Introduction
This project will introduce you to the US employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the United States government. The BLS is the federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity and working conditions and prices in the US economy. Its mission is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. In this project, we will use the aggregated annual data on employment and pay, stratified by geography and industry, from 2012, derived from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).
This data can be downloaded as a compressed comma-separated value (CSV) file at
http://www.bls.gov/cew/data/files/2012/csv/2012_annual_singlefile.zip
, which contains the single file 2012.annual.singlefile.csv
. This file has 15 columns and about 3.5 million rows.
The QCEW is a quarterly collection of data, via the corporate tax collection system, related to employment and wages reported...