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• Position: Airline passengers, Retail sales, Employment - Statistical data

Vital signs Change Latest Previous Previous from last month month year year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,340.9 4,369.5 4,311.9 0.7% Civilian labor force 4,655.8 4,674.1 4,684.4 (0.6) Manufacturing 446.2 444.3 441.6 1.0 Service 3,521.8 3,509.9 3,434.5 2.5 Government 713.4 704.9 708.9 0.6 Unemployed 315.0 304.6 372.5 (15.4) Avg. manufacturing 43.7 43.0 42.1 3.8 workweek (hours) Avg. hourly production $16.69 $16.74 $16.63 0.4 wage Change Latest Previous Previous from last month month year year TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) millions Alamance 164,811.6 164,611.9 139,313.1 18.3% Buncombe 341,859.1 368,103.6 318,183.0 7.4 Cabarrus 221,853.6 229,208.2 197,084.3 12.6 Catawba 150,517.2 170,484.3 142,794.3 5.4 Cumberland 287,615.9 312,825.9 272,538.0 5.5 Dare 220,158.5 181,977.2 219,721.6 0.2 Durham 452,324.1 526,608.5 400,948.5 12.8 Forsyth 360,129.2 398,865.2 324,372.2 11.0 Guilford 483,663.1 547,313.5 450,693.0 7.3 Iredell 152,124.0 170,807.3 142,904.9 6.5 Mecklenburg 1,449,948.0 1,608,530.6 1,221,849.4 18.7 New Hanover 335,966.7 338,606.7 299,346.8 12.2 Onslow 159,460.5 167,616.5 158,659.1 0.5 Pitt 152,942.4 164,837.3 139,906.6 9.3 Wake 1,045,043.9 1,162,659.6 917,878.1 13.9 $1.2 billion

Private investment in the state's clean-energy sector in 2013, according to a study released in October by The Pew Charitable Trusts. That ranks third nationally and is nearly triple the 2012 total.

N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY INDEX OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS

The index, a comparison of the state economy from month to month created by N.C. State economist Michael Walden, is calculated from the Economic Cycle Research Institute's Weekly Leading Index, North Carolina initial claims for unemployment benefits, North Carolina building permits, and average weekly work hours and earnings for Tar Heel manufacturing workers. Raw data, which is seasonally adjusted, comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau.

Latest Previous month month AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (2) Asheville 37,965 39,725 Charlotte * 1,928,643 2,000,633 Fayetteville 19,782 21,208 Greensboro 69,956 72,051 Greenville 5,335 5,290 Jacksonville 15,368 15,655 New Bern 12,531 13,144 Raleigh/Durham 422,424 444,405 Wilmington 35,509 36,893 ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential...