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Nation's Transportation and Warehousing Industries Generate
More Than $300 Billion in Revenues, Census Bureau Reports
The nation's transportation and warehousing sector reported revenues
of $318 billion and employed over 2.9 million workers at more than
178,000 locations in 1997, according to Economic Census reports released
today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.
California, with revenues of $37 billion, and Texas, with revenues of
$29 billion, led all states.
Nationwide, truck transportation generated $141 billion in revenues,
dominated by general freight trucking with revenues of $88 billion.
Water transportation revenues of $24 billion were attributable mostly to
deep-sea freight transportation.
The 1997 Economic Census marks the premiere of the new and more flexible
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NAICS is a new
system for classifying individual business locations that replaces the
Standard Industrial Classification System that began 60 years ago; it
features many more useful business classifications than the previous
system. For example, 1997 NAICS-based data show that annual payroll per
mixed mode transit employee was nearly $32,000, versus about $16,200 for
each scheduled airport shuttle service employee; this detail was not
available under the previous system.
The new report series consists of 52 -- reports one for each state, the
District of Columbia and the United States -- and is titled 1997 Economic
Census, Geographic Area Series, Transportation and Warehousing. Released
on the Internet, these reports present summary data by industry for the
United States, states and metropolitan areas.
Data compiled for the transportation and warehousing sector are subject
to nonsampling errors. Nonsampling errors can be attributed to many
sources: inability to identify all cases in the universe; definition and
classification difficulties; differences in the interpretation of
questions; errors in recording or coding the data obtained; and other
errors of collection, response, coverage, processing and estimation for
missing or misreported data.
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