Table 2: Declining Industries Report for 2007Q1 in NAICS

NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2007Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. 2006Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. 2005Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Decline	Rank (4)
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2007Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. 2006Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. 2005Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	(3)	Rank (4)
111	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	Crop production	$421.16	283	331	-49	-14.70%	387	432	-45	-10.40%	-12.60%	3
115	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	Agriculture and forestry support activities	$595.53	188	204	-16	-7.90%	209	250	-41	-16.30%	-12.10%	4
518	Information	ISPs, search portals, and data processing	$761.95	174	514	-339	-66.10%	411	581	-169	-29.20%	-47.60%	1
711	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	Performing arts and spectator sports	$1,004.33	291	342	-51	-15.00%	265	298	-33	-11.00%	-13.00%	2
	Total		$701.00	936	1,391	-455	-32.70%	1,273	1,560	-288	-18.40%	-25.60%	.

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 2007Q1 is $701.00. 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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