This provides total job loss estimates by industry for every 2018 Census tract in the US (excluding Puerto Rico, Guam, and other territories) due to Covid-19. Couple of notes about the data:
- The attributes in the file starting with
X
correspond to LEHD industry codes, and the translation list can be found in industry_code_translation_list.csv. - These estimates for jobs loss are based on place of residence for workers. So when we report that 100 jobs are lost in tract
j
, this means that there are 100 workers who live in tractj
that have lost jobs. - Every row in the CSV is a unique census tract.
Below is a description of each of the columns in the data:
GEOID
: Census tract GEOIDstate_name
: Full state namecounty_name
: Human readable county namestate_fips
: 2 digit FIPS code for the statecounty_fips
: The 4 digit FIPS code for the countycbsa
: The 5 digit FIPS code for the CBSAcbsa_name
: Human readable CBSA name. May be NA if a tract is not contained within a CBSAX01
-X20
: Number of estimated jobs lost in that particular industry by residents of that particular tract. The translation from X01 to human readable industries can be found inindustry_code_translation_list.csv
.X000
: The total number of jobs lost by residents of that particular tract.total_workers_employed
: Total number of workers who live in that tractworker_job_loss_rate
: The percentage of all jobs that are lost, orX000
/total_workers_employed
. The numerator is our estimated jobs lost and the denominator is the total number of jobs as estimated by the Census LODES data. Note this number may be slightly off due to rounding