Unemployment Rate in the United States decreased to 4.10 percent in June from 4.20 percent in May of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This dataset contains unemployment rates for the U.S.(1948 - Present) and California (1976 - Present). The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed as a percentage of the labor force. Labor force data are restricted to people 16 years of age and older, who currently reside in 1 of the 50 states or the District of Columbia, who do not reside in institutions (e.g., penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces. This rate is also defined as the U-3 measure of labor underutilization.

The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey (IZA ED) was developed in order to obtain reliable longitudinal estimates for the impact of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP). Moreover, it is suitable for studying the processes of job search and labor market reintegration. The data allow analyzing dynamics with respect to a rich set of individual and labor market characteristics. It covers the initial period of unemployment as well as long-term outcomes, for a total period of up to 3 years after unemployment entry. A longitudinal questionnaire records monthly labor market activities and their duration in detail for the mentioned period. These activities are, for example, employment, unemployment, ALMP, other training etc. Available information covers employment status, occupation, sector, and related earnings, hours, unemployment benefits or other transfer payments. A cross-sectional questionnaire contains all basic information including the process of entering into unemployment, and demographics. The entry into unemployment describes detailed job search behavior such as search intensity, search channels and the role of the Employment Agency. Moreover, reservation wages and individual expectations about leaving unemployment or participating in ALMP programs are recorded. The available demographic information covers employment status, occupation and sector, as well as specifics about citizenship and ethnic background, educational levels, number and age of children, household structure and income, family background, health status, and workplace as well as place of residence regions. The survey provides as well detailed information about the treatment by the unemployment insurance authorities, imposed labor market policies, benefit receipt and sanctions. The survey focuses additionally on individual characteristics and behavior. Such co-variates of individuals comprise social networks, ethnic and migration background, relations and identity, personality traits, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, life and job satisfaction, risky behavior, attitudes and preferences. The main advantages of the IZA ED are the large sample size of unemployed individuals, the accuracy of employment histories, the innovative and rich set of individual co-variates and the fact that the survey measures important characteristics shortly after entry into unemployment.

Unemployment Rate in China remained unchanged at 5 percent in June. This dataset provides - China Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Unemployment Rate in Japan remained unchanged at 2.50 percent in May. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Japan Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Context

To contribute towards the research and analysis on COVID-19 and it's impact on the human life, I have made this data available in usable format for analysis.

Content

1. This dataset contains time series data of unemployment rate in US from January 2010 to Present. It contains unemployment rate records based on education qualification, race, and gender of adults.
2. This dataset also contains state-wise unemployment rate data for year 2020. The data set is clean and doesn't require much pre-processing. Dataset can be used with BI tools like Tableau as well.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank "U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS" for making the data available. URL: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln

Inspiration

1. Combine with COVID-19 dataset to understand the impact on Unemployment rate in the United States.
2. Perform Individual study on Unemployment in United States.

Context

This is a dataset that I built by scraping the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was looking for county-level unemployment data and realized that there was a data source for this, but the data set itself hadn't existed yet, so I decided to write a scraper and build it out myself.

Content

This data represents the Local Area Unemployment Statistics from 1990-2016, broken down by state and month. The data itself is pulled from this mapping site:

https://data.bls.gov/map/MapToolServlet?survey=la&map=county&seasonal=u

Further, the ever-evolving and ever-improving codebase that pulled this data is available here:

https://github.com/jayrav13/bls_local_area_unemployment

Acknowledgements

Of course, a huge shoutout to bls.gov and their open and transparent data. I've certainly been inspired to dive into US-related data recently and having this data open further enables my curiosities.

Inspiration

I was excited about building this data set out because I was pretty sure something similar didn't exist - curious to see what folks can do with it once they run with it! A curious question I had was surrounding Unemployment vs 2016 Presidential Election outcome down to the county level. A comparison can probably lead to interesting questions and discoveries such as trends in local elections that led to their most recent election outcome, etc.

Next Steps

Version 1 of this is as a massive JSON blob, normalized by year / month / state. I intend to transform this into a CSV in the future as well.

This dataset contains labor force data not seasonally adjusted at county and statistically equivalent areas level. The indicators related to labor force are the total number of civilian labor force, the number of employed, the number of unemployed and unemployment rate.

The employment and unemployment indicator shows several data points. The first figure is the number of people in the labor force, which includes the number of people who are either working or looking for work. The second two figures, the number of people who are employed and the number of people who are unemployed, are the two subcategories of the labor force. The unemployment rate is a calculation of the number of people who are in the labor force and unemployed as a percentage of the total number of people in the labor force.

The unemployment rate does not include people who are not employed and not in the labor force. This includes adults who are neither working nor looking for work. For example, full-time students may choose not to seek any employment during their college career, and are thus not considered in the unemployment rate. Stay-at-home parents and other caregivers are also considered outside of the labor force, and therefore outside the scope of the unemployment rate.

The unemployment rate is a key economic indicator, and is illustrative of economic conditions in the county at the individual scale.

There are additional considerations to the unemployment rate. Because it does not count those who are outside the labor force, it can exclude individuals who were looking for a job previously, but have since given up. The impact of this on the overall unemployment rate is difficult to quantify, but it is important to note because it shows that no statistic is perfect.

The unemployment rates for Champaign County, the City of Champaign, and the City of Urbana are extremely similar between 2000 and 2023.

All three areas saw a dramatic increase in the unemployment rate between 2006 and 2009. The unemployment rates for all three areas decreased overall between 2010 and 2019. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose sharply in 2020 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate in all three areas dropped again in 2021 as pandemic restrictions were removed, and were almost back to 2019 rates in 2022. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose slightly from 2022 to 2023.

This data is sourced from the Illinois Department of Employment Security’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), and from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sources: Illinois Department of Employment Security, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Analysis of ‘Recorded unemployment, January 2021 ’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/e0526164-80a3-498e-bd03-5f4e9e7123e6 on 18 January 2022.

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ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, as required by the law. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Average residency (urban, rural).The ANOFM calculates and publishes statistics on registered unemployment in accordance with the legal provisions. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Residential environments (urban, rural).

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Unemployment Rate in Thailand increased to 0.89 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 0.88 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Thailand Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Unemployment Rate in Germany remained unchanged at 6.30 percent in June. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Germany Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Unemployment Rate in Mexico increased to 2.70 percent in May from 2.50 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Mexico Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This data set shows unemployment rate by sex and state in Malaysia for year 1982 until 2020. The statistics is derived from Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is conducted every month using household approach and refers to those between the working age of 15-64 years old. Unemployment rate is the proportion of unemployed population to the total population in the labour force, which measures the percentage of unemployed population in the labour force. W.P. Labuan is gazzeted as a Federal Territory in 1984 while W.P. Putrajaya is gazzeted as a Federal Territory in 2001. The statistics for W.P. Putrajaya for 2001-2010 is treated as part of Selangor. Statistics for W.P. Putrajaya is available separately since 2011 onwards. LFS was not conducted during the years 1991 and 1994. No. of Views : 734

The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force based on International Labour Office (ILO) definition. The labour force is the total number of people employed and unemployed. The MIP scoreboard indicator considers unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who:

- are without work during the reference week;

- are available to start work within the next two weeks;

- and have been actively seeking work in the past four weeks or had already found a job to start within the next three months.

Unit: rate. The indicative threshold of the indicator is 10%. In the table, values are also calculated by considering unemployed persons aged 15 to 24 and those aged 25 to 74.

Statistical open data on LAU regions of Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary (and other countries in the future). LAU1 regions are called counties, okres, okresy, powiat, járás, járási, NUTS4, LAU, Local Administrative Units, ... and there are 733 of them in this V4 dataset. Overall, we cover 733 regions which are described by 137.828 observations (panel data rows) and more than 1.760.229 data points.

This LAU dataset contains panel data on population, on age structure of inhabitants, on number and on structure of registered unemployed. Dataset prepared by Michal Páleník. Output files are in json, shapefiles, xls, ods, json, topojson or CSV formats. Downloadable at zenodo.org.

This dataset consists of:

data on unemployment (by gender, education and duration of unemployment),

data on vacancies,

open data on population in Visegrad counties (by age and gender),

data on unemployment share.

Combined latest dataset

dataset of the latest available data on unemployment, vacancies and population

dataset includes map contours (shp, topojson or geojson format), relation id in OpenStreetMap, wikidata entry code,

it also includes NUTS4 code, LAU1 code used by national statistical office and abbreviation of the region (usually license plate),

source of map contours is OpenStreetMap, licensed under ODbL

no time series, only most recent data on population and unemployment combined in one output file

columns: period, lau, name, registered_unemployed, registered_unemployed_females, disponible_unemployed, low_educated, long_term, unemployment_inflow, unemployment_outflow, below_25, over_55, vacancies, pop_period, TOTAL, Y15-64, Y15-64-females, local_lau, osm_id, abbr, wikidata, population_density, area_square_km, way

Slovakia – SK: 79 LAU1 regions, data for 2024-10-01, 1.659 data,

Czech Republic – CZ: 77 LAU1 regions, data for 2024-10-01, 1.617 data,

Poland – PL: 380 LAU1 regions, data for 2024-09-01, 6.840 data,

Hungary – HU: 197 LAU1 regions, data for 2024-10-01, 2.955 data,

13.071 data in total.

column/number of observations description SK CZ PL HU

period period (month and year) the data is for 79 77 380 197

lau LAU code of the region 79 77 380 197

name name of the region in local language 79 77 380 197

registered_unemployed number of unemployed registered at labour offices 79 77 380 197

registered_unemployed_females number of unemployed women 79 77 380 197

disponible_unemployed unemployed able to accept job offer 79 77 0 0

low_educated unmployed without secondary school (ISCED 0 and 1) 79 77 380 197

long_term unemployed for longer than 1 year 79 77 380 0

unemployment_inflow inflow into unemployment 79 77 0 0

unemployment_outflow outflow from unemployment 79 77 0 0

below_25 number of unemployed below 25 years of age 79 77 380 197

over_55 unemployed older than 55 years 79 77 380 197

vacancies number of vacancies reported by labour offices 79 77 380 0

pop_period date of population data 79 77 380 197

TOTAL total population 79 77 380 197

Y15-64 number of people between 15 and 64 years of age, population in economically active age 79 77 380 197

Y15-64-females number of women between 15 and 64 years of age 79 77 380 197

local_lau region's code used by local labour offices 79 77 380 197

osm_id relation id in OpenStreetMap database 79 77 380 197

abbr abbreviation used for this region 79 77 380 0

wikidata wikidata identification code 79 77 380 197

population_density population density 79 77 380 197

area_square_km area of the region in square kilometres 79 77 380 197

way geometry, polygon of given region 79 77 380 197

Unemployment dataset

time series of unemployment data in Visegrad regions

by gender, duration of unemployment, education level, age groups, vacancies,

columns: period, lau, name, registered_unemployed, registered_unemployed_females, disponible_unemployed, low_educated, long_term, unemployment_inflow, unemployment_outflow, below_25, over_55, vacancies

Slovakia – SK: 79 LAU1 regions, data for 334 periods (1997-01-01 ... 2024-10-01), 202.082 data,

Czech Republic – CZ: 77 LAU1 regions, data for 244 periods (2004-07-01 ... 2024-10-01), 147.528 data,

Poland – PL: 380 LAU1 regions, data for 189 periods (2005-03-01 ... 2024-09-01), 314.100 data,

Hungary – HU: 197 LAU1 regions, data for 106 periods (2016-01-01 ... 2024-10-01), 104.408 data,

768.118 data in total.

column/number of observations description SK CZ PL HU

period period (month and year) the data is for 26 386 18 788 71 772 20 882

lau LAU code of the region 26 386 18 788 71 772 20 882

name name of the region in local language 26 386 18 788 71 772 20 882

registered_unemployed number of unemployed registered at labour offices 26 386 18 788 71 772 20 882

registered_unemployed_females number of unemployed women 26 386 18 788 62 676 20 882

disponible_unemployed unemployed able to accept job offer 25 438 18 788 0 0

low_educated unmployed without secondary school (ISCED 0 and 1) 11 771 9855 41 388 20 881

long_term unemployed for longer than 1 year 24 253 9855 41 388 0

unemployment_inflow inflow into unemployment 26 149 16 478 0 0

unemployment_outflow outflow from unemployment 26 149 16 478 0 0

below_25 number of unemployed below 25 years of age 11 929 9855 17 100 20 881

over_55 unemployed older than 55 years 11 929 9855 17 100 20 882

vacancies number of vacancies reported by labour offices 11 692 18 788 62 676 0

Population dataset

time series on population by gender and 5 year age groups in V4 counties

columns: period, lau, name, gender, TOTAL, Y00-04, Y05-09, Y10-14, Y15-19, Y20-24, Y25-29, Y30-34, Y35-39, Y40-44, Y45-49, Y50-54, Y55-59, Y60-64, Y65-69, Y70-74, Y75-79, Y80-84, Y85-89, Y90-94, Y_GE95, Y15-64

Slovakia – SK: 79 LAU1 regions, data for 28 periods (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), 152.628 data,

Czech Republic – CZ: 78 LAU1 regions, data for 24 periods (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), 125.862 data,

Poland – PL: 382 LAU1 regions, data for 29 periods (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), 626.941 data,

Hungary – HU: 197 LAU1 regions, data for 11 periods (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), 86.680 data,

992.111 data in total.

column/number of observations description SK CZ PL HU

period period (month and year) the data is for 6636 5574 32 883 4334

lau LAU code of the region 6636 5574 32 883 4334

name name of the region in local language 6636 5574 32 883 4334

gender gender (male or female) 6636 5574 32 883 4334

TOTAL total population 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y00-04 inhabitants between 00 to 04 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y05-09 number of inhabitants between 05 to 09 years of age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y10-14 number of people between 10 to 14 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y15-19 number of inhabitants between 15 to 19 years of age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y20-24 number of people between 20 to 24 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y25-29 number of inhabitants between 25 to 29 years of age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y30-34 inhabitants between 30 to 34 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y35-39 number of inhabitants between 35 to 39 years of age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y40-44 inhabitants between 40 to 44 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y45-49 number of inhabitants younger than 49 and older than 45 years 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y50-54 inhabitants between 50 to 54 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y55-59 number of inhabitants between 55 to 59 years of age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y60-64 inhabitants between 60 to 64 years inclusive 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y65-69 number of inhabitants younger than 69 and older than 65 years 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Y70-74 inhabitants between 70 to 74 years inclusive 6636 5574 24 670 4334

Y75-79 number of inhabitants between 75 to 79 years of age 6636 5574 24 670 4334

Y80-84 number of people between 80 to 84 years inclusive 6636 5574 24 670 4334

Y85-89 number of inhabitants younger than 89 and older than 85 years 6636 5574 0 0

Y90-94 inhabitants between 90 to 94 years inclusive 6636 5574 0 0

Y_GE95 number of people 95 years or older 6636 3234 0 0

Y15-64 number of people between 15 and 64 years of age, population in economically active age 6636 5574 32 503 4334

Notes

more examples at www.iz.sk

NUTS4 / LAU1 / LAU codes for HU and PL are created by me, so they can (and will) change in the future; CZ and SK NUTS4 codes are used by local statistical offices, so they should be more stable

NUTS4 codes are consistent with NUTS3 codes used by Eurostat

local_lau variable is an identifier used by local statistical office

abbr is abbreviation of region's name, used for map purposes (usually cars' license plate code; except for Hungary)

wikidata is code used by wikidata

osm_id is region's relation number in the OpenStreetMap database

Example outputs

you can download data in CSV, xml, ods, xlsx, shp, SQL, postgis, topojson, geojson or json format at 📥 doi:10.5281/zenodo.6165135

Counties of Slovakia – unemployment rate in Slovak LAU1 regions

Regions of the Slovak Republic

Unemployment of Czechia and Slovakia – unemployment share in LAU1 regions of Slovakia and Czechia

interactive map on unemployment in Slovakia

Slovakia – SK, Czech Republic – CZ, Hungary – HU, Poland – PL, NUTS3 regions of Slovakia

download at 📥 doi:10.5281/zenodo.6165135

suggested citation: Páleník, M. (2024). LAU1 dataset [Data set]. IZ Bratislava. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6165135

Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force. The labour force is the total number of people employed and unemployed. Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who were: a. without work during the reference week, b. currently available for work, i.e. were available for paid employment or self-employment before the end of the two weeks following the reference week, c. actively seeking work, i.e. had taken specific steps in the four weeks period ending with the reference week to seek paid employment or self-employment or who found a job to start later, i.e. within a period of, at most, three months. This table does not only show unemployment rates but also unemployed in 1000 and as % of the total population.

U6 Unemployment Rate in the United States decreased to 7.70 percent in June from 7.80 percent in May of 2025. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States U-6 Unemployment Rate.

The number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the active labour force (i.e. employed and unemployed).

This dataset provides the Unemployment Rate (UR) in percentage according to usual status (ps+ss) for each State and Union Territory in India, categorized by age groups: 15-29 years, 15-59 years, 15 years and above, and all ages. It is sourced from the PLFS by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and offers insights into regional and age-group-specific unemployment rates. For 2023-24, Chandigarh's entire area has been considered urban for this survey, with data available only for the age groups 15-59 years, 15 years and above, and all ages. Before 2019-20, Ladakh was part of Jammu and Kashmir, and since 2020-21, Daman and Diu has been merged with Dadra and Nagar Haveli to form the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.