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Description & Citation--Study No. 2280

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2280
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02280
 
Title:County Business Patterns, 1994 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State and County Data
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:County Business Patterns [United States] Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS, 1994 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE AND COUNTY DATA [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02280
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The total number of business establishments, mid-March employment figures, and first quarter and annual payrolls are supplied in this data collection at the county, state, and national levels. Also provided are data on the number of establishments by employment-size class. Data are provided for most divisions of the economy, including agricultural services, mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and services. However, data are not included for agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment.
 
Subject Term(s):agricultural services, business conditions, businesses, construction industry, counties, economic conditions, employment, finance, manufacturing industry, mining industry, public utilities, real estate, retail industry, service industry, trade, transportation, wages and salaries
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1994
 
Date(s) of Collection:1994
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
 

Methodology

Sample:All business establishments with one or more paid employees in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, and household employment. Government hospitals were included beginning with the 1989 data.
 
Data Source:Standard Statistical Establishment List, Annual Company Organization Survey, Annual Survey of Manufactures, Current Business Surveys, United States Internal Revenue Service administrative records, and the Social Security Administration
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:In accordance with U.S. Code, Title 13, Section 9, no data are published that would disclose the operations of an individual employer. However, the number of establishments in a kind of business classification and the distribution of these establishments by employment-size class are not considered to be disclosures, and so this information may be released.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1998-07-28
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 12 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: United States Summary Data
  • DS2: State Summary Data
  • DS3: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 1
  • DS4: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 2
  • DS5: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 3
  • DS6: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 4
  • DS7: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 5
  • DS8: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 6
  • DS9: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 7
  • DS10: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 8
  • DS11: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 9