Figure 7 Annual Increase in Employment of Foreign Quarterly Bom Basis, Hispanics in the Construction Industry Measured on a Quarterly Basis, 2004 to 2007
The increase in employment in the first quarter of 2007 is below the trend for the most recent period of robust industry expansion that preceded it as well as for the average of the previous three years (Figure 7). From the beginning of 2004 through the end of 2006, the employment of foreign-born Latinos in the construction industry increased by an average of 286,000 persons on an annual basis as measured from one quarter or to the same quarter in the previous year. In 2006, for example, employment was up by 424,000 in the second quarter, 341,000 in the third quarter and 370,000 in the fourth quarter compared to the same quarters in 2005. In the first quarter of 2007 the increase was 230,000 compared to the first quarter of 2006.
Figure 7  | Annual Increase in Employment of Foreign Quarterly Bom Basis, Hispanics in the  | Construction Industry Measured on a Quarterly Basis, 2004 to 2007  | 424  | Average 2004 2006 286  | Thousands  | 370  | 341  | 328  | 324  | 317  | 267  | 248  | 236  | 230  | 230  | 228  | 125  | Jan.- Apr.- July Oct.. Jan.- Apr.- July- Oct.- Jan.- Apr.- July- Oct.- Jan.-  | Mar. June Sep Dec.  | Mar. June Sep Dec. Mar. June Sep. Dec Mar.  | 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 Sep. 2006 2007  | Note: The annua increase is the increase in employment from the same quarter the previous year.  | Source: Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of Current Population Survey data 