Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2007Q2 in NAICS
NAICS (1) SECTOR SUBSECTOR 2007Q2 AWW (2) Emp. 2007Q2 Emp. 2006Q2 Emp. Change Pct. Change Emp. 2007Q1 Emp. 2006Q1 Emp. Change Pct. Change Avg. Decline Rank (4)
(3)
111 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting Crop production $409.08 465 518 -53 -10.2% 283 331 -49 -14.7% -12.5% 4
312 Manufacturing Beverage & tobacco product manufacturing $857.01 272 304 -32 -10.4% 261 291 -30 -10.4% -10.4% 5
323 Manufacturing Printing & related support activities $483.00 343 405 -62 -15.3% 346 389 -42 -10.9% -13.1% 3
336 Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing $629.63 501 629 -128 -20.4% 525 620 -95 -15.3% -17.8% 2
339 Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing $484.30 151 170 -19 -11.0% 147 156 -9 -5.8% -8.4% 7
425 Wholesale Trade Electronic markets & agents & brokers $1,036.51 428 452 -23 -5.2% 422 453 -31 -6.8% -6.0% 8
486 Transportation & Warehousing Pipeline transportation $1,522.11 682 745 -63 -8.5% 657 733 -76 -10.4% -9.4% 6
518 Information Data processing, hosting, & related activities $709.61 171 440 -269 -61.1% 174 514 -339 -66.1% -63.6% 1
  Total   $856.50 3,015 3,663 -649 -17.7% 2,816 3,487 -672 -19.3% -18.5% .
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 2007Q2 is $856.50. 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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