Table 3.  Number of private sector establishments by direction of employment change, annual March to March

New Jersey

                                   Establishments gaining jobs             Establishments losing jobs
Year ended    Net change(1)  Total     Expanding     Opening        Total    Contracting    Closing
                                   establishments  establishments          establishments  establishments

March 1994          791      70,302      48,514       21,788         63,882     42,885       20,997
March 1995        7,442      78,170      51,289       26,881         61,383     41,944       19,439
March 1996        4,615      76,043      49,378       26,665         69,480     47,430       22,050
March 1997          379      76,673      53,093       23,580         68,688     45,487       23,201
March 1998        5,279      81,898      52,554       29,344         70,241     46,176       24,065
March 1999        3,064      83,120      53,453       29,667         73,698     47,095       26,603
March 2000        6,764      89,681      54,931       34,750         76,540     48,554       27,986
March 2001       -1,720      83,594      54,797       28,797         81,839     51,322       30,517
March 2002        3,021      83,185      53,371       29,814         80,272     53,479       26,793
March 2003          663      79,919      51,720       28,199         82,455     54,919       27,536
March 2004        1,568      83,455      55,643       27,812         77,651     51,407       26,244
March 2005        3,731      83,799      54,103       29,696         79,800     53,835       25,965
March 2006        7,349      87,972      56,453       31,519         78,866     54,696       24,170
March 2007       -1,948      82,169      54,371       27,798         87,338     57,592       29,746
March 2008          132      82,149      54,511       27,638         85,096     57,590       27,506
March 2009       -4,611      69,491      44,658       24,833         96,275     66,831       29,444
March 2010       -4,113      71,535      46,945       24,590         87,498     58,795       28,703
March 2011         -578      78,149      53,031       25,118         77,389     51,693       25,696
March 2012        2,314      82,033      55,511       26,522         74,588     50,380       24,208

(1) Net change is the difference between the number of opening establishments
    and the number of closing establishments.