Metadata record for County Business Patterns, 1994 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State and County Data Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License . 2013-05-24 County Business Patterns, 1994 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State and County Data 2280 10.3886/ICPSR02280.v1 United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1998-07-28 County Business Patterns [United States] Series 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. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS, 1994 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE AND COUNTY DATA. 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.v1 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 ICPSR.IV.C 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. 1994 1994 United States aggregate data 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. 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 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. Ann Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Additional special permissions, where applicable, are described in the restrictions field. 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.

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