fetch_unemployment: Fetch raw BLS unemployment rates

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

Description

Downloads flat text file with BLS unemployment data. Parses just unemployment rate data from the download.

Usage

fetch_unemployment(url, min_year = 2010)

Arguments

url	A string with the url of the flat text file.
min_year	A number with the first year of data to keep.

Value

A data frame:

• series: BLS series ID (see https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.txt)

• year: Year

• month: Month of the data (annual averages are "M13")

• value: Unemployment rate

• footnote: BLS footnote code (see https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.footnote)

See Also

build_coc_unemployment() for building CoC-level unemployment rates

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