Monday, October 30, 2006

Employment Report for Cavalier County, North Dakota -- Annual 2005 Industry Summary

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting is the industry that has grown the most in terms of employment from 2001-2005 in Cavalier County, rising by 40 percent. This is greater than the rate of industry employment change in the United States of -0.6 percent. The State of North Dakota had changed in sector employment of 9.1 percent, since the year 2001.

Health care and social assistance has a largest number of employee per establishment in Cavalier County. The industry averages 34 workers per each place of employment, being greater than the industry's average in the United States of 21 and greater than the State of North Dakota average of 30 for the Health care and social assistance industry.

In Cavalier County, Information, Utilities and Wholesale trade have the highest US LQ in 2005. The Information industry has a US LQ in the county of 2.9. The percent of employment in the Information industry is 2.9 times greater than the US average, showing signs that Cavalier County may specialize, or be an exporter of Information.

In Cavalier County, Health care and social assistance, Retail Trade, and the Wholesale trade sectors, in terms of total employment, are the largest. Health care and social assistance provides the most jobs and contributes 22.7 percent of the total county employment. This totals 272 jobs. The Retail Trade and Wholesale trade sectors provide 13.9 and 11.4 percent of total employment, respectively.









Datasource: U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).

 

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