get_unemployment {epidata}

Retreive the share of the labor force without a job

Description

Retreive the share of the labor force without a job

Usage

get_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.

Note

See get_unemployment_by_state() for information on retrieving unemployment by state+race.

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

get_unemployment()

get_unemployment("r")

get_unemployment("grae")