Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2009Q1 in NAICS
NAICS (1) SECTOR SUBSECTOR 2009Q1 AWW (2) Emp. 2009Q1 Emp. 2008Q1 Emp. Change Pct. Change Emp. 2008Q4 Emp. 2007Q4 Emp. Change Pct. Change Avg. Decline (3) Rank (4)
237 Construction Heavy & civil engineering construction $1,034.46 6,510 9,161 -2,651 -28.9% 9,048 9,984 -936 -9.4% -19.2% 3
321 Manufacturing Wood product manufacturing $593.80 455 575 -120 -20.9% 525 646 -122 -18.8% -19.9% 2
323 Manufacturing Printing & related support activities $505.04 307 345 -39 -11.2% 329 347 -18 -5.3% -8.2% 11
336 Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing $741.07 363 503 -140 -27.9% 441 500 -60 -11.9% -19.9% 1
337 Manufacturing Furniture & related product manufacturing $516.91 247 296 -49 -16.7% 270 305 -35 -11.4% -14.0% 6
339 Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing $504.81 129 146 -17 -11.4% 142 161 -19 -12.0% -11.7% 7
425 Wholesale trade Electronic markets & agents & brokers $1,303.57 305 337 -32 -9.6% 329 414 -85 -20.5% -15.0% 5
441 Retail trade Motor vehicle & parts dealers $668.46 4,221 4,599 -378 -8.2% 4,437 4,688 -251 -5.4% -6.8% 12
442 Retail trade Furniture & home furnishings stores $504.92 763 897 -134 -14.9% 824 886 -62 -7.0% -11.0% 8
448 Retail trade Clothing & clothing accessories stores $310.55 1,335 1,437 -102 -7.1% 1,488 1,578 -90 -5.7% -6.4% 13
485 Transportation & warehousing Transit & ground passenger transportation $447.28 604 652 -49 -7.5% 576 656 -80 -12.2% -9.8% 10
493 Transportation & warehousing Warehousing & storage $712.02 1,232 1,441 -209 -14.5% 1,270 1,557 -287 -18.4% -16.5% 4
711 Arts, entertainment, & recreation Performing arts & spectator sports $440.34 308 328 -21 -6.3% 265 313 -48 -15.2% -10.8% 9
  Total   $770.22 16,777 20,718 -3,941 -19.0% 19,944 22,036 -2,093 -9.5% -14.3% .
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 2009Q1 is $770.22. 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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