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Wyoming Normalizeda Unemployment Insurance Statistics: Continued Claims

by: Patrick Manning, Principal Economist

Although the total number of continued weeks claimed declined overall from August 2011 to August 2012, significant increases were seen in natural resources & mining (67.7%) and wholesale trade (37.5%).

Continued
Claims 		Claims Filed % Change
Claims Filed
Jul
15 		Jul
15
Jul
15 		Jun
15 		Jul
14 		Jun
15 		Jul
14
Wyoming Statewide
TOTAL WEEKS CLAIMED 20,274 22,293 12,200 -9.1 66.2
TOTAL UNIQUE CLAIMANTS 4,824 6,431 2,990 -25.0 61.3
Benefit Exhaustions 419 346 263 21.1 59.3
Benefit Exhaustion Rates 8.7% 5.4% 8.8% 3.3% -0.1%
TOTAL GOODS-PRODUCING 8,929 10,568 3,380 -15.5 164.2
Natural Res. & Mining 5,089 5,898 1,027 -13.7 395.5
Mining 5,015 5,778 950 -13.2 427.9
Oil & Gas Extraction 474 480 92 -1.3 415.2
Construction 3,016 3,712 1,835 -18.8 64.4
Manufacturing 822 956 517 -14.0 59.0
TOTAL SERVICE-PROVIDING 7,794 8,329 5,573 -6.4 39.9
Trade, Transp., & Utilities 2,601 2,715 1,620 -4.2 60.6
Wholesale Trade 766 716 317 7.0 141.6
Retail Trade 783 819 841 -4.4 -6.9
Transp., Warehousing & Utilities 1,052 1,180 462 -10.8 127.7
Information 182 203 100 -10.3 82.0
Financial Activities 729 719 376 1.4 93.9
Prof. & Business Services 1,491 1,643 858 -9.3 73.8
Educational & Health Svcs. 1,351 1,123 1,345 20.3 0.4
Leisure and Hospitality 912 1,330 933 -31.4 -2.3
Other Svcs., exc. Public Admin. 521 587 332 -11.2 56.9
TOTAL GOVERNMENT 1,283 1,133 1,421 13.2 -9.7
Federal Government 219 235 290 -6.8 -24.5
State Government 202 206 202 -1.9 0.0
Local Government 860 690 929 24.6 -7.4
Local Education 269 173 245 55.5 9.8
UNCLASSIFIED 2,268 2,261 1,823 0.3 24.4
Laramie County
TOTAL WEEKS CLAIMED 1,806 2,028 1,625 -10.9 11.1
TOTAL UNIQUE CLAIMANTS 445 609 407 -26.9 9.3
TOTAL GOODS-PRODUCING 432 613 297 -29.5 45.5
Construction 264 375 189 -29.6 39.7
TOTAL SERVICE-PROVIDING 1,053 1,109 1,056 -5.0 -0.3
Trade, Transp., and Utilities 328 340 353 -3.5 -7.1
Financial Activities 87 82 102 6.1 -14.7
Prof. & Business Svcs. 280 288 236 -2.8 18.6
Educational and Health Svcs. 240 249 254 -3.6 -5.5
Leisure & Hospitality 90 114 113 -21.1 -20.4
TOTAL GOVERNMENT 209 195 209 7.2 0.0
UNCLASSIFIED 111 109 62 1.8 79.0
Natrona County
TOTAL WEEKS CLAIMED 3,494 3,873 1,460 -9.8 139.3
TOTAL UNIQUE CLAIMANTS 815 1,093 364 -25.4 123.9
TOTAL GOODS-PRODUCING 1,764 2,019 478 -12.6 269.0
Construction 349 441 144 -20.9 142.4
TOTAL SERVICE-PROVIDING 1,576 1,652 898 -4.6 75.5
Trade, Transp., and Utilities 578 636 236 -9.1 144.9
Financial Activities 159 165 63 -3.6 152.4
Professional & Business Svcs. 466 544 221 -14.3 110.9
Educational & Health Svcs. 214 199 283 7.5 -24.4
Leisure & Hospitality 126 116 105 8.6 20.0
TOTAL GOVERNMENT 71 82 41 -13.4 73.2
UNCLASSIFIED 83 117 40 -29.1 107.5
aAn 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.

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