Census of Wholesale and Retail Trade, 1972 (ICPSR 36459)
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United States. Bureau of the Census
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36459.v1
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The Census of Wholesale and Retail Trade combines two parts of the Economic Census conducted by the United States Census Bureau. These censuses were designed to measure the economic activity of several types of businesses within the United States. The retail and wholesale censuses conducted in 1972 recorded the number of establishments, sales, payroll, and number of paid employees for a wide variety of business categories, including general merchandise, food, automotive, gasoline, apparel, furniture, restaurants, and drug retailers. Additionally, the wholesale census logged number of establishments, sales, inventories, and payroll for merchant wholesalers, manufacturer sales branches, and merchandise agents and brokers. Both the retail and wholesale censuses provide statistics organized by type of business or operation and by city size.
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Metropolitan Area
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The deposited data file for part 3 appears to be truncated. ICPSR has processed and released all data that was available for this part. No additional information was provided.
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Wholesale and Retail Establishments within the United States.
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2016-12-15
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- United States. Bureau of the Census. Census of Wholesale and Retail Trade, 1972. ICPSR36459-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-12-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36459.v1
2016-12-15 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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