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Metropolitan divisions
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area is comprised
of two metropolitan divisions -- separately identifiable employment centers
within the larger metropolitan area. Both metropolitan divisions gained jobs
from January 2007 to January 2008 with the distribution of new jobs being
roughly proportional to their employment concentrations. The Dallas-Plano-
Irving Metropolitan Division, which accounts for about 70 percent of the
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area workforce, had 72 percent of the
growth with the addition of 60,000 jobs to its payrolls from January a year
ago. The Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Division made up almost 30 percent
of those employed in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area and accounted for 28
percent of the area’s overall growth with the addition of 23,500 jobs during
the 12-month period. (See chart B.)
Chart B. Total nonfarm employment, over-the-year net change in the
Dallas-Plano-Irving and Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Divisions,
January 2004-January 2008
Job growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area was
widespread from January 2007 to January 2008, with nine industry supersectors
adding at least 1,000 jobs and six of these registering gains of 10,000 or
more. The largest increase occurred in educational and health services, which
added 19,200 jobs during the 12-month period, followed by trade, transportation
and utilities (12,300) and leisure and hospitality (12,200). Natural
resources, mining, and construction, government, and professional and business
services rounded out the top six. In contrast, manufacturing was the only
supersector in the area not to add jobs during this period, edging down 1,000.
(See table 1.)
In the Dallas-Plano-Irving Metropolitan Division, job growth was led by
educational and health services, which added 14,000 jobs from January a year
ago, followed by government with 9,700. In the Fort Worth-Arlington
Metropolitan Division, educational and health services was also the top job-
producer with a gain of 5,200, followed by natural resources, mining and
construction which added 4,000 during the 12-month period.
Industry employment
Educational and health services employment rose by 6.3 percent from
January 2007 in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, the fastest
rate of growth among the 10 supersectors. Dallas-Plano-Irving added these jobs
at a faster pace than Fort Worth-Arlington, 6.7 percent versus 5.6 percent, but
both divisions had rates of growth well above the 3.0-percent national average.
Educational and health services employment accounted for about 1 in 10 jobs in
the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area in January 2008, but the over-the-year
increase of 19,200 was responsible for nearly one-fourth of all new jobs in the
local area. (See table 1.)
The largest supersector in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area -- trade,
transportation, and utilities -- added 12,300 jobs since January 2007, an
increase of 2.0 percent. The Dallas-Plano-Irving division was responsible for
8,800 of these new jobs while Fort-Worth-Arlington added 3,500. Although this
supersector was among the slowest growing in the greater metropolitan area, its
2.0-percent increase was more than double the 0.7-percent national supersector
gain.
Leisure and hospitality employment rose by 12,200 in the Dallas-Fort
Worth-Arlington area from January 2007 to January 2008, an increase of 4.7
percent. The rate of job expansion differed somewhat between the two
metropolitan divisions, with Dallas-Plano-Irving increasing at a 5.3-percent
pace compared to Fort Worth-Arlington’s 3.2-percent gain; both divisions
exceeded the 2.6-percent rate of growth for this industry at the national
level.
Employment in natural resources, mining, and construction rose by 10,700
in the greater metropolitan area from January 2007, an increase of 6.0 percent.
While Dallas-Plano-Irving added more jobs (6,700) than Fort Worth-Arlington
(4,000), the rate of growth was stronger in Fort Worth (6.9 percent) than in
Dallas (5.6).
The government supersector also added 10,700 jobs in the Dallas-Fort
Worth-Arlington area from January a year ago. The local 2.9-percent rate of
gain was nearly three times the national increase of 1.0 percent, but movements
within the two metropolitan divisions were quite different. Government added
9,700 jobs in Dallas-Plano-Irving, an increase of 3.9 percent, while the public
sector in Fort Worth-Arlington added 1,000 jobs and rose at a slower pace, 0.9
percent. More than 16 percent of job growth in Dallas-Plano-Irving was
attributable to the government supersector, while it accounted for just over 4
percent of growth in Fort Worth-Arlington.
Professional and business services employment rose by 10,300 or 2.4
percent from January 2007 in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area.
Fort Worth-Arlington added these jobs at a faster pace than Dallas-Plano-
Irving, 3.2 percent versus 2.2 percent, but both divisions had rates of growth
above the 1.7-percent national average.
Financial activities employment in the greater Dallas metropolitan area
rose by 4,300 from January 2007, a 1.9-percent increase. Industry employment
in Fort Worth-Arlington rose 2.3 percent (1,100) over the year while the
Dallas-Plano-Irving division added jobs at a 1.8-percent pace (3,200). While
the local rates of growth in this supersector were among the slowest,
nationally, financial activities lost jobs over the 12-month period, down 1.3
percent.
Employment in the other services supersector (which includes such
industries as dry cleaning and laundry, personal care, death care, pet care,
and dating services) rose by 3,600 in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
metropolitan area, an advance of 3.5 percent. Rates of gain were fairly
similar between the metropolitan divisions, with jobs growing 3.8 percent in
Fort Worth-Arlington and 3.3 percent in Dallas-Plano-Irving. Nationally,
employment in this supersector increased much more slowly, up 0.8 percent from
January a year ago.
Employment in information (which includes such industries as software
publishing, traditional publishing, broadcasting, telecommunications, and data
processing) rose by 1,200 in the greater metropolitan area since January 2007,
a gain of 1.4 percent. Both metropolitan divisions contributed to the Dallas-
Fort Worth-Arlington increase.
Locally, employment in manufacturing edged down 1,000 or 0.3 percent from
January 2007. All of the industry’s losses occurred in the Dallas-Plano-Irving
area. Nationally, manufacturing jobs were down 1.9 percent.
Employment in the 12 largest areas
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area was one of the nation’s 12 largest
metropolitan statistical areas in January 2008. Seven of these areas
experienced over-the-year job growth greater than the national increase of 0.7
percent. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas, registered the fastest rate of
gain, up 3.9 percent from January 2007 to January 2008, followed by Dallas-Fort
Worth-Arlington, up 2.9 percent. The other five areas with above-average
growth were: Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Ga. (1.5 percent), San Francisco-
Oakland-Freemont, Calif. (1.1 percent), and Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.-
N.H.; New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.; and Washington-
Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va. (all at 0.9 percent). (See chart C.)
Job growth in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pa.-N.J.-Del.-Md. equaled
the national increase of 0.7 percent, while growth was just below that for the
nation in Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Ill.-Ind.-Wis., at 0.6 percent.
Employment was little changed in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, Fla. (0.1
percent). Two areas lost jobs, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif., down
0.3 percent, and Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Mich., down 1.5 percent from January
2007.
The fastest growing industry supersector did not vary a lot among the 12
largest areas from January 2007 to January 2008. Education and health services
had the highest percentage increase in employment in eight areas among those
industries adding at least 1,000 jobs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas,
Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington.
The two metropolitan areas with the fastest rates of growth – Houston and
Dallas – also added the most jobs. Employment grew by 95,300 in Houston and
83,500 in Dallas from January 2007 to January 2008. The only other area in
which employment rose by more than 50,000 over the year was New York (77,400).
In 8 of the 12 areas – Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami,
New York, and Philadelphia – education and health services added the most jobs.
In three areas – Houston, San Francisco, and Washington – the professional and
business services supersector had the largest numerical increase.
Chart C. Over-the-year percent change in employment, 12 largest
metropolitan areas and the United States, January 2008
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| NOTE: Data in this release have been revised to reflect adjustment to 2007 |
| benchmark levels and the conversion from 2002 North American Industry |
| Classification System (NAICS) to 2007 NAICS. For more information see |
| “Annual Revisions” in Technical Note. |
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Additional information
More complete information on the technical procedures used to develop
these estimates and additional data appear in Employment and Earnings, which is
available by subscription from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 (telephone 202-512-1800). Industry
employment data for states and metropolitan areas from the CES program are also
available in the above-mentioned news releases and from the Internet at
(http://www.bls.gov/sae/).
For personal assistance or further information on the Current Employment
Statistics program, as well as other Bureau programs, contact the Southwest
Information Office at 214-767-6970 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Information in this release will be made available to sensory
impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; TDD message
referral phone: 1-800-877-8339.
Technical Note
This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the
Current Employment Statistics (CES) program. The CES survey is a Federal-State
cooperative endeavor in which State employment security agencies prepare the
data using concepts, definitions, and technical procedures prescribed by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on establishment payrolls
who receive pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the
month. Persons are counted at their place of work rather than at their place
of residence; those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each
payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in
accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification
System.
Method of estimation. The employment data are estimated using a "link
relative" technique in which a ratio (link relative) of current-month
employment to that of the previous month is computed from a sample of
establishments reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the
current month are obtained by multiplying the estimates for the previous month
by these ratios. Small-domain models are used as the official estimators for
approximately 10 percent of CES published series.
Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted annually to a
complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, derived principally from tax reports
which are submitted by employers who are covered under state unemployment
insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the monthly
estimates between the new benchmark and the preceding one and also to establish
the level of employment for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking
process establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to measure
the month-to-month changes in the level for the subsequent months.
Reliability of the estimates. The estimates presented in this release are
based on sample survey and administrative data and thus are subject to sampling
and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of sampling
variability--that is, variation that occurs by chance because a sample rather
than the entire population is surveyed. Survey data are also subject to
nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into the data
collection and processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from
sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from the special
estimation processes used. The sums of individual items may not always equal
the totals shown in the same tables because of rounding.
Employment estimates. Measures of sampling error for state CES data at
the supersector level are available on the BLS Web site at
http://www.bls.gov/sae/790stderr.htm. Information on recent benchmark
revisions for states is available at http://www.bls.gov/sae/.
Area definitions. The substate area data published in this release
reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget, dated December 5, 2005. A list of the geographic
definitions is published annually in the May issue of Employment and Earnings.
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes
Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall,
Tarrant, and Wise Counties in Texas.
The Dallas-Plano-Irving Metropolitan Division (MD) includes Collin, Dallas,
Delta, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall Counties in Texas.
The Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Division (MD) includes Johnson, Parker,
Tarrant, and Wise Counties in Texas.
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