Statistics of U.S. Businesses

  1997 Annual Tabulations  

Data include number of firms, number of establishments, employment, aannual payroll, and estimated receipts by employment size & receipt size of the of the enterprise. The industry classification is based on Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. An establishment with 0 employment is an establishment with no paid employees in the mid-March pay period but with paid employees at some time during the year.

• Tabulated by Enterprise Employment Size

       The following links are subsets of SUSB data in spreadsheet format.
       For more detailed industry and employment size classes, download additional data in comma-delimited format.

         U.S. and States:
           U.S. & states, totals [xls, 48 KB]
           U.S., all industries [xls, 1.0 MB]
           U.S. & states, SIC major industries, large employment sizes up to 2,500+  [xls, 383 KB]   This is the first year 2,500+ employee size data are available on-line
           States, SIC major industries [xls, 445 KB]

         Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA's):   Data are in alphabetical order by MSA name. [txt, 9 KB]
           MSA, SIC major industries  [xls, 3.2 MB]

• Tabulated by Enterprise Receipt Size

           U.S., all industries [xls, 1.2 MB]

  1996-1997 Employment Change Tabulations  

Employment change data include the number of establishments and corresponding employment change for births, deaths, expansions, and contractions by employment size of enterprise. The industry classification is based on SIC codes. An establishment with 0 employment is an establishment with no paid employees in the mid-March pay period but with paid employees at some time during the year. Learn More »

• Tabulated by Enterprise Employment Size

         U.S. and States:
           U.S. & states, totals [xls, 153 KB]
           U.S., industries (3-digit SIC) [xls, 1.4 MB]
           States, SIC major industries [xls, 1.8 MB]