Sources & data

Long-Term Unemployment

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  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    Unemployed 27 Weeks and Over

    BLS series LNS13008636, the monthly count of people unemployed for 27 weeks or longer.

    https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS13008636
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

    Civilian Employment Level

    BLS series LNS12000000, used as the denominator for the dashboard’s long-term-unemployment-to-employment ratio.

    https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000
  3. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

    Unemployed 27 Weeks and Over

    FRED presentation of BLS series LNS13008636.

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS13008636
  4. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

    Civilian Employment Level

    FRED presentation of BLS series LNS12000000.

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12000000