Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate

Deletion

This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of U.S. states by unemployment rate. There was no consensus. dbenbenn | talk 19:11, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The graphic is very old (2004). Can we update it? talk | talk 9:01, 9 Mar 2007 (UTC)

As a note on a similar subject, I've changed the map graphic to a new one, and changed the name to not make any reference to the date, so it may be updated simply by going to the Wikimedia Commons and replacing that map file whenever it should become obsolete... And don't forget to adjust the captions in every page that references the file, too, so it mentions the correct month. Nottheking (talk) 06:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

The graphic is, yet again, VERY old and very wrong. Why have one??Rachaella (talk) 23:44, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Expand (sources or something)

Does anyone have any dates or sources, or any idea where these numbers are from? Some of these do not match the statistics I am familiar with../zro (⠠⠵) 13:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I have reverted the article to the version that contained sources. Also, I am updating it to reflect the updated source. If the previous edits were intended for some reason, please explain here before reverting to un-sourced unexplained version. Thanks! ./zro (⠠⠵) 13:51, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

This is quick and rough, and a total noobish hack job, but i figure it might be useful for future reference. I understand this is not an elegant oneliner...
Given the format of the data here as of 2009-01-08 one can copy the body of the table (not the html) and run it through this ridiculous spagetti code as "rawData". It will output the body of the wikitable in an appropriate format.
cat rawData | sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/'| perl -pe 's/\S+/\u$&/g' | sed 's/[0-9 ]* \([a-zA-Z ]*\)\([0-9.]*\)/|[[\1]]\n|\2\n|-/'| sed 's/ *\]\]/]]/'
Might not be THAT helpful, but ya... ./zro (⠠⠵) 15:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The unemployment rate is the percent of the LABOR FORCE that is unemployed, not the percent of the total population. The numbers are from the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the US Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.254.199.38 (talk) 22:17, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Design suggestion: Shouldn't the "up" arrows showing a rise in the unemployment rate be red (for bad) instead of green (A-ok)?Mcbobhall (talk) 13:37, 15 October 2010 (UTC)mcbobhall

The arrows shouldn't be used at all. One of the key features of the tables used in Wikipedia are that they can be sorted to improve reader understanding and to inherently enable more information content in the page. By using the arrows exclusively instead of signs (both could and probably should be used) sorting by the change in unemployment column doesn't convey the information in an intuitive fashion (which should be the goal). That is, sorting by change in unemployment should place best improvement at the top of the column and worst decline at the bottom of the column, or vice versa if reversed. Using the arrow to denote direction and only listing the absolute value of change means that you either get all the states with no change in unemployment at the top of the table and the states with the greatest change at the bottom, improved and declined, mixed together. This should be changed and should be considered as a part of the standard for designing tables Wiki-wide. What would be most useful, of course, would be a column listing the signed value of unemployment change along with the arrow, or two separate columns if it is felt mixing the sign and arrow might be confusing.96.255.92.128 (talk) 23:51, 8 July 2012 (UTC)mjd

By population?

Is there a chart showing unemployment by state according to number of people unemployed rather than the rate of unemployed? I suppose you could get an estimation of this by multiplying each state's unemployment rate by its working force population. — Loadmaster (talk) 15:27, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Another good idea might be to add the previous month's unemployment rates to get a comparison. 24.5.190.156 (talk) 18:26, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Yearly figures

I've deleted the yearly figures as I couldn't find a reliable citation for them and I'm not even sure which year they were supposed to represent. Feel free to add them back if you can meet these concerns. Armouredduck (talk) 14:02, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Rank sort button

The sort button for rank malfunctions: it sorts by digits rather than numbers! Thus, after 1 comes 10, then 11 etc. Kdammers (talk) 04:25, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Extremely out of date

This data is very out of date and seems to represent numbers from the middle of the pandemic, which are hugely outdated at this point. I started to edit in the current numbers, but noticed that there's also a column for monthly change. Do we want to keep that in? Is that data in particular sourced as well? 69.118.157.164 (talk) 13:19, 10 August 2022 (UTC)