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Wyoming Unemployment Insurance Statistics:

Normalized Continued Claims--Statewide, by Industry

Unemployment Insurance claims data is now normalized. This means that each month's data is calculated using a standard, average number of weeks (4.33) so that all months are directly comparable. Please refer to the article "Process Changes in Unemployment Insurance Claims in Statistical Reporting" for more information.

WEEKS CLAIMED % CHANGE IN WEEKS CLAIMED
NOV 96 OCT 96 NOV 95 OCT-NOV 96 NOV 95-96
TOTAL WEEKS CLAIMED 14,126 9,612 13,008 47.0 8.6
TOTAL UNIQUE CLAIMANTS 4,607 2,777 4,200 65.9 9.7
TOTAL GOODS PRODUCING 5,009 3,018 5,018 66.0 -0.2
--Manufacturing 722 556 635 29.9 13.7
--Mining 746 540 1,061 38.1 -29.7
----Oil & Gas Extraction 562 429 927 31.0 -39.4
--Construction 3,541 1,922 3,322 84.2 6.6
WEEKS CLAIMED % CHANGE IN WEEKS CLAIMED
NOV 96 OCT 96 NOV 95 OCT-NOV 96 NOV 95-96
TOTAL SERVICE PRODUCING 8,101 5,768 7,132 40.4 13.6
--Transportation & Public Utilities 555 534 708 3.9 -21.6
----Transportation 415 396 472 4.8 -12.1
----Communications & Public Utilities 141 139 236 1.4 -40.3
--Trade 2,429 1,753 2,054 38.6 18.3
----Wholesale Trade 299 283 333 5.7 -10.2
----Retail Trade 2,130 1,470 1,722 44.9 23.7
--Finance, Insurance & Real Estate 212 171 255 24.0 -16.9
--Services 3,646 2,344 2,910 55.5 25.3
----Personal & Business Services 852 603 667 41.3 27.7
----Health Services 362 304 333 19.1 8.7
--Government 1,259 966 1,205 30.3 4.5
----Local Government 651 560 666 16.3 -2.3
------Local Education 233 189 230 23.3 1.3
UNCLASSIFIED 1,016 826 858 23.0 18.4


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