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ABSENT
Absent from work last week

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ABSENT indicates whether persons who did not work during the previous week had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent and, if so, whether they were absent due to a layoff or if their absence was for some other reason.

Persons who responded "no" to the question, "Was this person temporarily absent or on layoff from a job or business last week?" would be considered either unemployed or not in the labor force, depending upon their responses to other questions.

See EMPSTAT for definitions of key labor force and employment terminology.