U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Featured LAU Documentation
Smoothed-Seasonally-Adjusted Estimates (SSA) Questions and Answers
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States
American Community Survey (ACS) Questions and Answers
Information on Model-Based Error Measures for Regions, Divisions, and States
Changes to State and local area labor force estimation in 2005
Administrative Uses of Local Area Unemployment (
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Administrative Uses of LAUS Data Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (
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Labor Market Area Directory, 2011 (
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Data Availability
LAUS Estimation Methodology
Labor Force Concepts (
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Geographic Concepts
Definitions of Areatypes
Seasonal Adjustment
Differences Between Data Series
Differences Between Decennial Census and LAUS Data
Region and Division Labor Force Data FAQs
Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2010