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Handbook of Methods Local Area Unemployment Statistics More information

Local Area Unemployment Statistics: More information

Additional information about the LAUS program, including frequently asked questions, contacts, and technical references, are online at the LAUS homepage.

Technical references

Bell, W.R., and S.C. Hillmer. "The Time Series Approach to Estimation for Repeated Surveys." Survey Methodology (1990), pp. 195–215.

Bureau of Employment Security, U.S. Department of Labor. Handbook on Estimating Unemployment, Employment Security Research Methods, Handbook Series (BLS Reprint No. R–185, 1960).

Denton, F.T. "Adjustment of Monthly or Quarterly Series to Annual Totals: An Approach Based on Quadratic Minimization." Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 66 (1971), pp. 99–102.

Harvey, A.C. Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models, and the Kalman Filter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Pfeffermann, D., A. Sikov, and R. Tiller. “Single- and two-stage cross-sectional and time series benchmarking procedures for small area estimation.” TEST, October 2014.

Pfeffermann, D. and R. Tiller. “Small-Area Estimation with State-Space Models Subject to Benchmark Constraints.” Journal of the American Statistical Association (December 2006).

Scott, A.J., T.M.F. Smith, and R.G. Jones. "Analysis of Repeated Surveys Using Time Series Methods." Journal of the American Statistical Association (1974), pp. 674–678. 

Tiller, Richard B. "Time Series Modeling of Sample Survey Data from the U.S. Current Population Survey." Journal of Official Statistics (1992), pp. 149–166.

Tiller, Richard B. "Model-Based Labor Force estimates for Sub-National Areas with large Survey Errors." (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006). https://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2006/pdf/st060010.pdf.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program Manual. August 2010.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Report on Revision to Handbook Method Employment Estimation, June 2014. https://www.bls.gov/lau/substate_emp.pdf.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Report on Revision to Handbook Method Unemployment Estimation, June 2014. https://www.bls.gov/lau/substate_unemp.pdf.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Report on Revision to State and Area Time-Series Models, June 2014. https://www.bls.gov/lau/gen4models.pdf.  

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Residency Adjustment for Place-of-Work Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment. LAUS Research Report, March 2004 (revised December 2004).

Zimmerman, T.S., T.D. Evans, and R.B. Tiller. "State Unemployment Rate Time Series," Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, (American Statistical Association, 1994). http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/proceedings/papers/1994_187.pdf.

Zimmerman, T.S., and E. Robison. "Report on Revised State GVF Parameters for CPS Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates in States, District of Columbia, and Four Substate Areas: 1976-Present." BLS internal memorandum, 1996.