best source for labor statistics? (employment, rated, area)

[ks3839]

hi there,

i was interested to know if you all have any suggestions for the best resources to find up-to-date information about the economy in new york city. i'm looking for general factual and statistical information as well as resources to describe political issues attached to a specific area of the economy.

thanks a lot!

[Kefir King]

Too many filters through interested parties to get honest numbers.

[vescuzzi]

The data is definitely out there, but you may have to do some work cleaning it to draw meaningful conclusions. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is sure to have the information you are looking for, they aggregate information from the US Census, Current Population Survey, American Community Survey, and other datasets for researchers and people interested in that stuff. But you may have to be familiar with manipulating datasets.

Alternatively, you could check the US CENSUS site or the Bureau of Labor Statitistics. They have online tools to let you see some general data. I just took a quick dirty look around the BLS site and found this

QCEW Data Views.

You can filter through by county and select all the different counties in NYC to see some employment data for different industries.