1995-96 REVIEW AND OUTLOOK : An Economic Yearbook

Here is a year-end look at the performance of the California, national and world economies:

CALIFORNIA

Unemployment

(Percentage of state labor force unemployed)

Nov. 95: 8.8%

Taxable Retails Sales

(in billions of dollars)

1995*: $197.8

* Estimate

Personal Income

(in billions of dollars)

1995*: $755.3

* Estimate

Housing Permits

(single-family and multifamily residence, in thousands of units)

1995*: $84.9

* Estimate

THE NATION

Unemployment

(Percentage of state labor force unemployed)

Nov. 95: $84.9

Consumer Price Index

(Annual inflation rate; not seasonally adjusted)

1995*: 2.8%

* Figure is an average annual rate for the first nine months of 1995.

Gross Domestic Product

(Year-to-year percentage change calculated in trillions of 1987 dollars)

1995*: 4.2%

* Calculated with data through Sept. 30

Sources: Datastream, Economic Development Corp., Times reports. Researched by JENNIFER OLDHAM / Los Angeles Times