Smoothed Seasonally Adjusted Metropolitan Area Estimates
Effective with the release of metropolitan area data for May 2011, the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program began
to publish smoothed seasonally adjusted civilian labor force and unemployment estimates for all metropolitan areas and metropolitan
divisions. These data are updated via the downloadable files below on the day of each
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment news release.
(See www.bls.gov/lau/lausched.htm for a schedule of upcoming release dates.) The files contain
estimates from January 2000 forward. See the Questions and Answers document for more information.
On May 30, 2012, data from January 2007 through March 2012 were updated based on revised historical not
seasonally adjusted estimates and re-fitting of seasonal adjustment models.
Downloadable Data Files
- Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by metropolitan area, seasonally adjusted (TXT 9.1M) (ZIP 2.5M)
- Table 2. Civilian labor force and unemployment by selected metropolitan area and metropolitan division, seasonally adjusted (TXT 1.1M) (ZIP 292K)
Last Modified Date: May 30, 2012
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