ICPSR Metadata record for County Business Patterns, 1989 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). County Business Patterns, 1989 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-01-18 9740 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09740.v1
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.
 UniverseScheme09740 County Business Patterns [United States] Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00022. ICPSR.IV.C 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 United States 1989 1989 aggregate data All business establishments with one or more paid employees in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment. (1) United States Bureau of the Census economic surveys, the Annual Company Organization Survey, and the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and (2) United States Internal Revenue Service Quarterly Payroll Files 1989 1989

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  • Standardized missing values.
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