The Public Policy Institute of New York State has begun publishing a new “Monthly Economic Snapshot of Upstate New York,” a compendium of data showing short- and long-term job-growth trends in Upstate and its key metropolitan areas.
The Institute will update the snapshot monthly and post it on www.ppinys.org/nyecon/upstate_jobs.pdf. The snapshot is a one-page report in PDF format.
Each month, the report will compare the most recent month’s payroll jobs data to the same month a year earlier, showing both the change in jobs and the percentage change. These numbers and comparisons will be provided for all of New York, for Upstate as a whole, for six Upstate metro areas in aggregate, and for those areas individuals. The six Upstate metro areas are: the Albany-Schenectady-Troy; Binghamton; Buffalo-Niagara; Rochester; Syracuse; and Utica-Rome.
In addition, for comparision purposes, the same data will be provided for two other states that are comparable in demographics and industrial base to New York: Ohio and Michigan.
In each of these categories, separate tables will provide information on private-sector jobs and manufacturing jobs. And, in all of these categories, the snapshot will also snapshot will provide longer-term data, comparing 2003 data to data in 1990, again showing both the change in raw job numbers and the percentage change.
All data are provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some additional calculations by the Public Policy Institute.