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Given expanded capabilities within AFF, there will be no DVD or CD products from the 2007 Economic Census.
To expedite the release of data in AFF, no reports will be prepared in portable document format (PDF) from the 2007 Economic Census.
For the first time, Economic Census tabulations will include Census Designated Places (CDPs) with 5,000 or more inhabitants or 5,000 or more workers. CDPs are defined by local statistical area committees and have sometimes been referred to as unincorporated places. Some CDPs, such as East Los Angeles, are quite large.
The same 5,000 population/worker threshold will apply all places. This is the first time that the number of workers has been introduced into the criterion, and helps make sure that economically important places are published, even if they have few inhabitants. For example, Lake Buena Vista, FL, has many thousands of workers, but had only 16 residents in 2000. The worker data are primarily from Census 2000 tabulated by place of work, so that all sectors can be included.
The 5,000 threshold increases the number of towns and townships shown in the 12 northern states with strong minor civil divisions; the previous threshold was 10,000 population.
At the same time, the 5,000 threshold eliminates data for many small incorporated places, for which the previous threshold was 2,500 inhabitants.
The most widely used Economic Census file in American FactFinder will get even better. Nonemployer establishments and receipts will be added as data items onto each record, to complement the establishments, receipts, payroll and employment data for businesses with paid employees. While nonemployers account for less than 4 percent of all receipts across all industries, they represent about three quarters of all businesses. Nonemployer data are available for all sectors and subsectors, but only for those detailed industries with many nonemployers. Employer and nonemployer data items will be separate, but it is possible to add them together in AFF.
The 2007 Economic Census will publish data primarily on the basis of the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Changes between 2002 NAICS and 2007 NAICS are relatively minor, but do affect four sector totals. Since nearly all industries are comparable 2002 to 2007, year to year comparisons are easy to make.
Selected data will be published according to the 2002 NAICS to allow precise comparisons between 2002 and 2007 data: preliminary national totals in the Advance report, a detailed Bridge showing the relationships between 2007 and 2002 NAICS categories, and state level Comparative Statistics after the publication of geographic area data by 2007 NAICS.
NAICS 2007 introduces two new industries: biotech research and development and executive search services. At the same time several industries in the information sector have been consolidated: paging into wireless telecommunication; cable program distribution and most ISPs into wired telecommunication; web search portals into Internet publishing and broadcasting. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are dispersed and mostly moved from from the Finance and Insurance sector to Real Estate.
The Census Bureau has a long history of providing data on thousands of manufactured products, and also has published data on hundreds of merchandise lines in wholesale and retail trade, and types of services provided by other service companies. In 2002, product lines in four service sectors were classified consistent with a new international agreement with Canada and Mexico, as the first phase in implementing the new North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). For 2007, all remaining product lines for "service" industries (sectors 51 to 81) will be based on NAPCS. These data will be published in Product Lines subject reports. In most cases, more product categories will be shown in the affected industries, although there will be some loss of comparability to prior census product line data.
Data differentiating costs for particular fringe benefits--health insurance, defined-benefit pensions, defined-contribution plans, and other--will be published at the national level for manufacturing in the Industry and Summary Series, and for retail trade, wholesale trade, and service industries in related surveys. The Survey of Business Owners will identify the number of businesses providing various fringe benefits across all sectors.
A question on franchising has been included on a small number of forms before, mostly in Accommodations and Foodservices, but for 2007 francising is asked on 81 of the 530 variants of the census form. These data will provide the first hard data available on the economic impact of franchising across many industries, and will serve as the foundation for a new report entitled Franchising.
Data corresponding to Business Expenses data in previous censuses will be published for 2007 as part of the Industry Series for manufacturing, the Annual Retail Trade Survey, the Annual Trade Survey (wholesale), and the Service Annual Survey. Employer costs for fringe benefits will be broken down into healthcare, pensions (defined-contribution plans vs defined-benefit plans), and other.
Only a handful of metropolitan and micropolitan areas changed boundaries between 2002 and 2007, although a number of new areas have been identified for areas that grew to meet population thresholds. A list of the changes will be published. Data will be tabulated for metro and micro areas defined as of January 1, 2007.
See also the schedule for 2007 Economic Census data releases.
View the entire Guide to the 2007 Economic Census.
