Full Source: Current data are available from the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas (FRBD),
http://www.dallasfed.org/data/hotstats/txempl.html,
accessed 15 July 2005. A longer report using 2001 data from the Dallas
Fed is at
http://www.dallasfed.org/eyi/regional/0101.html, accessed 15
July 2005. All local area employment data was originally compiled by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),
http://www.bls.gov/lau/home.htm.
Full Footnote: Employment figures for each region are averages of data for Texas
metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for the first four months of 2005.
We follow the Dallas Fed's practice of grouping smaller MSAs for
reporting purposes. Regions featured in the pie chart and the MSAs they
include are as follows: Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land MSA;
Dallas-Plano-Irving MSA; San Antonio MSA; Ft Worth/Arlington MSA;
Austin-Round Rock MSA; Border: Laredo MSA, Brownsville-Harlingen MSA,
and McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr MSA; Central: Waco MSA, College-Station-Bryan
MSA, and Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood MSA; Farm Belt: Abilene MSA, San
Angelo MSA, Amarillo MSA, and Lubbock MSA; Gulf Coast: Beaumont-Port
Arthur MSA,Corpus Christi MSA, and Victoria MSA; North Texas: Texarkana
MSA, Longview MSA, Tyler MSA, Sherman-Denison MSA, and Wichita Falls
MSA; Oil Patch: Midland-Odessa MSA.