{
  "alt": "County map of the United States shaded by the 2023 unemployment rate on a teal scale. Most counties are toward the low end of the key and a small number are toward the high end. The number of gray counties, which are not in the file, is {fact:n_nodata_ur}.",
  "caption": "Most counties sit toward the low end of the key, between {fact:ur_p5_2023} at the fifth percentile and {fact:ur_p95_2023} at the ninety-fifth,. The pooled rates of metropolitan counties ({fact:ur_metro_2023}), nonmetropolitan counties with larger towns ({fact:ur_town_2023}) and those with smaller towns or none ({fact:ur_small_2023}) are close together. The map plots the rate for the people who live in each county, wherever they work; gray counties have no value.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "unemployment_map",
  "notes": [
    "LAUS county estimates are built from payroll counts, unemployment insurance claims and survey data and are controlled to state totals from a model; the county file carries no margin of error. {fact:n_small_lf} counties have a labor force below {fact:lf_floor}, and their estimates are the least certain.",
    "LAUS codes Connecticut by planning region. The map draws the eight legacy counties, with the counts of unemployed residents and the labor force of each planning region spread over them in proportion to 2020 population, so the Connecticut values are approximate. Puerto Rico is not drawn; its {fact:n_laus_pr} municipios are in the file.",
    "The tooltip gives the labor force of each county."
  ],
  "source": "Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, county annual averages, 2023; modeled estimates, not weighted",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Unemployment rate, annual average 2023 (percent of the labor force)",
    "payload": "unemployment_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "domain": [
        2.1,
        5.6
      ],
      "palette": "seq",
      "type": "sequential"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "labor_force"
    ],
    "tooltipLabels": {
      "labor_force": "Persons in the labor force"
    },
    "value": "rate",
    "valueFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    }
  },
  "subtitle": "Unemployment rate, percent of the civilian labor force, annual average 2023, residents of each county, modeled estimates",
  "title": "Unemployment among residents was {fact:ur_pooled_2023} across counties in 2023, differed little between county types, and reached {fact:ur_cut_high} or more in {fact:n_ur_high} counties",
  "type": "county-map",
  "width": "full"
}