SOWIB Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board

Since 2017

Economic Indicators

SOWIB has published 103 monthly indicator reports, one blog post at a time, under five different titles. Following your own county backwards currently means already knowing what the series used to be called. Here it is one continuous read per county, with every change of publication named where it happens.


The publication record

Five titles, and they overlap

Each bar runs from the first month SOWIB published under that title to the last. They are not a relay. In the winter of 2021 two publications were covering Coos and Curry at the same time on different geographic footprints, which is exactly the point at which comparing two reports stops being safe.

Southwestern Oregon Economic Indicators 16 posts · Coos, Curry and Douglas counties reported as one region
July 2017 to January 2022
Economic Indicators for Coos, Curry and Douglas Counties 3 posts · All three counties named in one post
July 2020 to December 2020
Coos & Curry County Economic Indicators 8 posts · The coast split off from Douglas
December 2021 to October 2022
South Coast Economic Indicators 23 posts · The coastal run, renamed
November 2022 to July 2026
Douglas County Economic Indicators 53 posts · Douglas reported on its own
February 2022 to July 2026

The solid bars are continuing series. The hatched bar is the three-county edition: 3 posts naming Coos, Curry and Douglas together, published inside the region-wide run rather than after it. It is a variant of that series, not a successor to it, so this site does not count it as a change of publication.

Read the series

Pick a county

Each county has its own continuous read, because each county sat inside a different combination of these publications. Coos and Curry were forked off, covered twice, then renamed. Douglas was renamed once and never split.

What is actually there

The state of the record, stated

A missing month is a fact about SOWIB’s publishing record, not a hole to paper over. The reader renders these four states differently and never fills one in from its neighbours.

Published

103

Indicator posts out of 170 news posts on sowib.org. The other 67 are announcements, awards and notices, and they live under News.

Readable

99

Of the 103, 101 could be captured and 99 carry readable text. Those are three different numbers and they mean three different things.

  • 2 posts could not be read at all

    One returned a server error and one came back empty when this site was built. Both are Douglas County editions. They appear in the series in their right month, marked unreadable, rather than being dropped.

  • 2 posts are published with nothing in them

    Both are Southwestern Oregon editions that carry a title and no body on the live site. That is a different state from a post that failed to load, and the reader says so rather than treating them alike.

  • 2 posts never state their year

    “Special Edition: South Coast Economic Indicators, September” does not say which September. These are held at the end of the series instead of being slotted into the timeline by guesswork.