Fetch raw BLS unemployment rates

Source: R/coc_economic_indicators.R

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

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