ECONOMIC SNAPSHOTS are featured weekly on the business page of the Wisconsin State Journal. Each SNAPSHOT highlights an interesting fact about the economies of Madison, Wisconsin or the Capitol Region

Often, we receive requests for similar data for other communities. In response we are providing this “cookbook” to help you easily reproduce SNAPSHOTS using data for your community.

Most of the SNAPSHOTS can be easily duplicated for any community in the United States.  Whenever we use data sources specific to Wisconsin, we try to identify national data sources to enable you to recreate similar SNAPSHOTS for communities outside of Wisconsin.

Over one hundred SNAPSHOTS have been published in the Wisconsin State Journal.  Our “cookbook” begins with two SNAPHOTS on worker flow.  To learn how to create your own Worker Flow Snapshots for any community, simply go to: Where Workers Live: Part 1. If you would like to analyze the change in workerflow over time, check out Where Workers Live Part 2.

Copies of all SNAPHOTS are available at:  ECONOMIC SNAPSHOTS .

Also, please let us know and if you have suggestions, problems, or if you see a SNAPSHOT that you want to use, but does not have yet have instructions and we will move it to the top of our list.  Bill Pinkovitz

Finally, here are some examples of how people used ECONOMIC SNAPSHOTS.