Guide to the
1997 Economic Census

• Number of establishments (or companies)
  
• Number of employees
  
• Payroll
  
• Measure of output (sales, receipts, revenue, value of shipments, or value of construction work done).

Table 5. Major Data Items Published in the 1997 Economic Census
Legend: A--All areas (see table 4) except ZIP Codes; Z--ZIP Codes and States; M--MA's, states, and National; S--States and National; N--National only; e--National data only in Business Expenses 1/

	Manu- factur- ing	Mining	Cons- truc- tion	Retail Trade	Whole- sale Trade	Management of companies	All other sectors
Number of establishments and firms
Establishments with payroll	A,Z	S	S	A,Z	A	A	A,Z
Establishments without payroll (nonemployers)			S	S			S
Single-unit and multiunit establishments	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Establishments by legal form of organization	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Firms	N	N		N	N	N	N
Employment
All employees	A	S	S	A	A	A	A
Production (construction) workers/hours	A	S	S
Employment size of establishment	A,Z	N	S	N,Z	N	N	N,Z3
Labor costs
Payroll, entire year	A	S	S	A	A	A	A
Payroll, first quarter				A	A	A	A
Worker wages	A	S	S
Supplemental costs	S	S	S	e	e	e	e
Cost of contract labor				e	e	e	e
Sales, receipts, or value of shipments/construction work done
Establishments with payroll	A	S	S	A	A	A	A
By specific product, line, or type of construction	S	S	S	M	M 2		S /3
Sales/receipts size of establishments			S	N,Z	N		N,Z3
Class of customer				N	N		N
Type of structure			N
Expenses
Total				e	N		N
Cost of materials, parts, etc.	A	S	S	e	e	e
Cost of fuels	S	S	S	e	e	e	e
Energy consumed	S	S
Cost of electricity	S	S	S	e	e	e	e
Cost of other utilities				e	e	e	e
Products bought for resale	S	S		e	e
Taxes and license fees				e	e	e	e
Cost of office supplies				e	e		e
Depreciation charges	S	S		e	e	e	e
Commission expense					e
Purchased services:
..Advertising	N			e	e	e	e
..Rental payments	S	S	S	e	e	e	e
..Legal services	N			e	e	e	e
..Accounting services	N			e	e	e	e
..Data processing services	N			e	e	e	e
..Refuse removal	N
..Communications services	N	S	S	e	e	e	e
..Purchased repairs	N		S	e	e	e	e
..Cost of contract work	S	S			e
Assets, capital expenditures, inventories
Capital expenditures, total	S	S	S
Depreciable assets, gross value	S	S	S
Value of inventories	S	S	S	e	A

¹ The Business Expenses report covers auxiliary establishments classified in manufacturing, mining, and construction under the old SIC; and all establishments in retail and wholesale trade and service industries, also as defined under the old SIC.
² 15 selected states and 15 selected metro areas only.
³ National data only for utilities, trucking and warehousing, finance and insurance, and real estate and rental and leasing.

Business Expenses
Data on operating expenses of retailers, merchant wholesalers, and service firms (as classified under SIC) and auxiliary establishments of manufacturing, mining, and construction firms will be presented in the report Business Expenses. These operating expenses include supplemental labor costs, energy costs, taxes and a variety of purchased services including advertising, legal and accounting services, and repairs. (Auxiliary establishments provide services to other parts of the same company.)

Transportation Surveys
The Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey reports on the physical characteristics and operational use of the Nation's 60 million private and commercial trucks. The Commodity Flow Survey reports on the origin and destination of commodities shipped from selected industries.

Economic Censuses of Outlying Areas
These special censuses provide data on retail trade, wholesale trade, services industries, construction, and manufacturing for--
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Guam
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

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