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    Local Area Unemployment Statistics: Beginning 1976

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2026

    The Local Area Unemployment Statistics program estimates labor force statistics (labor force, employed, unemployment, unemployment rate) for New York State civilian labor force aged 16 and up. Areas covered include, New York State, New York City, Balance of State, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Counties, Labor Market Regions, Workforce Investment Board Areas, and cities and towns with populations of 25,000 or more. Data are not seasonally adjusted. Civilian labor force data do not include military, prison inmate, or other institutional populations.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NY State JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2026
    Publisher State of New York
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ny.gov/api/views/5hyu-bdh8
    Data First Published 2020-11-28
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-07
    Category Economic Development
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ny.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id eeef5b76-b362-4ca6-a16b-bfc7311ad3c9
    Harvest Source Id 36f923f9-f915-42dc-a4de-1a5e3a17d284
    Harvest Source Title NY State JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.ny.gov/d/5hyu-bdh8
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 62b1603070f3c514f2ac38f4b4079a718db2aef5e67c5fe2d8a4ccb85f0a5724
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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