I appreciated that UI data is in Census data so you can break out by race, age etc. Not apples to apples. However, does it even make any sense to include the most recent top-level data, in my case county? So if I'm listing county ACS data and have UI (total for county for 2021). A note or reference that it's currently x.x% (Sept 22 via LAU). Does anyone do this? Perhaps say it trending up2.3 or down 2.3 vs 2021 per LAU?
Id use the LAUS or the ACS; not both. Invites confusion as to which is the "right" or "real" estimate. Id have reservation that any single, monthly CPS-based LAUS figure at county level…
It might help if you could provide some context on how this would be used. In some cases, I could see this being helpful, but in others, it could be really confusing.
As someone who runs a state labor market information shop that produces the LAUS data, please don't mix and match with ACS. They have wildly different methodologies, even if they're trying to answer the…