DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03087.v1
title: County Business Patterns, 1998 [United States]: U.S. Summary, State and County Data
title: Version 1

description: The total number of business establishments, mid-March
 employment figures, and first quarter and annual payrolls are supplied
 in this data collection at the county, state, and national
 levels. Also provided are data on the number of establishments by
 employment-size class. Data are provided for most divisions of the
 economy, including agricultural services, mining, construction,
 manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale trade,
 retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and services. However,
 data are not included for agriculture production, railroad,
government, or household employment.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: United States Summary Data
DS2: State Summary Data
DS3: County Summary Data
DS4: North American Industry Classification System: United States 1997
DS5: Geographic Reference File
DS6: Sample Design
DS8: Codebook for the United States
DS9: Codebook for Alabama
DS10: Codebook for Alaska
DS11: Codebook for Arizona
DS12: Codebook for Arkansas
DS13: Codebook for California
DS14: Codebook for Colorado
DS15: Codebook for Connecticut
DS16: Codebook for Delaware
DS17: Codebook for the District of Columbia
DS18: Codebook for Florida
DS19: Codebook for Georgia
DS20: Codebook for Hawaii
DS21: Codebook for Idaho
DS22: Codebook for Illinois
DS23: Codebook for Indiana
DS24: Codebook for Iowa
DS25: Codebook for Kansas
DS26: Codebook for Kentucky
DS27: Codebook for Louisiana
DS28: Codebook for Maine
DS29: Codebook for Maryland
DS30: Codebook for Massachusetts
DS31: Codebook for Michigan
DS32: Codebook for Minnesota
DS33: Codebook for Mississippi
DS34: Codebook for Missouri
DS35: Codebook for Montana
DS36: Codebook for Nebraska
DS37: Codebook for Nevada
DS38: Codebook for New Hampshire
DS39: Codebook for New Jersey
DS40: Codebook for New Mexico
DS41: Codebook for New York
DS42: Codebook for North Carolina
DS43: Codebook for North Dakota
DS44: Codebook for Ohio
DS45: Codebook for Oklahoma
DS46: Codebook for Oregon
DS47: Codebook for Pennsylvania
DS48: Codebook for Rhode Island
DS49: Codebook for South Carolina
DS50: Codebook for South Dakota
DS51: Codebook for Tennessee
DS52: Codebook for Texas
DS53: Codebook for Utah
DS54: Codebook for Vermont
DS55: Codebook for Virginia
DS56: Codebook for Washington
DS57: Codebook for West Virginia
DS58: Codebook for Wisconsin
DS59: Codebook for Wyoming
description: All business establishments with one or more paid
 employees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and counties,
 excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, or household
 employment. All government hospitals are included beginning with 1989
data.
description: (1) The data are supplied in three files: United
 States Summary Data (Part 1), State Summary Data (Part 2), and County
 Summary Data (Part 3). The county summary data are now in one file,
 sorted alphabetically by state and within state by county. (2) The
 codebooks are provided by the principal investigator as Portable
 Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by
 Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
 software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
 obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.