Access statistical data for the US economy, census regions and individual states.

The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.

The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program collects reports on mass layoff actions that result in workers being separated from their jobs. Monthly mass layoff numbers are from establishments which have at least 50 initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) filed against them during a 5-week period. Extended mass layoff numbers (issued quarterly) are from a subset of such establishments—where private sector nonfarm employers indicate that 50 or more workers were separated from their jobs for at least 31 days.

Comparative (adjusted to U.S. concepts) labor force, employment, and unemployment data and several analytical variables are available from the Economic News Releases and Special Data Tables section on the International Labor Comparisons home page starting from 1960 for ten countries.

Comparative hourly compensation costs in national currencies and U.S. dollars for production workers and all employees in manufacturing are available from the Economic News Releases and Special Data Tables section on the International Labor Comparisons home page starting from 1975 for 36 economies.

Comparative productivity and unit labor cost data for the manufacturing sector are available from the Economic News Releases and Special Data Tables section on the International Labor Comparisons home page starting from 1950 for 17 economies.

Comparative real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and per employed person are available from the Economic News Releases and Special Data Tables section on the International Labor Comparisons home page starting from 1960 for 16 countries.

Unadjusted annual consumer price indexes (CPI) are available from the Economic News Releases and Special Data Tables section on the International Labor Comparisons home page starting from 1950 for 16 countries.

Monthly percent change data for indexes following the concepts and methods of the European HICP are available for eight countries and areas.

Longer Unemployment for Those 45 and Older
Workers ages 45 and over form a disproportionate share of the hard-luck recession category, the long-term unemployed — those who have been out of work for six months or longer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.