https://github.com/btskinner/county_unemploy
Bureau of Labor Statistics county unemployment statistics: 2000 - 2016
https://github.com/btskinner/county_unemploy
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Bureau of Labor Statistics county unemployment statistics: 2000 - 2016
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/btskinner/county_unemploy
- Owner: btskinner
- Created: 2017-09-30T21:48:10.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-10-01T21:49:32.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-17T15:45:09.519Z (11 months ago)
- Language: R
- Size: 677 KB
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- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# BLS county unemployment statistics: 2000 - 2016
The script scrapes and
combines [local area unemployment (LAU)](https://www.bls.gov/lau/)
statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for all US counties and
Washington D.C. from 2000 to 2016.
Example
page:
[https://www.bls.gov/lau/laucnty16.txt](https://www.bls.gov/lau/laucnty16.txt).
### [`county_unemploy.csv`](https://github.com/btskinner/county_unemploy/blob/master/county_unemploy.csv) [[Raw]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btskinner/county_unemploy/master/county_unemploy.csv)
##### COLUMNS
| Name | Description|
|:-----|:-----------|
|`stfips`|State FIPS code|
|`fips`|County FIPS code|
|`county`|County name|
|`stabbr`|State abbreviation|
|`year`|Year|
|`labor_force`|Number in labor force|
|`employed `|Number employed|
|`unemployed`|Number unemployed|
|`unem_rate`|Unemployment rate|