> A. Venesky wrote:
>
> >Can you direct me to any resources to figure out the
> >truth of NYC unemployment? Or has anyone done his or
> >her own analysis that may be helpful for me?
> >
> >I know that discouraged workers and the underemployed
> >are not considered in the official figures as well. If
> >anyone has good estimates on those numbers, i would be
> >very grateful for your help...
>
> I haven't looked at this data in years, but it used to be that NYC
> had a very low participation rate and a very low employment
> population ratio - i.e., large parts of the population aren't in the
> labor force because they've given up searching for work. I've got a
> query in with the BLS to see if I can get up to date numbers on this,
> but as I recall, if NYers were employed at national rates, we'd have
> 500,000 more jobs.
Go to http://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm
And select the desired series.
Below is the output for NYC PMSA.
Wojtek
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Series Catalog:
Series ID : LAUSM56000003
State/Region/Division : New York Area Type : Metropolitan areas (MSA and PMSA) Area Name : New York, NY PMSA Measure : unemployment rate Not Seasonally Adjusted Data: Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann 2003 8.3(b) 8.3(b) 7.9(b) 7.4(b) 7.3(b) 7.3(b) 7.8(b) 7.7(b) 7.7(b) 7.7(b) 7.4(b) 7.3(b) 7.7(b) 2004 8.2 7.8 7.5 6.7 6.2 6.9 7.0 6.3 b : Benchmarked Series Catalog: Series ID : LAUSM56000004
State/Region/Division : New York Area Type : Metropolitan areas (MSA and PMSA) Area Name : New York, NY PMSA Measure : unemployment Not Seasonally Adjusted Data: Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann 2003 367170(b) 364151(b) 347956(b) 321722(b) 314795(b) 317969(b) 342497(b) 337279(b) 334530(b) 332857(b) 323607(b) 318903(b) 335286(b) 2004 357111 341286 329816 290140 266293 301500 312486 277431 b : Benchmarked Series Catalog: Series ID : LAUSM56000005
State/Region/Division : New York Area Type : Metropolitan areas (MSA and PMSA) Area Name : New York, NY PMSA Measure : employment Not Seasonally Adjusted Data: Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann 2003 4034698(b) 4038511(b) 4042099(b) 4028820(b) 4019950(b) 4041764(b) 4072645(b) 4040278(b) 3988721(b) 4018015(b) 4034562(b) 4040978(b) 4033420(b) 2004 3992534 4007854 4045253 4035529 4038076 4074246 4144554 4127146 b : Benchmarked Series Catalog: Series ID : LAUSM56000006
State/Region/Division : New York Area Type : Metropolitan areas (MSA and PMSA) Area Name : New York, NY PMSA Measure : labor force Not Seasonally Adjusted Data: Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Ann 2003 4401868(b) 4402662(b) 4390055(b) 4350542(b) 4334745(b) 4359733(b) 4415142(b) 4377557(b) 4323251(b) 4350872(b) 4358169(b) 4359881(b) 4368706(b) 2004 4349645 4349140 4375069 4325669 4304369 4375746 4457040 4404577 b : Benchmarked