build_coc_unemployment: CoC-level unemployment rates

In ucsf-bhhi/coc-data: Point-in-time homelessness counts and covariates by CoC

Description

Builds CoC level unemployment rates by taking a weighted average of county unemployment rates from the BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS). The weights are the share of the CoC's population coming from each county.

Usage

build_coc_unemployment(unemployment_data, county_crosswalk)

Arguments

unemployment_data	A data frame with raw unemployment data from fetch_unemployment().
county_crosswalk	A data frame with a county to CoC crosswalk from build_county_crosswalk().

Value

A data frame:

• coc_number: CoC number

• year: Year

• unemployment_rate: CoC unemployment rate

See Also

fetch_unemployment() for downloading the BLS data

ucsf-bhhi/coc-data documentation built on Dec. 23, 2021, 1:07 p.m.