I recently utilized some data from the BLS. Use this interface for county level employment data by industry. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/querytool.jsp?survey=en Adam
-----Original Message----- From: AAG Economic Geography Speciality Group [mailto:ECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU] On Behalf Of James DeFilippis Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:04 PM To: ECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L@LISTSERV.UCONN.EDU Subject: local labor market data for a course assignment hi all, I am thinking of having students in a course do an assignment where they could readily easily access local labor market data and do some basic analyses of that data. I've been on the BLS website, and there's obviously a ton of data there, but it's all a bit opaque in terms of what the data sets include and how to access them. So I'm looking for suggestions on data sets that are easy for students to access and are available at the scale of the census place (or, at least no larger than the county). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, James -- James DeFilippis Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers University 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 848-932-2805
