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Employment Data

Information about employment characteristics, employee statistics, hiring trends, and other employment data can be very valuable to a business owner.
Regional Employment And Labor Data
The Department of Labor has a Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, which offers monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.

Wage Data
Occupational, national, regional, state, and local wage data from the Department of Labor.

State Employment And Unemployment Data
An online mechanism to select specific data on employment, unemployment, and labor force data for a particular state by age, sex, and racial groupings.

Regional Income And Economic Data
Personal income estimates and other regional economic data, provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce.

Crop Labor Expenditures By County
Crop labor expenditures by county in U.S. dollars, provided by the Department of Labor.

Monthly And Quarterly Economic Indicators
Reports on monthly and quarterly statistics on housing, retail and food, manufacturing, trade, construction, and mining industries, and poverty. Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Economic Indicator Release Schedule
The schedule of when (day and time) the U.S. Census Bureau releases economic indicator data.

Department Of Labor Statistics
An index of links to statistics, publications, and other resources on inflation and consumer spending, wages, productivity, safety and health, trade, industry, employment, business costs, and more.

Women In The Labor Force
Statistics and data on women in the labor force, provided by the Department of Labor.

Self-Employed Census Codes
A listing of Census Industry, NAICS, and Census Occupation Codes for the self-employed.

Current Population Survey
CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. A survey of about 50,000 households is conducted monthly by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics; respondents are interviewed to obtain information about the employment status of each member of the household 15 years of age and older.



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