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ACCRA Cost of Living Index |
A quarterly survey associated with the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association. Provides comparisons of prices between about 300 cities. Indexed to 100 where 100 is the average of U.S. cities. An index of more than 100 means it cost more than average to live in that city shows expenditure patterns of "mid-management households". In Utah the survey usually reports on Salt Lake, Provo/Orem, Logan, St. George, and Cedar City. |
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Active Applicant |
Any job-seeking registrant who has actively participated in job-seeking activities within the prescribed time frame. In the Utah system, registrants are active for sixty days past their last service date or until they enter employment. Registrants may re-activate at any time. |
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America's Job Bank |
A U.S. Department of Labor system which allows employers to sort job openings on a computerized database and job seekers to search for jobs, 24 hours a day seven days a week. |
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America's Talent Bank |
A U.S. Department of Labor system which allows job seekers to place their credentials on a computerized database which can be accessed, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by employers nationwide. |
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Average Monthly Wage |
Total annual wages divided by the number of employers on nonagricultural payrolls divided by 12. |
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Career One Stop |
The U.S. Department of Labor's sponsored America's Labor Market Information System. The CareerOneStop portal includes powerful labor market tools for job seekers and employers in America's Job Bank (AJB), America's Career InfoNet, and America's Service Locator. |
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Civilian Labor Force |
The number of individuals age 16 or over who are employed or unemployed. People who are not working or actively looking for work are not included in the labor force. |
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) |
A monthly index prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Estimates the nationwide rate of inflation for a standard selection of goods and services. CPI-U: Represents all urban consumers. Covers about 87 percent of the U.S. population. CPI-W: Represents wage earners and clerical workers. It covers about 32 percent of the population. |
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Current Employment Statistics Survey (CES) |
A federal-state cooperative statistical program to estimate current employment in a state or sub-state area. A statistically valid sample of employers is surveyed to supply total number of employees, total number of female employees, total number of production workers, total number of hours worked, and total wages earned. This survey is the basis of current estimates of these characteristics. It is used in the calculation of the monthly estimates of employed, unemployed, and the unemployment rate. |
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Current Population Survey (CPS) |
A nationwide survey conducted each month by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Information is gathered from sample of 50,000 households designed to represent the civilian non-institutional population of persons 16 years of age or over. Each state has a portion of the CPS, which is the basis for state labor force data and unemployment rates. |
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Discouraged workers |
Persons not in the labor force who want and are available for a job and who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but who are not currently looking because they believe there are no jobs available or there are none for which they would qualify. |
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Durable Goods |
Manufactured items with a normal life expectancy of three years or more. Automobiles, furniture, household appliances and mobile homes are examples. Because of their nature, expenditures for durable goods and generally post-ponable. Consequently, durable goods sale are a more volatile component of consumer expenditures. |
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Employed Persons |
An estimate of the number of persons age 16 and over who, (a) did any work at all (at least 1 hour) as paid employees, worked in their own business profession or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in a business operated by a member of the family, and (b) were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent. Each employed person is counted only once even if he or she held more than one job. |
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Equal Employment Opportunity |
A program that became law with the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and labor management apprenticeship programs must actively seek to eliminate discrimination against and increase employment for females and minorities. This 1972 law, later strengthened by executive orders, requires employers to draw up a detailed written plan for equalizing economic salaries, training programs, fringe benefits and other conditions of employment. These plans included numerical goals and timetables for achieving such changes. |
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Establishments |
Any firm, organization or division for which data are separately reported to the Utah Department of Workforce Services, i.e., individual physical facilities such as store plants, offices and other work sites. |
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Full-Time Worker |
A worker who usually works 35 hours or more per week. |
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Forecast Data |
Data based on future projections or estimates. The data will usually change when the future becomes the past. |
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Goods-Producing Industries |
Industry sectors in this group include: natural resources and mining, construction, manufacturing (durable and nondurable) |
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Industry |
A group of establishments that produce similar products or provide similar services. For example, all establishments that manufacture automobiles are in the same industry. A given industry, or even a particular establishment in that industry, might have employees in dozens of occupations. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) groups similar establishments into industries. |
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Inflation |
Inflation has been defined as a process of continuously rising prices, or equivalently, of a continuously falling value of money. |
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Household |
All persons--related family members and all unrelated persons--who occupy a housing unit. |
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Householder |
The person (or one of the persons) whose name a household unit is owned or rented. |
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Labor Force |
See Civilian Labor Force |
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Labor Force Participation Rate |
The civilian non-institutionalized population age 16 and over of an area divided into the area's civilian labor force, expressed as a percentage or rate. |
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Labor Market |
A geographic area where workers can reside and work. |
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Labor Market Information |
The body of information that deals with the functioning of labor markets and the determination of the demand for and supply of labor. It includes, but is not limited to such key factors as changes in the level and/or composition of economic activity, the population, employment and unemployment, occupation, income, earnings, wage rates and fringe benefits. |
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Market Basket |
A package of goods and services that consumers purchase for day-to-day living. The weight of each item is based on the amount of expenditure reported by a sample of households |
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Mass Layoff |
A situation that involves at least 50 persons at the same establishment, each of who has filed an initial claim for unemployment insurance benefits during a consecutive five-week period. |
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Mean |
Calculated by dividing the sum of values in a particular statistical universe by the number of units in the universe. Also referred to as the average. |
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Median |
The value that divides a particular distribution (like wage rates) into two equal parts, one part having values above the median and the other having values below the median. |
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Metropolitan Statistical Area |
As defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, an urban area that meets specified criteria: either it has a core city of at least 500,000 inhabitants within a county or economically linked group of counties, or it contains an urbanized area of at least 50,000 inhabitants and has a total population of at least 100,000. Example: Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Micropolitan Statistical Area |
These are smaller geographic areas based on having at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 population but less than 50,000, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties. Example: Brigham City. Utah. |
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Middle Range |
The middle fifty percent of a range of data. Thus twenty-five percent of the observations fall on the high end, and twenty-five percent on the low end of the middle range. |
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NAICS |
The North American Industry Classification System. This is a new coding system that will replace the out-dated Standard Industrial Classification System. |
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Nonagricultural Employment |
A average of the number of nonagricultural employees reported for a particular time period to the Utah Department of Workforce Services by Employers subject to Utah's unemployment insurance laws, federal agencies in Utah subject to the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program and other Utah nonagricultural employers not included under unemployment insurance. As a result of multiple job holding and payroll turnover, more than one employer reports some workers. Therefore, the count is not of persons, but of jobs. Nonagricultural employment includes most corporation officials, executives, supervisory personnel and clerical workers. It excludes proprietors, self-employed, unpaid family workers and workers who neither worked nor received wages as a result of strikes or work stoppages, temporary layoffs or unpaid sick or vacation leave. See also Quarterly Covered Employment and Wages Program (QCEW). |
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Nondurable Goods |
Manufactured items that generally last for only a short time (three years or less). Food, beverages, apparel and gasoline are common examples. Because of their nature, nondurable goods are generally purchased when needed. |
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Nonfarm/Nonagricultural |
The total of all NAICS industry divisions excluding agriculture. |
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Occupation |
Job title that identifies a person's principle business or work activity. |
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Part-time employees |
Employees who usually work between 1 and 34 hours per week. |
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Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Program |
A federal-state cooperative statistical program based on a biannual sample of employers produces estimates of occupational employment and wages for the state and sub-state area. This survey is conducted by the Department of Workforce Services and funded by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employers are requested to supply data on the number of workers they employ by occupation and wage interval. |
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Quarterly Covered Employment and Wages Program (QCEW)
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A federal-state cooperative program that collects employment and wage information for workers covered by State unemployment insurance (UI) laws and for Federal workers covered by the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program. Data includes wage, employment, address and coding information for individual establishments. This data is used for evaluating labor trends and major industry developments and is also used in time series analyses, industry comparisons, and special studies such as analyses of wages by size of establishment. It also serves as the basic source of benchmark information for employment by industry and employment by size of establishment in the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program, the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program, and the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Statistics program. The Social Security Administration and State governments also use this data in updating economic assumptions and forecasting trends in their taxable wage base. Business and private research organizations find this program one of the best sources available of detailed employment and wage statistics. See also Nonagricultural Employment. |
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Population |
An estimate or count of the number of residents of an area as of a specific date, usually July 1 of a given year. |
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Per Capita Personal Income |
The annual total personal income of residents divided by resident population as of July 1 of the subject year. |
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Producer Price Index (PPI) |
A monthly index prepared by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. It measures the changes over time of the combined cost of crude, intermediate, and finished goods. The base of the current index is 1982 equals 100. |
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Preliminary Data |
Data that are issued before the final or revised data. In other words data that will probably change. |
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Race and Ethnicity |
People who identify themselves as being of racial or ethnic heritage other than white. Racial minority groups include Black/African American, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islanders. Persons of Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race. |
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Regions (Department of Workforce Services) |
Workforce Services has divided into five regions for planning and administrative purposes. The regions include: Northern : Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Morgan, Rich and Weber counties.
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Revised Data |
The result of changes based upon additional or improved information. |
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Seasonal Adjustment |
A statistical procedure, which uses past year's data to remove seasonal fluctuations in a data series. |
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Self-employed Persons |
Include those who worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm. Published data exclude those who operate their own incorporated business or farm. Estimates for such workers are published separately. |
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Service-Providing Industries |
Industry sectors in this group include: trade, transportation, and utilities; information; financial activities; professional and business services; education and health services; leisure and hospitality; other services; and government (federal, state, and local) |
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Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System |
System used to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. All workers are classified into one of over 820 occupations according to their occupational definition. To facilitate classification, occupations are combined to form 23 major groups, 96 minor groups, and 449 broad occupations. Each broad occupation includes detailed occupation(s) requiring similar job duties, skills, education, or experience. |
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Total Personal Income |
The sum of net earnings by place of residence, rental income of persons, personal dividend income, personal interest income and transfer payments. Personal income is measured before the deduction of personal income taxes and other personal taxes and is reported in current dollars (no adjustment is made for price changes). |
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Total Wages |
All yearly remuneration paid to nonagricultural workers, including gross wages, commissions, bonuses, cash value of meals, lodging and other gratuities when furnished as payment for the job. Reimbursement for travel and other business expenditures are not included. |
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Unemployed |
An estimate of people age 16 and over who are not employed and who made a specific effort to find work in the last four weeks and were available for work. It includes new entrants to the labor force, re-entrants, job losers, and job leavers. Conceptually many more people than just those on "unemployment insurance". Usually expressed as a monthly figure, or an annual average of monthly estimates. |
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Unemployment Rate |
Unemployed divided by the civilian labor force times 100. |
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Veteran |
A veteran is generally defined as a person who has had at least six months of active duty in the United States military services and was not dishonorably discharged. Within that broad definition there are veteran groups who receive additional preference in the Department of Workforce Services system. They include Vietnam Era Veterans, Gulf War Veterans, Disabled Veterans, Special Disabled Veterans and Recently Separated Veterans. |
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Wage and Salary workers |
Workers who receive wages, salaries, commissions, tips, payment in kind, or piece rates. The group includes employees in both the private and public sectors. |
