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AVAILBLE
Available for work

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AVAILBLE indicates whether or not persons who did not work during the previous week and were actively seeking a job or planning to open their own business or professional practice (collectively referred to as people "looking for work" - see LOOKING), were currently available to take any work they might find.

See EMPSTAT for further discussion of labor force and employment concepts.

People not at work and not absent from a job or business should have responded "no" to the question(s). While the 1980 and 1990 censuses collected information about layoffs and absences for other reasons using a single question, the ACS, the PRCS and census 2000 used two separate questions. Persons who did not work the previous week would be considered either unemployed or not in the labor force, depending on their responses to other questions. Persons who had worked during the previous week were excluded from the universe.