employment: US employment figures from 1941 to 2010

Description Usage Format Examples

Description

A dataset originally derived from thew USA Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data obtained in tabular form from https://datahub.io/core/employment-us but only a subset of columns was used here.

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 71 rows and 6 variables:

year

The year for which the employment values apply.

population

The total population of employable citizens.

employed

The amount of citizens employed during the year.

agriculture,nonagriculture

The amount of citizens employed in the agricultural sector and those that were not

unemployed

The amount of employable citizens that were unemployed during the year.

Examples

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# Here is a glimpse at the data
# available in `employment`
dplyr::glimpse(employment)

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