Basic Statistics

• Data by Topic - Employment & Labor / World Bank
• Employment Projections 1998-2008 / Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor
• Employment Statistics Briefing Room / White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room
• Indicators On Unemployment / United Nations Statistics Division
• MN Unemployment / Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• World Factbook - Labor Force by Country / United States Central Intelligence Agency
• World Factbook - Unemployment Rate by Country / United States Central Intelligence Agency

Databases

• BLS Create Customized Tables / United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
  The Selective Access application allows you to formulate and submit a query to the BLS LABSTAT database to extract data. The survey-specific database selections on the main menu are organized according to major BLS statistical categories. Each database link leads to a form-based query utility which is specifically designed for the efficient extraction of timeseries data from that survey database.
• International Database (IDB) / United States Bureau of the Census
  The IDB combines data from country sources (especially censuses and surveys) with IPC's estimates and projections to provide information from 1950 to 2050 on subjects like population by age and sex, vital rates, infant mortality, life tables, fertility and child survivorship, migration, marital status, family planning, ethnicity, religion, language, literacy, labor force, employment, income and households for 226 countries.
• International Financial Statistics
  International Financial Statistics (IFS) is the electronic version of the International Monetary Fund's standard source of statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from more than 200 IMF countries. It contains approximately 32,000 time series of financial and economic data. Topics covered include exchange rates, IMF postion, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population. The database contains annual, monthly, and quarterly data going back as far as 1945. Data output formats include CSV, Excel. HTML, and TAB delimited.
• LABORSTA International Labour Organization
  LABORSTA provides free access to yearly statistics of employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries, strikes and lockouts from 1969-2000; monthly statistics of employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, consumer price indices from 1976-2002 and "October Inquiry" statistics of wages and hours of work in 159 occupations from 1983-2000 and retail prices of 93 food items from 1985-2000.
• REIS Regional Economic Information System, 1969- / United States Bureau of Economic Analysis
  The web site offers interactive access to the tables CA1-3: personal income summary estimates, Detailed county annual tables (including employment and regional economic profiles) and CA34: wage and salary summary estimates.
• Zip Code Business Patterns 1998- (NAICS) / U. S. Bureau of the Census
  Zip Code Business Patterns (ZBP) presents business data summarized for nine employment-size classes by hundreds of SIC codes and about 30,000 ZIP codes nationwide.

Online Publications

• Comparing Sources of Data on Employment / Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• Green Book (Entitlement Programs) Ways & Means Committee of United States House of Representatives
  Included in the Green Book are descriptions of the U.S. government's social programs, statistical charts and tables covering size and growth of programs, program eligibility, payments, financing, participant characteristics, and history. Statistics are provided on health status and expenditures of the elderly, national health expenditures and health insurance coverage, Medicare reimbursement to hospitals and doctors, employment and unemployment, characteristics of families with children, economic, population, immigration, income and fiscal data, and the budget.
• MN Economic Trends / Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• Monthly Labor Review / Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor
• Occupational Outlook Handbook / Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor
• Statistical Abstract - Labor Force, Employment, & Earnings Section / United States Bureau of the Census
• WISTAT: Women's Indicators and Statistics Database / United Nations Statistics Division
  Available on GPL Workstations
  WISTAT is a compilation of currently available international statistics on gender, population and social development for 206 countries or areas of the world covering the period of 1970-1999.