Well-Being in Selected Texas Cybercities

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Notes: This section includes data for the REVISED Metropolitan Divisions and Metropolitan Statistical Areas issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in 2003.  For a list of component counties of the REVISED metropolitan divisions and areas, click on "Component Counties in Texas Metropolitan Areas."

Total employment data are extracted from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program that is a Federal-State cooperative effort in which monthly estimates of total employment and unemployment rates are available for metropolitan divisions and areas.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C.

To locate Employment Data in Selected Texas Cybercities.
Go to http://www.bls.gov/
Under Employment & Unemployment in upper right portion of screen, click on "State and Local Unemployment Rates"
Click on "Get Detailed LAUS Statistics"
Click on "Create Customized Tables (one screen)"
Follow instructions on screen.
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Employment Data: High-Tech Employment ▲

Table
High-Tech Employment in Selected Texas Cybercities (annual), 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 

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High-Tech Employment in Selected Texas Cybercities (annual), 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005
Total Percentage Change in High-Tech Employment  in Selected Texas Cybercities, 1990-2005
High-Tech Employment as a Percentage of Total Employment in Selected Texas Cybercities (annual), 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005

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Notes: This section includes data for the REVISED Metropolitan Divisions and Metropolitan Statistical Areas issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in 2002.  For a list of component counties of the REVISED metropolitan divisions and areas, click on "Component Counties in Texas Metropolitan Areas."

For information on how the Bureau of Business Research defines high-tech and what data were used, please contact Rita Wright, Manager, Austin Index, and Professional Librarian, by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 888-212-4386.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce (USDC), Bureau of the Census (BC), County Business Patterns. Washington, D.C.
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Unemployment Data: Rate ▲

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Unemployment Rate in Selected Texas Cybercities, Texas, and US (monthly), 2004-2007 

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Unemployment Rate in Selected Texas Cybercities (monthly), 2004-2007
Unemployment Rate in Selected Texas Cybercities (annual), 1990-2006

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Source: 
Data for selected Texas metropolitan areas and Texas: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C.

To locate Unemployment Rate Data in Selected Texas Cybercities:
Go to http://www.bls.gov/
Under Employment & Unemployment in upper right portion of screen, click on "State and Local Unemployment Rates:
Click on "Get Detailed LAUS Statistics"
Click on "Create Customized Tables (one screen)"
Follow instructions on screen.
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Per Capita Income ▲
 
Table
Per Capita Income (annual), 1990-2005 

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Per Capita Income (annual), 1990-2005

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Notes: County-level data, published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), were used to compute per capita income in current dollars for selected Texas cybercities.
To compute per capita income, total personal income and total population were aggregated for the counties in each Texas cybercity.  Per capita income was computed by dividing the total personal income by the total population for each of the cybercities.  Per capita income (PCI) was converted from current dollars to constant dollars using the consumer price index (CPI) for 1990 as the base year. All annual CPI numbers were converted to a base year of 1990=100 from the current base of 1982-84=100, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This process removes inflation from the current dollars and resulted in PCI that is shown in real/constant dollars and is comparable among the cybercities.

The South Region consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) was used for Austin and San Antonio.  The Dallas-Fort Worth CPI-U was used for Dallas and Fort Worth, and the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria CPI-U was used for Houston. In order to adjust all current PCI dollars to 1990 dollars, CPI-U (all urban consumers)(South Region, Dallas-Fort Worth, or Houston-Galveston-Brazoria) were converted from the base of 1982-84=100 to a base of 1990=100 by dividing each annual 1982-84=100 CPI-U figure by the 1990 CPI-U figure and then multiplying the result by 100.
PCI for each area was converted to 1990 (real) dollars by dividing the PCI by the CPI-U (South Region, Dallas-Fort Worth, or Houston-Galveston-Brazoria) and then multiplying by 100.

Sources:
1. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, REIS: Regional Economic Information System, 1969-2005 (CD-ROM), Washington, D.C., May 2007.
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index - All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), All items 1982-84=100. Washington, D.C., monthly.