D Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual companies; data are included in higher-level totals.
1 Includes nonclassifiable establishments not shown separately.
2 Includes forestry and fisheries.
3 Includes other public utilities.
4 Includes real estate.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau,County Business Patterns, annual.

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COUNTY BUSINESS PATTERNS

County Business Patterns is an annual series that includes aseparate report for each State, the District of Columbia, PuertoRico, and a U.S. Summary. Each report presents State- andcounty-level mid-March employment, first-quarter and annualpayrolls, total number of establishments, and number ofestablishments by employment-size class. The data are tabulated byindustry as defined in the Standard Industrial ClassificationManual: 1987. Most of the economic divisions of the Nation'seconomy are covered in these reports; i.e., agricultural services;mining; construction; manufacturing; transportation, publicutilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, realestate; and services.

This series represents an extension of a program that has beenpublished annually since 1964 and at irregular intervals dating backto 1946. The comparability of data may be affected by: adefinitional change to an "establishment" basis of tabulation from a"reporting unit" concept prior to 1974; the determination of"active" status of an establishment prior to 1983; and changes inindustrial classification beginning in 1988. A description ofprevious publications is provided on the inside back cover.The data generally represent the types of employment covered bythe Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Data for employeesof establishments totally exempt from FICA are excluded, as areself-employed persons, domestic service workers, railroad employees,agricultural production workers, most government employees, andemployees on ocean borne vessels or in foreign countries.County Business Patterns is the only series that provides annualsubnational data by two-, three-, and four-digit levels of theStandard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The series,therefore, is most useful for making basic economic studies of smallareas, for analyzing the industrial structure of regions, and as abenchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases betweeneconomic censuses. The series serves various business uses; e.g.,analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales andadvertising programs, and setting sales quotas and budgets. Thedata are also used by government agencies for administration andplanning.

SOURCES OF DATA

County Business Patterns basic data items are extracted from theStandard Statistical Establishment List, a file of all known singleand multi establishment companies maintained and updated by theBureau of the Census. The Annual Company Organization Surveyprovides individual establishment data for multilocation firms. Data for single-location firms are obtained from various programsconducted by the Census Bureau, such as the Annual Report ofOrganization, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and CurrentBusiness Surveys, as well as from administrative records of theInternal Revenue Service (IRS).

DEFINITIONS OF BASIC DATA ITEMS

Establishments

An establishment is a single physical location at which businessis conducted or where services or industrial operations areperformed. It is not necessarily identical with a company orenterprise, which may consist of one establishment or more. Allactivities carried on at a location generally are grouped togetherand classified on the basis of the major reported activity, and alldata for the establishment are included in that classification.Administrative and auxiliary establishments primarily manage,administer, service, or support the activities of otherestablishments of the same company rather than the establishments ofother business firms or the general public. Employment and payrollfor these establishments are shown separately by industry divisionfor each State and county.

Establishment-size designations are determined by paid employmentin the mid-March pay period. The size group "1 to 4" includesestablishments that did not report any paid employees in themid-March pay period but paid wages to at least one employee at sometime during the year.

Establishment counts represent the number of locations determinedto be active any time during the year (payroll reported in anyquarter). In years prior to 1983, the count of establishmentsrepresented the number of businesses active in the fourth quarter. A comparison of the number of establishments based on bothdefinitions was presented by major industry group for the UnitedStates as a whole in Appendix D of the 1982 U.S. Summary.This report excludes governmental establishments classified inthe covered industries except for liquor stores (SIC 592) andwholesale liquor establishments (SIC 518) operated by State andlocal governments and all hospitals (SIC 806) beginning with 1989data.

Payroll

Total annual payroll includes all forms of compensation, such assalaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, vacation allowances,sick-leave pay, and the value of payments in kind (e.g., free mealsand lodgings) paid during the year to all employees. Tips andgratuities received by employees from patrons and reported toemployers are included. For corporations, it includes amounts paidto officers and executives; for unincorporated businesses, it doesnot include profit or other compensation of proprietors or partners. Payroll is reported before deductions for Social Security, incometax, insurance, union dues, etc. This definition of payroll is thesame as that used on IRS Form 941. First- quarter payroll consistsof payroll, as defined above, paid to persons employed at any timeduring the January-to-March quarter.

Mid-March Employment

Paid employment consists of full- and part-time employees,including salaried officers and executives of corporations, who wereon the payroll in the pay period including March 12. Included areemployees on paid sick leave, holidays, and vacations; not includedare proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses. Thedefinition of paid employees is the same as that used on IRS Form941

Industry Classification

Beginning with the 1988 County Business Patterns series, industryclassifications are based on the 1987 edition of the SIC Manual. Because of time and cost limitations, it was not possible toretabulate 1987 data based on the revised SIC codes. Although the1988 U.S. Summary contained appendixes describing the relationbetween old and new classification systems, users should exercisecaution when analyzing changes in reported levels between 1988 and1987 data years for industries affected by the SIC revision.In a few instances, the most detailed industrial classificationfor which data are shown represents a combination of more detailedSIC industries. These classifications are explained in an appendixin the U.S. Summary. The industry titles used throughout thispublication are the short SIC titles; complete descriptions arecontained in the SIC Manual. Typically, "unclassifiedestablishments" includes new businesses that cannot be classified inany major industry group because of insufficient kind-of-businessinformation.