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Description & Citation--Study No. 8464

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8464
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08464
 
Title:County Business Patterns, 1977 [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, 1977 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE, AND COUNTY DATA [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1986. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08464
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The total number of business establishments, mid-March employment figures, and first-quarter and annual payrolls are supplied in these datasets at the county, state, and national levels. Also provided are data on the number of establishments by employment-size class.
 
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:1977
 
Universe:All business establishments in the 50 states and the District of Columbia with one or more paid employees, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, and household employment.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:The United States summary data are contained in one file. The state- and county-level data are each contained in nine files, with one file corresponding to a Census Division. There is one file containing Standard Industrial Classification codes.
 

Methodology

Data Source:(1) United States Bureau of the Census economic censuses, the Annual Company Organization Survey, and the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and (2) United States Internal Revenue Service Quarterly Payroll File
 

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.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1986-04-28
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 21 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 21 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: United States Summary
  • DS2: State Data, Census Division 1
  • DS3: State Data, Census Division 2
  • DS4: State Data, Census Division 3
  • DS5: State Data, Census Division 4
  • DS6: State Data, Census Division 5
  • DS7: State Data, Census Division 6
  • DS8: State Data, Census Division 7
  • DS9: State Data, Census Division 8
  • DS10: State Data, Census Division 9
  • DS11: County Data, Census Division 1
  • DS12: County Data, Census Division 2
  • DS13: County Data, Census Division 3
  • DS14: County Data, Census Division 4
  • DS15: County Data, Census Division 5
  • DS16: County Data, Census Division 6
  • DS17: County Data, Census Division 7
  • DS18: County Data, Census Division 8
  • DS19: County Data, Census Division 9
  • DS20: Standard Industrial Classification Codes