Work With the Dashboards?
Each dashboard is customized to include a specific geographic area. Depending on your subscription, you may have access to a State, a Region (group of counties), a County, or one or more zip codes. Each subscription includes access to all of the smaller areas within the licensed geography. For example, if you have subscribed to see a single County, you will see options to filter the dashboard by Zip Code and Census Tract.
If you would like your dashboard to include other geographic areas, we’re always glad to discuss options and pricing.
On each graph, the legend serves two purposes - to help you interpret the graph, but also enables you to toggle on/off the items on display. For example, the graph titled “Establishment Changes by Source” shows establishment starts, closures, moves in and moves out. To display only the starts, unselect the blue, lavender and red check boxes.
Roll over any graph and in the top right corner of the graph an icon with 3 dots will appear, select the dots and choose Export. You can control the width/height and resolution and select the YourEconomy logo to use in the downloaded graph.
Use the Compare to State and Compare to US tabs at the top of the page to see your region compared state/US.
If you would like to Compare your community to others in your area, or any other peer community in the US, please contact us to discuss pricing. If you have already subscribed to a peer community dashboard, see the link(s) on your dashboard homepage.
On the Year view, use the Year filter in the upper left corner to select any single year 2014-2024.
On the Change Over Time, Compare to State and Compare to US, use the Timeline Filter in the upper left corner to select any combination of years between 2014-2024. For example, you can look at just “post pandemic” by selecting 2021-2024, or look at the last 5 years only, etc.
On any graph you can roll over and see a menu that allows you to “Click to Drill Down” which begins a powerful exploration by industry (2,4,6 digit NAICS are options) and by size of establishment. You can return to the main graph by clicking on the x in the new link that appears in the top left corner of the subset graph.
If you would like to use the values without the graph, from the top right corner, click on the three dots, select Export, select CSV. This will export the years and values into a spreadsheet.
The easiest way to do this is to open two browser tabs, set them side by side, and set each tab to show a different geographic area. Alternatively, you might filter the dashboard for region 1, export the graph, then filter for region 2 and export the graph.
We offer live, public training once each month. To sign up for the next training, visit: https://youreconomy.org/learn-more.html#webinar
Recorded training: Listen to a recorded webinar
Subscriptions include one personalized live training every 6 months. Contact us to schedule a training for your team.
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Graphs from the YourEconomy dashboards have the option to include the YourEconomy logo when you download them.. When citing our data in a report or other text, please reference: “Data is provided under license from YourEconomy, The Universities of Wisconsin.”
Add Dashboard Features?
While not included in your subscription price, YourEconomy has establishment names, addresses, phone numbers and contact information available. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
If you have another data source that you want to match to the records in the YTS data, we can build different filters and configure in your dashboard? Discover jobs, industry codes, HQ relationships, public company info and more. Inquire.
For dashboard customization, comparison regions, subscription renewal or other questions:
Understand the Data?
An establishment is a single, active, physical location of one company/organization. An establishment may be for-profit, non-profit, government, education or an agricultural facility.
- There may be more than one establishment at a single address
- One company may have multiple establishments.
- Establishments are operating workplaces - we exclude shell companies and passive entities.
Learn more about our definitions.
If an establishment moves across the county line, the county where it was last located records a “Move out” and the county where it is now located records a “Move in.” Due to technical limitations at this time, a dashboard can only show moves using either counties or zip codes, not both. If your dashboard subscription is at the State or Regional level (multiple counties) we default the moves to be calculated at the county level. If your dashboard subscription is for one county or one or more zip codes, we default to calculating the moves at the Zip Code level.
If you would like your dashboard Moves to be calculated using the other definition,
please contact us.
Expansion happens when an existing establishment adds more jobs in the same location. The increased number of jobs is reported as an expansion.
Contraction happens when an establishment stays open/in business, but reduces the number of jobs. Each person who has left and not been replaced will count as one job contraction.
Our Economic Categories are designed to help you explore trends among establishments that are in the for-profit sector as compared to non-profit. Some folks consider healthcare to be a business, and others want to exclude healthcare from conversations about businesses - you are welcome to select both Business and Healthcare from the drop down menu under the filter. We have combined establishments by NAICS definition to build these sectors.
YourEconomy Dashboards are built from our proprietary database. The numbers shouldn’t match! The data is collected in a different way, from a different source, at a different time, and including more types of jobs and industries than other sources. See our Comparison page for more information.
Our data providers calls each location and asks if they wish to be identified as "Woman Owned" etc. No distinction is made for percentage of ownership or additional detail. Relatively few establishments are successfully identified using this method.
Due to this limitation, instead of saying “X% of businesses are Woman/Veteran/Asian…. Owned.” It is more accurate to say “for the establishments that have chosen to identify as Woman Owned, we find them primarily in these industries”.
For the YTS database: https://youreconomy.org/yts-database.html
For direct access to YTS documents: https://youreconomy.org/learn-more.html#about-data
A job is a single human being who participates in the operations of an establishment, including:
- Traditional employees who receive regular wages
- Independent contractors and temporary workers
- Owners, partners and others who work but may not receive regular wages
Learn more about how the YourEconomy data is different from Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources.
YOURECONOMY is developed inside the
Universities of Wisconsin Office of Business and Entrepreneurship