Others titles
- US Counties And Equivalent Areas Human Resources And Unemployment Rate
- US Counties Monthly Statistics For Unemployment Rate
- US Bureau Of Labor Statistics Unemployment Rate At County Level
Keywords
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- LAUS Program
- Labor Force
- Human Resources Available
- Unemployment Rate
- County Level
- County Equivalent Areas
- Monthly Data
- Employed
- Unemployed
- Counties Human Resources
US Unemployment Rates And Labor Force By County

This dataset contains labor force data not seasonally adjusted at county and statistically equivalent areas level. The indicators related to labor force are the total number of civilian labor force, the number of employed, the number of unemployed and unemployment rate.
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Description
The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program is a federal-state cooperative effort in which monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment are prepared for approximately 7,500 areas: Census regions and divisions, States, Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Metropolitan NECTAS (New England City and Town Areas), Metropolitan Divisions and NECTA Divisions, Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Micropolitan NECTAs, Combined Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Combined NECTAs, Small Labor Market Areas, Counties and county equivalents, Cities of 25,000 population or more, Cities and towns in New England regardless of population. These estimates are key indicators of local economic conditions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for the concepts, definitions, technical procedures, validation, and publication of the estimates that state workforce agencies prepare under agreement with BLS. The concepts and definitions underlying LAUS data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), the household survey that is the source of the national unemployment rate. The timing of data availability is controlled by the length of time required to produce and validate estimates.
Standard geographic area definitions based on existing political divisions are used by the LAUS program to determine the specific areas for which estimates are generated. These same definitions are used by other federal and state agencies, enabling comparison and tabulation of data across programs. Standardized definitions also increase the availability of input data for the LAUS program from other statistical or administrative programs.
This dataset contains data for counties and statistically equivalent area along with their Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes.
The employed are according to LAUS all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.
The unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
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Data Info
Date Created | 2018-02-06 |
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Last Modified | 2023-06-28 |
Version | 2023-06-28 |
Update Frequency |
Monthly |
Temporal Coverage |
2022-2023 |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
Source | John Snow Labs; United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; |
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Source License Requirements |
N/A |
Source Citation |
N/A |
Keywords | Bureau of Labor Statistics, LAUS Program, Labor Force, Human Resources Available, Unemployment Rate, County Level, County Equivalent Areas, Monthly Data, Employed, Unemployed, Counties Human Resources |
Other Titles | US Counties And Equivalent Areas Human Resources And Unemployment Rate, US Counties Monthly Statistics For Unemployment Rate, US Bureau Of Labor Statistics Unemployment Rate At County Level |
Data Fields
Name | Description | Type | Constraints |
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Local_Area_Unemployment_Statistics_Code | The original LAUS area code | string | required : 1 |
State | The US state or state equivalent area name | string | - |
State_Abbreviation | The US state or state equivalent area abbreviated name | string | - |
State_FIPS_Code | The 2-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code of state or state equivalent areas | string | - |
County_FIPS_Code | The 3-digit Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code of county or county equivalent area | string | - |
Data_Collection_Period | The year and month when was the data collected | string | - |
Total_Civialian_Labor_Force | The number of all persons in the civilian non-institutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed | integer | level : Ratio |
Number_Of_Employed | The total number of employed (according to the definition provided in the description) | integer | level : Ratio |
Number_Of_Unemployed | The total number of unemployed (according to the definition provided in the description) | integer | level : Ratio |
Unemployment_Rate_Percent | The unemployed percent of the civilian labor force | string | - |
Data Preview
Local Area Unemployment Statistics Code | State | State Abbreviation | State FIPS Code | County FIPS Code | Data Collection Period | Total Civialian Labor Force | Number Of Employed | Number Of Unemployed | Unemployment Rate Percent |
CN0100100000000 | Autauga County | AL | 1 | 1 | Apr-22 | 26615 | 26152 | 463 | 1.7 |
CN0100300000000 | Baldwin County | AL | 1 | 3 | Apr-22 | 102295 | 100416 | 1879 | 1.8 |
CN0100500000000 | Barbour County | AL | 1 | 5 | Apr-22 | 8280 | 8032 | 248 | 3.0 |
CN0100700000000 | Bibb County | AL | 1 | 7 | Apr-22 | 8692 | 8529 | 163 | 1.9 |
CN0100900000000 | Blount County | AL | 1 | 9 | Apr-22 | 25625 | 25181 | 444 | 1.7 |
CN0101100000000 | Bullock County | AL | 1 | 11 | Apr-22 | 4405 | 4306 | 99 | 2.2 |
CN0101300000000 | Butler County | AL | 1 | 13 | Apr-22 | 8653 | 8411 | 242 | 2.8 |
CN0101500000000 | Calhoun County | AL | 1 | 15 | Apr-22 | 46214 | 45057 | 1157 | 2.5 |
CN0101700000000 | Chambers County | AL | 1 | 17 | Apr-22 | 15893 | 15582 | 311 | 2.0 |
CN0101900000000 | Cherokee County | AL | 1 | 19 | Apr-22 | 11702 | 11494 | 208 | 1.8 |