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Wyoming Unemployment Insurance Statistics:
Normalized Initial Claims--Statewide, by Industry

For the seventh time in a row (in year-to-year comparisons), total initial claims filed continued to decrease. Statewide, total claims filed were down 21.0 percent from July 1996 to 1997, and Laramie County showed an even larger decrease (35.6%).

CLAIMS FILED % CHANGE IN CLAIMS FILED
JUL 97 JUN 97 JUL 96 JUN-JUL 97 JUL 96-97
TOTAL CLAIMS FILED 995 1,084 1,260 -8.2 -21.0
TOTAL GOODS PRODUCING 350 359 464 -2.5 -24.6
--Manufacturing 48 57 95 -15.8 -49.5
--Mining 58 68 91 -14.7 -36.3
----Oil & Gas Extraction 47 57 83 -17.5 -43.4
--Construction 244 234 278 4.3 -12.2
CLAIMS FILED % CHANGE IN CLAIMS FILED
JUL 97 JUN 97 JUL 96 JUN-JUL 97 JUL 96-97
TOTAL SERVICE PRODUCING 597 678 663 -11.9 -10.0
--Transportation & Public Utilities 32 34 65 -5.9 -50.8
----Transportation 22 24 46 -8.3 -52.2
----Communications & Public Utilities 10 10 19 0.0 -47.4
--Trade 229 209 223 9.6 2.7
----Wholesale Trade 48 21 47 128.6 2.1
----Retail Trade 180 188 177 -4.3 1.7
--Finance, Insurance & Real Estate 24 15 31 60.0 -22.6
--Services 214 283 245 -24.4 -12.7
----Personal & Business Services 55 65 61 -15.4 -9.8
----Health Services 30 34 45 -11.8 -33.3
--Government 98 137 99 -28.5 -1.0
----Local Government 66 101 50 -34.7 32.0
------Local Education 33 60 24 -45.0 37.5
UNCLASSIFIED 48 47 133 2.1 -63.9


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