Leading, Slipping, Gaining, Lagging Analysis:
Assessing Wholesale Trade Employment Growth
Across Pennsylvania Counties
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Wholesale Trade
Employment Growth
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
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 Pennsylvania's 67 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 Pennsylvania Regional Economic Analysis Project report, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the wholesale trade employment growth of Pennsylvania's 67 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
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
This figure displays the 67 counties of Pennsylvania 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 -0.23%, by portraying them in the top two quadrants demarcated at -0.23% on the vertical axis. County whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate trailed the statewide average (-0.23%) are distributed in the bottom two quadrants. In all, 25 counties surpassed the statewide average over 2010-2022, while 24 counties fell below.
Similarly, the two quadrants on the right of this figure present the positions of the 27 counties whose most recent (2022) wholesale trade employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (4.20%). The two quadrants on the left feature those 22 counties whose wholesale trade employment growth over 2022 trailed the statewide average.
Accordingly, each quadrant portrays the performance of all 67 counties corresponding with their long-term (2010-2022) and near-term (2022) performance relative to their respective statewide averages of -0.23% over 2010-2022 and 4.20% over 2022:
Leading counties () (top-right quadrant)...are counties whose average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate surpassed the statewide average both long-term (-0.23%) and near-term (4.20%).
Slipping counties () (top-left quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (-0.23%), but whose near-term growth has "slipped" by falling below the Pennsylvania average (4.20%).
Gaining counties () (bottom-right quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate fell below the statewide average (-0.23%), but whose near-term growth has "gained" by registering above the average (4.20%) statewide.
Lagging counties () (bottom-left quadrant)...are counties whose average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate fell under the statewide average both long-term (-0.23%) and near-term (4.20%).
   
 
Summary of Pennsylvania's 67 County Totals
 
Short Term Average
 
 
Below
(4.20%)
Above
(4.20%)
 
Long
Term
Average
Above
(-0.23%)
9
16
25
Below
(-0.23%)
13
11
24
 
22
27
49
 
   
Leading Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Leading Counties
white dot
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
Turning attention to the top-right quadrant from the discussion above, this figure features the distribution of the Pennsylvania counties classified as Leading. These counties surpassed Pennsylvania's average annual wholesale trade employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = -0.23%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.20%). Each is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, 16 (24%) are classified within the Leading () category. Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Slipping Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Slipping Counties
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
This figure depicts the distribution of the 9 Pennsylvania 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 = -0.23%), while they trailed the statewide average near-term (2022 = 4.20%). Again, each county is identified by it's corresponding ranking based on its average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Only 9 (13%) of Pennsylvania's 67 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
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
This figure shows the distribution of the 11 Pennsylvania 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 = -0.23%), while they outpaced Pennsylvania's average near-term (2022 = 4.20%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on its average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, 16% (11) are featured as Gaining (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Lagging Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Lagging Counties
white dot
Pennsylvania:
2010-2022 = -0.23%
2022 = 4.20%
This figure depicts the distributions of the 13 Pennsylvania counties classified as Lagging (bottom-left quadrant). These counties trailed the statewide average annual wholesale trade employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = -0.23%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.20%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual wholesale trade employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
19% of Pennsylvania's counties, 13 of 67, are characterized here as Lagging (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
   
 
Pennsylvania
Wholesale Trade Employment Growth
County vs. Statewide Average
 
2010-2022
 
2022
 
 
Leading Counties
 
8
0.88
 
25
4.60
568
 
16
0.21
 
31
4.35
1,582
 
10
0.80
 
12
6.03
475
 
19
0.06
 
27
4.53
17,681
 
5
1.65
 
1
21.07
609
 
24
-0.14
 
14
5.94
7,937
 
22
-0.09
 
11
6.58
1,700
 
3
2.31
 
2
13.44
363
 
12
0.56
 
23
4.79
4,661
 
6
1.37
 
6
8.64
17,135
 
15
0.29
 
30
4.44
29,962
 
2
2.56
 
10
6.71
5,105
 
18
0.07
 
24
4.64
17,161
 
11
0.75
 
29
4.44
1,411
 
4
2.05
 
5
9.15
477
 
23
-0.14
 
28
4.52
4,560
Slipping Counties
 
21
-0.06
 
33
3.99
13,879
 
9
0.85
 
50
0.53
761
 
20
0.05
 
38
2.70
9,446
 
17
0.11
 
47
1.16
1,306
 
1
3.91
 
52
0.43
1,646
 
14
0.42
 
39
2.30
1,024
 
25
-0.16
 
44
1.71
1,247
 
7
1.19
 
34
3.14
427
 
13
0.49
 
36
2.88
7,508
Gaining Counties
 
45
-2.30
 
9
7.29
618
 
28
-0.39
 
17
5.43
621
 
26
-0.28
 
7
8.41
5,352
 
37
-1.61
 
15
5.92
1,664
 
30
-0.77
 
22
4.95
4,582
 
31
-0.89
 
13
5.96
3,483
 
38
-1.72
 
18
5.31
238
 
39
-1.77
 
8
7.88
1,547
 
40
-1.82
 
16
5.65
1,029
 
42
-1.95
 
20
5.16
999
 
32
-0.95
 
26
4.56
6,508
Lagging Counties
 
35
-1.21
 
43
1.86
24,638
 
27
-0.35
 
46
1.20
7,026
 
44
-2.26
 
42
2.14
2,146
 
48
-2.62
 
54
0.00
19
 
47
-2.41
 
49
0.92
874
 
41
-1.94
 
55
-2.22
308
 
29
-0.45
 
48
1.06
760
 
34
-1.14
 
35
3.06
5,987
 
33
-1.10
 
53
0.05
2,041
 
49
-3.05
 
40
2.29
358
 
46
-2.33
 
32
4.11
709
 
36
-1.59
 
45
1.58
515
 
43
-2.08
 
51
0.46
218
Undefined/Suppressed Counties
 
U
U
 
S
S
340
 
U
U
 
56
-4.41
325
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
19
5.26
20
 
U
U
 
S
S
79
 
U
U
 
4
9.92
410
 
U
U
 
41
2.19
280
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
21
4.96
593
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
221
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
87
 
U
U
 
3
11.99
383
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
37
2.80
367
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-0.23
 
4.20
237,235
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.80
 
5.56
6,757,300
November 2023
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