Dashboards

E nter the CERC Dashboards and view the Snapshot Dashboard (note: longer load time on initial view).

The CERC Dashboards are an interactive, web-based tool that provides a unique and critical perspective on Connecticut’s competitive performance. The graphics presented in the Dashboards use both well-established and newly developed and compiled measures to benchmark the state’s current conditions and its growth in a number of critical categories.

Some of the exciting features of this new product by CERC include:

Different data items shown on the same web page that highlight interactions among variables.
Graphics that quickly present general trends as well as highlight recent critical changes.
Different presentations of the same data to provide a clearer understanding of the issues.

CERC and Monster Release Real Time Labor Market Data
The Connecticut Monster Employment Index, created in collaboration with CERC, is a monthly gauge of online job demand based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online job listings.

The December 2011 index for Connecticut shows:

In December’s Monster Employment Index, analyzed by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Inc. (CERC), Connecticut continued to outperform the New England region and the nation. In fact, in every month since last January 2011 Connecticut has outperformed the nation. This better performance however is tempered by the decrease of Connecticut’s index by three points when compared to the previous month.

Connecticut’s Monster on-line technical jobs index declined by three points from 128 to 125 between November and December. However, New England’s declined by five (from 129 to 124) and the U.S. declined by seven (from 147 to 140).
December’s index marks the first time since at least January 2008 that Connecticut’s index has been higher than New England’s.
Despite slight declines in the last two months, Connecticut’s index is 7.8 percent higher than it was a year ago. This is one tenth of a percentage point higher than the U.S. and 1.8 percentage points higher than New England.
More critically, rebasing the index to January 2008 results in Connecticut’s Monster Index being two percentage points higher than the U.S. and 22 points higher than New England.*

* The rebased Dashboard Monster Index can be observed by clicking on any one of the three lines in the trend line Dashboard. In the rebased Dashboard, each of the three indices are set equal to 100 in January 2008. To return to the original trend index chart, click the reverse arrow in the bottom left of the trend chart.

The Monster Employment Index is a monthly gauge of online job demand based on a real-time review of millions of employer job opportunities culled from a large representative selection of career web sites and online job listings. The Index is a leading indicator showing the willingness of firms to offer job opportunities; more opportunities assume additional job hires in the future.

CERC is partnering with Monster Government Solutions, a subsidiary of Monster Worldwide, to offer exclusive, real time Connecticut labor market data on a month-to-month basis. Visit the online, interactive CERC/Monster Employment Index Dashboard.

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