Some Example Local Area Unemployment Statistics Data Series
laus_example.RdA table of LAUS series from four places: Nashua, NH; Minneapolis, MN; Ithaca, NY, and Racine WI. There are four kinds of data: Unemployment Rate, Unemployed People, Employed People, and Labor Force. These data are all not adjusted for seasonality.
Format
This table demonstrates what raw series data look like when
downloaded from the BLS's plain-text data archives, as described in
vignette("laus", package = "hiRx").
- series_id
a 20-character BLS series code
- year
an integer giving the year of the observation
- period
a 3-character code, either the month or annual mean.
- value
a real number that is either people or a percentage.
- footnote_codes
a one-character flag if the observation is weird.