Economic Indicators is designed to help gauge California’s current economic health and performance. Using public data, and with the oversight of our Research Advisory Council, we assembled a database of key economic indicators that are useful for understanding current and future economic conditions.
Value of building permits issued for residential alterations. As such, the data covers only alterations done under permit rather than all alteration construction activity.
Total value for all residential units covered by building permits.
Number of multi-family units covered by building permits.
Number of building permits for single family homes.
Total number of residential units covered by building permits.
Value of building permits issued for non-residential construction, consisting of hotels and motels, non-housekeeping shelter, recreational, churches, industrial, parking garages, service stations, hospitals, offices, public works, schools/education, retail, other non-residential buildings, structures other than buildings, non-residential alterations, and residential garages.
Includes all individuals who worked at least one hour for a wage or salary, self-employed, or working at least 15 unpaid hours in a family business or on a family farm.
Quarterly count of wage and salary jobs from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Quarterly count of wage and salary jobs from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Quarterly count of wage and salary jobs from Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages.
Sum of civilian employment and civilian unemployment. Civilians are age 16 years or older, not members of the Armed Services, and are not in institutions such as prisons, mental hospitals, or nursing homes. Not seasonally adjusted.
Calculated as change in total private jobs from the same quarter in the prior year.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced within an area, All Industry Total. GDP by state and county measures its "value added," equivalent to gross output (sales or receipts and other operating income, commodity taxes, and inventory change) minus intermediate inputs (consumption of goods and services purchased from other U.S. industries or imported).
GDP value in chained 2012 dollars.
International GDP Rank using international dollars, which adjust the GDP data to reflect differences in costs among the different jurisdictions. California data is from US Bureau of Economic Analysis, adjusted by the Bureau's Regional Price Parity index. Comparison with the current dollar International GDP rank provides an indicator of how much California's GDP growth has been dissipated by the state's growing costs of living and costs of doing business.
As a measure of international competitiveness, the International GDP Rank shows how the California economy would compare to other nations if it was a separate country. The data is from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP data for the US and California, compared to national data from International Monetary Fund. All data is in current US dollars.
Total annual personal income consisting of income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts.
The number within the Labor Force as a percentage of the total Noninstitutional Civilian Population.