2017 schedule of employment data, unemployment rates press releases

BATON ROUGE —The Louisiana Workforce Commission has announced the schedule for its 2017 monthly press releases of employment and unemployment data.

The release of statewide nonfarm industry employment data and unemployment rates coincides with the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly release of data for all states.

In most months, the LWC will release two separate press releases. The first contains both seasonally and not-seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment, civilian labor force and the unemployment rate for the State. The second monthly release will publish the not-seasonally-adjusted civilian labor force data for the nine metropolitan statistical areas and all 64 parishes. There will be only one press release for the 2017 January and February data that will include all data items in one release.

The descriptions of the 2017 press release dates listed below reflect the type of civilian labor force data for that release and are subject to change:

Jan. 20, 2017 – State with data for December 2016

Jan. 27, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for December 2016

March 13, 2017 – State, MSA and Parish with data for January 2017

March 27, 2017 – State, MSA, and Parish with data for February 2017

April 21, 2017 – State with data for March 2017

April 28, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for March 2017

May 19, 2017 – State with data for April 2017

May 26, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for April 2017

June 16, 2017 – State with data for May 2017

June 23, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for May 2017

July 21, 2017 – State with data for June 2017

July 28, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for June 2017

Aug. 18, 2017 – State with data for July 2017

Aug. 25, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for July 2017

Sept. 15, 2017 – State with data for August 2017

Sept. 22, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for August 2017

Oct. 20, 2017 – State with data for September 2017

Oct. 27, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for September 2017

Nov. 17, 2017 – State with data for October 2017

Nov. 28, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for October 2017

Dec. 22, 2017 – State with data for November 2017

Jan. 3, 2017 – MSA and Parish with data for November 2017

Jan. 23, 2018 – State with data for December 2017

Jan. 30, 2018 – MSA and Parish with data for December 2017

For more detailed statistics on Louisiana’s labor market information, visit Louisiana’s employment homepage at www.laworks.net and select Labor Market Information.