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March 2007

The geospatial distribution of employment: a new visual asset

Sheryl L. Konigsberg

By combining geographic information with data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program, BLS provides analysts with a tool that will offer new insights into data that were previously unobserved.

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