I have been frustrated for months with the absence of up to date county level Oregon UI payments information. (Getting even a current week or month state level summary of UI benefits paid has been a struggle also).
While the Oregon quality info page HERE has made some recent improvements that highlight county level demographics the main Oregon unemployment data download information available HERE consist of PDF files, many of which end with data from in 2019
The last county level UI benefit table HERE ENDS with CY 2019 data; a snapshot is pasted below.
I stumbled upon the data available from Iowa HERE and I have serious data envy. A snapshot of one example shows monthly UI payments at the county level for May 2020. Note this includes a county map with benefits paid, and a county list sorted by highest to lowest payments. Also note that this view can be changed to show a sortable list of recipients by counties.
Since the Oregon Quality info dashboard and the Iowa dashboard both use Tableau I would hope the Oregon could reach out to Iowa to see if there is any opportunity to replicate the county level UI data reporting system in Oregon.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
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