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# U.S. Coal Employment, 2001 to 2014
This repository contains the number of coal mineres employed in the top ten U.S. coal producing states from 2001 to 2014.

## What's in this repository?

This repository includes the data used for the graphics in the Inside Energy story, ["Wyoming Town Built On Coal Contemplates Its Future"](http://insideenergy.org/2015/08/17/wyoming-town-built-on-coal-contemplates-its-future/).

## Data dictionary

The data files *coal_employment_2001_2014.csv* and *coal_employment_2001_2014.xlsx* include the number of workers employed in the coal industry annually for the top ten coal producing states (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming).

## Data Sources and Notes

The original source of the general coal data is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which is accessed [here](http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment).

Inside Energy queried using the NAICS code 2121 (coal mining).

Note that 2014 data is preliminary. Data was not available for all states and all years, due to privacy concerns. In our graphic, we added a dotted line for Illinois when the data was not available. In the data tables, we used "--" to indicate unavailable data. Note that this does not mean no coal workers were employed in those states in those years.

BLS is not the only source that published data on coal employment. We compared this data, from the BLS, to [earlier data we had compiled](https://github.com/InsideEnergy/Data-for-stories/tree/master/20150428-coal-production-employment) from the Energy Information Administration, which is based on data from the Mining Safety and Health Administration, and found that the trends were the same.
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Year,IL,IN,KY,MT,ND,OH,PA,TX,WV,WY
2001,--,--,15253,767,943,--,8420,2341,16537,4285
2002,3710,2836,14966,746,934,--,7964,2293,16126,4818
2003,--,2749,13942,693,912,2010,7062,2258,14727,4863
2004,--,2726,14273,706,914,2039,7212,2219,15873,4838
2005,--,2604,15409,729,935,2101,7415,2178,17374,5011
2006,--,2823,16444,797,943,2127,7592,2168,18738,5916
2007,3773,2890,15391,805,973,2061,7420,2241,18518,6334
2008,--,2952,16864,846,995,2308,7872,2565,20459,6843
2009,3492,3154,17170,946,1033,2601,7685,2734,20201,7054
2010,3424,3093,15990,1026,1068,2480,7772,2841,20461,6932
2011,3752,3423,16590,1064,1094,2570,8454,2946,23095,7004
2012,4005,3585,14586,1153,1152,2562,8619,3122,22566,7009
2013,3664,3531,11676,1116,1173,2369,8002,3162,19980,6648
2014,3679,3605,10531,1126,1219,--,7307,3478,17862,6541
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