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Employment and Unemployment
 
Labor Force Statistics
Source: Florida Agency for Workface Innovation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Statistics
Source Update: February 2008
 

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 indicator section.


Employment by Industry
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Information System
Source Update: April 2007
 

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.

The REIS updates all data, 1969-1998, in accordance with all National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) for 1929-1999.


For information on Wage and Salary by Industry, visit the to Income and Poverty Indicators page.
 


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