Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2007Q3 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2007Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. 2006Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. 2006Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Decline	Rank (4)
												(3)
111	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Crop production	$412.69	523	555	-32	-5.8%	465	518	-53	-10.2%	-8.0%	6
312	Manufacturing	Beverage & tobacco product manufacturing	$720.97	284	335	-51	-15.3%	272	304	-32	-10.4%	-12.9%	4
323	Manufacturing	Printing & related support activities	$496.61	342	408	-67	-16.3%	343	405	-62	-15.3%	-15.8%	3
336	Manufacturing	Transportation equipment manufacturing	$635.92	484	549	-65	-11.8%	501	629	-128	-20.4%	-16.1%	2
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,356.65	676	732	-56	-7.7%	682	745	-63	-8.5%	-8.1%	5
518	Information	Data processing, hosting, & related activities	$754.72	168	392	-224	-57.2%	171	440	-269	-61.1%	-59.2%	1
	Total		$784.06	2,476	2,971	-495	-16.7%	2,435	3,042	-607	-19.9%	-18.3%	.
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 2007Q3 is $784.06. 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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