laus_unemp: Download state unemployment numbers from the Local Area...

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

Description

laus_unemp downloads state unemployment numbers from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) database.

Usage

laus_unemp(bls_key, states = "all", start_year, end_year, adjustment)

Arguments

bls_key	BLS API key for the user. See vignette. #' @param states Character vector. All states ("all"), Washington D.C. ("DC"), or list of state codes. See vignette and laus_codes_list object.
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.

Details

This function downloads and cleans pre-packaged state unemployment levels data from the LAUS database. The default setting is to download unemployment levels for all states in the U.S. excluding D.C. The user can shorten or lengthen the list of states but is constrained by the BLS 50 series limit.

Value

Cleaned data frame of LAUS data.

Examples

laus_unemp(Sys.getenv("BLS_KEY"), "all", 2010, 2015, "U")

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