US mining, quarrying and oil and gas employment
ObservedEmployees on payrolls in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), in thousands, seasonally adjusted.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- thousands of persons
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US mining, quarrying and oil and gas employment, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
All employees, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), from the BLS establishment survey, distributed through FRED as CES1021000001. Monthly, thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted. A workforce measure for domestic extraction of minerals, oil and gas.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-mining-employment
Materials
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
CES1021000001last fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-09-04 08:29:39-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Revised in the two following months and at the annual benchmark.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 10,000 thousands of persons.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet