Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)

The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces 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.

Emsi uses LAUS data to produce unemployment counts and labor force participation data. Each Emsi datarun includes the latest month of LAUS data that was available when the datarun was processed.