unemployment.csv
unemployment_wide.csv
The official unemployment rate is the fraction of the labor force that is unemployed, expressed as a percentage. For this measure, “unemployed” is defined as people who are willing and available to work and who have actively sought employment the past four weeks, but are not working. People with temporary, part-time, or full-time jobs, or people who perform at least 15 hours of unpaid family work, are considered employed. People who cannot work due to a disability or who have stopped looking for work (e.g., who have become discouraged and given up), are not considered part of the labor force.
year: calendar yearmonth: calendar monthdate: decimal date combining year and monthrate: seasonally adjusted unemployment rate (e.g., 3.5
= 3.5%)Rows: 660
Columns: 4
$ year <dbl> 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968, 1968…
$ month <chr> "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "…
$ date <dbl> 1968.041, 1968.126, 1968.205, 1968.290, 1968.372, 1968.456, 1968…
$ rate <dbl> 3.7, 3.8, 3.7, 3.5, 3.5, 3.7, 3.7, 3.5, 3.4, 3.4, 3.4, 3.4, 3.4,…# A tibble: 6 × 4
year month date rate
<dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1968 Jan 1968. 3.7
2 1968 Feb 1968. 3.8
3 1968 Mar 1968. 3.7
4 1968 Apr 1968. 3.5
5 1968 May 1968. 3.5
6 1968 Jun 1968. 3.7# A tibble: 6 × 4
year month date rate
<dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2022 Jul 2023. 3.5
2 2022 Aug 2023. 3.7
3 2022 Sep 2023. 3.5
4 2022 Oct 2023. 3.7
5 2022 Nov 2023. 3.6
6 2022 Dec 2023. 3.5