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Census of

Construction Industries

CC92-S-1

SUBJECT SERIES

Legal Form of Organization

and Type of Operation

U.S. Department of Commerce

Economics and Statistics Administration

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
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Census of

Construction Industries

CC92-S-1

SUBJECT SERIES

Legal Form of Organization

and Type of Operation

U.S. Department of Commerce

Ronald H. Brown, Secretary

David J. Barram, Deputy Secretary

Economics and Statistics Administration

Everett M. Ehrlich, Under Secretary

for Economic Affairs

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Martha Farnsworth Riche, Director

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Many persons participated in the various activities of the 1992 Census of Construction

Industries. The overall planning and review of the census operations were performed by the

Economic Census Staff of the Economic Planning and Coordination Division.

This report was prepared in the Manufacturing and Construction Division. Barry A. Rappaport,

Assistant Chief for Construction and Mineral Census and Related Programs, was responsible for

the overall planning, management, and coordination of the census of construction industries.

Planning and implementation were under the direction of Patricia L. Horning, Chief, Construction

and Mineral Census Branch, with staff assistance by Jennifer L. Evans, Susan L. Hostetter,

Doris M. Kling, Carolyn J. Stone, and Linda M. Taylor. The sampling plans and variance and

estimation specifications were developed by Dennis K. Duke. Under the direction of C. Lloyd

Anderson, the Systems Support Staff maintained the small computers and assisted in the

management of computer output.

Systems and procedures for mailout, receipt, correspondence, data input, industry classification, other clerical processing, administrative-record processing, quality control, and the associated electronic computer programs were developed in the Economic Planning and Coordination

Division.

Mailout preparation and receipt operations, clerical and analytical review activities, data

keying, and geocoding review were performed by the staff of the Data Preparation Division,

Judith N. Petty, Chief.

Geographic coding procedures and associated computer programs were developed by the staff

of the Geography Division, Joel Morrison, Chief.

The computer processing systems were developed and coordinated in the Economic

Statistical Methods and Programming Division, Charles P. Paulter, Jr., Chief, and Sarah W.

Baumgardner, Assistant Chief. Samuel Rozenel, Chief, Current Construction Branch, was

responsible for the design and implementation of the computer systems. The computer programs

were prepared under the supervision of Leonard S. Sammarco and Kevin J. Montgomery.

Computer processing was performed in the Computer Services Division, Marvin D. Raines,

Chief.

The staff of the Administrative and Customer Services Division, Walter C. Odom, Chief,

performed planning, design, composition, editorial review, and printing planning and procurement

for the publications and report forms. Bernadette J. Gayle provided publication coordination and

editing.

Special acknowledgment is also due the many businesses whose cooperation has contributed

to the publication of these data.

If you have any questions concerning the statistics in this report, call 301-457-4680.

Acknowledgments
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MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION DIVISION

David W. Cartwright, Chief

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Martha Farnsworth Riche, Director

Harry A. Scarr, Deputy Director

Paula J. Schneider, Principal Associate

Director for Programs

Frederick T. Knickerbocker, Associate

Director for Economic Programs

Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Assistant Director

for Economic Programs

ECONOMIC PLANNING AND COORDINATION

DIVISION

John P. Govoni, Chief

Economics and Statistics

Administration

Everett M. Ehrlich, Under Secretary

for Economic Affairs

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Introduction to

the Economic Census

PURPOSES AND USES OF THE ECONOMIC

CENSUS

The economic census is the major source of facts about

the structure and functioning of the Nation’s economy. It

provides essential information for government, business,

industry, and the general public.

The economic census furnishes an important part of the

framework for such composite measures as the gross

domestic product, input/ output measures, production and

price indexes, and other statistical series that measure

short-term changes in economic conditions.

Policymaking agencies of the Federal Government use

the data, especially in monitoring economic activity and

providing assistance to business.

State and local governments use the data to assess

business activities and tax bases within their jurisdictions

and to develop programs to attract business.

Trade associations study trends in their own and competing industries and keep their members informed of

market changes.

Individual businesses use the data to locate potential

markets and to analyze their own production and sales

performance relative to industry or area averages.

AUTHORITY AND SCOPE

Title 13 of the United States Code (sections 131, 191,

and 224) directs the Census Bureau to take the economic

census every 5 years, covering years ending in 2 and 7.

The 1992 Economic Census consists of the following eight

censuses:

• Census of Retail Trade

• Census of Wholesale Trade

• Census of Service Industries

• Census of Financial, Insurance, and Real Estate

Industries

• Census of Transportation, Communications, and

Utilities

• Census of Manufactures

• Census of Mineral Industries

• Census of Construction Industries

Special programs also cover enterprise statistics and

minority-owned and women-owned businesses. (The 1992

Census of Agriculture and 1992 Census of Governments

are conducted separately.) The next economic census is

scheduled to be taken in 1998 covering the year 1997.

AVAILABILITY OF THE DATA

The results of the economic census are available in

printed reports for sale by the U.S. Government Printing

Office and on compact discs for sale by the Census

Bureau. Order forms for all types of products are available

on request from Customer Services, Bureau of the Census,

Washington, DC 20233-8300. A more complete description of publications being issued from this census is on the

inside back cover of this document.

Census facts are also widely disseminated by trade

associations, business journals, and newspapers. Volumes containing census statistics are available in most

major public and college libraries. Finally, State data

centers in every State as well as business and industry

data centers in many States also supply economic census

statistics.

WHAT’S NEW IN 1992

The 1992 Economic Census covers more of the economy

than any previous census. New for 1992 are data on

communications, utilities, finance, insurance, and real estate,

as well as coverage of more transportation industries. The

economic, agriculture, and governments censuses now

collectively cover nearly 98 percent of all economic activity.

Among other changes, new 1992 definitions affect the

boundaries of about a third of all metropolitan areas. Also,

the Survey of Women-Owned Businesses has now been

expanded to include all corporations.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

The economic census has been taken as an integrated

program at 5-year intervals since 1967 and before that for

1963, 1958, and 1954. Prior to that time, the individual

subcomponents of the economic census were taken separately at varying intervals.

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The economic census traces its beginnings to the 1810

Decennial Census, when questions on manufacturing were

included with those for population. Coverage of economic

activities was expanded for 1840 and subsequent censuses to include mining and some commercial activities. In

1902, Congress established a permanent Census Bureau

and directed that a census of manufactures be taken every

5 years. The 1905 Manufactures Census was the first time

a census was taken apart from the regular every-10-year

population census.

The first census of business was taken in 1930, covering 1929. Initially it covered retail and wholesale trade and

construction industries, but it was broadened in 1933 to

include some of the service trades.

The 1954 Economic Census was the first census to be

fully integrated—providing comparable census data across

economic sectors, using consistent time periods, concepts, definitions, classifications, and reporting units. It

was the first census to be taken by mail, using lists of firms

provided by the administrative records of other Federal

agencies. Since 1963, administrative records also have

been used to provide basic statistics for very small firms,

reducing or eliminating the need to send them census

questionnaires. The Enterprise Statistics Program, which

publishes combined data from the economic census, was

made possible with the implementation of the integrated

census program in 1954.

The range of industries covered in the economic censuses has continued to expand. The census of construction industries began on a regular basis in 1967, and the

scope of service industries was broadened in 1967, 1977,

and 1987. The census of transportation began in 1963 as

a set of surveys covering travel, transportation of commodities, and trucks, but expanded in 1987 to cover business

establishments in several transportation industries. For

1992, these statistics are incorporated into a broadened

census of transportation, communications, and utilities.

Also new for 1992 is the census of financial, insurance,

and real estate industries. This is part of a gradual expansion in coverage of industries previously subjected to

government regulation.

The Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises

was first conducted as a special project in 1969 and was

incorporated into the economic census in 1972 along with

the Survey of Women-Owned Businesses.

An economic census has also been taken in Puerto

Rico since 1909, in the Virgin Islands of the United States

and Guam since 1958, and in the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands since 1982.

Statistical reports from the 1987 and earlier censuses

provide historical figures for the study of long-term time

series and are available in some large libraries. All of the

census data published since 1967 are still available for

sale on microfiche from the Census Bureau.

AVAILABILITY OF MORE FREQUENT

ECONOMIC DATA

While the census provides complete enumerations every

5 years, there are many needs for more frequent data as

well. The Census Bureau conducts a number of monthly,

quarterly, and annual surveys, with the results appearing in

publication series such as Current Business Reports (retail

and wholesale trade and service industries), the Annual

Survey of Manufactures, Current Industrial Reports, and

the Quarterly Financial Report. Most of these surveys,

while providing more frequent observations, yield less

kind-of-business and geographic detail than the census.

The County Business Patterns program offers annual

statistics on the number of establishments, employment,

and payroll classified by industry within each county.

SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

More information about the scope, coverage, classification system, data items, and publications for each of the

economic censuses and related surveys is published in the

Guide to the 1992 Economic Census and Related Statistics. More information on the methodology, procedures,

and history of the census will be published in the History of

the 1992 Economic Census. Contact Customer Services

for information on availability.

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Census of Construction

GENERAL

The 1992 Census of Construction Industries covers all

employer establishments (establishments with payroll) primarily engaged in contract construction or construction on

their own account for sale as defined in the Standard

Industrial Classification Manual: 19871 (SIC). This industrial classification system has been developed by experts

on classification in government and private industry under

the guidance of the Office of Management and Budget and

is in general use among government agencies and among

organizations outside the government.

Contract construction. The SIC manual defines construction in three broad types of activity:

1. Building construction by general contractors or by

operative builders. General building contractors are

primarily engaged in the construction of dwellings,

office buildings, stores, farm buildings, and other building projects. Operative builders who build on their own

account for sale are also included here. However,

investment builders who build structures on their own

account for rent are classified in Real Estate.

2. Heavy construction general contractors. Heavy construction general contractors are primarily engaged in

the construction of highways, bridges, pipelines, sewers and water lines, marine construction, power, and

petro-chemical plants and other nonbuilding construction projects. Special trade contractors are classified

in heavy construction, if they are specifically engaged

in the following activities: grading for highway and

airport runways; guardrail construction; installation of

highway signs; asphalt and concrete construction of

roads, highways, streets, and public sidewalks; trenching, cable laying; conduit construction; underwater

rock removal; pipeline wrapping; or land clearing and

leveling.

3. Constructionby other specialtrade contractors. These

contractors include plumbers, painters, carpenters,

electricians, brick layers, roofers, etc. For the most

part, they perform their work at the site of construction,

although they may also have shops where they perform work incidental to the job site.

General contractors in both the building and the heavy

construction field usually assume responsibility for an

entire construction project, but may subcontract to others

all of the actual construction work or those portions of the

project requiring special skills or equipment. Special trade

contractors may work for general contractors, for other

subcontractors, or may work directly for the owner of the

property.

Each establishment receiving a questionnaire was requested

to report the percent of total dollar value of business done

for each kind-of-business activity engaged in during 1992.

This information was used for the computer assignment of

appropriate industry classifications. During this work, various tests were also made using other data reported on the

questionnaire. The proportion of construction work to total

business was checked to verify that the establishment was

primarily in construction. Also taken into consideration

were the types of structures worked on during the year and

the extent of work undertaken for other contractors.

Construction establishments often engage in various

construction activities. It is necessary, however, to assign

a single industry code to the establishment based on its

major activity. Therefore, the statistics shown for an industry reflect not only the primary activity of the establishments in the industry but also their secondary activities.

The industry reports, however, do present data on the

extent of secondary activities.

Prior to 1992, this census also included one industry

classified in the Real Estate area, SIC 6552, Land Subdividers and Developers, Except Cemeteries. This industry

is covered in the 1992 Census of Financial, Insurance,

and Real Estate Industries.

ESTABLISHMENT BASIS OF REPORTING

The census of construction industries is conducted on

an establishment basis. A ‘‘construction establishment’’ is

defined as a relatively permanent office or other place of

business where the usual business activities related to

construction are conducted. With some exceptions, a

relatively permanent office is one which has been established for the management of more than one project or job

and which is expected to be maintained on a continuing

basis. Such ‘‘establishment’’ activities include, but are not

limited to estimating, bidding, purchasing, supervising, and

operation of the actual construction work being conducted

1

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at one or more construction sites. Separate construction

reports were not required for each project or construction

site.

Companies with more than one construction establishment were required to submit a separate report for each

establishment operated during all or any part of 1992. The

census of construction industries figures represent a summary of records for individual establishments rather than

for companies.

If an establishment was engaged in construction and

one or more distinctly different lines of economic activity

(wholesale or retail trade, service, manufacturing, mining,

etc.) at the same place of business, it was requested to file

a separate report for each activity, provided that the

activity was of substantial size and separate records were

maintained or substantially accurate estimates could be

prepared.

If a separate establishment report could not be prepared for each activity, then a construction report was

requested covering all activities of that establishment

providing that the 1992 value of construction work exceeded

the gross receipts from each of its other activities.

Construction businesses with no payroll during 1992

(nonemployers) were not required to file census reports.

Tabulation of data for these businesses are based on

administrative records and are shown only in U.S. summary publications and the geographic area reports series.

Refer to the section on ‘‘Sample Design’’ for details.

Foreign construction activities were not included in this

census.

SAMPLE DESIGN, ESTIMATION PROCEDURES,

AND RELIABILITY OF ESTIMATES

The companies included in the 1992 Census of Construction Industries were identified as part of an operation

common to all 1992 Economic Censuses. Construction

companies were divided into employers (companies with

payroll) and nonemployers (companies without payroll).

Statistical information for the employers was obtained in

the census by a survey which included all medium size and

large employers and a sample of the smaller ones. Census

reports were not required from the nonemployers. Statistics on nonemployers were obtained from administrative

records of other agencies of the Federal Government.

Employer Companies

Developing the sampling frame for employer companies. This operation started with obtaining a list of all

construction companies in the active records of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which were subject to payment

of Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes. The

basic source for this list has been the Internal Revenue

Service Business Master File, a comprehensive list of

companies engaged in business activities in the United

States. The file contains the name, address, and form of

ownership of each company and also indicates whether or

not the company is subject to the FICA. Each company in

this file is assigned a unique employer identification (EI)

number which it uses in filing its various reports with the

IRS. The Social Security Administration (SSA) maintains a

similar list using the same identification numbers, which

also contains information on the industrial classification of

each company. The Bureau of the Census obtained both of

these lists and combined them.

Under special arrangements which safeguarded the

confidentiality of the information, the Bureau also obtained

administrative-record data on payrolls and receipts and

added these data to the combined list. The list, thus

created from the IRS-SSA information, was a list of employer

companies. However, for the 1992 Economic Census the

basic reporting unit is the ‘‘establishment.’’ Therefore,

steps were taken to identify the individual establishments

of those companies which operate more than one place of

business. The information for making this determination

was obtained by means of the Company Organization

Survey (COS), an annual canvass of all known multiestablishment companies and large single-establishment companies. Thus, the 1992 Economic Census list for singleestablishment employer companies was obtained from the

IRS-SSA, but the list of establishments of multiestablishment employer companies was obtained directly from

those companies in the COS. Refer to the section on

‘‘Establishment Basis for Reporting’’ for details.

In general, the IRS-SSA list provided sufficient industrial

classification data to assign a company to the proper

economic census, but there were a number of companies

for which this information was inadequate or unavailable. A

special form, NC-9923, General Schedule, was mailed to

all such companies, requesting information on the nature

of the company’s activities. From the information reported,

the company was given an industrial classification code

and assigned to the appropriate economic census. Since

construction companies found in this way were identified

only after the regular census mailing had taken place, they

were treated as a supplement to the basic list.

Selecting the employer sample. The sample was designed

to provide reliable State and metropolitan area estimates

for each construction industry. It consisted of all construction establishments in multiestablishment companies, all

single-establishment companies with 1991 administrative

payroll of $480,000 or more and a probability sample of

single-establishment companies with payroll under that

amount. Supplementing the sample were construction

companies identified from the NC-9923, General Schedule. Also affecting the sample were the misclassified

companies; i.e., companies included in the samples of

other trade areas which reported they were construction

companies and companies originally classified in construction which reported they were not construction companies.

Of the 547,000 single-establishment employer companies initially classified as construction companies, 158,000

were included in the sample. All of the 11,000 establishments of multiestablishment companies were included in

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the sample. There was a net increase in the sample of

48,000 establishments resulting from establishments originally unclassified (receiving the NC-9923) or misclassified.

The probability sample of the smaller single-establishment

companies was a stratified random sample. Strata were

formed from all establishments with the same initial fourdigit SIC code, in the same State, in the same metropolitan

area, or in the balance of the State, and in the same size

class based on estimated total employment. If the fourdigit SIC code for an establishment was incomplete, the

establishment was placed in a stratum for miscellaneous

companies. Because they were small, all companies were

included in the sample for the following three industries:

SIC 1622, Bridge, Tunnel, and Elevated Highway Construction Contractors; SIC 1795, Wrecking and Demolition Work

Special Trade Contractors; and SIC 1796, Installation or

Erection of Building Equipment Special Trade Contractors.

Estimation procedures for 1992 and 1987 data. Since

all larger employer companies and some smaller ones

were included in the census, sample estimation was

required only for the universe of companies not selected

with certainty. The published statistics are the totals of the

estimates for the sampled companies and the aggregates

for the certainty companies. All estimates for 1992 and

1987 published here are simple unbiased estimates of the

form:

n

c

x’

c = Σ xi

/ pi

i =1

where: x’

c is the simple unbiased estimate of a characteristic for a publication cell.

x

i is the reported value of a characteristic for

an individual establishment in the publication cell.

p

i is the selection probability of that firm.

n

c is the number of firms in the sample for the

cell.

Data for certain characteristics were reported as a

percentage of the dollar value of business done. Before

this formula was applied to those characteristics, it was

necessary to convert the reported percentages into dollars.

Reliability of employer statistics. Since the estimates

for employer establishments in these reports are based on

the samples, they are subject to sampling variability and

may be expected to differ from results which would have

been obtained if a complete census had been taken using

the same forms and procedures. The sampling errors

shown in the tables were estimated directly from the

sample reports, using methods appropriate for the sample

design and form of estimation used. The relative standard

error is a measure of sampling variability; i.e., the variation

that might occur by chance because only a sample of the

population is surveyed. As calculated for this report, the

relative standard error also partially reflects the effect of

random errors of response and processing, but it does not

take into account the effect of any consistent biases due to

those types of errors. The chances are about 68 out of 100

that an estimate from the sample would differ from a

complete census by less than the relative standard error.

The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference is

less than twice the relative standard error and about 99 out

of 100 that it is less than 2-1/ 2 times the relative standard

error. Individual estimates with large relative standard

errors have been shown in the published tables. Any such

estimates should be used with caution. The very large

relative standard errors generally occur for the smaller

estimates.

Relative standard errors have been calculated for all of

the published statistics, although they are shown for each

statistic only in the tables presenting detailed statistics.

Other tables show relative standard errors only for certain

characteristics because of lack of space.

As calculated for this report, the relative standard error

measures certain nonsampling errors, but does not measure any systematic biases in the data. Bias is the difference, averaged over all possible samples with the same

size and design, between the estimates and the true value

being estimated. Nonsampling errors can be attributed to

many sources: inability to obtain information about all

cases in the sample; definitional difficulties; differences in

interpretation of questions; inability or unwillingness of

respondents to provide correct information; and errors

made in processing the data. Although no direct measurements of the biases have been obtained, it is believed that

most of the important response and operational errors

were detected in the course of reviewing the data for

reasonableness and consistency.

A potential source of bias is in the imputation for those

establishments that have not responded by the time of

final publication. Data were estimated for establishments

that did not report by that date, although selected establishments were contacted again to obtain as much information on the telephone as possible. Some publication

cells in which more than 40 percent of the data were not

reported have been suppressed.

Nonemployer Companies

As described earlier, the information derived from the

business income tax returns of all companies was matched

to the census employer file on the basis of common

identification numbers. Those business income tax returns

which could not be matched were further classified on the

basis of several characteristics. Returns with characteristics consistent with companies without payroll were treated

as nonemployers. The nonemployer construction companies were not required to file census reports.

For ‘‘number of establishments,’’ each separate income

tax return was assumed to be an establishment. ‘‘All

business receipts’’ was based on receipts information

reported on the tax return.

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Since no sampling was involved in the nonemployer

establishments, the statistics for nonemployers are not

subject to sampling variability. However, these data are

subject to an unknown amount of reporting and processing

errors which could not be detected by the Census Bureau.

One such ‘‘nonsampling’’ issue was raised in the processing of the 1992 statistics. For 1992, a relatively small

number of nonemployer records with revenues more than

$1 million were excluded from tabulations. The exclusion

of these records resulted in a significant decrease in total

nonemployer revenues from 1987, where no upper limit

was used. The large revenues are now assumed to be

unreasonable for firms without employees. It is also likely

that these revenues are duplicated in revenues reported by

(or imputed to) firms with paid employees. A comprehensive study of this issue is planned prior to the 1997 census.

CENSUS REPORT FORMS

Information for the 1992 Census of Construction Industries was obtained from employer establishments primarily

through the use of 22 questionnaires, determined by

industry classification and size. Standard forms and short

forms were developed for each of the following SIC

groups: 15, 16, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, and

179. Establishments with 1991 administrative payroll of

$1,080,000 or more all received the standard form. For

those sample establishments with payroll under that amount,

half received the standard form and half received the short

form. The short forms covered only major items and

omitted some of the detail found in the longer forms.

In reviewing and developing the questionnaires,

comments and recommendations were elicited from

construction trade associations and advisory groups.

Also, approximately 6,000 establishments in SIC’s 1521,

1629, and 1799 were surveyed in the Census of Construction Industries 1989 Pretest. This survey consisted of four

panels which received one of four experimental questionnaries and one panel which received the control questionnaire. Along with the questionnaire, these establishments

received an evaluation questionnaire, which requested

information about respondents’ reactions to the questionnaire, problems in completing the questionnaire, and how

long it took to complete the questionnaire. Results from

the 1989 Pretest questionnaire are reflected as reworded

questions, improved instructions, and restructured value of

business questions in the 1992 questionnaires.

DATA PROCESSING

The 1992 census report forms were mailed out in

December 1992. They were mailed from and returned to

the Census Bureau’s Data Preparation Division in Jeffersonville, IN, where routine editing and coding of the report

forms were also accomplished. Collection of these report

forms was essentially completed in July 1993.

The returned reports underwent extensive processing.

A preliminary edit done at the time of data entry identified

obviously deficient reports and reports needing clarification. When necessary, these problems were resolved by

further contact with the respondents. Next, the data were

transmitted to Census Bureau headquarters near Washington, DC.

Data records, then, underwent a detailed computer

review and analysis. The records containing significant

problems were referred for further analytical review and, if

necessary, contacts were made with the respondents. The

computer performed most classification coding (such as

industry coding, geographic coding, and size coding), and

imputation for missing items or for reports not received in

time for tabulation. The imputation was performed on an

industry (or industry group) and State (or geographic

group) basis using all available response and administrative data.

The data records were then tabulated on an industry

basis. Industry totals were subjected to analytical review,

and selected statistics were prepared for the preliminary

reports. Corrections resulting from this review were made

to the computer records and final tabulations were produced.

The review of a preliminary report for an industry often

uncovered the need for corrections or revisions to the data

for another industry for which a preliminary report had

already been published. The final reports incorporate all

revisions and corrections made during the review of the

preliminary reports and contain considerable more data

than were published in those reports.

GEOGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION

Information for the 1992 Census of Construction Industries’

final industry report series is classified on the basis of two

types of geographic distributions: (1) physical location of

the establishment, and (2) location of construction work. A

separate code was assigned on each basis allowing us to

present data by both physical location of the establishment

and location of construction work.

The geographic area reports series presents similar

data by industry for each State (physical location of the

establishment) and for selected MSA’s, CMSA’s and PMSA’s.

CHANGE IN COLLECTION METHODOLOGY FOR

VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK DONE

In 1987 and 1992, the ‘‘value of construction work’’ was

collected to better measure actual construction activity

done during the year. In 1992, this item was collected as a

total of three separate items. These items ( receipts from

construction contract work, value of speculative construction work, and value of construction work done for own

use) were collected separately to emphasize construction

activity that had been poorly reported in previous censuses.

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Receipts from the sale of land were not collected

separately in 1992, as in 1987, but are still excluded from

the value of construction work done.

All dollar values are shown in current dollars for the

years specified and have not been adjusted for inflation.

DUPLICATION IN VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION

WORK

The aggregate of value of construction work reported by

all construction establishments in each of the several

industry, geographic area, or other groupings in this census contains varying amounts of duplication, since the

construction work of one firm may be subcontracted to

other construction firms and may also be included in the

subcontractors’ value of construction work. To avoid this

duplication, a ‘‘net’’ value of construction work figure has

been derived for each establishment by subtracting the

costs for construction work subcontracted to others from

the value of construction work.

Duplication in value of business between other construction and nonconstruction industries results from the use of

products of these other industries as input materials by

construction establishments. ‘‘Value added’’ avoids this

duplication and is, for most purposes, the best measure for

comparing the relative economic importance of industries

or areas. ‘‘Value added’’ is defined in the 1992 Census of

Construction Industries as equal to dollar value of business

done less costs for construction work subcontracted to

others and payments for materials, components, supplies,

and fuels.

SPECIAL TABULATIONS

Special tabulations of data collected in the 1992 Census

of Construction Industries may be obtained on computer

tape or in tabular form. The data will be in summary form

and subject to the same rules prohibiting disclosure of

confidential information (including name, address, kind of

business, or other data for individual business establishments or companies) as are the regular publications.

Special tabulations are prepared on a cost basis. A

request for a cost estimate, as well as exact and detailed

specifications of the type and format of the data to be

provided, should be directed to the Chief, Manufacturing

and Construction Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233.

To discuss a special tabulation before submitting specifications, call 301-457-4680.

COMPARABILITY OF CENSUS OF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES DATA WITH

OTHER DATA

Data contained in the reports of the 1992 Census of

Construction Industries are not the same as the data

published in the Census Bureau’s monthly Construction

Reports, Series C30, Value of New Construction Put in

Place. The main difference is that the C30 series covers all

new construction put in place without regard to who is

performing the construction activity; whereas, the construction census figures cover both new construction and

maintenance and repair work done by establishments

classified in the construction industry. Significant amounts

of construction are done by establishments classified

outside of construction (in real estate, manufacturing,

utilities, and communications, for example), both as ‘‘force

account’’ construction and construction done for others. In

addition, the value in place series includes constructionrelated expenses such as architectural and engineering

costs and the costs of materials supplied by owners which

are normally not reflected in the census of construction

industries.

Data contained in the reports of the census of construction industries may also differ from industry data in ‘‘Employment and Earnings Statistics,’’ published by the Bureau of

Labor Statistics and ‘‘Statistics of Income,’’ published by

the Internal Revenue Service. These differences arise

from varying definitions of scope, coverage, timing, classification, and methodology.

ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

The following abbreviations and symbols are used in

this publication:

* Sampling error exceeds 40 percent.

** Represents the sum of all employees during

pay periods including 12th of March, May,

August, and November, divided by 4.

- Represents zero.

† Represents value of construction work less

costs for construction work subcontracted to

others. (See Duplication in Value of Construction Work.)

†† Represents dollar value of business done less

costs for construction work subcontracted to

others and costs for materials, components,

supplies, and fuels. In 1987, for SIC 1531, land

receipts were collected as a component of

dollar value of business and, therefore, were

subtracted from this value. (See Duplication in

Value of Construction Work.)

(D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual

companies; data are included in higher level

totals.

(NA) Not available.

(S) Withheld because estimate did not meet publication standards on the basis of either the

response rate, associated relative standard

error, or a consistency review.

(X) Not applicable.

(Z) Less than half of the unit shown.

n.s.k. Not specified by kind.

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Users’ Guide for Locating Statistics in This Report

by Table Number

Statistics

Legal form of

organization

by industry

Type of operation

by industry

Employees:

All employees—average number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2 2

Establishments—number in business during year:

All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

With payroll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2 2

Without payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Payroll, all employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2

Proprietors and working partners:

All establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Establishments with payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Establishments without payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Dollar value of business done:

All establishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Establishments with payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2

Establishments without payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Value of construction work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2

Net value of construction work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2

Value added ..................................................................... 2 2

Subcontract work to others, costs for. . . . . . . . . ...................................... 2 2

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Contents

Legal Form of Organization

and Type of Operation

Page

Introduction to the Economic Census III ............................................... Census of Construction V ...........................................................

Users’ Guide for Locating Statistics in This Report by Table Number X ..................

Summary of Findings ............................................................. 2

Technical Notes ................................................................. 4

TABLES

1. Summary Statistics for Establishments With and Without Payroll by Legal Form of

Organization for Industry Groups and Industries: 1992

5

.........................

2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry; Legal Form of

Organization, and Type Of Operation: 1992

8

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APPENDIXES

A. Explanation of Terms A–1 ........................................................ B. Standard Industrial Classification Titles for Industry Groups and Industries B–1 ........ C. Geographic Division and States C–1 ...............................................

Publication Program Inside back cover ...................................................

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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

This subject report provides data by legal form of

company organization and type of operation from the 1992

Census of Construction Industries covering construction

establishments with payroll. In addition, limited data on

construction establishments with no payroll during 1992,

obtained from administrative records of the Federal Government, are also included. (Establishments with no payroll

are, for the most part, companies owned and operated by

a single person.)

As shown in table 1, there were 1.9 million construction

establishments in the United States operating in the construction industries. These establishments accounted for

$582 billion in total value of business done.

Most of the 1.9 million construction establishments

were individually owned. There were 1.5 million individual

proprietorships, accounting for 76 percent of all construction establishments. However, these individual proprietorships accounted for only $74.1 billion in total value of

business done, or 13 percent of all establishments. Establishments classified as corporations accounted for 21

percent of all establishments and 84 percent of the total

value of business done. Partnerships accounted for 3

percent of all establishments and 3 percent of the total

value of business done. Establishments with other legal

forms of organization and establishments which could not

be classified accounted for the balance.

ESTABLISHMENTS WITH PAYROLL

Table 2 provides more detailed information for establishments with payroll. Selected statistics are shown by

legal form of company organization and type of operation

(single- or multiunit companies). (See Technical Notes for

definitions.)

Total value of construction work for all construction

establishments with payroll in 1992 amounted to $528

billion. Establishments of multiunit companies accounted

for only 2 percent of all establishments, but accounted for

21 percent of the total value of construction work. Establishments of single-unit companies accounted for 98 percent of the number of employer establishments and 79

percent of the total value of construction work.

There were 342,262 establishments that operated as

corporations, accounting for 60 percent of all employer

establishments. They had total value of construction work

of $470 billion, 89 percent of the value of all establishments. There were 230,590 establishments, or 40 percent

that operated as individual proprietorships, partnerships,

and other forms of organization which could not be classified. They accounted for 11 percent of the total value of

construction work. Of these unincorporated establishments,

205,250 were organized as individual proprietorships, and

22,896 were partnerships. Establishments with other legal

forms of organization and establishments which could not

be classified accounted for the balance.

Establishments of multiunit companies, on the average,

were larger than those of single-unit companies. The

average multiunit establishment had 69 employees and

total value of construction work of $10.5 million. The

average single-unit establishment had only 7 employees

and total value of construction work of $741 thousand.

Establishments operating as corporations tended to be

larger than those operating as partnerships or individual

proprietorships. The average corporate establishment had

12 employees and total value of construction work of $1.4

million. The average partnership establishment had 5

employees and total value of construction work of $622

thousand. The average for individual proprietorships was

approximately 3 employees and total value of construction

work of $203 thousand.

A ‘‘construction establishment’’ is defined as a relatively

permanent office, or other place of business, where the

usual business activities related to construction are conducted. A separate census report was required from each

sampled establishment covering domestic operations. Separate reports were not, however, required for each project or

construction site.

For 1987 and earlier censuses, receipts from the sale of

land were collected separately for general contractors and

operative builders. These receipts were included in the

total dollar value of business done but excluded from the

value of construction work done. For 1992, receipts from

the sale of land were not collected separately but are still

excluded from the value of construction work done. All

dollar values are shown in current dollars for the years

specified and have not been adjusted for inflation.

Since the data in this report covering employer establishments are estimated from a sample survey, they are

subject to sampling variability as well as errors of response

and nonreporting. The relative standard errors shown in

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the tables are measures of sampling variability. Descriptions of the sampling, estimating procedures, and data

reliability are included in the Introduction.

ESTABLISHMENTS WITHOUT PAYROLL

During 1992, there were 1.3 million establishments with

no payroll classified as construction. According to administrative records of the Federal Government, their value of

business done during 1992 was $42.5 billion. By far, most

of these establishments, about 93 percent, were individual

proprietorships accounting for 75 percent of the total value

of business done.

For the establishments without payroll, only information

on total value of business done was available from administrative records. Statistics on establishments without payroll are shown in table 1.

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TECHNICAL NOTES

CENSUS DEFINITION OF COMPANY

The 1992 Census of Construction Industries was conducted as part of the 1992 Economic Censuses. A ‘‘company,’’ as defined in the economic censuses, is a business

organization consisting of one establishment or more

under common ownership or control. Each company was

asked to report on all domestic operating establishments it

owned or controlled (such as construction establishments,

factories, mines, stores, sales offices, etc.) as well as its

separate auxiliary activities (such as central offices, central

warehouses, research and development laboratories, and

other support functions within the company). All foreign

activities of these companies, however, were excluded

from census coverage. Each company was also asked to

specify its legal form of organization (corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, cooperative, etc.).

Through the ‘‘Company Organization Survey,’’ conducted annually, the Census Bureau determines which

establishments are owned or controlled by multiestablishment companies. As a further aid in identifying establishments under common ownership or control, company

affiliation inquiries appeared on questionnaires mailed in

the 1992 Economic Censuses.

Therefore, a ‘‘company’’ consisted of all establishments

specified by the reporting company to be under its ownership or control. If the owning or controlling company was a

‘‘parent’’ company having one subsidiary company or

more, all establishments of its subsidiaries were also

included in the census definition of ‘‘company.’’

For purposes of this report, a ‘‘single-unit’’ company is

defined as a company which owns or controls only one

establishment. A ‘‘multiunit’’ company is a company which

owns or controls two establishments or more, at least one

of which comes within the scope of the economic censuses. Therefore, a company with two construction establishments or more would be classified as a ‘‘multiunit’’

company, as would a company with only one construction

establishment if the company also owns or controls one

establishment or more in other lines of activity.

The data in this report covering establishments with

payroll were obtained from a sample survey. The user of

these data also should keep in mind the definition of a

construction establishment. Briefly stated, a ‘‘construction

establishment’’ is defined as a relatively permanent office

or other place of business, where the usual business

activities related to construction are conducted. Usually a

relatively permanent office is one which has been established for the management of more than one project or job

and which is expected to be maintained on a continuing

basis. Separate reports were not required for each construction project or construction site.

LEGAL FORM OF ORGANIZATION

Each establishment with payroll covered in the 1992

Economic Censuses was classified into one of seven

specified legal forms of organization. The seven classifications consisted of:

1. Individual proprietorship—Companies owned by one

person.

2. Partnership—Companies owned by two persons or

more, each of whom had a financial interest in the

business.

3. Corporation—Companies (other than cooperatives)

that were legally incorporated under State laws.

4. Cooperative association (taxable)—Companies owned

by an association of customers, whether or not they

were incorporated.

5. Cooperative association (tax-exempt)—Companies

owned by an association of customers, whether or not

they were incorporated.

6. Government—Companies operated by or under the

control of a government entity or a board of directors

either appointed by such an entity or publicly elected.

7. Other legal forms—Companies whose legal form of

organization was not one of those defined above.

Included in this miscellaneous group were estates and

receiverships.

Establishments without payroll were classified into specified legal forms of organization according to the type of

income tax form filed (1040C—individual proprietorship;

1065—partnership; 1120 and 1120S—corporation).

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Table 1. Summary Statistics for Establishments With and Without Payroll by Legal Form of

Organization for Industry Groups and Industries: 1992

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Industry group, industry, and legal

form of organization

All establishments Establishments without payroll Establishments with payroll Relative

standard

error of

estimate

(percent)

for

Number1 columnm

Proprietors and

working

partners

All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done Number

Proprietors and

working

partners

Dollar value of

business done2 Number

Proprietors and

working

partners3 All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done

A B C D E F G H I J K JK

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

(SIC 15, 16, 17)

All establishments 1 ---------- 922 631 1 569 215 4 668 280 581 630 401 1 349 780 1 318 174 42 545 744 572 851 251 041 4 668 280 539 084 657 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 402 ---------------------- 427 – 3 970 033 487 457 074 60 165 – 7 514 343 342 262 – 3 970 033 479 942 731 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 1 ----------- 466 306 1 466 306 563 801 74 120 893 1 261 056 1 261 056 31 888 665 205 250 205 250 563 801 42 232 228 1 1

Partnerships 51 ----------------------- 455 102 909 115 552 17 720 511 28 559 57 118 3 142 736 22 896 45 791 115 552 14 577 775 1 1

Other4 ---------------------------- 2 444 – 18 894 2 331 923 – – – 2 444 – 18 894 2 331 923 2 1

Building Constructionm General Contractors and

Operative Builders (SIC 15)

All establishments 395 ---------- 043 277 129 1 096 859 236 462 718 226 636 206 080 16 231 503 168 407 71 049 1 096 859 220 231 215 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 134 ---------------------- 139 – 912 060 201 868 181 30 544 – 4 926 293 103 595 – 912 060 196 941 888 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 242 ----------- 842 242 842 143 159 24 826 898 186 104 186 104 9 754 046 56 738 56 738 143 159 15 072 852 1 1 Partnerships 17 ----------------------- 143 34 287 36 243 8 788 397 9 988 19 976 1 551 164 7 155 14 311 36 243 7 237 233 2 2 Other4 ---------------------------- 919 – 5 398 979 242 – – – 919 – 5 398 979 242 4 3

General contractorsm Residential buildings (SIC 152)

All establishments 295 ---------- 870 219 339 452 557 71 578 639 181 884 162 904 14 155 785 113 986 56 435 452 557 57 422 854 1 1

Corporations 90 ---------------------- 544 – 321 141 48 708 673 28 567 – 4 608 630 61 977 – 321 141 44 100 043 1 1 Individual proprietorships 189 ----------- 834 189 834 111 196 18 952 629 143 730 143 730 8 079 828 46 104 46 104 111 196 10 872 801 1 2 Partnerships 14 ----------------------- 753 29 505 16 897 3 613 748 9 587 19 174 1 467 327 5 166 10 331 16 897 2 146 421 4 4 Other4 ---------------------------- 739 – (S) (S) – – – 739 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

Operative builders (SIC 153)

All establishments 45 ---------- 076 31 944 114 194 47 452 859 28 087 27 171 1 325 148 16 989 4 773 114 194 46 127 711 1 1

Corporations 14 ---------------------- 274 – 98 479 41 438 062 1 261 – 230 745 13 013 – 98 479 41 207 317 1 1

Individual proprietorships 29 ----------- 555 29 555 6 576 2 571 046 26 481 26 481 1 020 299 3 074 3 074 6 576 1 550 747 5 6

Partnerships 1 ----------------------- 195 2 389 8 154 2 940 031 345 690 74 104 850 1 699 8 154 2 865 927 2 3

Other4 ---------------------------- 53 – 985 503 720 – – – 53 – 985 503 720 6 1

General building contractorsm Nonresidential buildings

(SIC 154)

All establishments 54 ---------- 097 25 845 530 108 117 431 220 16 665 16 005 750 570 37 432 9 840 530 108 116 680 650 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 29 ---------------------- 321 – 492 440 111 721 446 716 – 86 918 28 605 – 492 440 111 634 528 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 23 ----------- 453 23 453 25 388 3 303 223 15 893 15 893 653 919 7 560 7 560 25 388 2 649 304 3 3

Partnerships 1 ----------------------- 196 2 393 11 191 2 234 618 56 112 9 733 1 140 2 281 11 191 2 224 885 4 3

Other4 ---------------------------- 127 – (S) (S) – – – 127 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

Heavy Construction Other

than Building Constructionm

Contractors (SIC 16)

All establishments 59 ---------- 464 32 569 799 422 99 319 134 22 284 21 072 790 952 37 180 11 497 799 422 98 528 182 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 28 ---------------------- 912 – 745 098 92 551 567 1 921 – 188 089 26 991 – 745 098 92 363 478 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 28 ----------- 147 28 147 30 651 3 041 028 19 654 19 654 521 751 8 493 8 493 30 651 2 519 277 3 3

Partnerships 2 ----------------------- 211 4 423 20 105 3 128 857 709 1 418 81 112 1 502 3 005 20 105 3 047 745 2 2

Other4 ---------------------------- 195 – 3 568 597 682 – – – 195 – 3 568 597 682 2 1

Highway and street construction

contractors (SIC 161)

All establishments 15 ---------- 000 7 501 257 356 36 809 447 4 910 4 825 163 613 10 090 2 676 257 356 36 645 834 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 7 ---------------------- 988 – 242 601 34 918 886 227 – 24 047 7 761 – 242 601 34 894 839 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 6 ----------- 375 6 375 8 213 818 404 4 541 4 541 123 543 1 834 1 834 8 213 694 861 5 5

Partnerships 563 ----------------------- 1 126 5 856 960 522 142 284 16 023 421 842 5 856 944 499 3 3

Other4 ---------------------------- 74 – 686 111 635 – – – 74 – 686 111 635 7 1

Heavy construction

contractorsmExcept highway

and street (SIC 162)

All establishments 44 ---------- 464 25 068 542 066 62 509 687 17 374 16 247 627 339 27 090 8 821 542 066 61 882 348 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 20 ---------------------- 923 – 502 497 57 632 680 1 694 – 164 042 19 229 – 502 497 57 468 638 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 21 ----------- 771 21 771 22 437 2 222 624 15 113 15 113 398 208 6 658 6 658 22 437 1 824 416 3 3

Partnerships 1 ----------------------- 648 3 297 14 250 2 168 335 567 1 134 65 089 1 081 2 163 14 250 2 103 246 3 3 Other4 ---------------------------- 121 – 2 882 486 047 – – – 121 – 2 882 486 047 2 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 1. Summary Statistics for Establishments With and Without Payroll by Legal Form of

Organization for Industry Groups and Industries: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Industry group, industry, and legal

form of organization

All establishments Establishments without payroll Establishments with payroll Relative

standard

error of

estimate

(percent)

for

Number1 columnm

Proprietors and

working

partners

All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done Number

Proprietors and

working

partners

Dollar value of

business done2 Number

Proprietors and

working

partners3 All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done

A B C D E F G H I J K JK

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

(SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Special Trade Contractors

(SIC 17)

All establishments 1 ---------- 468 123 1 259 517 2 771 999 245 848 549 1 100 860 1 091 022 25 523 289 367 263 168 495 2 771 999 220 325 260 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 239 ---------------------- 376 – 2 312 875 193 037 327 27 700 – 2 399 961 211 676 – 2 312 875 190 637 366 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 1 ----------- 195 317 1 195 317 389 991 46 252 967 1 055 298 1 055 298 21 612 868 140 019 140 019 389 991 24 640 099 1 1 Partnerships 32 ----------------------- 100 64 200 59 204 5 803 257 17 862 35 724 1 510 460 14 238 28 476 59 204 4 292 797 2 2 Other4 ---------------------------- 1 330 – 9 928 754 999 – – – 1 330 – 9 928 754 999 2 1

Plumbing, heating, and

air-conditioning (SIC 171)

All establishments 168 ---------- 663 119 985 612 516 60 752 005 93 268 91 391 3 084 024 75 395 28 594 612 516 57 667 981 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 52 ---------------------- 651 – 541 825 52 130 318 3 880 – 334 313 48 771 – 541 825 51 796 005 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 111 ----------- 785 111 785 60 504 7 481 916 87 385 87 385 2 544 948 24 400 24 400 60 504 4 936 968 2 2

Partnerships 4 ----------------------- 100 8 199 8 676 1 004 394 2 003 4 006 204 763 2 097 4 193 8 676 799 631 6 5

Other4 ---------------------------- 128 – 1 511 135 378 – – – 128 – 1 511 135 378 5 4

Painting and paper hanging

(SIC 172)

All establishments 207 ---------- 594 197 264 162 587 11 514 299 175 674 177 264 2 774 525 31 920 20 000 162 587 8 739 774 1 1

Corporations 14 ---------------------- 275 – 112 866 6 527 206 916 – 60 209 13 359 – 112 866 6 466 997 1 1

Individual proprietorships 189 ----------- 148 189 148 44 206 4 564 894 172 252 172 252 2 565 238 16 896 16 896 44 206 1 999 656 2 2

Partnerships 4 ----------------------- 058 8 116 5 074 405 931 2 506 5 012 149 078 1 552 3 104 5 074 256 853 7 7

Other4 ---------------------------- 113 – 441 16 269 – – – 113 – 441 16 269 15 15

Electrical work (SIC 173)

All establishments 135 ---------- 087 96 728 487 072 42 555 710 81 065 78 697 1 828 669 54 022 18 031 487 072 40 727 041 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 40 ---------------------- 564 – 437 708 37 384 426 3 603 – 203 638 36 961 – 437 708 37 180 788 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 92 ----------- 031 92 031 41 215 4 469 482 76 227 76 227 1 525 065 15 804 15 804 41 215 2 944 417 2 2 Partnerships 2 ----------------------- 348 4 696 5 264 529 658 1 235 2 470 99 966 1 113 2 226 5 264 429 692 6 6 Other4 ---------------------------- 144 – 2 884 172 144 – – – 144 – 2 884 172 144 2 2

Masonry, stonework, tile setting,

and plastering (SIC 174)

All establishments 149 ---------- 736 129 532 388 573 27 389 802 101 952 102 733 2 181 396 47 784 26 799 388 573 25 208 406 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 24 ---------------------- 507 – 302 915 20 808 580 1 001 – 89 809 23 506 – 302 915 20 718 771 1 1

Individual proprietorships 120 ----------- 715 120 715 72 157 5 639 950 99 169 99 169 1 922 513 21 546 21 546 72 157 3 717 437 2 2

Partnerships 4 ----------------------- 409 8 817 12 943 909 594 1 782 3 564 169 074 2 627 5 253 12 943 740 520 5 4

Other4 ---------------------------- 105 – 558 31 678 – – – 105 – 558 31 678 10 9

Carpentry and floor work

(SIC 175)

All establishments 405 ---------- 695 388 503 226 549 24 577 849 357 289 359 177 7 006 339 48 406 29 326 226 549 17 571 510 1 1

Corporations 22 ---------------------- 597 – 154 436 13 066 018 1 299 – 111 689 21 298 – 154 436 12 954 329 1 1 Individual proprietorships 377 ----------- 354 377 354 63 023 10 602 771 352 803 352 803 6 619 704 24 551 24 551 63 023 3 983 067 2 2 Partnerships 5 ----------------------- 575 11 149 8 487 870 321 3 187 6 374 274 946 2 388 4 775 8 487 595 375 5 5 Other4 ---------------------------- 169 – (S) (S) – – – 169 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

Roofing, siding, and sheet metal

work (SIC 176)

All establishments 91 ---------- 300 76 821 215 545 18 567 644 63 731 64 333 1 593 033 27 569 12 488 215 545 16 974 611 1 1

Corporations 16 ---------------------- 684 – 180 177 14 798 758 694 – 76 237 15 990 – 180 177 14 722 521 1 1

Individual proprietorships 72 ----------- 069 72 069 30 524 3 300 261 61 741 61 741 1 395 632 10 328 10 328 30 524 1 904 629 3 3

Partnerships 2 ----------------------- 376 4 751 4 482 441 278 1 296 2 592 121 164 1 080 2 159 4 482 320 114 8 9 Other4 ---------------------------- 171 – (S) (S) – – – 171 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 1. Summary Statistics for Establishments With and Without Payroll by Legal Form of

Organization for Industry Groups and Industries: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Industry group, industry, and legal

form of organization

All establishments Establishments without payroll Establishments with payroll Relative

standard

error of

estimate

(percent)

for

Number1 columnm

Proprietors and

working

partners

All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done Number

Proprietors and

working

partners

Dollar value of

business done2 Number

Proprietors and

working

partners3 All em- ployees**

Dollar value of

business done

A B C D E F G H I J K JK

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

(SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Special Trade Contractors

(SIC 17)mCon.

Concrete work (SIC 177)

All establishments 54 ---------- 875 42 055 192 539 15 256 182 28 752 28 911 660 147 26 123 13 144 192 539 14 596 035 1 1

Corporations 14 ---------------------- 669 – 151 285 12 051 780 514 – 51 245 14 155 – 151 285 12 000 535 1 1

Individual proprietorships 38 ----------- 165 38 165 35 166 2 715 300 27 565 27 565 554 532 10 600 10 600 35 166 2 160 768 2 3

Partnerships 1 ----------------------- 945 3 890 5 745 471 968 673 1 346 54 370 1 272 2 544 5 745 417 598 7 7

Other4 ---------------------------- 95 – (S) (S) – – – 95 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

Water well drilling (SIC 178)

All establishments 5 ---------- 113 3 355 19 346 1 832 037 1 475 1 604 80 747 3 638 1 751 19 346 1 751 290 2 2

Corporations 2 ---------------------- 145 – 15 689 1 416 400 62 – 4 362 2 083 – 15 689 1 412 038 2 2

Individual proprietorships 2 ----------- 569 2 569 3 022 320 212 1 222 1 222 54 719 1 347 1 347 3 022 265 493 6 6

Partnerships 393 ----------------------- 786 617 93 764 191 382 21 666 202 404 617 72 098 14 13

Other4 ---------------------------- 7 – (S) (S) – – – 7 – (S) (S) (S) (S)

Miscellaneous special trade

contractors (SIC 179)

All establishments 250 ---------- 059 205 276 467 272 43 403 020 197 654 186 912 6 314 409 52 405 18 364 467 272 37 088 611 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 51 ---------------------- 284 – 415 974 34 853 841 15 731 – 1 468 459 35 553 – 415 974 33 385 382 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 191 ----------- 481 191 481 40 174 7 158 182 176 934 176 934 4 430 517 14 547 14 547 40 174 2 727 665 2 2

Partnerships 6 ----------------------- 897 13 795 7 915 1 076 349 4 989 9 978 415 433 1 908 3 817 7 915 660 916 5 5

Other4 ---------------------------- 397 – 3 208 314 648 – – – 397 – 3 208 314 648 3 1

1Number of establishments in this table represent those in business at any time during the year.

2For 1992, nonemployer records showing revenues greater than $1 million were excluded. See Introduction text.

3Data are revised from previously issued final industry reports.

4Includes establishments with other noncorporate forms of organization plus establishments for which information available did not permit classification by legal form of organization.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 572 ---------------------------------------------- 851 4 668 280 117 729 651 528 105 847 136 915 956 391 189 891 234 617 817 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 342 ------------------------------------------------- 262 3 970 033 106 522 857 469 939 986 126 872 582 343 067 404 206 556 085 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 205 -------------------------------------- 250 563 801 8 397 635 41 653 567 5 681 666 35 971 901 20 697 959 1 1 1

Partnerships 22 ------------------------------------------------- 896 115 552 2 393 575 14 240 190 3 808 804 10 431 386 6 263 748 1 1 1

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 2 444 18 894 415 585 2 272 105 552 905 1 719 199 1 100 026 2 1 1

Establishments of multiunit companies 10 --------------------------- 633 730 956 23 464 334 111 537 459 35 853 749 75 683 710 47 634 001 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 562 -------------------------- 218 3 937 324 94 265 318 416 568 388 101 062 207 315 506 181 186 983 817 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Building ConstructionmGeneral Contractors and

Operative Builders (SIC 15)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 168 ---------------------------------------------- 407 1 096 859 27 077 574 215 628 967 100 906 815 114 722 152 63 116 790 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 103 ------------------------------------------------- 595 912 060 24 145 969 192 797 480 93 675 770 99 121 710 54 694 354 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 56 -------------------------------------- 738 143 159 2 090 067 14 828 902 4 025 600 10 803 302 5 591 784 1 1 1

Partnerships 7 ------------------------------------------------- 155 36 243 748 400 7 044 623 2 833 109 4 211 514 2 466 162 2 2 2

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 919 5 398 93 137 957 962 372 335 585 627 364 490 4 3 2

Establishments of multiunit companies 2 --------------------------- 572 150 703 4 878 113 46 645 995 25 704 177 20 941 818 11 603 382 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 165 -------------------------- 835 946 156 22 199 461 168 982 972 75 202 639 93 780 333 51 513 408 (Z) (Z) (Z)

General building contractorsmResidential buildings (SIC 152)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 113 ---------------------------------------------- 986 452 557 8 438 452 56 468 287 18 470 146 37 998 141 19 636 680 1 1 1

Corporations 61 ------------------------------------------------- 977 321 141 6 549 143 43 321 371 15 110 967 28 210 404 14 562 889 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 46 -------------------------------------- 104 111 196 1 568 881 10 729 277 2 680 889 8 048 388 4 133 713 1 2 1

Partnerships 5 ------------------------------------------------- 166 16 897 278 306 2 119 018 602 018 1 516 999 816 835 4 4 4

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 739 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 639 --------------------------- 21 560 519 158 3 538 029 1 397 320 2 140 709 1 228 341 1 1 (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 113 -------------------------- 347 430 997 7 919 294 52 930 257 17 072 825 35 857 432 18 408 339 1 1 1

General contractorsmSingle-family houses (SIC 1521)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 107 ---------------------------------------------- 495 403 754 7 277 890 48 633 331 14 973 107 33 660 224 17 183 012 1 1 1

Corporations 57 ------------------------------------------------- 756 280 179 5 522 310 36 305 881 11 859 046 24 446 835 12 449 860 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 44 -------------------------------------- 199 105 518 1 475 417 10 211 768 2 549 467 7 662 301 3 911 249 1 2 2

Partnerships 4 ------------------------------------------------- 841 15 492 247 910 1 897 532 510 423 1 387 110 729 782 4 4 4

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 700 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 495 --------------------------- 14 726 305 771 2 081 624 690 424 1 391 200 793 559 1 1 1

Establishments of single-unit companies 107 -------------------------- 000 389 028 6 972 119 46 551 707 14 282 683 32 269 023 16 389 452 1 1 1

General contractorsmResidential buildings other than

single-family (SIC 1522)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 6 ---------------------------------------------- 490 48 803 1 160 562 7 834 956 3 497 038 4 337 918 2 453 669 2 2 2

Corporations 4 ------------------------------------------------- 222 40 961 1 026 833 7 015 491 3 251 921 3 763 570 2 113 029 2 2 2

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 905 5 678 93 464 517 510 131 422 386 088 222 463 7 7 7

Partnerships 325 ------------------------------------------------- 1 405 30 396 221 485 91 596 129 889 87 054 12 14 11

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 39 759 9 869 80 470 22 099 58 371 31 123 3 4 3

Establishments of multiunit companies 144 --------------------------- 6 834 213 387 1 456 405 706 896 749 509 434 782 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 6 -------------------------- 346 41 969 947 175 6 378 551 2 790 142 3 588 409 2 018 887 2 2 2

Operative builders (SIC 1531)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 16 ---------------------------------------------- 989 114 194 3 358 753 44 588 033 17 744 712 26 843 321 15 288 760 1 1 1

Corporations 13 ------------------------------------------------- 013 98 479 3 031 199 39 863 868 16 072 958 23 790 910 13 514 297 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 3 -------------------------------------- 074 6 576 106 735 1 497 817 456 401 1 041 416 507 579 5 6 6

Partnerships 850 ------------------------------------------------- 8 154 193 288 2 737 971 1 003 670 1 734 301 1 074 130 2 3 4

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 53 985 27 532 488 377 211 684 276 693 192 755 6 1 1

Establishments of multiunit companies 616 --------------------------- 24 124 830 199 11 794 433 5 124 279 6 670 154 4 140 459 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 16 -------------------------- 373 90 071 2 528 554 32 793 600 12 620 433 20 173 167 11 148 301 1 1 1

General contractorsmNonresidential buildings (SIC 154)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 37 ---------------------------------------------- 432 530 108 15 280 369 114 572 647 64 691 957 49 880 690 28 191 349 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 28 ------------------------------------------------- 605 492 440 14 565 627 109 612 241 62 491 846 47 120 395 26 617 168 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 7 -------------------------------------- 560 25 388 414 452 2 601 807 888 310 1 713 497 950 493 3 3 3

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 140 11 191 276 806 2 187 635 1 227 421 960 214 575 197 4 3 3

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 127 (S) (S) (S) 84 381 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 1 --------------------------- 317 105 020 3 528 756 31 313 533 19 182 577 12 130 955 6 234 582 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 36 -------------------------- 115 425 089 11 751 613 83 259 115 45 509 380 37 749 735 21 956 768 1 (Z) (Z)

General contractorsmIndustrial buildings and warehouses

(SIC 1541)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 7 ---------------------------------------------- 693 122 970 3 476 400 20 585 807 9 618 518 10 967 289 6 437 735 1 1 1

Corporations 5 ------------------------------------------------- 970 114 144 3 314 733 19 692 904 9 303 385 10 389 519 6 079 438 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 473 5 946 92 078 500 044 141 275 358 769 209 470 7 7 7

Partnerships 235 ------------------------------------------------- 2 692 65 220 371 951 165 813 206 139 141 052 7 5 6

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 14 189 4 369 20 908 (S) 12 862 7 774 17 23 17

Establishments of multiunit companies 260 --------------------------- 25 517 869 517 4 636 874 1 996 562 2 640 312 1 614 424 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 7 -------------------------- 433 97 453 2 606 883 15 948 933 7 621 956 8 326 977 4 823 311 2 1 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Building ConstructionmGeneral Contractors and

Operative Builders (SIC 15)mCon.

General contractorsmNonresidential buildings, n.e.c.

(SIC 1542)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 29 ---------------------------------------------- 739 407 138 11 803 969 93 986 840 55 073 439 38 913 401 21 753 615 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 22 ------------------------------------------------- 635 378 296 11 250 895 89 919 336 53 188 461 36 730 876 20 537 730 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 6 -------------------------------------- 086 19 442 322 374 2 101 764 747 035 1 354 728 741 022 4 4 4

Partnerships 905 ------------------------------------------------- 8 500 211 586 1 815 684 1 061 608 754 076 434 145 4 3 4

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 113 (S) (S) (S) 76 335 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 1 --------------------------- 057 79 503 2 659 239 26 676 659 17 186 015 9 490 643 4 620 158 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 28 -------------------------- 682 327 635 9 144 730 67 310 182 37 887 424 29 422 758 17 133 457 1 (Z) 1

Heavy Construction Other than Building Constructionm

Contractors (SIC 16)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 37 ---------------------------------------------- 180 799 422 23 728 285 95 571 457 18 045 349 77 526 108 49 165 312 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 26 ------------------------------------------------- 991 745 098 22 480 895 89 540 269 17 003 177 72 537 092 45 955 504 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 8 -------------------------------------- 493 30 651 522 981 2 472 207 217 709 2 254 497 1 470 644 3 3 3 Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 502 20 105 617 025 2 973 582 696 063 2 277 519 1 426 542 2 2 2 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 195 3 568 107 384 585 399 128 399 457 000 312 623 2 1 1 Establishments of multiunit companies 2 --------------------------- 025 273 222 9 046 708 34 802 419 7 108 139 27 694 280 18 140 364 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 35 -------------------------- 156 526 200 14 681 577 60 769 038 10 937 210 49 831 828 31 024 948 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Highway and street construction contractors (SIC 1611)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 10 ---------------------------------------------- 090 257 356 7 357 719 35 331 607 7 468 636 27 862 971 15 710 659 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 7 ------------------------------------------------- 761 242 601 7 036 541 33 639 390 7 135 051 26 504 339 14 941 035 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 834 8 213 137 180 683 566 (D) (D) 372 470 5 5 (D)

Partnerships 421 ------------------------------------------------- 5 856 161 628 897 144 241 271 655 873 357 943 3 3 3

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 74 686 22 370 111 507 (D) (D) 39 211 7 1 (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 804 --------------------------- 72 937 2 128 884 11 588 687 2 727 672 8 861 015 4 609 014 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 9 -------------------------- 286 184 419 5 228 835 23 742 920 4 740 964 19 001 956 11 101 645 1 (Z) 1

Heavy construction contractorsmExcept highway and street

(SIC 162)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 27 ---------------------------------------------- 090 542 066 16 370 565 60 239 849 10 576 713 49 663 137 33 454 653 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 19 ------------------------------------------------- 229 502 497 15 444 353 55 900 879 9 868 126 46 032 753 31 014 469 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 6 -------------------------------------- 658 22 437 385 801 1 788 640 (D) (D) 1 098 174 3 3 (D)

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 081 14 250 455 397 2 076 438 454 792 1 621 646 1 068 599 3 3 3

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 121 2 882 85 014 473 892 (D) (D) 273 412 2 1 (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 1 --------------------------- 221 200 285 6 917 824 23 213 732 4 380 467 18 833 265 13 531 350 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 25 -------------------------- 869 341 781 9 452 742 37 026 118 6 196 246 30 829 872 19 923 303 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Bridge, tunnel, and elevated highway contractors (SIC 1622)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 1 ---------------------------------------------- 041 43 701 1 485 491 7 198 275 1 882 325 5 315 950 3 078 306 1 1 1

Corporations 922 ------------------------------------------------- 40 040 1 351 147 6 518 676 1 734 872 4 783 804 2 741 979 1 (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 48 -------------------------------------- 272 5 010 (D) (D) (D) 13 021 21 (D) (D)

Partnerships 66 ------------------------------------------------- 3 221 126 505 643 219 141 335 501 884 317 221 4 7 8

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 5 169 2 830 (D) (D) (D) 6 085 (Z) (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 116 --------------------------- 14 389 532 450 2 672 397 670 156 2 002 241 1 126 943 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 925 -------------------------- 29 312 953 041 4 525 878 1 212 169 3 313 709 1 951 363 1 1 1

Water, sewer, pipeline, communication and powerline

contractors (SIC 1623)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 10 ---------------------------------------------- 233 194 252 5 624 369 20 205 048 2 617 685 17 587 363 11 734 058 1 1 (Z)

Corporations 7 ------------------------------------------------- 933 181 626 5 347 069 18 898 227 2 459 454 16 438 773 10 969 950 1 1 (Z)

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 900 7 913 144 210 (D) (D) 614 764 408 230 6 (D) 6

Partnerships 359 ------------------------------------------------- 3 933 117 816 579 731 97 679 482 052 318 506 6 4 5 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 41 779 15 274 (D) (D) 51 774 37 373 4 (D) 7

Establishments of multiunit companies 440 --------------------------- 35 550 1 197 274 3 894 208 519 796 3 374 412 2 550 560 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 9 -------------------------- 793 158 702 4 427 095 16 310 840 2 097 889 14 212 951 9 183 498 1 1 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Heavy Construction Other than Building Constructionm

Contractors (SIC 16)mCon.

Heavy construction contractors, n.e.c. (SIC 1629)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 15 ---------------------------------------------- 816 304 113 9 260 705 32 836 527 6 076 703 26 759 824 18 642 289 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 10 ------------------------------------------------- 374 280 831 8 746 138 30 483 976 5 673 800 24 810 175 17 302 540 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 4 -------------------------------------- 711 14 253 236 582 1 092 452 (D) (D) 676 924 4 4 (D)

Partnerships 656 ------------------------------------------------- 7 096 211 076 853 488 215 777 637 710 432 872 4 4 4 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 75 1 934 66 910 406 611 (D) (D) 229 954 3 1 (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 665 --------------------------- 150 346 5 188 100 16 647 127 3 190 515 13 456 612 9 853 847 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 15 -------------------------- 152 153 767 4 072 606 16 189 400 2 886 188 13 303 212 8 788 442 1 1 1

Special Trade Contractors (SIC 17)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 367 ---------------------------------------------- 263 2 771 999 66 923 793 216 905 423 17 963 792 198 941 631 122 335 715 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 211 ------------------------------------------------- 676 2 312 875 59 895 993 187 602 237 16 193 634 171 408 602 105 906 227 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 140 -------------------------------------- 019 389 991 5 784 586 24 352 458 1 438 356 22 914 102 13 635 531 1 1 1 Partnerships 14 ------------------------------------------------- 238 59 204 1 028 150 4 221 985 279 631 3 942 354 2 371 044 2 2 2 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 330 9 928 215 064 728 743 52 171 676 573 422 913 2 1 1 Establishments of multiunit companies 6 --------------------------- 037 307 031 9 539 513 30 089 045 3 041 434 27 047 611 17 890 254 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 361 -------------------------- 227 2 464 968 57 384 280 186 816 378 14 922 359 171 894 020 104 445 461 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning (SIC 1711)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 75 ---------------------------------------------- 395 612 516 16 613 239 56 902 406 6 146 698 50 755 709 29 431 529 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 48 ------------------------------------------------- 771 541 825 15 400 327 51 117 702 5 867 005 45 250 697 26 463 717 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 24 -------------------------------------- 400 60 504 994 689 4 863 639 193 431 4 670 209 2 498 662 2 2 2 Partnerships 2 ------------------------------------------------- 097 8 676 167 396 786 154 70 601 715 554 384 613 6 5 5 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 128 1 511 50 827 134 911 15 661 119 249 84 537 5 4 4 Establishments of multiunit companies 1 --------------------------- 225 72 740 2 629 199 8 841 280 1 493 414 7 347 867 4 621 699 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 74 -------------------------- 171 539 777 13 984 039 48 061 126 4 653 284 43 407 842 24 809 830 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Painting and paper hanging (SIC 1721)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 31 ---------------------------------------------- 920 162 587 3 164 065 8 689 828 595 079 8 094 749 5 854 779 1 1 1 Corporations 13 ------------------------------------------------- 359 112 866 2 484 187 6 424 766 467 702 5 957 064 4 332 373 1 1 1 Individual proprietorships 16 -------------------------------------- 896 44 206 600 834 1 993 267 113 758 1 879 509 1 335 430 2 2 2 Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 552 5 074 73 626 255 601 12 877 242 723 175 292 7 7 7 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 113 441 5 418 16 194 *742 15 452 11 683 15 15 15 Establishments of multiunit companies 167 --------------------------- 7 324 172 183 462 150 31 189 430 961 326 782 1 1 1 Establishments of single-unit companies 31 -------------------------- 753 155 263 2 991 882 8 227 678 563 890 7 663 788 5 527 997 1 1 1

Electrical work (SIC 1731)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 54 ---------------------------------------------- 022 487 072 13 623 816 40 259 410 1 718 391 38 541 019 23 548 293 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 36 ------------------------------------------------- 961 437 708 12 748 017 36 751 443 1 609 828 35 141 614 21 602 127 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 15 -------------------------------------- 804 41 215 708 766 2 915 024 78 998 2 836 025 1 605 213 2 2 2

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 113 5 264 115 497 422 991 25 278 397 713 239 768 6 6 6

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 144 2 884 51 536 169 952 4 287 165 666 101 185 2 2 2

Establishments of multiunit companies 943 --------------------------- 65 858 2 227 284 6 674 320 368 599 6 305 721 4 119 582 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 53 -------------------------- 079 421 214 11 396 532 33 585 090 1 349 792 32 235 298 19 428 711 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Masonry, stonework, tile setting, and plastering (SIC 174)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 47 ---------------------------------------------- 784 388 573 8 567 389 24 952 279 1 849 656 23 102 623 14 647 325 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 23 ------------------------------------------------- 506 302 915 7 316 593 20 481 594 1 556 301 18 925 293 12 040 683 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 21 -------------------------------------- 546 72 157 1 033 077 3 700 957 247 312 3 453 644 2 154 072 2 2 2 Partnerships 2 ------------------------------------------------- 627 12 943 208 006 738 353 43 949 694 404 435 879 5 4 4 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 105 558 9 713 31 375 2 093 29 281 16 691 10 9 9 Establishments of multiunit companies 636 --------------------------- 33 355 908 031 2 646 724 168 767 2 477 957 1 569 179 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 47 -------------------------- 148 355 219 7 659 358 22 305 555 1 680 889 20 624 666 13 078 146 1 1 (Z)

Masonry, stone setting, and other stonework (SIC 1741)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 22 ---------------------------------------------- 637 147 892 2 882 520 8 457 864 501 955 7 955 909 5 146 139 1 1 1

Corporations 9 ------------------------------------------------- 434 103 677 2 297 682 6 428 969 412 516 6 016 453 3 903 677 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 11 -------------------------------------- 697 37 797 494 147 1 707 888 79 185 1 628 703 1 042 367 2 2 2

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 462 6 123 86 258 308 082 9 973 298 108 192 665 7 6 6

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 44 296 4 434 12 926 281 12 645 7 429 13 15 16

Establishments of multiunit companies 152 --------------------------- 9 387 221 421 651 776 32 087 619 689 404 678 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 22 -------------------------- 485 138 505 2 661 099 7 806 088 469 868 7 336 220 4 741 461 1 1 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Special Trade Contractors (SIC 17)mCon.

Plastering, drywall, acoustical and insulation work (SIC 1742)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 18 ---------------------------------------------- 648 206 670 4 910 081 14 055 774 1 231 623 12 824 151 8 143 169 1 1 1

Corporations 10 ------------------------------------------------- 841 173 246 4 368 935 12 150 703 1 045 301 11 105 402 7 079 231 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 6 -------------------------------------- 827 27 302 430 555 1 526 546 151 981 1 374 565 853 472 3 3 3

Partnerships 936 ------------------------------------------------- 5 928 106 706 363 830 32 601 331 229 203 506 7 6 6

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 44 (S) 3 883 14 694 1 739 12 954 (S) (S) 12 13

Establishments of multiunit companies 433 --------------------------- 22 270 635 644 1 837 656 125 560 1 712 096 1 075 992 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 18 -------------------------- 215 184 400 4 274 437 12 218 118 1 106 063 11 112 055 7 067 177 1 1 1

Terrazzo, tile, marble, and mosaic work (SIC 1743)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 6 ---------------------------------------------- 499 34 012 774 788 2 438 641 116 078 2 322 563 1 358 017 2 2 1 Corporations 3 ------------------------------------------------- 231 25 992 649 976 1 901 922 98 484 1 803 438 1 057 775 2 2 2 Individual proprietorships 3 -------------------------------------- 022 7 059 108 375 466 523 16 147 450 376 258 233 4 4 4 Partnerships 229 ------------------------------------------------- 892 15 042 66 441 1 375 65 067 39 708 14 14 14 Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 17 68 1 396 3 755 73 3 682 2 302 22 16 16 Establishments of multiunit companies 51 --------------------------- 1 698 50 966 157 292 (S) 146 172 88 509 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 6 -------------------------- 448 32 313 723 822 2 281 349 104 958 2 176 391 1 269 508 2 2 2

Carpentry and floor work (SIC 175)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 48 ---------------------------------------------- 406 226 549 4 553 994 17 279 799 1 912 884 15 366 915 8 925 471 1 1 1

Corporations 21 ------------------------------------------------- 298 154 436 3 498 563 12 718 566 1 462 903 11 255 663 6 427 412 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 24 -------------------------------------- 551 63 023 912 331 3 936 883 402 785 3 534 098 2 159 933 2 2 2

Partnerships 2 ------------------------------------------------- 388 8 487 133 672 586 181 45 224 540 957 319 299 5 5 5

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 169 (S) (S) (S) (S) 36 197 (S) (S) (S) 8

Establishments of multiunit companies 320 --------------------------- 8 840 247 931 906 178 67 109 839 069 502 709 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 48 -------------------------- 086 217 709 4 306 063 16 373 621 1 845 775 14 527 846 8 422 762 1 1 1

Carpentry work (SIC 1751)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 38 ---------------------------------------------- 210 177 601 3 488 844 12 852 280 1 517 816 11 334 464 6 759 711 1 1 1 Corporations 16 ------------------------------------------------- 513 118 352 2 625 159 9 135 903 1 114 651 8 021 252 4 729 562 1 1 1 Individual proprietorships 19 -------------------------------------- 591 51 917 752 421 3 233 452 364 177 2 869 275 1 762 209 2 2 2 Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 951 6 813 104 031 (D) 37 184 (D) 251 572 6 (D) (D)

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 156 (S) (S) (D) (S) (D) (S) (S) (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 243 --------------------------- 6 829 190 194 662 198 43 778 618 420 395 072 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 37 -------------------------- 967 170 772 3 298 650 12 190 082 1 474 038 10 716 044 6 364 639 1 1 1

Floor laying and other floor work, n.e.c. (SIC 1752)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 10 ---------------------------------------------- 196 48 948 1 065 150 4 427 519 395 068 4 032 451 2 165 761 1 1 1 Corporations 4 ------------------------------------------------- 786 36 084 873 403 3 582 663 348 252 3 234 411 1 697 850 2 2 2 Individual proprietorships 4 -------------------------------------- 960 11 106 159 910 703 431 38 608 664 823 397 724 3 3 3 Partnerships 437 ------------------------------------------------- 1 674 29 641 (D) 8 040 (D) (S) 10 (D) (D)

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 13 84 2 195 (D) 168 (D) 2 459 3 (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 77 --------------------------- 2 012 57 737 243 980 23 331 220 649 107 637 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 10 -------------------------- 119 46 937 1 007 413 4 183 539 371 737 3 811 802 2 058 124 1 1 1

Roofing, siding, and sheet metal work (SIC 1761)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 27 ---------------------------------------------- 569 215 545 4 622 510 16 787 979 1 198 147 15 589 833 8 905 974 1 1 1 Corporations 15 ------------------------------------------------- 990 180 177 4 165 844 14 553 061 1 088 375 13 464 687 7 754 810 1 1 1 Individual proprietorships 10 -------------------------------------- 328 30 524 386 449 1 890 822 96 322 1 794 500 976 802 3 3 3

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 080 4 482 63 770 318 158 12 219 305 939 158 916 8 9 9

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 171 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 384 --------------------------- 13 741 389 012 1 377 022 114 732 1 262 290 796 118 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 27 -------------------------- 185 201 804 4 233 498 15 410 957 1 083 415 14 327 543 8 109 856 1 1 1

Concrete work (SIC 1771)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 26 ---------------------------------------------- 123 192 539 4 038 030 14 422 908 1 243 479 13 179 429 7 703 117 1 1 1

Corporations 14 ------------------------------------------------- 155 151 285 3 450 845 11 841 032 1 098 171 10 742 861 6 335 734 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 10 -------------------------------------- 600 35 166 491 302 2 151 207 117 852 2 033 354 1 141 753 2 3 3

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 272 5 745 91 483 414 019 26 495 387 524 216 201 7 7 7

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 95 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 236 --------------------------- 8 105 227 967 901 825 92 164 809 661 523 931 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 25 -------------------------- 887 184 434 3 810 063 13 521 082 1 151 315 12 369 767 7 179 186 1 1 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Special Trade Contractors (SIC 17)mCon.

Water well drilling (SIC 1781)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 3 ---------------------------------------------- 638 19 346 443 641 1 727 355 51 357 1 675 998 994 814 2 2 2

Corporations 2 ------------------------------------------------- 083 15 689 387 028 1 390 487 45 898 1 344 589 813 336 2 2 2

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 347 3 022 45 280 263 943 4 221 259 723 140 453 6 6 6

Partnerships 202 ------------------------------------------------- 617 11 029 71 348 1 239 70 109 40 029 14 13 13

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 7 (S) (S) (S) – (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 92 --------------------------- 2 293 77 728 256 633 10 065 246 568 151 958 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 3 -------------------------- 546 17 053 365 913 1 470 722 41 292 1 429 430 842 856 2 2 2

Miscellaneous special trade contractors (SIC 179)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 52 ---------------------------------------------- 405 467 272 11 297 109 35 883 460 3 248 102 32 635 358 22 324 412 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Corporations 35 ------------------------------------------------- 553 415 974 10 444 590 32 323 586 2 997 451 29 326 134 20 136 033 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 14 -------------------------------------- 547 40 174 611 858 2 636 717 183 677 2 453 040 1 623 212 2 2 2

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 908 7 915 163 671 629 179 41 749 587 430 401 047 5 5 5

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 397 3 208 76 991 293 978 25 224 268 753 164 119 3 1 1

Establishments of multiunit companies 2 --------------------------- 033 94 777 2 660 178 8 022 912 695 395 7 327 517 5 278 296 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 50 -------------------------- 372 372 495 8 636 932 27 860 548 2 552 707 25 307 841 17 046 116 1 1 1

Structural steel erection (SIC 1791)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 3 ---------------------------------------------- 792 57 986 1 628 902 4 952 038 465 336 4 486 702 3 020 993 1 1 1

Corporations 3 ------------------------------------------------- 018 54 184 1 565 602 4 717 188 452 951 4 264 238 2 895 152 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 666 -------------------------------------- 2 696 38 572 135 649 6 556 129 094 85 070 10 10 10

Partnerships 99 ------------------------------------------------- 821 15 970 (D) (D) (D) 36 825 14 (D) (D)

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 8 285 8 758 (D) (D) (D) 3 945 15 (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 176 --------------------------- 9 516 325 936 1 059 631 85 230 974 401 668 108 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 3 -------------------------- 616 48 470 1 302 966 3 892 407 380 106 3 512 301 2 352 885 1 1 1

Glass and glazing work (SIC 1793)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 4 ---------------------------------------------- 590 32 067 795 946 2 724 467 90 382 2 634 085 1 423 934 1 1 1

Corporations 3 ------------------------------------------------- 392 28 819 739 288 2 462 838 88 080 2 374 758 1 287 565 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 1 -------------------------------------- 005 2 679 45 017 206 605 1 747 204 859 108 234 6 6 6

Partnerships 170 ------------------------------------------------- 507 10 200 (D) (D) (D) 25 513 17 (D) (D)

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 23 62 1 441 (D) (D) (D) 2 622 20 (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 137 --------------------------- 2 507 67 541 235 984 14 421 221 563 124 610 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 4 -------------------------- 453 29 561 728 405 2 488 483 75 961 2 412 522 1 299 324 1 1 1

Excavation work (SIC 1794)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 13 ---------------------------------------------- 898 77 126 1 816 814 6 869 692 740 514 6 129 178 4 339 605 1 1 1

Corporations 8 ------------------------------------------------- 062 61 530 1 552 980 5 590 129 639 288 4 950 841 3 492 435 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 5 -------------------------------------- 361 13 770 226 211 1 086 869 81 081 1 005 787 728 381 4 4 4

Partnerships 430 ------------------------------------------------- 1 611 33 426 176 532 17 606 158 927 109 792 9 9 10

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 46 (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Establishments of multiunit companies 108 --------------------------- 3 403 121 167 465 863 75 528 390 335 265 024 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 13 -------------------------- 790 73 723 1 695 647 6 403 829 664 986 5 738 843 4 074 581 1 1 1

Wrecking and demolition work (SIC 1795)

Legal form of organization and type of operation: All establishments 966 ---------------------------------------------- 13 112 296 028 1 059 133 131 147 927 986 775 026 2 2 2 Corporations 745 ------------------------------------------------- 12 326 282 215 993 969 122 310 871 659 730 849 2 2 2 Individual proprietorships 189 -------------------------------------- 599 10 263 52 479 8 047 44 432 34 866 8 17 15 Partnerships 28 ------------------------------------------------- 161 3 094 (D) (D) (D) 8 077 25 (D) (D)

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 4 26 455 (D) (D) (D) 1 235 (Z) (D) (D)

Establishments of multiunit companies 44 --------------------------- 2 741 66 020 226 464 23 589 202 875 170 338 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 922 -------------------------- 10 371 230 008 832 669 107 558 725 111 604 688 2 3 2

Installation or erection of building equipment, n.e.c.

(SIC 1796)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 3 ---------------------------------------------- 889 82 648 2 324 139 6 611 040 478 909 6 132 131 4 494 378 1 (Z) (Z)

Corporations 3 ------------------------------------------------- 267 79 612 2 262 336 6 424 562 468 383 5 956 179 4 375 240 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Individual proprietorships 541 -------------------------------------- 1 926 37 080 121 425 4 722 116 703 82 694 8 8 8

Partnerships 60 ------------------------------------------------- 438 9 381 24 760 1 226 23 533 15 394 11 11 12

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 21 672 15 342 40 293 4 578 35 715 21 051 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of multiunit companies 871 --------------------------- 45 836 1 242 553 3 671 649 256 164 3 415 485 2 447 467 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 3 -------------------------- 018 36 812 1 081 586 2 939 391 222 745 2 716 646 2 046 911 1 1 1

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. Selected Statistics for Establishments With Payroll by Industry, Legal Form of

Organization, and Type of Operation: 1992mCon.

[Thousand dollars. Detail may not add to total due to rounding. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text]

Item

Relative

standard error

of estimate

(percent) for

columnm

Number of

establish- ments1 All em- ployees**Payroll, all

employees

Value of construction work

Cost of construction work subcontracted

to others

Net value of construction work†

Value added††

A B C D E F GBDF

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES (SIC 15, 16, 17)mCon.

Special Trade Contractors (SIC 17)mCon.

Special trade contractors, n.e.c. (SIC 1799)

Legal form of organization and type of operation:

All establishments 25 ---------------------------------------------- 270 204 333 4 435 282 13 667 090 1 341 813 12 325 277 8 270 475 1 1 1

Corporations 17 ------------------------------------------------- 069 179 503 4 042 168 12 134 899 1 226 441 10 908 459 7 354 791 1 1 1

Individual proprietorships 6 -------------------------------------- 784 18 505 254 715 1 033 690 81 524 952 166 583 968 4 4 4

Partnerships 1 ------------------------------------------------- 122 4 377 91 600 309 160 16 317 292 843 205 446 7 7 7

Other2 ------------------------------------------------------ 296 1 948 46 798 189 340 17 530 171 809 126 269 4 1 1

Establishments of multiunit companies 697 --------------------------- 30 775 836 961 2 363 321 240 463 2 122 858 1 602 749 (Z) (Z) (Z)

Establishments of single-unit companies 24 -------------------------- 573 173 559 3 598 321 11 303 768 1 101 350 10 202 419 6 667 726 1 1 1

1Number of establishments in this table represent those in business at any time during the year.

2Includes establishments with other noncorporate forms of organization plus establishments for which information available did not permit classification by legal form of organization.

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Appendix A.

Explanation of Terms

Construction. Is composed of three broad categories:

1. New construction. Includes the complete, original

building of structures and essential service facilities

and the initial installation of integral equipment such as

elevators and plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning

supplies and equipment.

2. Additions, alterations, or reconstruction. Includes

construction work which adds to the value or useful life

of an existing building or structure, or which adapts a

building or structure to a new or different use. Included

are ‘‘major replacements’’ of building systems such as

the installation of a new roof or heating system and the

resurfacing of streets or highways. This contrasts to

the repair of a hole in a roof or the routine patching of

highways and streets, which would be classified as

maintenance and repair.

3. Maintenance and repair. Includes incidental construction work which keeps a property in ordinary working

condition. Excluded are trash and snow removal, lawn

maintenance and landscaping, and cleaning and janitorial services.

Number of establishments in business during year.

Includes all establishments that were in business at any

time during the year. It covers all full-year and part-year

operations. Construction establishments which were inactive or idle for the entire year were not included.

Proprietors and working partners. These data were not

collected on the census report forms. The data shown are

based on crediting each sole proprietorship establishment

with one active proprietor and each partnership establishment with two working partners.

All employees. Comprises all full-time and part-time employees on the payrolls of construction establishments who

worked or received pay for any part of the pay period

including the 12th of March, May, August, and November.

Included are all persons on paid sick leave, paid holidays,

and paid vacations during these pay periods. Officers of

corporations are included, but proprietors and partners of

unincorporated firms are not.

All employees is the sum of all employees during the

pay periods including the 12th of March, May, August, and

November, divided by 4.

Construction workers. Includes all workers up through

the working supervisor level directly engaged in construction operations, such as painters, carpenters, plumbers,

and electricians. Included are journeymen, mechanics,

apprentices, laborers, truck drivers and helpers, equipment

operators, and on-site record keepers and security guards.

Supervisory employees above the working foreman level

are excluded from this category but are included in the

‘‘other employees’’ category.

Other employees. Includes employees in executive,

purchasing, accounting, personnel, professional, and

technical activities, as well as routine office functions.

Also included are supervisory employees above the

working foreman level.

Payroll. Includes the gross earnings paid in the calendar

year 1992 to all employees on the payroll of construction

establishments. It includes all forms of compensation such

as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses,

vacation and sick leave pay, prior to such deductions as

employees’ Social Security contributions, withholding taxes,

group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. The total

includes salaries of officers of these establishments, if a

corporation, but excludes payments to the proprietor or

partners, if unincorporated.

Fringe benefits. Represents expenditures made by the

employer during 1992 for legally required and voluntary

fringe benefit programs for employees.

Legally required contributions. Includes Social Security contributions, unemployment compensation, worker’s

compensation, and State temporary disability payments.

Voluntary payments. Includes life insurance premiums, pension plans, insurance premiums on hospital

and medical plans, welfare plans, and union negotiated benefits.

Dollar value of business done comprises the following

detail:

Value of construction work done. Includes all

value of construction work done during 1992 for

construction work performed by general contractors

and special trades contractors. Included is new construction, additions and alterations or reconstruction,

and maintenance and repair construction work. Also

included is the value of any construction work done

by the reporting establishments for themselves.

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Speculative builders were instructed to include the

value of buildings and other structures built or being

built for sale in 1992 but not sold. They were to

include the costs of such construction plus normal

profit. Also included is the cost of construction work

done on buildings for rent or lease.

Establishments engaged in the sale and installation

of such construction components as plumbing, heating, and central air-conditioning supplies and equipment; lumber and building materials; paint, glass, and

wallpaper; and electrical and wiring supplies, elevators or escalators were instructed to include both the

value for the installation and the receipts covering the

price of the items installed.

Excluded was the cost of industrial and other specialized machinery and equipment which are not an

integral part of a structure.

Other business receipts. Includes business receipts

not reported as value of construction work done. The

item includes business receipts from retail and wholesale trade, rental of equipment, manufacturing, transportation, legal service, insurance, finance, rental of

property and other real estate operations, and other

nonconstruction activities. Receipts for separately

definable architectural and engineering work for others are also included here.

Excluded was the value of construction work done and

receipts from other business operations in foreign countries and non-operating income such as interest and

dividends.

Net value of construction work. Derived for each establishment by subtracting the costs for construction work

subcontracted out to others from the value of construction

work done. (For a further explanation see ‘‘Duplication in

Value of Construction Work’’ section in the Introduction.)

Value added. Derived for each establishment, value

added is equal to dollar value of business done, less costs

for construction work subcontracted out to others, and

costs for materials, components, supplies, and fuels. (For

a further explanation see ‘‘Duplication in Value of Construction Work’’ section in the Introduction.)

Selected costs. Represents the costs for materials,

components, and supplies; costs for construction work

subcontracted out to others; and costs for selected power,

fuels, and lubricants. Capital expenditures and rental costs

for machinery, equipment, and structures are shown elsewhere.

Costs for materials, components, and supplies include:

• total costs to reporting establishments during 1992 for

the purchase of all materials, components, and supplies,

except fuels. (Supplies include expendable tools which

are charged to current accounts.)

• freight and other direct charges representing only amount

paid after discounts, and the value of materials, components, and supplies obtained from other establishments

of the respondent’s company.

• costs for materials, components, and supplies used by

the reporting establishments in the construction or reconstruction of buildings/ structures for themselves which

are chargeable to their fixed assets accounts, as well as

costs for materials bought and resold to others.

• costs made for direct purchases of materials, components, and supplies even though the purchases were

subsequently provided to subcontractors for their use.

Excluded from this item are:

• industrial and other specialized machinery and equipment such as printing presses and computer systems,

which are not an integral part of a structure.

• materials furnished to contractors by the owners of

projects.

Costs for construction work subcontracted out to others

include:

• all costs during 1992 for construction work subcontracted out to other construction contractors.

Excluded from this item are:

• the costs to the reporting establishment for its purchases of materials, components, and supplies provided

to a subcontractor for use. Such costs are reported

under, ‘‘costs for materials, components, and supplies.’’

• costs for the rental of machinery or equipment.

Costs for selected power, fuels, and lubricants include:

• costs for fuels, lubricants, and electric energy purchased

during the year from other companies or received from

other establishments of the company.

• costs for natural and manufactured gas, fuel oil, coal,

and coke products.

Rental costs for machinery, equipment, and buildings.

Includes all costs during 1992 for renting or leasing

construction machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, production equipment, office equipment, furniture

and fixtures, scaffolding, office space, and buildings. It

excludes costs for the rental of land. It also excludes costs

under agreements which, in effect, are conditional sales

contracts such as capital leases. Such costs are included

in ‘‘capital expenditures.’’

Selected purchased services. Includes all costs during

1992 for communication services purchased from other

companies or from other establishments of the company. It

also includes the cost of all repairs made to structures and

equipment by outside companies or from other establishments of the same company. It includes only the cost of

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repair necessary to maintain property and equipment. It

excludes the cost of improvements that increase the value

of property or the cost of adapting it for another use. Such

costs are included in ‘‘capital expenditures.’’

Assets and depreciation. Refers to the original cost of all

fixed tangible assets such as buildings and other structures (offices and shops); stationary machinery (generators and shop equipment); mobile machinery (tractors and

trucks); and other equipment (office furniture and fixtures).

Not included are such items as current assets, depletable

assets, intangible assets, and nondepreciable assets.

Data on assets and depreciation were collected separately for: (1) buildings and other structures, additions, and

related facilities; and (2) machinery and equipment.

Respondents were also asked to report capitalized

expenditures, depreciation charges, and the gross value

of assets sold, retired, scrapped, and destroyed during

1992.

Capital expenditures. Refers to all costs actually incurred

during 1992 which were or would be chargeable to the

fixed assets accounts of the reporting establishments and

which were of the type for which depreciation accounts are

ordinarily maintained. These expenditures cover the acquisition, the construction, and the major alteration of the

reporting establishment’s own buildings and other structures, whether purchased, constructed under contract, or

constructed by the reporting establishment’s own forces;

and the acquisition of machinery and equipment.

If leasing arrangements met the criteria set down by the

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for a capital

lease, respondents were instructed to report the original

cost or market value of that equipment or building as a

fixed asset and capital expenditure if acquired during 1992.

If capital expenditures were not recorded directly at the

establishment level but handled centrally at the company

or division level, respondents were requested to report

appropriate estimates for the individual establishments.

Inventories. Includes all of the materials and supplies

that are owned regardless of where they are held. Excludes

materials which are owned by others, but held by the

reporting establishment.

Builders who built on their own account for sale were

requested to exclude work in progress and finished units

not sold from inventories.

Inventories of multiestablishment companies were instructed to be reported by the establishment that is

responsible for the inventories even if these inventories

were held at a separate location.

Ownership of construction projects. Shows the distribution of the value of construction work done by ownership

of the project; that is, Government owned or privately

owned. This classification relates to the ownership of the

projects or work undertaken during the construction phase.

Government owned projects are shown separately for

Federal and State and local governments.

Value of construction work subcontracted in from

others. Includes the value of construction work during

1992 for work done by reporting establishments as subcontractors. Establishments were asked to report the

approximate percent of total value of construction work

accounted for by such work, and the percentages reported

were applied to the reported value of construction work to

develop a value for this item.

Types of construction. Provides data by the types of

buildings, structures, or other facilities being constructed

or worked on by construction establishments in 1992.

Respondents were instructed that each building, structure,

or other facility should be classified in terms of its function.

For example, a restaurant building was to be classified in

the restaurant category whether it was designed as a

commercial restaurant building or an auxiliary unit of an

educational institution. If respondents worked on more

than one type of building or structure in a multibuilding

complex, they were instructed to report separately for each

building or type of structure. If they worked on a building

that had more than one purpose; i.e, office and residential,

or commercial, they were to classify the building by major

purpose.

In addition, all respondents were requested to report the

percentage of the value of construction work done for new

construction, additions, alterations, or reconstruction, and

maintenance and repair work for each of these types. See

the definition of ‘‘Construction’’ for the meanings of these

terms.

Building construction:

• Single-family houses, detached. Includes all residential buildings constructed for one family use.

• Single-family houses, attached, including townhouses

and townhouse-type condominiums. Includes all residential buildings with two or more living quarters side by

side, completely independent of one another, and separated by an unbroken party or lot line wall from ground to

roof.

• Apartment buildings with two or more units, including rentals, apartment-type condominiums, and cooperatives. Includes high-rise, low-rise, or any structures

containing two or more housing units other than attached

single-family houses.

• Hotels, motels, and tourist cabins. Includes hotels,

motels, bed and breakfast inns, and tourist cabins

intended for transient accommodations. Also included

are hotel and motel conference centers.

• Other residential buildings. Includes dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and other nonhousekeeping

residential structures.

• Office buildings. Includes all buildings which are used

primarily for office space or for government administrative offices. Also included are banks or financial buildings which are three stories or more. Medical office

buildings are reported under hospitals and institutional

buildings.

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• Other commercial buildings, such as stores, restaurants, and automobile service stations. Includes all

buildings which are intended for use primarily in the retail

and service trades. For example, shopping centers,

department stores, drug stores, restaurants, public garages,

auto service stations, and one or two story bank or

financial institutions.

• Industrial buildings. Includes all industrial buildings

and plants which are used to house production and

assembly activities. Note that industrial parks should be

classified under its primary usage such as warehouses,

office space, commercial or industrial type buildings.

Heavy industrial facilities such as blast furnaces, petroleum refineries, and chemical complexes are not included

in this category but are reported under nonbuilding

construction.

• Warehouses. Includes commercial warehouses, cold

storage plants, grain elevators, mini-warehouses, and

other such storage buildings.

• Religious buildings. Includes all buildings which are

intended for religious services or functions such as

churches, synagogues, convents, monasteries, and seminaries.

• Educational buildings. Includes all buildings which are

used directly in administrative and instructional activities

such as colleges, universities, elementary and secondary schools, correspondence, commercial, and trade

schools. Libraries, museums, and art galleries, as well as

laboratories which are not a part of a manufacturing or

commercial establishment, are also included.

• Hospitals and institutional buildings. Includes medical office buildings and all other buildings which are

intended to provide hospital and institutional care such

as clinics, infirmaries, sanitariums, nursing homes, homes

for the aged, and orphanages.

• Farm buildings, nonresidential. Includes nonresidential farm buildings such as barns, poultry houses, implement sheds, and farm silos.

• Amusement, social, and recreational buildings. Includes buildings which are used primarily for entertainment, social, and recreational activities such as sports

arenas, convention centers, theaters, music halls, golf

and country club buildings, skating rinks, fitness centers,

bowling alleys, and indoor swimming pools.

• Other nonresidential buildings. Includes nonresidential buildings which are not classified elsewhere such as

fire stations, post offices, bus and air passenger terminals and hangars, and prisons.

Nonbuilding construction:

• Highways, streets, and related work such as installation of guardrails, highway signs, and lighting. Includes streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, culverts, right-of-way drainage, erosion control, and

lighting. Also includes earthwork protective structures

when used in connection with road improvements.

• Outdoor swimming pools. Includes wading pools and

reflecting pools.

• Airport runways and related work. Includes runways,

taxiways, aprons, and related work.

• Private driveways and parking areas. Includes all

nonstructural parking areas and private driveways of all

surface types.

• Fencing. Includes all types of fencing.

• Recreationalfacilities. Includes athletic fields,golf courses,

outdoor tennis courts, trails, and camps.

• Tunnels. Includes highway, pedestrian, railroad, and

water distribution tunnels.

• Bridges and elevated highways. Includes viaducts

and overpasses, roads, highways, railroads, and causeways built on structural supports.

• Dam and reservoir construction. Includes hydroelectric, water supply, and flood control dams and reservoirs.

• Marine construction. Includes dredging, underwater

rock removal, breakwaters, navigational channels, and

locks.

• Harbor and port facilities. Includes docks, piers, and

wharves.

• Conservation and development construction. Includes

land reclamation, irrigation projects, drainage canals,

levees, jetties, breakwaters, and flood control projects.

• Power and communication transmission lines, towers, and related facilities. Includes electric power lines,

telephone and telegraph lines, fiber optic cables, cable

television lines, television and radio towers, and electric

light and power facilities.

• Sewers, sewerlines, septic tanks, and related facilities. Includes sanitary and storm sewers, pumping stations, septic systems, and related facilities.

• Water mains and related facilities. Includes water

supply systems, pumping stations, and related facilities.

• Pipeline construction other than sewer or

waterlines. Includes pipelines for the transmission of

gas, petroleum products, and liquefied gases.

• Urban mass transit. Includes subways, trollies, street

cars, and light rail systems.

• Railroad construction. Includes the construction of

railroad beds, tracks, freight yards, and signal towers for

systems other than urban mass transit.

• Blast furnaces, petroleum refineries, chemical complexes, etc. Includes coke ovens and mining appurtenances such as tipples and washeries.

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• Power plants, nuclear. Includes atomic energy plants

and nuclear reactors.

• Power plants, and cogeneration plants, except nuclear. Includes electric and steam generating plants and

cogenerating plants.

• Sewage treatment plants. Includes sewage treatment

and waste disposal plants.

• Water treatment plants. Includes water filtration and

water softening plants.

• Ships. Includes special trade contractors working on

ships and boats such as painters, carpenters, joiners,

electricians, etc.

• Other nonbuilding construction. Includes all types of

nonbuilding construction not included elsewhere.

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Appendix B.

Standard Industrial Classification Titles for

Industry Groups and Industries

SIC

code Industry titles

15 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION—GENERAL

CONTRACTORS AND OPERATIVE

BUILDERS

152 General Building Contractors—Residential

Buildings

1521 General Contractors—Single-Family Houses

1522 General Contractors—Residential Buildings,

Other Than Single-Family

153 Operative Builders

1531 Operative Builders

154 General Building Contractors—Nonresidential

Buildings

1541 General Contractors—Industrial Buildings and

Warehouses

1542 General Contractors—Nonresidential Buildings,

Other Than Industrial Buildings and Warehouses

16 HEAVY CONSTRUCTION OTHER THAN

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION—

CONTRACTORS

161 Highway and Street Construction, Except

Elevated Highways

1611 Highway and Street Construction Contractors,

Except Elevated Highways

162 Heavy Construction, Except Highway and

Street Construction

1622 Bridge, Tunnel, and Elevated Highway

Construction Contractors

1623 Water, Sewer, Pipeline, and Communications

and Power Line Construction Contractors

1629 Heavy Construction Contractors, Not Elsewhere

Classified

17 CONSTRUCTION—SPECIAL TRADE

CONTRACTORS

171 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning

Special Trade Contractors

1711 Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning

Special Trade Contractors

172 Painting and Paper Hanging

Special Trade Contractors

1721 Painting and Paper Hanging

Special Trade Contractors

SIC

code Industry titles

17 CONSTRUCTION—SPECIAL TRADE

CONTRACTORS—Con.

173 Electrical Work Special Trade Contractors

1731 Electrical Work Special Trade Contractors

174 Masonry, Stone Work, Tile Setting, and

Plastering Special Trade Contractors

1741 Masonry, Stone Setting, and Other Stone

Work Special Trade Contractors

1742 Plastering, Drywall, Acoustical, and Insulation

Work Special Trade Contractors

1743 Terrazzo, Tile, Marble, and Mosaic Work

Special Trade Contractors

175 Carpentry and Floor Work Special Trade

Contractors

1751 Carpentry Work Special Trade Contractors

1752 Floor Laying and Other Floor Work Special

Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere

Classified

176 Roofing, Siding, and Sheet Metal Work

Special Trade Contractors

1761 Roofing, Siding, and Sheet Metal Work

Special Trade Contractors

177 Concrete Work Special Trade Contractors

1771 Concrete Work Special Trade Contractors

178 Water Well Drilling Special Trade Contractors

1781 Water Well Drilling Special Trade Contractors

179 Miscellaneous Special Trade Contractors

1791 Structural Steel Erection Special Trade

Contractors

1793 Glass and Glazing Work Special Trade

Contractors

1794 Excavation Work Special Trade Contractors

1795 Wrecking and Demolition Work Special

Trade Contractors

1796 Installation or Erection of Building Equipment,

Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere

Classified

1799 Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere

Classified

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Appendix C.

Geographic Divisions and States

NEW ENGLAND STATES

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

EAST NORTH CENTRAL STATES

Illinois

Indiana

Michigan

Ohio

Wisconsin

WEST NORTH CENTRAL STATES

Iowa

Kansas

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

North Dakota

South Dakota

SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES—Con.

North Carolina

South Carolina

Virginia

West Virginia

EAST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES

Alabama

Kentucky

Mississippi

Tennessee

WEST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES

Arkansas

Louisiana

Oklahoma

Texas

MOUNTAIN STATES

Arizona

Colorado

Idaho

Montana

Nevada

New Mexico

Utah

Wyoming

PACIFIC STATES

Alaska

California

Hawaii

Oregon

Washington

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1992 CENSUS OF CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

The Census of Construction Industries is taken once

every 5 years. The census covers all establishments

engaged in construction, including:

• Building contractors

• Heavy construction contractors

• Special trade contractors (including plumbers, carpenters, painters, electricians)

Data products in the census of construction industries are

issued in four publication series and in three media:

Printed reports [P]

CD-ROM [C]

Highlights online [+ ]

Preliminary Industry Series

(CC92-I-1(P) to -27(P))

(Available July 1994 through January 1995) [P] [C]

Twenty-six separate industry reports and a U.S. summary report, providing national statistics for establishments with payroll. Statistics shown for 1992 include:

• Number of establishments

• Number of employees

• Payroll

• Value of construction work done, by type of structure

• Selected operating costs

Final Industry Series

(CC92-I-1 to -27)

(Available April 1995 through August 1995) [P] [C] [+ ]

Twenty-six separate industry reports and a U.S. summary report, providing statistics for the Nation and individual States on establishments with payroll. These reports

update figures from the preliminary industry series (employment, payroll, value of construction, etc.) and provide

measures of the following:

• Capital expenditures

• Inventories

• Industry profiles

• Assets

• Depreciation

• And much more

Geographic Area Series

(CC92-A-1 to -10)

(Available August 1995 through December 1995) [P] [C] [+ ]

Nine reports on the construction industries, representing each census geographic division, and a U.S. summary

report. Regional reports provide detailed data for States

and metropolitan areas.

Subject Report—Legal Form of Organization

and Type of Operation (CC92-S-1)

(Available August 1995) [P] [C]

One report providing selected national statistics for

each industry by legal form of organization and type of

operation. This report includes data for establishments

with and without payroll. Data in this report include—

• Employment

• Payroll

• Value of construction work done

• Selected operating costs

OTHER ECONOMIC CENSUS REPORTS

The census of construction industries is part of the 1992

Economic Census. The economic census is conducted at

5-year intervals in years ending in 2 and 7 and consists of

eight separate censuses:

• Census of Retail Trade

• Census of Wholesale Trade

• Census of Service Industries

• Census of Financial, Insurance, and Real Estate

Industries

• Census of Transportation, Communications, and

Utilities

• Census of Manufactures

• Census of Mineral Industries

• Census of Construction Industries

...plus several related programs: enterprise statistics; information on minority-owned and women-owned businesses;

and the census of outlying areas, including separate

economic census of Puerto Rico and other outlying areas.

The census of agriculture and census of governments are

conducted separately.

HOW TO ORDER DATA PRODUCTS

Order forms for the specific reports and other data

products may be obtained from Data User Services Division, Customer Services, Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233-8300. If you have any questions, call

Census Customer Services 1-301-457-4100.

Publication Program