Leading, Slipping, Gaining, Lagging Analysis:
Assessing Information Employment Growth
Across Tennessee Counties
Information
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Information
Employment Growth
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
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 information employment growth across all of Tennessee's 95 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 Tennessee Regional Economic Analysis Project report, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the information employment growth of Tennessee's 95 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.
Information
Employment Growth
County vs Statewide Average: 2010-2022 and 2022
Information
Employment Growth
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
This figure displays the 95 counties of Tennessee as dots on a scattergram, with the vertical axis representing the average annual information employment growth rate over the long-term period (2010-2022), and the horizontal axis representing the information employment growth rate for the near-term (2022).
This figure sets apart those counties whose long-term information employment growth exceeded the statewide average of 1.71%, by portraying them in the top two quadrants demarcated at 1.71% on the vertical axis. County whose long-term average annual information employment growth rate trailed the statewide average (1.71%) are distributed in the bottom two quadrants. In all, 18 counties surpassed the statewide average over 2010-2022, while 38 counties fell below.
Similarly, the two quadrants on the right of this figure present the positions of the 22 counties whose most recent (2022) information employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (11.06%). The two quadrants on the left feature those 34 counties whose information employment growth over 2022 trailed the statewide average.
Accordingly, each quadrant portrays the performance of all 95 counties corresponding with their long-term (2010-2022) and near-term (2022) performance relative to their respective statewide averages of 1.71% over 2010-2022 and 11.06% over 2022:
Leading counties () (top-right quadrant)...are counties whose average annual information employment growth rate surpassed the statewide average both long-term (1.71%) and near-term (11.06%).
Slipping counties () (top-left quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual information employment growth rate exceeded the statewide average (1.71%), but whose near-term growth has "slipped" by falling below the Tennessee average (11.06%).
Gaining counties () (bottom-right quadrant)...are counties whose long-term average annual information employment growth rate fell below the statewide average (1.71%), but whose near-term growth has "gained" by registering above the average (11.06%) statewide.
Lagging counties () (bottom-left quadrant)...are counties whose average annual information employment growth rate fell under the statewide average both long-term (1.71%) and near-term (11.06%).
   
 
Summary of Tennessee's 95 County Totals
 
Short Term Average
 
 
Below
(11.06%)
Above
(11.06%)
 
Long
Term
Average
Above
(1.71%)
9
9
18
Below
(1.71%)
25
13
38
 
34
22
56
 
   
Leading Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Leading Counties
white dot
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
Turning attention to the top-right quadrant from the discussion above, this figure features the distribution of the Tennessee counties classified as Leading. These counties surpassed Tennessee's average annual information employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = 1.71%) as well as near-term (2022 = 11.06%). Each is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual information employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Tennessee's 95 counties, just 9 (9%) are classified within the Leading () category. Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Slipping Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Slipping Counties
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
This figure depicts the distribution of the 9 Tennessee counties classified as Slipping (top-left quadrant), in that their long-term average annual information employment growth rate outpaced the average statewide (2010-2022 = 1.71%), while they trailed the statewide average near-term (2022 = 11.06%). Again, each county is identified by it's corresponding ranking based on its average annual information employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Only 9 (9%) of Tennessee's 95 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
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
This figure shows the distribution of the 13 Tennessee counties classified as Gaining (bottom-right quadrant), in that their long-term average annual information employment growth rate posted below the average statewide (2010-2022 = 1.71%), while they outpaced Tennessee's average near-term (2022 = 11.06%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on its average annual information employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
Of Tennessee's 95 counties, only 14% (13) are featured as Gaining (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
Lagging Counties
2022 vs. 2010-2022 Averages
Lagging Counties
white dot
Tennessee:
2010-2022 = 1.71%
2022 = 11.06%
This figure depicts the distributions of the 25 Tennessee counties classified as Lagging (bottom-left quadrant). These counties trailed the statewide average annual information employment growth both long-term (2010-2022 = 1.71%) as well as near-term (2022 = 11.06%). Again, each county is identified by its corresponding ranking based on it's average annual information employment growth rate over 2010-2022.
26% of Tennessee's counties, 25 of 95, are characterized here as Lagging (). Those counties ranked by their long-term average include:
   
 
Tennessee
Information Employment Growth
County vs. Statewide Average
 
2010-2022
 
2022
 
 
Leading Counties
 
7
4.89
 
3
25.51
925
 
4
6.05
 
4
20.53
229
 
11
3.19
 
13
13.49
22,181
 
8
4.41
 
32
11.09
1,362
 
10
3.43
 
26
11.91
263
 
17
2.15
 
7
16.67
42
 
9
4.16
 
25
11.92
1,418
 
2
8.64
 
8
16.23
8,774
 
12
3.14
 
6
17.25
931
Slipping Counties
 
6
5.45
 
47
8.70
50
 
16
2.29
 
59
7.08
348
 
1
8.98
 
44
9.29
153
 
13
3.01
 
45
8.93
61
 
14
2.72
 
39
9.85
145
 
3
6.27
 
68
5.26
80
 
18
1.86
 
42
9.33
82
 
15
2.30
 
69
4.08
51
 
5
5.66
 
84
-35.42
62
Gaining Counties
 
21
1.32
 
23
12.18
479
 
39
-0.64
 
24
12.12
111
 
53
-3.17
 
19
12.60
277
 
20
1.41
 
30
11.35
157
 
42
-1.13
 
29
11.46
214
 
26
0.86
 
11
13.79
99
 
23
1.15
 
20
12.50
90
 
44
-1.72
 
31
11.11
50
 
32
0.19
 
12
13.51
42
 
49
-2.41
 
10
14.29
96
 
30
0.27
 
17
12.68
391
 
37
-0.41
 
22
12.22
101
 
46
-2.19
 
9
14.81
31
Lagging Counties
 
47
-2.29
 
36
10.17
65
 
55
-3.79
 
67
5.32
99
 
51
-2.63
 
79
0.00
43
 
56
-6.95
 
73
3.45
30
 
45
-1.73
 
62
6.77
142
 
48
-2.36
 
55
7.41
29
 
41
-0.94
 
48
8.63
302
 
28
0.58
 
43
9.29
3,907
 
35
0.00
 
64
6.52
6,057
 
36
-0.28
 
57
7.14
30
 
34
0.07
 
60
7.04
152
 
24
1.10
 
49
8.49
115
 
29
0.52
 
35
10.26
172
 
52
-2.99
 
79
0.00
95
 
43
-1.51
 
70
3.74
583
 
40
-0.85
 
34
10.32
866
 
50
-2.59
 
52
8.00
81
 
33
0.16
 
51
8.10
494
 
27
0.73
 
85
-66.92
44
 
19
1.62
 
65
6.34
4,361
 
38
-0.56
 
38
9.97
6,982
 
31
0.24
 
63
6.67
32
 
22
1.19
 
71
3.72
251
 
54
-3.77
 
72
3.57
1,249
 
25
1.03
 
74
3.25
159
Undefined/Suppressed Counties
 
U
U
 
66
5.42
350
 
U
U
 
33
10.45
317
 
U
U
 
40
9.80
56
 
U
U
 
77
2.91
106
 
U
U
 
14
13.33
34
 
U
U
 
5
17.50
47
 
U
U
 
S
S
22
 
U
U
 
76
2.94
70
 
U
U
 
79
0.00
111
 
U
U
 
46
8.78
223
 
U
U
 
53
7.87
96
 
U
U
 
S
S
171
 
U
U
 
61
6.82
47
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
15
13.16
43
 
U
U
 
54
7.69
42
 
U
U
 
18
12.66
89
 
U
U
 
S
S
25
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
79
0.00
31
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
16
12.88
298
 
U
U
 
55
7.41
29
 
U
U
 
1
28.99
89
 
U
U
 
78
0.48
210
 
U
U
 
27
11.76
19
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
75
3.03
34
 
U
U
 
79
0.00
21
 
U
U
 
27
11.76
19
 
U
U
 
20
12.50
117
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
2
28.00
32
 
U
U
 
58
7.10
1,071
 
U
U
 
50
8.33
26
 
U
U
 
S
S
76
 
U
U
 
S
S
S
 
U
U
 
37
10.00
33
 
U
U
 
40
9.80
56
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.71
 
11.06
69,867
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.25
 
8.70
3,861,900
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