• AWIC Average Weekly Intial Claims
• Average Weekly Unemployment Initial Claims Benefits
• CES Current Emplyment Statistics
• Connecticut Employment Sectors
• Connecticut Nonfarm Employment
• CPI Consumer Price Index
• Employment Projections
• Employment/Wages by Industry
• LAUS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
• Labor Force Data
• OEWS Employment and Wages
• Recessionary Job Loss and Recovery
• Statewide UIClaims Profile
• Unemployment Benefits
• UI Program Financial Data
• U.S. Unemployment Rate
• Workforce Sector Trends

Highlights changes from both a month and a year earlier in unemployment, nonfarm employment, and changes over-the-year for manufacturing wages and hours for the State and its nine labor market areas. Other economic indicators for CT, such as seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment, average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance, the unemployment rate, and average manufacturing weekly hours, are listed by month for the entire previous year up to the current period.

Every month the Digest provides the most current economic data available for Connecticut. Decision-makers from many arenas are better informed because the Digest makes it possible to follow the trends and understand the status of economic forces that influence Connecticut's labor markets. We are pleased to continue providing information that is useful in making decisions, setting plans, and engaging in informed conversation

This publication lists start-ups, expansions, staff reductions, and layoffs reported by the media, both current and future. The report provides company name, the number of workers involved, date of the action, the principal product or service of the company, a brief synopsis of the action, and the source and date of the media article.

Taken together, this group of economic indicators presents an overall picture of the current conditions in the Connecticut labor market, business climate and consumer sector. Charts, trends, year-to-year changes and data for twenty-four econcomic indicators from 2000 to current. For graphs & data follow the links below the column headers.

Provides the latest estimates of resident labor force, employment, unemployment, and unemployment rates for the US, Connecticut, and the State's labor market areas and towns. These estimates are derived through the LAUS program model, a federal/state cooperative project established by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Office of Research gathers, analyzes, and disseminates information on the economy, workforce and careers that is used to evaluate the economic health of CT, to support and promote state workforce development activities, and to assist students and job seekers in making career choices. At-A-Glance is a monthly pamphlet that contains the latest updates for data items most frequently requested.

The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine Data Series (HWOL) measures the number of new, first-time online jobs and jobs reposted from the previous month for over 16,000 Internet job boards, corporate boards and smaller job sites that serve niche markets and smaller geographic areas. The data can be used as a real-time measure of labor demand.