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| Labor Force Statistics |
| Source: Florida
Agency for Workface Innovation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Statistics |
| Source Update: August 2009 |
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Description: The Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation
publishes the monthly Local Area Unemployment Statistics estimating labor force, employment
and unemployment for Florida, its 67 counties and many
cities. The United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates
United States labor force statistics and keeps historical data for the US and the Local
Area Unemployment Statistics program for all states. Labor force statistics
count individuals not jobs. An individual may be employed, unemployed or not in the labor
force at all. A person with more than one job is only counted once. Other data series
measure jobs not individuals; therefore, in those data series an individual
with more than one job is, in effect, counted more than once. Monthly changes in local
labor force statistics such as the unemployment rate are often subject to substantial
seasonality. To avoid making erroneous conclusions regarding a local economy
it is best to compare same month year-to-year or concentrate on annual data as will be done in this
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| Employment by Industry |
| Source: Bureau
of Economic Analysis, Regional
Economic Information System |
| Source Update: April 2009 |
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Description: The Bureau of Economic Analysis, part of the United States
Department of Commerce, publishes the Regional Economic Information System (REIS) annually. REIS is distributed on CD-ROM
and some of its data are also accessible on the above web site. REIS concentrates on broad income and employment data.
REIS measures jobs more broadly than most other sources such as BLS' ES202 program or its metropolitan area only Current
Employment Statistics (nonagricultural employment). REIS Provides the most readily accessible long-term database of county
level employment. REIS jobs data include agricultural and nonagricultural jobs; public as well as private employment;
self-employment as well as wage and salary employment; and workers not covered by unemployment insurance as well as those
covered. ES202 employment data do not include the self-employed. Along with the strength of broad and consistent measurement
of employment and income, REIS has the shortcoming of only annual updates that are about 2 years behind other, narrower
measures of jobs and income.
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| For information on Wage and Salary by Industry, visit the to Income
and Poverty Indicators page. |
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