Table 1.  Private sector gross job gains and job losses, annual March to March

Arkansas

                                         Gross job gains                       Gross job losses
Year ended    Net change(1)  Total     Expanding     Opening        Total    Contracting    Closing
                                   establishments  establishments          establishments  establishments

March 1994       35,853     113,532      75,103       38,429         77,679     52,399       25,280
March 1995       40,871     123,713      83,838       39,875         82,842     54,785       28,057
March 1996       16,588     112,947      72,018       40,929         96,359     67,785       28,574
March 1997       10,057     108,148      73,362       34,786         98,091     66,428       31,663
March 1998       17,869     112,888      79,009       33,879         95,019     61,832       33,187
March 1999       14,983     118,032      78,830       39,202        103,049     72,343       30,706
March 2000       21,985     119,238      80,952       38,286         97,253     63,562       33,691
March 2001       -3,473     112,931      75,122       37,809        116,404     77,174       39,230
March 2002      -13,886     110,192      74,368       35,824        124,078     87,417       36,661
March 2003       -6,485     100,682      66,370       34,312        107,167     73,622       33,545
March 2004       11,022     109,784      77,761       32,023         98,762     67,558       31,204
March 2005       15,602     108,140      75,567       32,573         92,538     62,309       30,229
March 2006       22,011     112,815      74,776       38,039         90,804     61,789       29,015
March 2007        4,891     105,630      69,034       36,596        100,739     72,976       27,763
March 2008       -3,549     100,798      68,523       32,275        104,347     75,635       28,712
March 2009      -35,609      95,099      62,046       33,053        130,708     96,525       34,183
March 2010      -17,099      90,455      62,120       28,335        107,554     76,444       31,110
March 2011        5,890      97,421      68,735       28,686         91,531     60,716       30,815
March 2012       17,579      99,569      65,949       33,620         81,990     58,513       23,477

(1) Net change is the difference between total gross job gains and total gross job losses.