Job creation index¶

A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers.

Version: v1 · 2026-09-28 · History
Domain-specific #: 10187
Domain group: Social Sciences
Origin domain: Economics & Finance
Subdomains: Labor Market Indicators, Labor Economics → Economics & Finance

Core Idea¶

Job creation index is treated here as the recurring labor-market indicators identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers.

A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'. The survey showed that northern states in the midwest are seeing a growth in jobs much more so than in other parts of the US.

The results are based on telephone interviews from Gallup, which took place from January 2, 2013 - December 29, 2013. Three of the top five job creation index scores of 2013 are heavily Republican while a significant number of the states with the bottom index scores (six out of the bottom seven) are heavily Democratic. However, Gallup assessed, “Apart from this, there is little correspondence between net hiring and partisan affiliation in the states.".

For Job creation index, the abstraction is narrower than the article's general subject matter: a positive case must preserve A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. Retaining only the name, a familiar example, or a downstream effect is insufficient. The specialist roles and tests remain anchored in labor-market indicators, which is why this identity is domain-specific rather than prime.

Structural Signature¶

Sig role-phrases:

Defining carrier — According to Gallup, in 2013 North Dakota was ranked number 1 for job creation in the US and had the highest job creation index with a score of 40, thus surpassing its closest competitors District of Columbia and South Dakota's score by 10 points.
Constitutive relation — List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate.
Operating condition — In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'.
Recognition evidence — The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.
Admissible variation — Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12.
Characteristic consequence — In 2013, the average score in the U.S. was 20, up 2 points from 2012.
Failure boundary — The survey showed that northern states in the midwest are seeing a growth in jobs much more so than in other parts of the US.

What It Is Not¶

Not the whole field of labor-market indicators. The node requires the specific identity stated by A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers.
Not an over-broad reading. However, Gallup assessed, “Apart from this, there is little correspondence between net hiring and partisan affiliation in the states.".
Not an over-broad reading. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.
Not an over-broad reading. Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12.
Not automatically Index (Economics). Retrieval proximity does not establish equivalence; the two identities must be compared by carrier, operation, and failure boundary.

Scope of Application¶

Job creation index applies literally inside labor-market indicators wherever the source-defined carrier and relation can be established. Its documented habitats include:

United States. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.
United States. Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12.
United States. In 2013, the average score in the U.S. was 20, up 2 points from 2012.
United States. The survey showed that northern states in the midwest are seeing a growth in jobs much more so than in other parts of the US.
United States. The results are based on telephone interviews from Gallup, which took place from January 2, 2013 - December 29, 2013.
United States. Gallup surveyed 208,758 adults employed full or part-time in all 50 states.

Outside labor-market indicators, the name should be retained only when these same operational conditions survive; otherwise the comparison belongs to the broader parent Measurement or should be marked as analogy.

Clarity¶

A clear use of Job creation index names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. The strongest recognition evidence in the frozen account is: The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. A report should distinguish that evidence from a proxy, consequence, or common implementation. It should also state the qualification However, Gallup assessed, “Apart from this, there is little correspondence between net hiring and partisan affiliation in the states.". so that a reader can reproduce the classification rather than infer it from topical resemblance.

Manages Complexity¶

Job creation index compresses multiple labor-market indicators details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate.—and the practical consequence—in 2013, the average score in the U.S. was 20, up 2 points from 2012. This compression makes cases comparable while leaving parameters, conventions, exceptions, and evidential quality explicit. It is lossy by design: local history and implementation details may be omitted only when they do not alter the defining relation.

Abstract Reasoning¶

Type the carrier. Identify the labor-market indicators entities to which the claim applies.
State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers.
Check operation and conditions. In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'.
Demand recognition evidence. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.
Test variation. Change an implementation or setting while preserving rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12.
Run the collapse test. Remove the defining operation; if the label still seems equally apt, only a topic or correlate was retained.
Reduce cautiously. When the specialist conditions cannot be carried, route the residual comparison to Measurement.

Knowledge Transfer¶

Within the home domain. Knowledge about Job creation index transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12.

Beyond the home domain. Transfer the broader Measurement relation when the labor-market indicators-specific differentia cannot be filled. Retain the name Job creation index only when the same carrier, operation, and rejection conditions are present literally rather than metaphorically.

Examples¶

Canonical¶

The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. This case is canonical because it supplies a concrete carrier and lets the defining relation be checked rather than merely named.

Mapped back: carrier → the entities in the documented case; operation → A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers; recognition evidence → The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession

Applied / In Practice¶

Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12. The applied case shows how the identity is used under a second setting or qualification while keeping the same operative relation.

Mapped back: changed setting → United States; invariant → A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers; boundary → the case exits the class when however, Gallup assessed, “Apart from this, there is little correspondence between net hiring and partisan affiliation in the states."

Structural Tensions¶

T1 — Stable identity versus admissible variation. However, Gallup assessed, “Apart from this, there is little correspondence between net hiring and partisan affiliation in the states.". The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: Which changes preserve the defining relation, and which replace it?

T2 — Recognition versus proxy. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: Does the cited evidence establish the identity or only a correlated sign?

T3 — Definition versus implementation. Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12. The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: Is the observed implementation constitutive, optional, or merely common?

T4 — Scope versus overextension. In 2013, the average score in the U.S. was 20, up 2 points from 2012. The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: Can every claimed application fill the same typed roles without metaphor?

T5 — Transfer versus domain accent. According to Gallup, in 2013 North Dakota was ranked number 1 for job creation in the US and had the highest job creation index with a score of 40, thus surpassing its closest competitors District of Columbia and South Dakota's score by 10 points. The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: Does the receiving case instantiate Job creation index literally, co-instantiate Measurement, or only resemble it?

T6 — Autonomy versus reduction. List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate. The tension matters because emphasizing only one side either dissolves the identity or overstates what the evidence and domain conventions warrant.

Diagnostic: What does Job creation index distinguish that the broader parent Measurement leaves together?

Structural–Framed Character¶

Job creation index is mixed or framed-leaning. Its structural side is the repeatable organization summarized by A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. Its framed side is the labor-market indicators vocabulary that fixes the carrier, evidence, exceptions, and admissible transformations.

Evaluative weight: the identity can be stated descriptively even when applications carry practical stakes. Human-practice dependence: the source-grounded carrier determines whether the relation exists independently or is constituted by a practice. Institutional origin: disciplinary conventions stabilize the name and test. Vocabulary portability: In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'. Import versus recognition: literal transfer requires the same mechanism; shape alone is analogy.

Its portable skeleton is Measurement. Its character: a recurring specialist identity whose thin organization can be abstracted, while its operational meaning remains domain-bound.

Structural Core vs. Domain Accent¶

What is skeletal. A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. The reviewed portable genus is Measurement; the candidate preserves that parent relation across admissible variants. The source-grounded carrier and relation are expressed by these conditions: According to Gallup, in 2013 North Dakota was ranked number 1 for job creation in the US and had the highest job creation index with a score of 40, thus surpassing its closest competitors District of Columbia and South Dakota's score by 10 points. List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate. The recognition and variation tests add: In the US, the index score is derived by subtracting the percentage of American workers who say their employers are 'firing' from the percentage of workers who say their employers are 'hiring'. The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession.

What is domain-bound. labor-market indicators fixes the carrier, technical vocabulary, admissible evidence, and exceptions that distinguish Job creation index from other Measurement instances. Its documented habitat includes the condition that The job creation index has been increasing since falling to -5 in February 2009 during the Great Recession. A second source-grounded application condition is that Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12. Those details determine what the words denote, what observations warrant classification, and which apparent similarities are false positives.

Why the node remains domain-specific. Removing the labor-market indicators differentia leaves the parent rather than the candidate. The edge records that reduction without claiming that every topical neighbor is hierarchical. The final collapse test is source-specific: Rhode Island earned a spot at the bottom of the job creation index with a score of 12. If that condition or the defining relation is absent, the case may instantiate Measurement, but it is not Job creation index.

This entry is a kind of Measurement.

Immediate parent — Measurement (subsumption). Job creation index is a domain-specific kind of Measurement. Job creation index is a strict kind of Measurement: A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers. The parent supplies the necessary broader identity—Mapping a target's attribute onto a scale via an instrument and procedure, yielding a value-plus-uncertainty tied to a unit and frame.—while the candidate adds its domain carrier, relation, and rejection conditions.
Other nearby abstractions. Retrieval neighbors remain comparison surfaces only; no additional parent is asserted without a necessary-genus or structural-prerequisite test.

Relationships to Other Abstractions¶

Current abstraction Job creation index Domain-specific

Parents (1) — more general patterns this builds on

Job creation index is a kind of Measurement Prime

Job creation index is a strict kind of Measurement: A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers.

Hierarchy path (1) — routes to 1 parentless root

Job creation index → Measurement

Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶

Job creation index sits in a sparse region of the domain-specific corpus (83^rd percentile for distinctiveness): few abstractions share its structure, so a faithful description tends to retrieve it precisely.

Family — Unclustered & Miscellaneous (2551 abstractions)

Nearest neighbors

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurship — 0.84
Törnqvist index — 0.82
Permit-to-work — 0.81
International trade — 0.81
PRIX index — 0.81

Computed from structural-signature embeddings · 2026-10-08

Not to Be Confused With¶

Measurement. The parent omits the specialist differentia. Tell: Can the case establish A job creation index is a measure of net hiring of full- and part-time adult workers?
Index (Economics). A normalized statistic comparing the level or change of a specified economic aggregate across periods, places, or populations relative to a declared base using explicit items, weights, and an aggregation formula. Tell: Which entry's carrier, operation, and failure condition are satisfied?
Human Development Index. A composite national index combining normalized longevity, education, and income dimensions. Tell: Which entry's carrier, operation, and failure condition are satisfied?
Misery index (economics). The economic misery index is a composite indicator conventionally formed from inflation and unemployment rates to summarize two household-facing sources of macroeconomic distress. Tell: Which entry's carrier, operation, and failure condition are satisfied?
A measurement, proxy, or consequence. Those may provide evidence without being the identity. Tell: Would Job creation index remain present if the detector or downstream effect changed?
A metaphorical analogue. A similar shape outside labor-market indicators lacks the specialist mechanism. Tell: Do the native roles transfer literally, or only the parent Measurement?

References¶

Frozen Wikipedia discovery revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_creation_index (revision 1348629385).
Preserved source candidate: https://www.gallup.com/poll/167126/north-dakota-leads-job-creation-fifth-straight-year.aspx
Preserved source candidate: http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Gallup-job-creation-index/2014/02/05/id/551042
Preserved source candidate: https://www.webpronews.com/need-a-job-head-for-north-dakota-2014-02
Preserved source candidate: https://news.gallup.com/poll/214964/job-creation-index-back-record-high-july.aspx
Preserved source candidate: https://www.gallup.com/poll/127541/job-creation-index-weekly.aspx
Preserved source candidate: https://www.gallup.com/poll/151553/gallup-daily-job-creation-index.aspx

The frozen Wikipedia revision is discovery provenance. The retained source set was reviewed for identity, formal or operational relation, and scope. The encyclopedia's structural synthesis is bounded to those claims; a thin authority surface is recorded as a nonblocking source-strengthening repair rather than concealed.