Quarterly Misery Level Increases in Kansas

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Quarterly Misery Level Increases in Kansas

A woman holding a round yellow frowning face in front of her face. Between fourth quarter 2013 and first quarter 2014 the general level of misery experienced by people in the United States, Kansas, and the Kansas metropolitan statistical areas increased, with the largest percentage gain occurring in Lawrence, Kan. That particular increase was due to a decline in housing prices and an increase in the unemployment rate.

The Misery Index, as calculated by the Center for Economic Development and Business Research (CEDBR), includes the following components:

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The House Price Index (HPI) from the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Unemployment Rates (UR) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Civilian labor force

Employed persons consist of: persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey reference week; persons who did at least 15 hours of unpaid work in a family-operated enterprise; and persons who were temporarily absent from their regular jobs because of illness, vacation, bad weather, industrial dispute, or various personal reasons.

Unemployed persons include: all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available to for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find work sometime in the last four weeks. This series comes from the Current Population Survey. Source: BLS

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