Wyoming Normalizeda Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Initial Claims
Initial claims increased slightly (7.8%) compared to March and declined by 20.2% compared to April 2009. All of the reportable goods-producing industries showed substantial declines in claims over the month and year.
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.
