Wyoming Normalizeda Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Initial Claims
Statewide initial claims declined by 24.7% compared to March 2009. This was the third consecutive month of over-the-year declines.
a An average month is considered 4.33 weeks. If a month has four weeks, the normalization factor is 1.0825. If the month has five weeks, the normalization factor is 0.866. The number of raw claims is multiplied by the normalization factor to achieve the normalized claims counts.
