks - 1994-2024_11
Unicon Corporation made the following notes about this variable:
Discouraged workers are defined as persons not in the labor force who want and are available for a job and who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but who are not currently looking because they believe there are no job available or there are none for which they would qualify. [Source: BLS definition taken from Employment and Earnings]
Universe
- Those who did not passively look for work in last four weeks.
Availability
Years | Jan | Feb | ASEC | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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1994 – 2023 | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
2024 | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | - |