Labor & the local baseline
What this economy is before the project — the denominator every jobs claim divides by.
Every jobs promise is a numerator. This chapter is the denominator. It reports what Hancock County, Ohio's economy is before the project, from federal series that will still publish after it. A real impact study starts from this baseline, and so should every claim made against it.
The five largest private sectors
| Sector | Jobs | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 10,859 | 2.92 · exports |
| Health Care & Social Assistance | 5,421 | 0.88 · imports |
| Accommodation & Food Services | 4,059 | 1.00 |
| Retail Trade | 4,036 | 0.90 · imports |
| Transportation & Warehousing | 3,984 | 2.14 · exports |
Government employment adds ~ 3,302 jobs across 3 ownership slices (QCEW federal/state/local) — the slice a private-only sector mix cannot show.
- Any jobs claim reads against this baseline as claim vs. denominator — the study never computes a jobs multiplier.
The full sector mix, the multi-decade employment trend, wages, and the consumer-energy series are in the labor-baseline annex.
The record behind this chapter
What this chapter stands on: the records it reads, the inputs its modeled figures rest
on, and the reference data behind its baselines — the same pages the record screens
serve, not a second copy. A figure the record does not support stays [open] and links nothing.
- Labor2 records
- Economic baseline (BLS QCEW / Census)Reference dataset