Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2007Q4 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2007Q4 AWW (2)	Emp. 2007Q4	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. 2006Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Decline	Rank (4)
												(3)
312	Manufacturing	Beverage & tobacco product manufacturing	$815.33	269	314	-45	-14.30%	287	335	-48	-14.40%	-14.40%	3
321	Manufacturing	Wood product manufacturing	$643.69	646	849	-202	-23.80%	676	913	-237	-25.90%	-24.90%	2
323	Manufacturing	Printing & related support activities	$530.40	347	378	-31	-8.20%	342	408	-67	-16.30%	-12.30%	4
326	Manufacturing	Plastics & rubber products manufacturing	$682.41	512	545	-33	-6.10%	496	536	-40	-7.40%	-6.80%	6
335	Manufacturing	Electrical equipment & appliance mfg.	$1,188.46	158	187	-30	-15.80%	172	183	-12	-6.40%	-11.10%	5
485	Transportation & warehousing	Transit & ground passenger transportation	$457.79	652	687	-35	-5.00%	642	686	-44	-6.40%	-5.70%	7
518	Information	Data processing, hosting, & related services	$740.99	155	411	-256	-62.20%	168	392	-224	-57.20%	-59.70%	1
	Total		$646.03	2,739	3,371	-632	-18.70%	2,782	3,453	-671	-19.40%	-19.10%
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 2007Q4 is $646.03. 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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