Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2006Q4 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2006Q4 AWW (2)	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. 2005Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2006Q3	Emp. 2005Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Decline (3)	Rank (4)
115	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	Agriculture and forestry support activities	$594.17	206	250	-44	-17.70%	300	349	-50	-14.20%	-16.00%	2
311	Manufacturing	Food manufacturing	$434.48	957	1,029	-71	-6.90%	591	658	-67	-10.20%	-8.60%	3
425	Wholesale trade	Electronic markets and agents and brokers	$1,157.27	443	472	-29	-6.10%	431	456	-25	-5.40%	-5.70%	5
518	Information	ISPs, search portals, and data processing	$654.78	411	581	-169	-29.20%	392	527	-135	-25.60%	-27.40%	1
814	Other services, except public administration	Private households	$416.09	436	471	-35	-7.50%	468	513	-45	-8.80%	-8.10%	4
	Total		$612.08	2,453	2,802	-349	-12.50%	2,182	2,503	-322	-12.80%	-12.70%	.
1. Includes both public and privately owned firms.
2. The Average Weekly Wage (AWW) is calculated by dividing the total wage for the industry group by the total number of jobs for the industry group and the number of weeks in the observed quarter. To give some context to this number, the AWW for all declining industries in 2006Q4 is $612.08. The reader should also be aware that, AWW's at the industry Group Level are susceptible to wage bias due to sample size, occupational distributions, seasonal pay and bonuses, and keying error.
3. The percentage for Average Decline is defined as: (percent growth current quarter + percent growth previous quarter)/2.
4. Rank is based on the magnitude of the percent Average growth relative to the magnitude of all other growing industries.
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