This provides total job loss estimates by industry for every 2018 Census county in the US (excluding Puerto Rico, Guam, and other territories) due to Covid-19. A couple of notes about the data:
- The attributes in the file starting with
Xcorrespond 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 county
j, this means that there are 100 workers who live in countyjthat have lost jobs. - The columns labelled
maxandtmaxare the max values by tract and industry within counties/cbsas and only used for data visualization. Most users can safely ignore these columns as they were for our internal use in the data viz. - Every item in the geojson is a unique census county.
Below is a description of each of the attributes in the data:
county_fips: The 4 digit FIPS code for the countycounty_name: Human readable county namestate_name: Full state nameX01-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 tractmaxandtmax: bucketed max values by tract and industry, can be safely ignored