1. INFO 4470/ILRLE 4470 Social and Economic Data Introduction John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber January 24, 2011

2. Unemployment Important economic indicator Based on survey (CPS) data Monthly official releases Several definitions, but one core definition Boring data....

3. News releases

4. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.h tm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.h tm

5. Adding more data

6. Adding more details Unemployment rate varies widely by Demographic groups (men, women, young, old) Industry, Occupation (in last job) Geography → Local Area Unemployment Statistics

7. LAUS http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

8. That is sooo old...

9. GeoFRED http://geofred.stlouisfed.org/

10. GeoFRED http://geofred.stlouisfed.org/

11. GeoFRED or... make a movie

12. FRED Online database of economic indicators maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Defined API for web services See http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/