WEEKLYCLAIMS: Stata module to Get Weekly Initial Jobless Claims from the US Dept. of Labor

Nikos Askitas (askitas@gmail.com)

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: weeklyclaims (indirectly) queries the website of the US Dept. of Labor at workforcesecurity.doleta.gov and gets the latest weekly initial unemployment claims across the US or any state, whichever specified.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9
Keywords: data retrieval; unemployment; labor force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03-05, Revised 2012-06-17
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install weeklyclaims". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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