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6 thoughts on “Raw data: Unemployment rates in nine regions of the US

  1. cmayo

    I'm confused. Living in the Mid-Atlantic, as I do, I was thinking "he's got to have included West Virginia in those numbers and that's why it's high." So I click through, and of course BLS doesn't have these defined as regions.

    Well, WV has a 3.9% unemployment rate, so that's not it. So then I looked at every single conceivable state that could be Mid-Atlantic (PA, DE, NJ, MD, VA, WV, and NC, plus DC) and an overall rate of 4.2% just doesn't make sense. Sure, DC is at 4.7%, but it's less than 750K people. Delaware's at 4.5%, but again, 1M population. The big population states there (VA, PA, and to a lesser extend MD) are at 4.4, 2.9, and 3.2 respectively (and VA + MD has more population than PA + DE).

    Don't really have a point here, but these are rather arbitrary regional definitions to the point that they weren't really useful to look at in this form (which states are in South Atlantic vs. South East, for example?) and TBH one of those 51-bar charts would've been more useful here. Color code them by "region" if you like, but the regions also need to make more sense.

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  3. Zephyr

    Checking on county data for where I live in the mid-Atlantic we're around 2.1%, and have dipped below 2% in recent months, which explains why every service business has help wanted signs stuck all over the place.

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