A dataset containing monthly unemployment rates from 2000 to 2023 for Maryland, Baltimore city, and all counties in the state. The data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS).
Format
A data frame with 7200 rows and 4 variables:
- name
Character. The name of the location.
- date
Date. The month for which unemployment is reported.
- reported_rate
Numeric. The reported unemployment rate.
- adjusted_rate
Numeric. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate.
Source
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics via API with the cwi package. https://www.bls.gov/lau/ Seasonal adjustment is done with the BLS' methodology via feasts::X_13ARIMA_SEATS.
Examples
head(unemployment)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#> name date reported_rate adjusted_rate
#> <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Allegany County 2000-01-01 0.068 0.0535
#> 2 Allegany County 2000-02-01 0.069 0.0574
#> 3 Allegany County 2000-03-01 0.062 0.0562
#> 4 Allegany County 2000-04-01 0.052 0.0557
#> 5 Allegany County 2000-05-01 0.049 0.0574
#> 6 Allegany County 2000-06-01 0.059 0.0578