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CHART FROM SERIES ES87-1, LARGE COMPANIES

Historical Statistics : Sales and Receipts

Companies with 500 or More Employees

1987 E =] 1,957,950
3,964
1982 Ee EEN 1,723,838
1977 SEITE 1,092,550
1972
1 i A i 1 ! 1 4 1
0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000
Millions of Dollars
B Rae Construction Manutacturing

[| wholesale Trade [| Retail trade [7 | Service

Source: US Bureau of the Census, 1987 Large Companies, ES87-1
(Data adjusted to reflect definitional differences in census years)



CFF No. 19 (Rev.)

ENTERPRISE STATISTICS

Issued August 1991

INTRODUCTION

The Census Bureau's enterprise sta-
tistics program offers a unique look at
data from the economic censuses. The
enterprise reports present information at
the company or firm level rather than for
establishments, as virtually all the other
census reports do. The program's pri-
mary contribution to the economic anal-
ysis of the country’s industrial organiza-
tion is in its unique ability to relate each
company’s data directly with its compo-
nent establishment statistics.

The program regroups data for estab-
lishments under common ownership or
control, combines them with enterprise
or company data, and adds information
for special establishments. The results
show various economic and structural
characteristics of the owning or control-
ling firms and the industries in which
they operate. The employment size table,
for example, can be a measure of the
relative importance of large and small
firms.

Since 1954, the enterprise statistics
program has been an integral part of the
economic censuses, which cover retail
and wholesale trade; service, mineral,
and construction industries; manufac-
tures; and transportation. Required by
Title 13, U.S. Code, these censuses are
for the years ending in ‘'2" and ‘’7.""
By law, response to these censuses is
mandatory and the supplied informa
tion is confidential, so that the Census
Bureau issues the results in summary
form only; no person or firm can be

CHART FROM SERIES ES87-1, LARGE COMPANIES

Selected Statistics by Employment Size of Company : 1987

Companies with S00 or More Employees

51.0%

Cay

61.1%
Payrdil

identified in the published reports. The
enterprise statistics program includes
all of these fields, except tax-exempt
services.

Enterprise statistics allow analysis
of industrial organization in terms of the
company's primary industrial activity,

"The 1982 program included some data on agri
culture, but had none on transportation.

10.8%

57.6%
Sales and Receipts
‘Source US Bureau of he Consus 1987 Large Companies, ES87-1

9.6%
11.8%

9.7%

employment and sales size, industry
concentration, and other characteris-
tics, including those of the establish-
ments they own or control. These data
also support the study of historical shifts
in the relative importance of large and
small businesses, the changing patterns
of diversification among large industrial
firms, and similar characteristics by broad
industry groupings.

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The program also yields separate
data bout auxiliary establishments— those
where employees are engaged prima.ily
in support services for the same com-
pany’s operating establishments (e.g.,
its mines, factories, or retail stores)
rather than for the general public or for
other business firms. Most auxiliary estab-
lishments perform administrative func-
tions, like management, accounting, or
Purchasing, but others might have such
activities as central warehousing for
the company’s merchandise; research,
development, and testing laboratories
of manufacturing firms; and electronic
data processing. (The census definition
for an auxiliary does not include sales
branches and sales offices of manufac-
turing and mining companies; these are
classified under wholesaie trade.)

HOW COMPANY DATA ARE
COLLECTED AND CLASSIFIED

Each company with more than one
establishment and also 500 or more em-
ployees was mailed a special enterprise
summary report to obtain unduplicated,
consolidated company totals for selected
statistics. For multiestablishment compa-
nies with fewer than 500 employees, the
sales and receipts, employment, capital
expenditures, inventory, and other data
were derived from aggregates of their
reported establishment data. Reports from
single-establishment firms were used directly.
Companies were classified according to
the Bureau's enterprise industrial classi-
fication (EIC), an intermediate level of
detail tailored to company classification.
The EIC includes the first two digits of
the company’s standard industrial classi-
fication (SIC) code, plus a decimal point
followed by another number that identi-
fies different combinations of three- or
four-digit industries within the two-digit
major SIC group. For example, new and
used car dealers, EIC 55.1, corresponds

to SIC’s 551 (motor vehicle dealers, new
and used) and 552 (motor vehicles, used
only).

WHO USES ENTERPRISE
STATISTICS?

Government officials use them as basic
tools for policymaking. At the Federal
level, for example, the Bureau of Eco-
nomic Analysis, refers to the data exten-
sively in compiling the gross national
product (GNP) accounts. The Small Busi-
ness Administration relies on the figures
from the Company Summary (see page
3) in determining size standards for small
businesses. State and local governments,
chambers of commerce, and other inter-
est groups use the statistics to assess
business activity at detailed geographic
levels, while trade and professional asso-
ciations utilize the information when study-
ing trends in their own fields. Managers
find the data helpful in forecasting trends
and analyzing sales performance, while
media writers, academic researchers, and
private consultants rely on the statistics
in analyzing economic trends and struc-
tural shifts among industries. For exam-
ple, a consultant in economic develop-
ment studied the Auxiliary Establishments
report (see page 3) when projecting the
economic impact on the State of Michi-
gan of various cost-cutting efforts within
major industries that might have affected
expenditures disproportionately at auxil-
iary establishments.

CENSUS GEOGRAPHY

Data on central administrative offices
and auxiliaries are available for the United
States and States. Company data are
published for States; all companies oper-
ating in the State; companies entirely
within the State; and those companies
also operating elsewhere (with separate
figures for operations inside and outside
the State).

HOW CENSUS BUREAU DATA
ARE PUBLISHED

Most of the Bureau's statistics are
issued in printed reports 1 (paper), many
of which also are available on microfiche
& . Some published and unpublished data
for recent years can be had on computer
tape @, and even more recently on flex-
ible diskettes #, CD-ROM (compact disc,
read-only memory) ©, and CENDATATM
B (an on-line computer service available
from DIALOG, telephone 800-334-2564,
and CompuServe, telephone 800-848-
8199). Two other symbols, also used
below, indicate where these materials
may be purchased.

* Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office, Washing-
ton, DC 20402; telephone 202-783-
3238, FAX 202-275-0019

+ Data User Services Division (DUSD),

Customer Services, Bureau of the Cen-
sus, Washington, DC 20233; tele-
phone 301-763-4100, FAX 301-763-
4794

WHAT DATA ARE AVAILABLE?

The following enterprise statistics reports
were issued in late 1990 and early 1991,
* Large Companies, ES87-1,  *
3 ® Ow +. Data for companies with
500 or more employees covered by
the 1987 Economic Censuses. Fig-
ures include number of companies,
number of employees, annual payroll,
sales or receipts, beginning and end-
of-year inventories, capital expendi-
tures, assets, depreciation charges,
and selected operating expenses. Data
are shown by EIC categories at the
national level. (For 1982, most of these
data were issued as part of the Gen-
eral Report on Industrial Organization.)
Auxiliary Establishments, ES87-2, 1) *
&8 © OW +. Information for the United
States and States on separately oper-
ated central administrative offices and

TABLE FROM ENTERPRISE STATISTICS SERIES, ES87-2, AUXILIARY ESTABLISHMENTS

Table 3. Headquarters Statistics by State: 1987

[For meaning of stitreviations and symbols, see introductory text)

Muncitarios responding to inquiry on corporate hesdquarters:
‘Stute and industry division of estabahment Headquarters suatharies, Non-headquarters eudkares
Employees | Annual Employees | Annum Employees

memoor| “Tranon | “Roo | ramnber| “moa | “RC | amber | "yploneas | Arua peron
mo 2 002 142/ 68 420 o5e 48 1 105 158| 40 seo s40 13135 00 984 ‘27 960 307

1020 105 063 4 563 996 8 40 080 ‘1 650 O47
2 12 785 455 305, 77 9735 ‘357 708 ee 3 B80 23 tar
TotW 996 217| 37 058 O24 3024 $45 339) 23 183 So2 3067 390 878 ‘13 872 522
wes ‘19 064 639 070 190 12 7 02 621 175 6 670 20 449
Sei| sreror| seoe ore] 350 as ges] 3 4a Se $35) asirrs| 3 Sao ane
a%| Yea om| ‘Sam sa z0m| Yea re] 3200 g00| tan] “en aoe] aro oon
mm 15 042 (365 550 1“ or mim “se son ‘135 041

10 or 17 601

4 ia g ° 3 s M4 A
7 ‘S095 149 2108 4 080 so 2006 ‘77 908
4 GS 2 — 2B 2 8 (0)
q| el ga ‘| 3 | 8] 38
85 757 188s 2 Sr
se 027 17 765 ‘700 15 124 3 Ww 2 61

2



TABLE FROM ENTERPRISE STATISTICS SERIES, ES87-3, COMPANY SUMMARY

Table 3. Company Statistics by Employment Size

[For meaning of abbreviations and see nvocketory te)
fic Owned
code Industry category and employment size class of company ce Arcust ‘Sales anc recespts
= ~ (number) (number) mba) (tien dotars) ((rition dollars)
4731 604 8 140 203 1 0 oars 7 Ba 1083
wa2 111 - 28708 47 3919
1 907 321 4121 168 63 751.4 413 443.8
204 855, 5 134 990 82 1523 453 9944
498 651 6 04s $85 108 8317 558 74s?
345 658 A045 751 140 675.1 793 563.2
145 207 5 saa 153 100 055.4 S88 2014
123 023 S$ gas 712 108 138.9 628 688.1
71 198 3713 448 66 9273
61 385, 3 143 070 581785
72 347 3 802 228 753195
59 a36 2 72 412 56 099.1
50 44 3151 806 67 043.9
251 469 16 703 S60 379 396.9

other auxiliary establishments (i.e., ware-
houses, research and development lab-
oratories, etc.) of multiestablishment
firms. State figures show the number
of auxiliaries and payroll, plus the num
ber of employees classified by the
type of service performed (administra-
tion, warehousing, etc.). National fig
ures show the same data by two: or
three-digit SIC of the establishments
serviced. Other subjects include sales
or receipts, end-of-year inventories,
rental payments, capital expenditures
by type (structures, vehicles, comput-
ers, etc.), gross value of fixed assets,
selected operating expenses, and research
and development costs.

* Company Summary, ES87-3, (1
a @Ow+. This report, previously
part of the General Report on Indus:
trial Organization, offers data for the
Nation as a whole and by State, by
EIC, on employment and sales size,
legal form of organization, and com
pany/establishment cross-tabulations.

Data include the number of compa-
nies, number and primary industry of
owned or operated establishments, num-
ber of employees, annual payroll, and
sales or receipts. The report also pro-
vides information on the EIC, com-
pany size, and other characteristics of
the firms that operate auxiliary estab-
lishments.

OTHER AIDS AND SOURCES
OF DATA

Considerable detail (but on an estab-
lishment basis) can be found in the eco-
nomic census reports from which the
enterprise statistics are derived, and also
from their related intercensal surveys.
See the Bureau's annual Census Catalog
& Guide (1* and the other publications
cited under “Data User Services’ below.
Following are several general-purpose ref-
erence sources:

County Business Patterns, series CBP,
\* ti @OwM + & . Annual intercensal
data on employment, number and employ-
ment size of establishments, and pay-
rolls, by two-, three-, and four-digit
SIC levels for States and counties.
Separate reports for the United States,
each State, the District of Columbia,
and Puerto Rico.

County Statistics File 4 (COSTAT 4)
@+ provides a wide variety of data
items from the Bureau of the Census
and other Federal agencies, including
the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the
Social Security Administration, as well
as several private organizations.

Quarterly Financial Report for Manu-
facturing, Mining, and Trade Corpora-
tions, series QFR, (D) * ii + & contains
aggregate national statistics on the
financial position of domestic corpora-
tions. There are estimated statements
of income and retained earnings, bal-
ance sheets, and related operating ratios
by EIC and asset size

Trade and Employment, series TM,
© * # + shows quarterly national
changes in the value of U.S. imports
and exports by SIC-based commodity
groups, and in nonagricultural domes-
tic employment.

U.S. Commodity Exports and Imports
as Related to Output, series ES2, 1) +
periodically presents, at the national
level, the quantity and value of exports,
imports, and value-of-import duty of
detailed SIC-based commodity groups.
U.S. domestic output is compared with
foreign trade.

Economic data appear in convenient
digest form is several Bureau publica-
tions: The annual Statistical Abstract
of the United States (1 * &# +, and the
periodic Historical Statistics of the United
States, Colonial Times to 1970 1\*
§ +, City and County Data Book (1*

2 @Om+ &, and State and Metro
politan Area Data Book ()* #8 @ a +
&. Census and survey statistics also
appear in trade journals, textbooks.
and other secondary sources.

Published materials from the eco-
nomic censuses and surveys, as well
as the other materials mentioned above,
are available for use in over 1,500
Government and Census depository
libraries across the country. (List on
request. +?) These are mainly college,
university, and large public libraries,
but many smaller libraries also have
Bureau publications. The 47 Interna
tional Trade Administration district offices
and the Census Bureau’s 12 regional
offices have recent reports on file.

State data centers and their affil:
ates are located in all States, the Dis
trict of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. (List
‘on request. + *) The data centers assist
users with printed and computerized
data— primarily demographic. There also
are organizations registered with the
Bureau's National Clearinghouse for
Census Data Services that offer tape
printouts and other services to their
customers. (List on request. +7) Busi-
ness and industry data centers in 2
number of States (list on request +*)
receive economic data and related assis-
tance and training from the Census
Bureau and other Federal agencies to
aid in furthering economic develop-
ment in their States.

DATA USER SERVICES

The Census Bureau assists its data
users in a number of ways. It publishes
an annual Census Catalog & Guide \*,
a monthly Census and You newsletter
@ (subscription*, single copies or free

*See aiso Census Catalog & Guide.