County Business Patterns, 1988 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data (ICPSR 9711)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
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. (more info)
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Citation
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS, 1988 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE, AND COUNTY DATA. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09711.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09711.v1
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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 Terms: 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:
- 1988
Date of Collection:
- 1988
Universe: 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.
Data Types: aggregate data
Methodology
Data Source:
(1) United States Bureau of the Census economic surveys, the Annual Company Organization Survey, and the Annual Survey of Manufacturers, and (2) United States Internal Revenue Service Quarterly Payroll Files
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1992-03-04
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 13 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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