/jobs-report

Improved jobs report numbers

Primary LanguageR

Better Jobs Numbers

Code to auto-generate a report which calculates improved BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) estimates of the change in nonfarm payroll, by predicting the final revised numbers from the initial numbers, ADP payroll data, and total monthly initial new unemployment claims.

Jobs numbers

Generating the report

First run Rscript run.R install at the command line to install the required packages. Then run Rscript run.R make to make the report.

Data

The merged dataset can be found at data/jobs.csv.