laus_download: Download data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics...

In davidsovich/blsr: Accessing and manipulating Bureau of Labor Statistics and NAICS data from R.

Description

laus_download retrieves and downloads data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) database.

Usage

laus_download(
  bls_key,
  start_year,
  end_year,
  adjustment,
  states,
  data_types,
  clean = TRUE
)

Arguments

bls_key	BLS API key for the user. See vignette.
start_year	Year to start data download.
end_year	Year to end data download.
adjustment	Character vector. Seasonal adjustment ("S") or not ("U") or both.
states	Character vector. See vignette and laus_codes_list object.
data_types	Character vector. See vignette and laus_codes_list object.
clean	Optional logical. Whether to clean the data into usable format or not. Defaults to TRUE.

Details

This function constructs BLS series IDs for a chosen set of parameters and then downloads the data from the LAUS database. This function also cleans the data and appends on identifiers for easy panel formatting.

Value

Cleaned data frame of LAUS data.

Examples

laus_download(bls_key = "inputs", start_year = 2010, end_year = 2015,
adjustment = "U", states = c("ST0100000000000", "ST0200000000000"), data_types = c("03"))

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