What kind of information does the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program provide?
The LAUS program provides monthly and annual average estimates for labor force, employment, unemployment, and the unemployment rate for some 7,200 areas. The areas include census regions and divisions, states, metropolitan areas, metropolitan divisions, micropolitan areas, combined areas, small labor market areas, counties and county equivalents, cities with a population of 25,000 and over, and all cities and towns in New England regardless of population. These data can be found on the LA series in LABSTAT. For a more detailed description of areas, see Geographic Concepts.
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