1997 Nonemployer Statistics
Mining

United States
Includes only firms subject to federal income tax. Nonemployers are businesses with no paid employees. Introductory text includes scope and methodology. More detail is available for employers. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.
NAICS
code		 Description All taxable firms Nonemployers Employers
Establish-
ments		 Receipts
($1,000)		 Establish-
ments		 Receipts
($1,000)		 Establish-
ments		 Value of
Shipments
($1,000)
21 Mining 117,240 178,953,105 92,240 4,964,327 25,000 173,988,778
211 Oil & gas extraction 90,006 107,146,752 81,694 4,309,285 8,312 102,837,467
212 Mining (except oil & gas) 13,391 51,584,568 6,043 331,943 7,348 51,252,625
2121 Coal mining 2,349 23,480,227 838 53,233 1,511 23,426,994
2122 Metal ore mining 2,197 11,277,429 1,704 73,179 493 11,204,250
2123 Nonmetallic mineral mining & quarrying 8,845 16,826,912 3,501 205,531 5,344 16,621,381
213 Support activities for mining 13,843 20,221,785 4,503 323,099 9,340 19,898,686
D Withheld to avoid disclosure;   N Not available; S Withheld because data do not meet publication standards;   W Wholesale receipts for nonemployers are not comparable to wholesale sales for employers;   X Industry not in scope of Economic Census for employers;   t Total does not include employer data for out-of-scope industries;   r revised subsequent to initial publication

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Source: 1997 Economic Census:   Nonemployer Statistics and Geographic Area Series (for employers)

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