SWLA Economic Indexes

SWLA Coincident Economic Index

The coincident economic index is constructing using Calcasieu Parish Taxable Sales, Lake Charles MSA Total Nonfarm Employment, Total SWLA Gaming Adjusted Gross Revenues, and Value of Total Exports from the Lake Charles Port. All data is seasonally adjusted using the Census X-12 seasonal adjustment procedure and deflated using the Consumer Price Index from the BLS. The measure is indexed to the 2017 (2017=100).

For more information, please contract the Drew CBEA.


SWLA Coincident Economic Index

wdt_ID ENTRY Index Rolling Average
1 Dec 2013 78.8 76.2
2 Jan 2014 77.1 76.4
3 Feb 2014 80.0 76.7
4 Mar 2014 80.2 77.1
5 Apr 2014 80.4 77.4
6 May 2014 81.3 77.8
7 Jun 2014 82.1 78.4
8 Jul 2014 82.9 79.1
9 Aug 2014 83.2 79.8
10 Sep 2014 83.4 80.4
ENTRY Index Rolling Average