Guide to the
2002 Economic Census

• Industry Series provides national totals for establishments with employees for individual industries and their products, with limited data for states. (The data are preliminary and may be superseded by later series.)
• Geographic Area Series provides detail for establishments with employees, by industry, for the Nation, states, and substate areas, as illustrated in the table below.
• Subject Series provides national and, in some cases, state data on special topics including Product Lines (previously called Merchandise Line Sales), Concentration Ratios, and Establishment and Firm Size. Summary reports for some sectors supersede data from the Industry Series.
• ZIP Code Statistics (published for 8 of the 18 sectors) includes counts of establishments by sales size by NAICS code for 5-digit ZIP Codes.

Core Business Statistics provides data for most or all sectors, economy-wide.

• The Advance report gave the first data for broad NAICS categories, but its data have now been superseded by subsequent reports.
• Bridge Between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 1997 shows the relationships between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS categories in detail, where they have changed.
• Comparative Statistics shows U.S. and state totals classified by 1997 NAICS for both 1997 and 2002--comparisons not possible elsewhere for construction and wholesale trade industries.
• Nonemployer Statistics is the only source for information about nonemployers--16 million small businesses not included in other census reports.
• Economy-Wide Key Statistics (EWKS) presents the four key statistics (illustrated below) for every industry and geographic area, consolidating data from industry series and geographic area series files. The national-level data for mining, manufacturing, and construction in the 2002 EWKS have been superseded by data in the corresponding Summary reports, but otherwise the EWKS can be relied on as the final data. Unlike the 2007 EWKS, the 2002 EWKS does not include data for nonemployers.

Sample Data in the Geographic Area Series

NAICS code	Geographic area and kind of business	Estab- lishments (number)	Sales ($1,000)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees for pay period including March 12 (number)
44-45 441 4411 44111 44112 4412 44121 44122 441221 441222 441229 4413 442 4421	COLORADO Retail trade Motor vehicle and parts dealers   Automobile dealers     New car dealers     Used car dealers   Other motor vehicle dealers     Recreational vehicle dealers     Motorcycle, boat and other motor vehicle dealers       Motorcycle dealers       Boat dealers       All other motor vehicle dealers   Automotive parts, accessories and tire stores Furniture and home furnishings stores   Furniture stores	22 921 1 340 546 262 284 173 60 113 71 27 15 605 1 749 449	28 532 646 6 018 542 5 305 849 5 024 487 281 362 272 136 142 413 129 723 86 493 31 333 11 897 434 640 1 543 869 447 968	283 457 18 932 13 631 12 503 1 128 1 171 432 739 486 172 81 4 089 10 380 2 899	3 488 242 484 044 384 357 363 316 21 041 26 057 11 438 14 619 9 799 3 303 1 517 72 952 187 582 61 219

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