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

Ohio

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

March 1994       13,077      95,731      67,009       28,722         69,538     53,893       15,645
March 1995       -3,191      94,240      67,933       26,307         84,504     55,006       29,498
March 1996        3,633      91,187      65,674       25,513         81,756     59,876       21,880
March 1997        3,321      92,643      67,552       25,091         82,532     60,762       21,770
March 1998          707      92,228      68,608       23,620         84,684     61,771       22,913
March 1999        1,684      93,119      68,797       24,322         85,946     63,308       22,638
March 2000        2,634      94,778      70,172       24,606         84,077     62,105       21,972
March 2001         -792      89,498      65,691       23,807         93,725     69,126       24,599
March 2002       -1,634      85,570      61,670       23,900         97,675     72,141       25,534
March 2003       -1,600      86,058      62,966       23,092         93,468     68,776       24,692
March 2004          673      89,296      65,631       23,665         88,039     65,047       22,992
March 2005         -364      88,275      65,186       23,089         89,587     66,134       23,453
March 2006        2,071      90,699      65,905       24,794         89,373     66,650       22,723
March 2007       -2,774      85,019      63,290       21,729         94,125     69,622       24,503
March 2008       -3,931      82,995      61,376       21,619         95,382     69,832       25,550
March 2009       -6,641      73,631      53,728       19,903        102,708     76,164       26,544
March 2010       -6,246      72,028      53,478       18,550         96,543     71,747       24,796
March 2011           92      84,267      63,590       20,677         79,415     58,830       20,585
March 2012        1,293      89,467      66,983       22,484         77,735     56,544       21,191

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