I tried to find an answer to this, but I didn’t succeed in finding anything. Apologies if I missed a previous answer about this. I’m working with the CPS basic monthly microdata to look at state-level employment/unemployment trends for sub groups (e.g., race/ethnicity). Due to the sample size issue…

The national unemployment rate numbers are based entirely on CPS. Because the CPS is less reliable for state-level estimates, BLS instead uses a model-based estimate for state-level unemployment rates as part of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program. Because of this, the numbers prod…

I’m doing the same calculation for Illinois: unemployment by race. I’d like to also look at the covid variables. If I were to produce my own estimates using the microdata for Illinois is the method below acceptable? (using stata). FYI, When I ran the numbers using this method for July 2021, my unem…

It is beyond the scope of the IPUMS User Support team to review code or analytical decisions of individual researchers, so I won’t give an opinion of the “acceptability” of your method. I will note that it is common to pool data from multiple months of the CPS survey when presenting statistics for s…

State-level unemployment rates

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Chris_Wodicka July 24, 2020, 11:26am 3

Perfect! Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for.

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State-level unemployment rates

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