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

Puerto Rico

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

March 1994       18,148     104,246      70,185       34,061         86,098     51,584       34,514
March 1995       21,584     105,475      71,195       34,280         83,891     51,880       32,011
March 1996       34,342     122,820      76,967       45,853         88,478     57,810       30,668
March 1997       24,708     115,038      73,694       41,344         90,330     56,723       33,607
March 1998        4,899     115,239      68,400       46,839        110,340     66,773       43,567
March 1999       21,713     114,847      79,718       35,129         93,134     62,615       30,519
March 2000       23,092     119,812      73,810       46,002         96,720     61,902       34,818
March 2001          731     104,928      69,657       35,271        104,197     73,252       30,945
March 2002      -32,529      89,351      66,745       22,606        121,880     78,210       43,670
March 2003      -18,361      83,073      66,888       16,185        101,434     65,600       35,834
March 2004       46,216     132,131      66,265       65,866         85,915     56,949       28,966
March 2005       17,948     110,206      69,350       40,856         92,258     64,071       28,187
March 2006          707      98,504      63,906       34,598         97,797     64,669       33,128
March 2007      -16,362      89,234      61,650       27,584        105,596     69,159       36,437
March 2008      -12,232      84,042      52,908       31,134         96,274     64,649       31,625
March 2009      -37,698      68,938      44,404       24,534        106,636     75,594       31,042
March 2010      -16,743      70,524      44,365       26,159         87,267     61,627       25,640
March 2011       -1,380      70,798      50,998       19,800         72,178     49,937       22,241
March 2012        9,312      80,134      55,920       24,214         70,822     46,863       23,959

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