Regional Economy

Recent Economic Releases

Publications and information provided by the Research Department at the Philadelphia Fed.

• May Third District Leading Indexes — June 26, 2009
• May State Coincident Indexes — June 23, 2009
• June Business Outlook Survey — June 18, 2009
• Philadelphia Beige Book — June 10, 2009
• First Quarter South Jersey Business Survey — May 4, 2009
• Business Outlook Survey Historical Revisions
  — January 10, 2008

Employment Statistics & Historical Data

May 2009

	Employment Growth*	Unemployment Rate
PA	-3.2%	8.2%
NJ	–3.3%	8.8%
DE	-4.3%	8.1%
US	-3.9%	9.4%
* Year-over-year percent change. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last update: June 22, 2009.

View employment, unemployment, and selected series for the Third District states and metropolitan statistical areas.

Business Review Articles

• "Growing Slowly, Getting Older: Demographic Trends in the Third District States" Timothy Schiller (2008)
• "The Geography of Research and Development Activity in the U.S." Kristy Buzard and Gerald A. Carlino (2008)
• "Human Capital and Higher Education: How Does Our Region Fare?" Timothy Schiller (2008)

 View more regional Business Review articles.

Research Rap Special Reports

• Oil Prices and the Third District States, April 2009
• What Does the Philadelphia Fed's Business Outlook Survey Say About Local Activity? December 2008
• State Tax Revenue in the Third District, November 2008

View more regional Research Rap Special Reports.

Data Analysis

Brief analyses of recently released regional data for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

• MSA Employment: May 2009 — July 2, 2009
• Housing Permits: May 2009 — June 25, 2009
• State Employment: May 2009 — June 22, 2009
• State Personal Income: First Quarter 2009
  — June 19, 2009
• House Prices: First Quarter 2009 — May 28, 2009

View upcoming releases on our economic release calendar.

Research Publications

• Business Outlook Survey
• Regional Research
• State Coincident Indexes
• Third District Leading Indexes
• South Jersey Business Survey
• Beige Book

Related Resources

• Community Profiles: Historical information, maps, and demographic, economic, and lending data for metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) or portions of MSAs in the Third Federal Reserve District.
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Working Paper Series

• 08-28 Rents Have Been Rising, Not Falling, in the Postwar Period by Theodore Crone, Leonard I. Nakamura, and Richard Voith
  
• 08-22 City Beautiful by Gerald A. Carlino and Albert Saiz
• 08-13 Quits, Worker Recruitment, and Firm Growth: Theory and Evidence by R. Jason Faberman and Eva Nagypal

View more regional Working Papers.

External Data Sources

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• State Data Centers
• U.S. Census Bureau