Dear all,
I have been looking for data on unemployment rate (or any basic economic indicators) by census tract or county during 2005-2009.
5-year ACS data appears to start from 2010, and no data between 2000 and 2009.
There is 3-year ACS data between 2005 and 2009, but it covers only large counties with more than 20,000 people, so it drops about 1/3 of counties.
I looked at IPUM NHGIS but it is not any better.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Kangoh
You can get county level unemployment back to 1990 from the BLS. https://www.bls.gov/data/
Look under Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS).
Hi Douglas,
Thanks for your help, and it is very useful.
Also, I found that USDA has data, County-level Data Sets | Economic Research Service, but it starts from 2000.