Unemployment Down in 9 Metro areas; Total Employment Up in 4 (Chicago: sales, 2013)

[Maintainschaos]

Mixed economic messages:

Unemployment rates have dropped in 9 metro areas in the state, but total metro employment only increased in 4 metro areas from April 2012 to April 2013. Interestingly, despite an increase of ~47,000 jobs in Chicago from April last year, the MSA unemployment is up 0.5% from last April. Maybe due to more people entering the labor market and looking for jobs?

The lowest unemployment rates in Illinois are in the following metros:

Bloomington-Normal: 5.8%
Quad Cities: 6.2%
Springfield: 6.4%

All the numbers can be found here: IDES: Unemployment Falls in Most Areas Compared to Last Year

[linicx]

This is good despite the fact all four lost population. However, I think it is skewed as it does include Iowa and Wisconsin population in Illinois. It would be just as skewed to include Illinois in Iowa and Wisconsin data.

It is sample of our government at work. It is too much trouble to be accurate. It would also be a bit more accurate if seasonal was included, too - even it was a separate window. .

[Maintainschaos]

Originally Posted by linicx

This is good despite the fact all four lost population. However, I think it is skewed as it does include Iowa and Wisconsin population in Illinois. It would be just as skewed to include Illinois in Iowa and Wisconsin data.

It is sample of our government at work. It is too much trouble to be accurate. It would also be a bit more accurate if seasonal was included, too - even it was a separate window. .

Just to be clear, the only city that lost population was Rockford (and I'm not sure about its MSA). Chicago is estimated to be +20,000 people since 2010. According to the recent data, all of the others have gained in population. See:

//www.city-data.com/forum/chica...estimates.html

[linicx]

Maintainschaos...

Your link doesn''t work for me; I did this. It has different data but it is NOT about unemployment. Unemployment is down and home sales are slowly rising. It's all good news.

//www.city-data.com/forum/chica...timates-2.html