Description & Citation--Study No. 3087 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3087 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03087 |
| Title: | County Business Patterns, 1998 [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, 1998 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE AND COUNTY DATA [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 2000. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03087 |
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: | 1998 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1998 |
| Universe: | All business establishments with one or more paid employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment. All government hospitals are included beginning with 1989 data. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) The data are supplied in three files: United States Summary Data (Part 1), State Summary Data (Part 2), and County Summary Data (Part 3). The county summary data are now in one file, sorted alphabetically by state and within state by county. (2) The codebooks are provided by the principal investigator as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. 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 on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | Business Register, 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 shown that would disclose the operations of an individual employer. However, the number of establishments in an industry classification and the distribution of these establishments by employer-size class are not considered disclosures, and so this information may be released even though other information is withheld. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2001-04-12 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12. |
| 2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 7 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads. | |
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