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Download OEWS Estimates

Source: R/oews.R
onet_oews.Rd

Downloads Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and returns them as a tibble. OEWS estimates include employment counts and wage percentiles by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code.

Usage

onet_oews(
  type = c("national", "state", "metro", "industry"),
  year = latest_oews_year(),
  path = NULL,
  cache_dir = tools::R_user_dir("onet2r", "cache"),
  force = FALSE,
  quiet = TRUE
)

Arguments

type

OEWS file type: "national", "state", "metro", or "industry".

year

Integer estimate year. Defaults to the latest year expected to be available from the BLS public OEWS downloads.

path

Optional path to a manually downloaded OEWS ZIP, CSV, TXT, DAT, or Excel file. If supplied, no download is attempted.

cache_dir

Directory used to cache the downloaded BLS ZIP file.

force

Logical; if TRUE, re-download even when a cached file exists.

quiet

Logical; if FALSE, show download progress.

Value

A tibble of OEWS estimates with year, oews_type, and snake_case OEWS columns.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
oews <- onet_oews("national", 2024)
head(oews)
}