The decline was primarily in the goods-producing sector, which includes construction and manufacturing.
The sector, which includes banner ads, is one of the company's bright spots.
Most Nicaraguan women work in the informal sector, which includes domestic labour and subsistence farming.
Employment in the service sector, which includes industries like retail and transportation, also improved.
Here in the mountainous El Centro sector, which includes the vast Imperial Desert, 52 migrants have died since Oct. 1.
The number of employees in the consumer services sector, which includes hotels, bars, restaurants, travel and leisure firms, also increased.
Tours now has an important and diversified industrial sector, which includes the manufacture of electronics, machinery, foodstuffs, and pharmaceuticals.
The electrical-machinery sector, which includes the high-tech industries, was responsible for more than two-thirds of this drop.
The private sector — which includes corporations with product dwarfing the G.D.P. of many nations — can play a leadership role.
The review will also cover the rapidly growing, digital-payments sector which includes businesses like PayPal and Monitise.
Analysts had forecast a reading of 56.5 for the UK's powerhouse sector, which includes transport and communication, financial advice, IT and the hospitality trade.
