Leisure and Hospitality in Orlando: Check Your LQ Calculation

To recap: We’re looking at the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Leisure and Hospitality Industry for 2016–and we’ll compare to the industry concentration for the entire U.S.

• Total number of Leisure and Hospitality employment in the MSA:  247,860
• Total local area employment: 1,157,536
• Total number of Leisure and Hospitality employment in the U.S.: 15,556,625 
• Total U.S. employment: 141,870,066

LQ = (247,860/1,157,536) /  (15,556,625/141,860,066)

Where:

• 247,860 = ei
  (leisure and hospitality employment in the Orlando region),
• 1,157,536 = et
  (total employment in the region),
• 15,556,625 = Ei
  (leisure and hospitality employment in the U.S.), and
• 141,860,066 = Et
  (total employment in the U.S.).