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Description & Citation--Study No. 8883

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8883
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08883
 
Title:County Business Patterns, 1985 [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, 1985 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE, AND COUNTY DATA [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1988. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08883
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The total number of business establishments, mid-March employment figures, and first-quarter and annual payrolls are supplied in this collection 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:1985
 
Universe:All business establishements with one or more paid employees in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Data Source:Bureau of the Census Standard Statistical Establishment List (SSEL)
 

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:1988-03-16
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB8883.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1985 File 1B (United States Summary Data)
  • DS2: 1985 File 1B (State Summary Data)
  • DS3: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 1 (County Summary Data)
  • DS4: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 2 (County Summary Data)
  • DS5: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 3 (County Summary Data)
  • DS6: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 4 (County Summary Data)
  • DS7: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 5 (County Summary Data)
  • DS8: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 6 (County Summary Data)
  • DS9: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 7 (County Summary Data)
  • DS10: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 8 (County Summary Data)
  • DS11: 1985 File 2, Census Geographic Division 9 (County Summary Data)
  • DS12: 1985 SIC Reference Code List