The WSU Current Conditions Index dropped a total of 1.1 percent from September to November 2011. The best news during that time period was the 0.9 percentage point decline in the Wichita MSA’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. However, that improvement, along with a 0.3 percent increase in seasonally adjusted employment, was not enough to counteract declines in home sales, passenger traffic, airfreight shipments and Wichita’s hotel occupancy rate.
Read the entire November WSU Current Conditions Index report.