Guide to the
2007 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 2007 Economic Census
Legend: A--All areas (see table 4) except ZIP Codes; C--Counties, MA's, states, and national; M--MA's, states, and national; S--States and national; N--National only; Z--ZIP Codes and States; e--National data only in Business Expenses Survey1/

	Manufac- turing	Mining	Construc- tion	Retail Trade	Wholesale Trade	Management of companies	All other sectors
Number of establishments and firms
Establishments with payroll	A	S	S	A,Z	A	A	A,Z
Establishments without payroll (nonemployers)	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Single-unit and multiunit establishments				N	N	N	N
Establishments by legal form of organization	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Firms	N	N		N	N	N	N
Franchising (selected industries only)	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	S	S	N	N	N	N
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, including pensions and health insurance	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		S
Sales/receipts size of establishments			S	N,Z	N		N,Z2
Class of customer				N	N		N
Type of structure			N
E-commerce sales	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 Survey is a once-in-5-years supplement to the Annual Retail Trade Survey, the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Service Annual Survey.
² Selected sectors only..

SPECIAL CENSUS PROGRAMS

Survey of Business Owners
The number of firms and their sales, employment, and payroll are tabulated--by NAICS subsector, geographic area, size, and legal form of organization--for
- All companies (businesses)
and for businesses owned by
- Blacks
- Hispanics
- American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Asians
- Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
- Women

Data for firms owned by the groups listed above are presented along with data for businesses owned by nonminority males, at the national and state levels, on selected
- Ownership characteristics (e.g., age, education, hours worked, disability)
- Business characteristics (e.g., home-based, family-owned, franchising, year started, financing)

Business Expenses
The Business Expenses Survey is a once-in-5-years supplement to the Annual Retail Trade Survey, the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Service Annual Survey. Data on operating expenses of most industries are presented, including supplemental labor costs, energy costs, taxes and a variety of purchased services including advertising, legal and accounting services, and repairs. Corresponding data for manufacturing, mining, and construction are published in 2007 Economic Census Industry Series reports.

Transportation Survey
The Commodity Flow Survey reports on the origin and destination of commodities shipped from selected industries.

Island Areas
These special censuses provide data for employer businesses in
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Guam
- American Samoa
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

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