Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2008Q3 in NAICS

NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Decline	Rank (4)
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	(3)	Rank (4)
321	Manufacturing	Wood product manufacturing	$624.40	590	676	-86	-12.80%	568	854	-286	-33.50%	-23.10%	2
334	Manufacturing	Computer & electronic product manufacturing	$787.90	239	309	-70	-22.70%	235	310	-76	-24.40%	-23.50%	1
425	Wholesale trade	Electronic markets & agents & brokers	$1,231.62	347	417	-70	-16.80%	342	428	-86	-20.10%	-18.40%	3
446	Retail Trade	Health & personal care stores	$618.49	913	969	-55	-5.70%	921	977	-56	-5.80%	-5.70%	8
485	Transportation & warehousing	Transit & ground passenger transportation	$491.43	571	651	-80	-12.20%	591	664	-73	-10.90%	-11.60%	5
551	Management of companies & enterprises	Management of companies & enterprises	$1,314.26	823	890	-68	-7.60%	808	854	-46	-5.30%	-6.50%	7
813	Other services, except public administration	Membership associations & organizations	$445.86	2,216	2,426	-211	-8.70%	2,153	2,376	-223	-9.40%	-9.00%	6
814	Other services, except public administration	Private households	$450.44	421	469	-48	-10.30%	401	467	-67	-14.30%	-12.30%	4
	Total		$668.09	6,120	6,808	-688	-10.10%	6,019	6,931	-912	-13.20%	-11.60%	.

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 2008Q3 is $668.09. 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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