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

Mississippi

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

March 1994       53,042     137,304      88,882       48,422         84,262     55,327       28,935
March 1995       26,994     130,247      93,209       37,038        103,253     71,584       31,669
March 1996       10,192     121,975      80,516       41,459        111,783     76,065       35,718
March 1997       16,448     118,287      79,080       39,207        101,839     70,752       31,087
March 1998       23,277     126,936      89,598       37,338        103,659     68,154       35,505
March 1999       18,932     132,343      92,883       39,460        113,411     74,627       38,784
March 2000        2,498     117,123      79,398       37,725        114,625     78,041       36,584
March 2001      -26,368     107,968      69,644       38,324        134,336     91,449       42,887
March 2002      -13,909     108,732      74,333       34,399        122,641     87,001       35,640
March 2003      -13,228      98,453      66,872       31,581        111,681     79,204       32,477
March 2004        7,154     105,736      74,009       31,727         98,582     72,029       26,553
March 2005       13,641     107,762      75,182       32,580         94,121     64,339       29,782
March 2006        4,906     123,333      85,391       37,942        118,427     82,713       35,714
March 2007       10,096     118,696      83,219       35,477        108,600     81,472       27,128
March 2008        5,652     111,900      78,461       33,439        106,248     77,988       28,260
March 2009      -52,960      82,824      54,564       28,260        135,784     99,849       35,935
March 2010      -20,759      83,336      57,312       26,024        104,095     76,704       27,391
March 2011       11,408      93,525      66,284       27,241         82,117     58,475       23,642
March 2012        7,998      94,018      66,831       27,187         86,020     62,765       23,255

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