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Wyoming Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage record summary statistics were first published in the May 1995 issue of Wyoming Labor Force Trends. They were last published in the November 1996 issue. These statistics will be reported once again on a regular basis. Since November 1996, a few changes have taken place in this summary report. The Pseudo Social Security Number’s (SSN's) were removed to their own file and are no longer reported in the wage record summary statistics. Pseudo SSN’s, as explained by Brett Judd in his November 1996 Trends article, "are used when an employer doesn’t report an employee’s social security number. Some of these Pseudo SSN’s (that start with 000) contain wages for more than one individual." Also, the percent increases in jobs, SSN’s and total wages over the previous year/quarter (PYQ) were added to help judge growth.

Based on the wage record summary statistics for the fourth quarter in 1996 and 1997, there was a slight increase in jobs worked (jobs) and the number of persons working them (SSN’s) over the year. The number of jobs increased by 1.9 percent and the SSN’s increased by 1.1 percent. This is similar to third quarter which had a 1.7 and 1.2 percent increase in jobs and SSN’s, respectively. The total wages were up over the third quarter, with fourth quarter increasing by 6.4 percent and third quarter increasing by 5.4 percent. The preliminary data for first quarter 1998 shows an increase in jobs (0.1%), SSN’s (0.2%) and total wages (4.1%) over first quarter 1997. See Table for details.

General Definition of Terms Used in the Wage Record Table: The following is a brief explanation of the terms used in this report:

• TOTAL JOBS - Total number of jobs (records) downloaded from the mainframe file.
• TOTAL SSN’S - Total number of unique SSN’s found in this quarter.
• ONE JOB - Those SSN’s who had one and only one job in this quarter.
• TWO JOBS - Those SSN’s who had two and only two jobs in this quarter.
• THREE JOBS- Those SSN’s who had three and only three jobs in this quarter.
• FOUR JOBS OR MORE - Those SSN’S who had four or more jobs in this quarter.
• TOTAL BY JOBS- The sum of all jobs. Used for checking data entry.
• COUNT - The count of SSN’s by total and by jobs.
• PERCENT OF TOTAL SSN’S- The row percent of the count of SSN’s under the count column.
• TOTAL WAGES - The sum of all wages for each category listed under the job rows.
• PERCENT OF TOTAL - The row percent of the total wages.
• MEAN WAGES PER QUARTER - The average wages per quarter for each category of jobs. Calculated by dividing the total wages by the count of SSN’s.
• NUMBER OF JOBS PER SSN - The number of jobs per SSN. Calculated by taking the total number of jobs divided by the total number of SSN’s.
• TOTAL UNIQUE SSN’S TO DATE - A running total of unique SSN’s to date. For example, from 92/1 to 96/1 there are 442,846 SSN’s.
• NEW SSN’S THIS QUARTER - The total of unique SSN’s not found on any other previous quarter to date.
• 92 PARTICIPATION - The number of people who worked in 1992 who also worked in any successive quarter.
• PERCENT INCREASE PYQ - The percent increase over the previous year/quarter (for example, 98/1-97/1).

 

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