get_long_term_unemployment {epidata}

Retreive the share of the labor force that has been unemployed for six months or longer

Description

Retreive the share of the labor force that has been unemployed for six months or longer

Usage

get_long_term_unemployment(by = NULL)

Arguments

by

NULL or character string with any combination of g (Gender), r (Race), a (Age), e (Education). i.e. if you want to retrieve unemployment data by gender, race and education, you would set this parameter to "gre".

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

get_long_term_unemployment()

get_long_term_unemployment("r")

get_long_term_unemployment("grae")