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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics. Updated monthly, summarized here annually. http://www.bls.gov/lau
Definitions:
The civilian labor force comprises all civilians 16 years of age and over classified as employed or unemployed. Employed persons are (a) all civilians who, during the reference week, did any work at all as paid employees, in their own business, profession, or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family, and (b) all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent because of illness, bad weather, vacation, child-care problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management disputes, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.
Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
The unemployment rate for all civilian workers represents the number of unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force.
Scope and Methodology:
Civilian labor force estimates are the product of a federal-state cooperative program in which state employment security agencies prepare labor force and unemployment estimates under concepts, definitions, and technical procedures established by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The national unemployment statistics published monthly by BLS are obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a survey of households conducted for BLS by the Census Bureau. The size of the CPS is sufficiently large to obtain reliable annual average unemployment estimates for all states and the District of Columbia. County estimates, which are controlled to the CPS-based state totals, are then derived through the use of statistics derived from state unemployment insurance operations, as well as adjustments based on data from the CPS, decennial census, and other sources.
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