# Presentation: 769963

## www.census.gov

***www.census.gov***

**Notes:**
There is another way we can look up these data sets that refer to years more recent than 1997.
From the Census home page you can click on the main heading Business.

## Business page

**Notes:**
The table of “Programs with national and subnational data” lists 8 programs, and, on the right, links directly to data -- where available -- for states, metro areas, counties, cities, and ZIP codes.
One of those programs with unique content is the Statistics of U.S. Business.
<<click on the 2000 in the U.S. column, in the row for Statistics of U.S. Business>>

## Statistics of US Businesses

**Notes:**
This is the most comprehensive source of information about small business.  Firms are classified by the number of employees in the entire enterprise.  Data include total employment and payroll.  You can see, for example, that about half of the 114 million employees in all firms are in 17,000 firms with 500 or more employees (almost 57 million).  There are millions of firms with under 10 employees, but there aggregate impact is much smaller.
These data are also shown, in somewhat less detail, by year, by state, and by industry.  Metro area data can also be obtained in a downloadable spreadsheet.

## Business page

**Notes:**
Another source of data for metropolitan areas is County Businesses Patterns, even though we wouldn't have guessed from the title.
    We can go straight to the data if we click on the year in the appropriate data cell.
<<click on 2000 in the metro column in the row for County Business Patterns>>

## CBP / ZBP / MBP

**Notes:**
We click the GO button next to “Metro Business Patterns” to select by MSA

## MSA dropdown

**Notes:**
And pick out Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula
       <<click on Submit>>

## MSA Business Patterns

**Notes:**
The MSA Business Patterns are formatted a little differently from the economic census pages, but much of the same functionality is still there.
You can click on one of the "Detail" buttons on the left to go to finer industry breakdowns, much like the down arrow on the census pages.
What is most significantly different is that there are no sales or receipts figures.
County Business Patterns has data on employment, payroll, and the number of establishments, like the census, but only the census has sales or receipts.

## www.census.gov

***www.census.gov***

**Notes:**
To this point we have been talking about a metropolitan area, but if we had been focusing on a particular county, we could have taken advantage of a special tool on the census website called "State and County QuickFacts"
       <<click on QuickFacts icon>>

## QuickFacts state map

**Notes:**
We select Mississippi...
       <<click on Mississippi>>

## QF: Mississippi

**Notes:**
...and immediately get a profile for the state.  We can select a county in any of three ways.
we could view a map and click on the county
and we could select with a pull-down menu
But let's say we don't know what county Biloxi is in, so we will Locate a county by place name
          <<click on Locate a county by place name>>

## QF: Locate a county by place name

**Notes:**
We can enter Biloxi (misspelling it).
       <<click on GO>>

## QF: Locate a county results

**Notes:**
...Then click on the county name to complete the selection.
       <<click on Harrison County>>

## QF:  Harrison Co MS

**Notes:**
The Harrison county profile has a variety of statistics about people
       <<click on the slider bar on the right, toward the bottom>>

## QF:  Business QuickFacts

**Notes:**
and business and geography.  The business statistics are not nearly as detailed as we were looking for, but at either the top or bottom of the page we can link to more data sets for the county.
       <<click Browse more data sets for Harrison County, Mississippi>>

## QF: QuickLinks

**Notes:**
 And here we have, for Harrison county, People QuickLinks, Business Quicklinks, and Geography QuickLinks.

Note that the Business QuickLinks include each of the data sets we have talked about today:
The Econommic Census by NAICS
the minority- and women-owned business data
County Business Patterns
Nonemployer Statistics
...plus the Consolidated Federal Funds report
Clicking on any of these links would take us to the same types of pages we visited earlier.
          <<click on NAICS under Economic Census>

## 1997 Economic Census for Harrison County

**Notes:**
And here we are back at the Economic Census drill-down tables.

## www.census.gov

***www.census.gov***

**Notes:**
QuickFacts is certainly a powerful tool, and right on the Census home page.
Yet QuickFacts includes only those data that are available for counties.
For a comprehensive view of statistics about business, we need to return to the Business page.

## Business page

**Notes:**
We looked at the chart of programs that include data for states and smaller areas.
Lower down...

## Business page (lower part)

**Notes:**
Lower down are links to the other programs with data only at the national level.
Those covering multiple sectors, like the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey and E-Commerce Statistics,
And those surveys that cover only a single sector.
The bottom segment of the chart highlights those surveys that are published monthly and quarterly—all the rest being published annually.
Finally, special topics like concentration ratios and small business are highlighted in links along the left.
This is a handy page to get to know.

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- For more information:
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- (301) 763-4151 or (301) 763-2547

**Notes:**
Questions?

(To test your ability to apply some of the key points in this presentation, try the exercises at www.census.gov/epcd/ec02/exercises.htm.)