Tables from the report, 2002 Service Annual Survey: Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, also show management scientific and technical consulting services with revenues of $122 billion, up 6 percent. Additionally, scientific research and development services increased 10 percent to $63 billion.

    While still a large revenue generator in the industry, computer system design and related services saw its 2002 revenues drop 7 percent to $172 billion from $184 billion in 2001. Revenues for custom computer programming services decreased 8 percent to $62 billion in 2002 from $67 billion in 2001.

    Revenue figures for the computer systems design and related services industry are shown below:

    Estimates contain sampling and nonsampling errors. To keep the identity of individual firms confidential, some estimates may be suppressed. Users who make their own estimates, based on this survey’s estimates, should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original estimates only. See <http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html> for measures of sampling variability and other survey information.

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