Business Starts and Employment statistics



Item and Industry	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999


New incorporations (1,000)	664	703	686	685	677	647	629	667	707	742	767	786	799	761	(NA)

Failures ¹, total	57,078	61,616	61,111	57,098	50,361	60,747	88,140	97,069	86,133	71,558	71,128	71,931	84,342	71,857	(NA)
Rate per 10,000 concerns	115	120	102	98	65	74	107	110	109	86	82	80	89	76	(NA)
Current liabilities ² (mil. dol.)	36,937	44,724	34,724	39,573	42,329	56,130	96,825	94,318	47,756	28,978	37,284	29,569	24,802	(NA)	(NA)

Business starts, total	249,770	253,092	233,710	199,091	181,645	158,930	155,672	164,086	166,154	188,387	168,158	170,475	166,740	155,141	151,016
Agriculture, forestry & fishing	3,712	4,020	3,910	3,376	2,828	2,295	2,306	2,160	2,195	2,644	2,199	2,295	2,275	2,451	2,732
Mining	2,351	1,807	1,600	1,330	1,041	1,054	944	805	772	680	564	589	655	588	467
Construction	34,962	34,061	32,194	27,166	25,102	20,801	19,165	18,259	17,533	18,213	16,980	18,624	18,513	17,016	15,775
Manufacturing	21,976	21,590	20,368	18,130	17,142	15,315	14,927	14,043	13,789	12,927	12,172	12,908	13,144	11,876	11,292
Transportation & public utilities	8,907	8,838	8,479	7,094	6,653	6,281	6,409	6,578	6,846	7,683	7,161	7,993	8,741	8,559	8,932
Wholesale trade	29,200	27,975	25,466	21,650	19,091	18,170	18,284	18,419	17,958	16,409	14,956	16,019	15,780	13,983	12,233
Retail trade	72,744	73,579	66,166	56,291	50,793	43,109	40,653	40,318	38,707	38,949	36,381	38,407	36,377	33,151	29,263
Finance. insurance & real estate	16,271	18,063	16,910	13,044	11,151	9,550	9,139	9,581	10,314	11,746	10,362	11,222	12,198	12,317	11,783
Services	57,365	59,498	55,585	48,567	43,556	38,471	39,011	40,555	41,349	49,328	44,586	50,077	50,253	48,500	47,643
Unclassifiable establishments	2,282	3,661	3,032	2,443	4,288	3,884	4,834	13,368	16,691	29,808	22,797	12,341	8,804	6,700	10,896

Employment, total	1,657,383	1,650,537	1,552,708	1,333,426	1,212,464	827,012	731,621	800,827	780,804	758,134	738,606	846,973	939,310	906,105	926,899
Agriculture, forestry & fishing	17,267	17,485	17,268	14,753	14,571	8,518	7,344	7,422	5,198	7,099	6,146	7,794	10,001	10,105	11,090
Mining	20,796	15,169	15,581	13,648	11,651	8,431	6,444	6,519	6,164	4,312	3,184	4,697	4,248	6,790	4,575
Construction	185,029	170,197	159,461	135,328	125,327	80,096	63,495	59,361	53,432	54,210	53,118	64,478	82,336	78,920	80,558
Manufacturing	250,020	234,525	239,562	208,299	199,820	139,506	121,238	122,483	119,487	105,255	104,660	108,644	125,007	111,507	114,248
Transportation & public utilities	72,759	76,435	76,383	63,270	58,575	45,373	38,093	45,227	44,885	41,617	43,583	50,072	59,144	59,972	70,284
Wholesale trade	153,521	151,521	139,833	115,602	102,822	75,914	69,235	79,247	78,924	66,186	59,933	69,001	73,281	70,297	67,802
Retail trade	463,416	462,288	411,353	356,949	322,013	207,752	184,698	203,698	191,484	174,270	176,159	200,354	211,007	195,802	183,907
Finance. insurance & real estate	121,793	129,190	119,106	90,935	81,727	54,872	46,831	56,665	57,199	55,857	54,610	61,185	70,982	75,113	73,139
Services	369,285	391,262	371,550	333,382	294,207	205,481	192,938	219,120	222,054	243,296	233,482	278,292	299,137	294,331	316,065
Unclassifiable establishments	3,497	2,465	2,611	1,260	1,751	1,069	1,305	1,085	1,977	6,032	3,731	2,456	4,167	3,268	5,231

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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875. Business Starts and Employment