Leading, Slipping, Gaining, Lagging Analysis:
Assessing Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Employment Growth
Across Ohio Counties
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Employment Growth
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
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 professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth across all of Ohio's 88 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 Ohio Regional Economic Analysis Project report, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth of Ohio's 88 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.
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Employment Growth
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
This figure displays the 88 counties of Ohio as dots on a scattergram, with the vertical axis representing the average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate over the long-term period (2010-2022), and the horizontal axis representing the professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate for the near-term (2022).
This figure sets apart those counties whose long-term professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth exceeded the statewide average of 1.29%, by portraying them in the top two quadrants demarcated at 1.29% on the vertical axis. County whose long-term average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate trailed the statewide average (1.29%) are distributed in the bottom two quadrants. In all, 20 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 18 counties whose most recent (2022) professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (4.28%). The two quadrants on the left feature those 26 counties whose professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth over 2022 trailed the statewide average.
Accordingly, each quadrant portrays the performance of all 88 counties corresponding with their long-term (2010-2022) and near-term (2022) performance relative to their respective statewide averages of 1.29% over 2010-2022 and 4.28% over 2022:
Leading counties () (top-right quadrant)...are counties whose average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate surpassed the statewide average both long-term (1.29%) and near-term (4.28%).
Slipping counties () (top-left quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (1.29%), but whose near-term growth has "slipped" by falling below the Ohio average (4.28%).
Gaining counties () (bottom-right quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate fell below the statewide average (1.29%), but whose near-term growth has "gained" by registering above the average (4.28%) statewide.
Lagging counties () (bottom-left quadrant)...are counties whose average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate fell under the statewide average both long-term (1.29%) and near-term (4.28%).
   
 
Summary of Ohio's 88 County Totals
 
Short Term Average
 
 
Below
(4.28%)
Above
(4.28%)
 
Long
Term
Average
Above
(1.29%)
11
9
20
Below
(1.29%)
15
9
24
 
26
18
44
 
   
Leading Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Leading Counties
white dot
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
Turning attention to the top-right quadrant from the discussion above, this figure features the distribution of the Ohio counties classified as Leading. These counties surpassed Ohio's average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = 1.29%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.28%). Each is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Ohio's 88 counties, just 9 (10%) are classified within the Leading () category. Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Slipping Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Slipping Counties
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
This figure depicts the distribution of the 11 Ohio counties classified as Slipping (top-left quadrant), in that their long-term average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate outpaced the average statewide (2010-2022 = 1.29%), while they trailed the statewide average near-term (2022 = 4.28%). Again, each county is identified by it's corresponding ranking based on its average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Only 11 (13%) of Ohio's 88 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
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
This figure shows the distribution of the 9 Ohio counties classified as Gaining (bottom-right quadrant), in that their long-term average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate posted below the average statewide (2010-2022 = 1.29%), while they outpaced Ohio's average near-term (2022 = 4.28%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on its average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Ohio's 88 counties, only 10% (9) are featured as Gaining (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Lagging Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Lagging Counties
white dot
Ohio:
2010-2022 = 1.29%
2022 = 4.28%
This figure depicts the distributions of the 15 Ohio counties classified as Lagging (bottom-left quadrant). These counties trailed the statewide average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = 1.29%) as well as near-term (2022 = 4.28%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual professional, scientific, and technical services employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
17% of Ohio's counties, 15 of 88, are characterized here as Lagging (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
   
 
Ohio
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Employment Growth
County vs. Statewide Average
 
2010-2022
 
2022
 
 
Leading Counties
 
8
2.31
 
6
6.88
2,425
 
4
3.45
 
4
9.19
1,997
 
9
2.10
 
24
4.72
3,259
 
14
1.84
 
10
6.01
79,722
 
1
8.26
 
1
16.67
217
 
7
2.59
 
3
9.27
4,361
 
18
1.53
 
21
4.87
9,539
 
2
4.44
 
12
5.84
10,427
 
17
1.67
 
2
10.19
3,632
Slipping Counties
 
6
2.65
 
60
-1.27
1,472
 
10
2.04
 
40
3.36
9,018
 
13
1.85
 
57
0.00
583
 
16
1.75
 
44
3.22
3,498
 
3
3.67
 
53
2.05
14,955
 
12
1.91
 
50
2.72
1,094
 
5
3.21
 
32
4.18
4,734
 
19
1.42
 
49
2.77
5,977
 
15
1.80
 
52
2.10
5,389
 
20
1.35
 
48
2.95
1,432
 
11
1.97
 
33
4.18
1,894
Gaining Counties
 
38
-0.06
 
17
5.37
510
 
23
1.21
 
15
5.57
6,708
 
41
-0.22
 
26
4.68
13,184
 
35
0.32
 
8
6.73
5,642
 
37
0.06
 
14
5.61
678
 
28
0.75
 
28
4.63
1,040
 
44
-1.01
 
25
4.69
2,612
 
33
0.40
 
19
4.95
1,187
 
39
-0.09
 
7
6.86
2,290
Lagging Counties
 
26
1.01
 
54
0.62
1,138
 
25
1.09
 
36
3.68
5,612
 
32
0.44
 
56
0.16
1,257
 
21
1.27
 
38
3.40
73,580
 
43
-0.35
 
45
3.09
12,458
 
36
0.13
 
51
2.55
1,410
 
27
0.98
 
47
3.03
56,876
 
22
1.26
 
42
3.29
2,446
 
31
0.46
 
41
3.34
340
 
34
0.39
 
43
3.24
573
 
30
0.61
 
34
4.16
20,436
 
40
-0.21
 
37
3.47
1,821
 
42
-0.29
 
55
0.37
808
 
29
0.61
 
39
3.36
769
 
24
1.12
 
35
4.01
23,728
Undefined/Suppressed Counties
 
U
U
 
13
5.82
400
 
U
U
 
46
3.05
1,012
 
U
U
 
11
5.94
999
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
23
4.77
637
 
U
U
 
27
4.66
1,866
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
31
4.26
833
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
18
5.26
721
 
U
U
 
S
S
309
 
U
U
 
62
-6.23
662
 
U
U
 
61
-2.60
150
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
16
5.39
821
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
20
4.89
793
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
5
7.08
832
 
U
U
 
22
4.82
2,392
 
U
U
 
57
0.00
138
 
U
U
 
59
-0.92
108
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
667
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
30
4.33
337
 
U
U
 
9
6.61
710
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
470
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
799
 
U
U
 
29
4.60
773
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.29
 
4.28
433,417
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.43
 
5.47
15,978,400
November 2023
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