TABLE 2: DECLINING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2006Q1 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2006Q1             Avg. Decline3
      AWW2 2006Q1 2005Q1 Decline 2005Q4 2004Q4 Decline    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing 339 $440.50   155 181 -26 -14.4%   165 232 -67 -28.9%   -21.6% 1
Total     $440.50   155 181 -26 -14.4%   165 232 -67 -28.9%   -21.6% NA
Text Box: 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 the first quarter of 2006 is $440.50. 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 decline current quarter + percent decline previous quarter)/2. 4. Rank is based on the magnitude of the percent Average Decline relative to the magnitude of all other declining industries.
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