Leading, Slipping, Gaining, Lagging Analysis:
Assessing Wholesale Trade Employment Growth
Across Louisiana Counties
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
Borrowing from an approach that sometimes appears in the finance sections of the popular press, LSGL analysis is a handy and versatile way to compare, portray and classify the patterns of wholesale trade employment growth across all of Louisiana's 64 counties. In finance, this technique is used for comparing and assessing the market performance of individual securities or across industry sectors. For example, the performance of the 30 stocks contained within Dow are compared with one another over the past week in contrast to their performance over the past month using the Dow's respective averages as the points of reference.
Here in this Louisiana Regional Economic Analysis Project report, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the wholesale trade employment growth of Louisiana's 64 counties over the latest available year (2022) against the backdrop of their growth over the long term period (2010-2022). In so doing we classify their growth and performance into 4 broad categories: Leading, Slipping, Gaining and Lagging.
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
This figure displays the 64 counties of Louisiana as dots on a scattergram, with the vertical axis representing the average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over the long-term period (2010-2022), and the horizontal axis representing the wholesale trade employment growth rate for the near-term (2022).
This figure sets apart those counties whose long-term wholesale trade employment growth exceeded the statewide average of -0.09%, by portraying them in the top two quadrants demarcated at -0.09% on the vertical axis. County whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate trailed the statewide average (-0.09%) are distributed in the bottom two quadrants. In all, 24 counties surpassed the statewide average over 2010-2022, while 21 counties fell below.
Similarly, the two quadrants on the right of this figure present the positions of the 17 counties whose most recent (2022) wholesale trade employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (4.93%). The two quadrants on the left feature those 28 counties whose wholesale trade employment growth over 2022 trailed the statewide average.
Accordingly, each quadrant portrays the performance of all 64 counties corresponding with their long-term (2010-2022) and near-term (2022) performance relative to their respective statewide averages of -0.09% over 2010-2022 and 4.93% over 2022:
Leading counties () (top-right quadrant)...are counties whose average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate surpassed the statewide average both long-term (-0.09%) and near-term (4.93%).
Slipping counties () (top-left quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (-0.09%), but whose near-term growth has "slipped" by falling below the Louisiana average (4.93%).
Gaining counties () (bottom-right quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate fell below the statewide average (-0.09%), but whose near-term growth has "gained" by registering above the average (4.93%) statewide.
Lagging counties () (bottom-left quadrant)...are counties whose average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate fell under the statewide average both long-term (-0.09%) and near-term (4.93%).
   
 
Summary of Louisiana's 64 County Totals
 
Short Term Average
 
 
Below
(4.93%)
Above
(4.93%)
 
Long
Term
Average
Above
(-0.09%)
11
13
24
Below
(-0.09%)
17
4
21
 
28
17
45
 
   
Leading Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Leading Counties
white dot
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
Turning attention to the top-right quadrant from the discussion above, this figure features the distribution of the Louisiana counties classified as Leading. These counties surpassed Louisiana's average annual wholesale trade employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = -0.09%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.93%). Each is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Louisiana's 64 counties, 13 (20%) are classified within the Leading () category. Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Slipping Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Slipping Counties
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
This figure depicts the distribution of the 11 Louisiana counties classified as Slipping (top-left quadrant), in that their long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate outpaced the average statewide (2010-2022 = -0.09%), while they trailed the statewide average near-term (2022 = 4.93%). Again, each county is identified by it's corresponding ranking based on its average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Observe that 11 (17%) of Louisiana's 64 counties are classified as Slipping (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Gaining Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Gaining Counties
white dot
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
This figure shows the distribution of the 4 Louisiana counties classified as Gaining (bottom-right quadrant), in that their long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate posted below the average statewide (2010-2022 = -0.09%), while they outpaced Louisiana's average near-term (2022 = 4.93%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on its average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Louisiana's 64 counties, only 6% (4) are featured as Gaining (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Lagging Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Lagging Counties
white dot
Louisiana:
2010-2022 = -0.09%
2022 = 4.93%
This figure depicts the distributions of the 17 Louisiana counties classified as Lagging (bottom-left quadrant). These counties trailed the statewide average annual wholesale trade employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = -0.09%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.93%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
27% of Louisiana's counties, 17 of 64, are characterized here as Lagging (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
   
 
Louisiana
Wholesale Trade Employment Growth
County vs. Statewide Average
 
2010-2022
 
2022
 
 
Leading Counties
 
20
0.28
 
6
13.89
82
 
7
2.35
 
20
6.00
2,348
 
5
3.60
 
9
11.19
2,127
 
23
0.09
 
5
15.38
30
 
18
0.35
 
13
8.91
110
 
3
6.06
 
2
22.08
94
 
22
0.16
 
19
6.12
10,421
 
24
0.06
 
12
8.97
571
 
4
3.88
 
8
12.69
1,021
 
2
7.83
 
3
17.77
888
 
8
2.34
 
14
8.81
5,360
 
14
1.35
 
7
13.21
120
 
10
2.19
 
18
6.13
173
Slipping Counties
 
11
2.12
 
40
0.73
694
 
17
0.50
 
32
2.97
277
 
16
0.86
 
26
4.12
3,008
 
9
2.29
 
39
0.79
127
 
6
2.59
 
37
1.66
367
 
15
1.16
 
34
2.85
2,019
 
13
1.61
 
22
4.58
1,074
 
12
1.73
 
30
3.32
2,366
 
21
0.26
 
23
4.56
2,134
 
19
0.35
 
51
-26.83
210
 
1
10.73
 
49
-18.60
35
Gaining Counties
 
36
-1.26
 
17
6.49
279
 
42
-3.65
 
16
7.11
226
 
25
-0.16
 
11
9.35
4,281
 
45
-6.86
 
10
9.46
81
Lagging Counties
 
41
-3.58
 
36
1.69
60
 
28
-0.64
 
35
2.27
5,082
 
44
-5.93
 
31
3.08
67
 
33
-0.83
 
47
-5.16
147
 
27
-0.58
 
44
0.00
122
 
43
-4.49
 
42
0.36
835
 
32
-0.81
 
21
4.65
11,280
 
30
-0.67
 
25
4.15
6,701
 
31
-0.79
 
48
-12.59
715
 
37
-1.44
 
43
0.04
2,372
 
29
-0.64
 
45
-0.74
805
 
34
-1.03
 
33
2.91
1,801
 
26
-0.31
 
46
-2.24
305
 
39
-2.22
 
27
3.57
116
 
40
-3.48
 
28
3.47
597
 
38
-1.75
 
38
1.45
629
 
35
-1.19
 
41
0.65
462
Undefined/Suppressed Counties
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
326
 
U
U
 
1
56.62
213
 
U
U
 
24
4.27
220
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
15
8.33
39
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
4
17.25
469
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
50
-19.46
178
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
70
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
29
3.33
62
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-0.09
 
4.93
76,747
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.80
 
5.56
6,757,300
November 2023
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