# Presentation: 940754

## Economic Census Products

**Notes:**
Economic Census data get into your hands through a set of data products.  And those products are most succinctly described in a brochure--the Preview to the 1997 Economic Census--and its web-based counterpart, the Guide to the Economic Census.  As a matter of fact, the Preview and Guide include a number of reference charts that I will to refer to during this presentation.

## General Statistics

***Number of establishments******Sales or receipts ($1,000)******Number of employees******Annual payroll ($1,000)***

**Notes:**
The classification system changed, and our reliance on printed reports changed dramatically for 1997.
   But we are still publishing the same basic types of statistics.
   For users at the state and local level, most of that data takes the form of 4 general statistics
      Number of establishments
      Sales or receipts
      Annual payroll
      Number of employees

## Economic Census Geography

***Economic Census Geography***

- U.S.
-  States
-  MSA's
-  Counties
-  Places of 2,500+ Inhabitants
-  ZIP Codes

**Notes:**
And in the census we can get information not only for the U.S. as a whole, but we can also examine states, metropolitan areas, counties, cities, and to a limited extent, ZIP Codes.   
   Not all data are available for all areas, though...

## Geographic Areas in the 1997 Economic Census

**Notes:**
Due to budget limitations, mining and construction are published only to the state levels.  Management of companies and enterprises is similarly limited in geographic detail.
Utilities, transportation and warehousing, and finance and insurance publish data for the U.S., states, and metro areas, but not counties and cities.

## Timetable

**Notes:**
The reports from the 2002 Economic Census will be published over a period of more than two years, beginning next March with the publication of the Advance Report.

## Industry Series

**Goods-producing ****Construction, Mining, Manufacturing**
**Separate reports for each **
**   ****6-digit industry**
**Incl. products and materials **
**National, limited state data**

**Service-producing**
**Sectors 22, 42 to 81**

**         ****New for 2002**
**Reports for groups**
**    ****of industries**
**Includes products**
**National data only**

**Notes:**
Also starting early next year is the Industry Series. 
In goods-producing sectors—construction, mining, and manufacturing--there is a separate report for each 6-digit industry.  There is detail not just for the industry but also for the products it produces and the materials it consumes.  There is even limited state data.
New for 2002 are Industry Series reports for all of the other industries, but these reports will be limited to national data only.

## Geographic Area Series

**State, MA, county, places**
**except construction, mining, management (state only)**
**except utilities, transportation, finance (state & MA)**** **
**Separate reports for each sector**** **
**Reports issued state by state in pdf**
**Reports merged on CD-ROM & Internet**

**Notes:**
Starting about the middle of 2004 will be reports in the Geographic Area series.  These are the reports that include data for states, metro areas, counties and cities.   As initially issued in pdf, there will be separate reports for each sector and state.  Fortunately, when issued in electronic form on CD-ROM and other forms on the Internet, the data are merged across all available industries and areas.

## Comparative Statistics

***Economy-wide***
***For 1997, shows SICs by State ***
***For 2002, will show NAICS97 by State***
***No substate geography***

**Notes:**
The Comparative Statistics report for 1997 gave 1997 and 1992 data on a comparable SIC basis for the U.S. and for states.
Note that there are no comparable, SIC-based data for metro areas, counties, or cities. You have to make do with State level data.
The Comparative Statistics report for 2002 no longer ties back to SIC, but rather to the 1997 NAICS.

## Bridge between NAICS and SIC

**Economy-wide**
**1997:  Shows SIC parts within NAICS & v.v.**
**2002:  Bridge between NAICS 02 and NAICS 97**
**National data**
**Basis for converting other data**
**In print**

**Notes:**
We have already talked about the Bridge Between NAICS and SIC, published only at the national level for 1997.
There will be a 2002 counterpart, but it will bridge between the 2002 version of NAICS and the 1997 version, in those limited areas where they are different.

## Subject Reports

***Separate reports for each sector***
***In non-goods-producing-sectors***
***Merchandise/commodity/service lines***
***state and MA data for retail, accommodations only***
***Establishment and firm size***
***Miscellaneous subjects***
***limited state data***

**Notes:**
Subject reports generally explore specialized topics at the national level.
   But, there is one series with substantial data for states and metro areas:
Merchandise Line Sales breaks down the sales of each type of retail store by 40-some broad retail merchandise lines, such as men’s and boy’s clothing, major household appliances or hardware.
From one table you can learn, for example, what merchandise lines are sold by hardware stores; and from another table, what kinds of stores sell hardware.
If you’re in the business of selling hardware to retailers, you will find that almost two-thirds of your potential market is not hardware stores but stores like lumber yards and department stores.
Internet and CD-ROM users are able to get merchandise line sales data also for States and metropolitan areas, while only national data are in pdf.

## E-Commerce Statistics

**New for 2002**
**Economy-wide, 3-digit NAICS**
**Includes sales via Internet and other**
**U.S., state, limited metro area data**
**Preliminary in 3rd qtr 2005, final in 4th qtr**

**Notes:**
New for 2002 is a report on sales over the internet and other electronic networks.  While we have been taking surveys of e-commerce activities since 1999, this will be the first source of information covering all industries and publishing data for states and metropolitan areas.

## ZIP Code Statistics

**Primarily establishment counts by size**
**Not in print or PDF**

**Notes:**
ZIP Code statistics include establishment counts by industry by size.
   You can also determine total Retail sales in ranges by ZIP. But not many other aggregate statistics. 
   These data are the only indicators of the geographic distribution of business within large cities, since the economic census includes no data for census tracts or the other small areas pubished in the population census.
   These data appear as databases only, on CD-ROM and on the Internet, not as pdf reports, and they are among the last products of the 2002 census.

## ZIP Code Statistics

**Scope:**
**Selected sectors only**

**Notes:**
For 1997, ZIP Code statistics were published for
* Manufacturing
* retail trade, 
* and for various service industries.
The manufacturing data will be dropped for 2002.

One thing you may notice is that several of the cells in the lower right of this chart feature t’s instead of X’s.  That is because data in the marked sectors are included only for businesses subject to Federal income tax...

## Taxable / Tax-Exempt 

**Notes:**
In all 1997 reports for these five sectors, census data are reported separately for firms subject to Federal income tax and for firms that are tax-exempt.  
  There are a tax-exempt firms in many parts of the economy, such as thrift stores–retailers–run by charitable institutions, but in these five sectors tax-exempts are so prevalent in at least some industries that we publish them separately.
  Tax-exempt hospitals dominate employment in Health Care and Social Assistance.  The economic census covers all hospitals, whether run by governments, for profit firms, or non-profits.
  At the same time, tax-exempts account for very little of the employment in professional, scientific, and technical services, mostly in legal aid societies and in tax-exempt R&D.
  Educational services show a surprisingly small fraction in the tax-exempt category, until one realizes that the economic census does NOT cover elementary or secondary schools, colleges, and professional schools.  (Covered are business, technical and trade schools.)
  Data for tax-exempt services are shown for states and metropolitan areas, but are not shown for counties, cities, or ZIP code areas.

[Other services include repair and maintenance, and personal and laundry services, and, on the tax-exempt side, civic, social, business, and professional organizations.  The census does not cover labor, political, or religious organizations.]

## Nonemployer Statistics

**Businesses w/o paid employees account for**
**70% of all businesses**
** ****3% of all sales**
**Excluded from other census reports**
**Economy-wide report**
**National, state, county & metro data**
**Updated annually**

**Notes:**
Each of the reports discussed to this point, from geographic area series to ZIP Codes Statistics, include only businesses with paid employees.
In terms of sales, that leaves out the 3% or so accounted for by nonemployers.
But if you are counting numbers of companies, nearly 3/4 are nonemployers–mostly self-employed individuals.
Starting in 1997 we have statistics about nonemployers for all sectors of the economy. 
Data are published for states, counties and metro areas, but not for places or ZIP Codes.
Since the data come from tax returns rather than questionnaires, we get fresh data each year.

## Other Reports

**Censuses of Outlying Areas**
**Business Expenses**
**Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses**
***1997 data reported by SIC instead of NAICS***

**Notes:**
 The Census of Outlying Areas covers Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.  
   One thing to say about the three types of reports listed here is that these reports were published on an SIC rather than a NAICS basis, like everything else.  

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