Counties: unemployment from 2000 to 2016
BLS county unemployment statistics: 2000 - 2016
The script scrapes and combines local area unemployment (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.
county_unemploy.csv [Raw]
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 |