Civilian Unemployment Rate

UNRATENSA Civilian Unemployment Rate

data(UNRATENSA)

Format

An xts object containing monthly observations of the Civilian Unemployment Rate.

**Release:**

Employment Situation

**Seasonal Adjustment:**

Not Seasonally Adjusted

**Frequency:**

Monthly

**Units:**

Percent

**Date Range:**

1948-01-01 to 2025-07-01

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATENSA

Notes

The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. Labor force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces.

This rate is also defined as the U-3 measure of labor underutilization.

The series comes from the 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)'.

The source code is: LNU04000000

Examples

data(UNRATENSA)
tail(UNRATENSA)
#>            UNRATENSA
#> 2025-02-01       4.5
#> 2025-03-01       4.2
#> 2025-04-01       3.9
#> 2025-05-01       4.0
#> 2025-06-01       4.4
#> 2025-07-01       4.6
plot(UNRATENSA, grid.col = "white", col = "green")