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Description & Citation--Study No. 6382

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6382
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06382
 
Title:County Business Patterns, 1991 [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, 1991 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE, AND COUNTY DATA [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06382
 

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. Included with this aggregate data collection is a file containing 1987 revised Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) designations used with data from 1988 and later years.
 
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:1991
 
Date(s) of Collection:1991
 
Universe:All business establishments with one or more paid employees in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment. Government hospitals were included beginning with 1989 data.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Data Source:Standard Statistical Establishment List, the Annual Company Organization Survey, the Annual Report of Organizations, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, Current Business Surveys, and United States Internal Revenue Service administrative records
 

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:1995-01-11
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 14 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 13 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
  • DS12: 1987 Revised Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Designations