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Employer Firms, Establishments, Employment,and Annual Payroll by Enterprise Size: 1990 to 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0737)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html

U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy,

“Statistics of U.S. Businesses”;

< http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html >;

accessed 20 March 2007.

referenced on dataset section data (#1)

U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html

U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy,

“Statistics of U.S. Businesses”;

< http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html >;

accessed 20 March 2007.

For more information:

http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html

referenced on dataset section notes (#2)

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Rights Info

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File structure

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.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  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.

Footnotes

notes (pg 2)

  1. Employment is measured in March, thus some firms (start-ups after March, closures before March, and seasonal firms)
    will have zero employment and some annual payroll.

Headnotes

[In thousands except as noted (5,074 represents 5,074,000).
Firms are an aggregation of all establishments owned by a parent company.
Establishments are locations with active payroll in any quarter.
illustrates the changing importance of enterprise sizes over time,
not job growth, as enterprises can grow or decline and change enterprise size cells
over time]

Shape

table: [76, 10]

Snippet

Item Unit indicator Less than 500 500 or more
Total 0 to 4 1 5 to 9 10 to 19 20 to 99 100 to 499
Firms:
1990 1,000 5073.795 3020.935 952.03 562.61 453.732 70.465 5059.772 14.023
1991 1,000 5051.025 3036.304 941.296 551.299 439.811 68.338 5037.048 13.977
1992 1,000 5095.356 3075.28 945.802 551.912 439.084 69.156 5081.234 14.122
1993 1,000 5193.642 3139.518 962.481 559.602 445.9 71.512 5179.013 14.629
1994 1,000 5276.964 3208.235 964.985 563.097 452.383 73.267 5261.967 14.997
1995 1,000 5369.068 3249.573 981.094 576.866 469.869 76.222 5353.624 15.444
1996 1,000 5478.047 3327.783 996.356 585.844 476.312 76.136 5462.431 15.616
1997 1,000 5541.918 3358.048 1006.897 593.696 487.491 79.707 5525.839 16.079
10=. … snip
<http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html>;
accessed 20 March 2007.

Tablenum

0737

Year

2008

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