Codes and Frequencies
Description
Discouraged worker wants full-time/part-time job - 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 received any pay or profit and those not waiting for a new job to begin.
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 | - |