Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development

This page is one of three companion pages to the Wisconsin Economic Indicators, providing definitions for each of the data series.

X = unclassified indicators.

The seven unclassified indicators signify economic influences that are not directly related to business cycle changes.

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Birth Registrations - X1

This is the monthly sum of live birth registrations from all counties in the state. The data are collected from each county by the Department of Health and Family Services.

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Death Registrations - X2

This is the monthly sum of death registrations from all counties in the state. The data are collected from each county by the Department of Health and Family Services.

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Net Natural Gain Population - X3

This is the monthly calculation of birth registrations minus death registrations. The data represent state population growth without regard to migration.

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Marriage Registrations - X4

This is the monthly total of marriage registrations from all counties in the state. The number is indicative of the level of family formation within the state. The data are collected from each county by the Department of Health and Family Services.

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Consumer Price Index - X5

This is a statistical measure of changes in prices of goods and services bought by urban consumers in the four county Milwaukee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The index is published twice a year for the Milwaukee MSA by the national Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Labor Disputes, Number of Workers - X8

This is the number of workers not working due to a labor/management dispute in any week during the month.   The data are collected by the Department of Workforce Development's Local Area Unemployment Statistics program.

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Unemployment Compensation Exhaustees - X9

This is an estimate of the number of laid-off workers who have exhausted their benefit weeks of unemployment compensation. The basis of the estimate is the number of final payments recorded by week by the state's Unemployment Compensation Division.