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The Office of Economic Advisors publishes an Excel table that formats monthly labor force, employment, unemployment, and unemployment rate estimates for cities (population exceeds 25,000), counties, metropolitan statistical areas, Workforce Investment Act regions, and Wisconsin. The estimates in this file are NOT seasonally adjusted.

Labor Force Estimates for 2008 months (Excel, 70KB)

Note: Please see the MSA map for Wisconsin for MSA definitions.

The local area unemployment statistics (LAUS) are produced by the Wisconsin Bureau of Workforce Information

Historical Unemployment Rates and Labor Force Estimates

Unemployment Rates and Labor Force Estimates at the city, county, Metropolitan Statistical Area, and state level. Monthly estimates, not seasonally adjusted, includes the annual average.

1990-1999 (Excel, 1.4MB)

2000-2007 (Excel, 1.4MB)

Unemployment Rates Only (links leave the OEA site)

State only, not seasonally adjusted, 1954 to most recent revision. (Excel, 33KB)

State only, seasonally adjusted (Excel, 35KB)

Metropolitan Statistical Area, not seasonally adjusted (Excel, 93KB)

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