Corporations--Selected Financial Items: 1970 to 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0730)

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
   corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
   gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
   data were changed.

1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
   comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
   follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

notes (pg 2)

1. Represents certain small corporations with up to 75 shareholders (35 for 1983 to 1996;
   25 for 1982; 15 for 1977 to 1981; and 10 for 1970 to 1976), mostly individuals, electing
   to be taxed at the shareholder level.
2. Includes items not shown separately.
3. Payable in less than 1 year.
4. Payable in 1 year or more.
5. Includes appropriated and unappropriated and “adjustments to shareholders’ equity” .
   a Net worth is the sum of “capital stock,” “additional paid-in capital,” “retained earnings, appropriated,”
   “retained earnings, unappropriated” minus “cost of treasury stock.”
6. Beginning 1987, receipts, deductions and net income of S corporations
   are limited to those from trade or business. Those from investments are
   excluded.
7. Beginning 1987, includes gross sales and cost of sales of securities,
   commodities, and real estate by exchanges, brokers, or dealers selling on
   their own accounts. Excludes investment income.
8. Includes exempt interest in State and local government obligations.
9. Excludes regulated investment companies.
10. Consists of regular (and alternative tax) only.
11. Includes minimum tax, alternative minimum tax, adjustments for
    prior year credits, and other income-related taxes.

[In billions of dollars (2,635 represents $2,635,000,000,000), except as noted. Covers active
corporations only. All corporations are required to file returns except
those specifically exempt. Beginning 1981, excludes taxable cooperatives,
and 1985, foreign sales and interest-charge domestic international sales
corporations. See source for changes in law affecting comparabililty of
historical data. Based on samples; see Appendix III]

table: [53, 29]

notes (pg 2)

• (NA) Not available.

0730

2008