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Table A-1: Local Sectors Potentially "At Risk" <br />SIC I <br />Sector <br />Differential <br />1992 S.L. <br />2000 <br />Food and kindred products <br />Shift' <br />Shift <br />Employment/ <br />5100 <br />Wholesale trade - nondurable goods <br />39.1 �; <br />? 741 <br />5300 <br />General merchandise stores <br />7-52.0% <br />-20.9.0 <br />1.794 <br />6000 <br />Depository institutions <br />o <br />26.4 / <br />1.721 <br />3800 <br />Instruments and related products <br />414.2% <br />1.214 <br />3400 <br />Fabricated meta/ products <br />o <br />75.2/ <br />1 164 <br />3600 <br />Electronic and other electric equipment <br />o <br />3.8/0 <br />1.053I <br />7200 <br />Personal services <br />-41 7% <br />o <br />130.1 / <br />985 <br />4800 <br />Communication <br />-9.2% <br />90.7% <br />817 <br />5500 <br />Automotive dealers and service stations <br />a <br />-42.4% <br />1013.9% <br />778 <br />-26.6% <br />Total Employment, Top 10 Sectors with Negative <br />-1. <br />665 <br />Proportional <br />Shift <br />12.932 <br />Potential Business Expansion Targets <br />Based on the idea that relatively small businesses are likely to be in most need of <br />expansion assistance (in contrast to larger businesses. which will tend to have more <br />internal resources to support growth. or to have the sophistication to access external <br />sources of assistance. the City could initially target its business expansion efforts to sectors <br />that are performing well locally. and that also have more than 50 percent of emplovment in <br />firms with 50 or fewer emplovees. Table A-2 below lists a total of 13 two -digit SIC <br />sectors that meet the following criteria: (a) at least 250 persons employed in the sector: (b) <br />one of the top two -digit SIC sectors between 1982 and 1992 based on either absolute <br />growth, percentage growth. proportional shift. or differential shift between 1982 and 1992: <br />(c) at least fifty percent of sector employment is in firms with fewer than 50 emplovees. <br />Proponional shift represents the growth of the sector to relation to the overall economy at the <br />regional level. A negative proportional shift indicates that growth in the sector was lagging the <br />growth of the overall economy at the regional level. Sectors with negative proportional shifts are <br />declining in importance at the regional level. <br />Differential shift indicates the growth of the sector at the local level compared to the growth of the <br />same sector at the regional level. A positive differential shift indicates that the sector performed <br />better in the local economy that it did at the regional level. <br />76 <br />