The universe is all wholesale trade establishments with payroll.
Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
This series of three files provides 1992 and selected 1987 data by SIC category. This includes establishments classified in Major Groups 50 and 51. A States with 10,000 or more establishments. 88 B with less than 10,000 establishments. GO92 allows the user to select any geographic area and show data by kind of business, or to select any kind of business and show data for all geographic areas of a particular type, for example, counties within a specified state.