New York State Data Center

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE, EMPLOYED, UNEMPLOYED, AND RATE OF UNEMPLOYED
NEW YORK STATE, MAJOR LABOR AREAS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REGIONS,
CURRENT MONTH, PREVIOUS MONTH AND YEAR-AGO

Total Employment Employed persons are all those who during the week including the 12th of the month, (a) did any work at all as paid employees or in their own business or profession, or farm or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family, or (b) did not work but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management dispute, or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid by their employers for the time off, and whether or not they were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once.

Total Unemployed persons are all those persons who did not work during the week including the 12th of the month, who made specific efforts to find a job within the past four weeks, and who were available for work during the week except for temporary illness. Also included as unemployed are those who did not work at all, were available for work, and (a) were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off, or (b) were waiting to report to a new wage or salary job within 30 days.

Total Civilian Labor Force is the sum of total employment and total unemployment.

The Unemployment Rate is total unemployment as a percentage of the civilian labor force.

METHODOLOGY:
A series of factors are applied to administrative statistics from state unemployment insurance (Ul) operations and to payroll statistics from establishment surveys to provide data on resident employment and unemployment.

REVISIONS:
Current month is subject to revision when new monthly data are released. As new benchmark data are released annually, data may be revised back several years.

RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER DATA:

SOURCE: New York State Department of Labor, Div. Of Research and Statistics.

RELEASE DATE: Monthly data, approximately the third week of the month.

CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: New York State Data Center - (518) 292-5300.