A dataset of area types and codes for states, counties, and towns across the US, as used for the Local Area Unemployment Statistics. These are needed to put together series names, like those used to make API calls in qwi_industry. This used to be filtered just for Connecticut.

laus_codes

Format

A data frame with 6625 rows and 4 variables:

type

Area type code

state_code

Two-digit state FIPS code

area

Area name

area_code

Area code

Source

This is a filtered and cleaned version of a file downloaded from BLS.