Description & Citation--Study No. 6488

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

06488

Title:

County Business Patterns, 1992 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State, and County Data

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Bibliographic Citation:

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS, 1992 [UNITED STATES]: U.S. SUMMARY, STATE, AND COUNTY DATA. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06488.v1

Series:

County Business Patterns [United States] Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

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. Included with this aggregate data collection is a file containing 1987 revised Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) designations used with data from 1988 and later years.

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:

  • 1992

Date of Collection:

  • 1992

Universe:

All business establishments with one or more paid employees in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment. Government hospitals were included beginning with 1989 data.

Data Types:

aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:

Standard Statistical Establishment List, Annual Company Organization Survey, Annual Report of Organizations, Annual Survey of Manufactures, Current Business Surveys, and United States Internal Revenue Service administrative records

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1995-06-05

Restrictions:

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.

Version History:

  • 2006-01-18 File CB6488.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: United States Summary Data
  • DS2: State Summary Data
  • DS3: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 1
  • DS4: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 2
  • DS5: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 3
  • DS6: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 4
  • DS7: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 5
  • DS8: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 6
  • DS9: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 7
  • DS10: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 8
  • DS11: County Summary Data, Census Geographic Division 9
  • DS12: 1987 Revised Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Designations

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