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Firm Births and Deaths by Employment Size of Enterprise: 1990 to 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0738)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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,

“Firm Size Data, Statistics of U.S. Businesses and Nonemployer Statistics”;

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

accessed 6 April 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,

“Firm Size Data, Statistics of U.S. Businesses and Nonemployer Statistics”;

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

accessed 6 April 2007.

For more information:

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

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

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. A change in methodology (“based on Census ID” rather than “plant number”) has affected the allocation of firms by employment size.

Headnotes

[In thousands (584.9 represents 584,900).
Data represent activity from March of the beginning year to March of the ending year. Establishments with no employment
in the first quarter of the beginning year were excluded.
This table provides the number of births and deaths of initial establishments (based on
on Census ID) as an approximation of firm births and deaths]

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table: [41, 9]

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Item
Less than 20 employees Less than 500 employees 500 employees or more Less than 20 employees Less than 500 employees 500 employees or more
Total Total
(1,000) (1,000) (1,000) (1,000) (1,000) (1,000) (1,000) (1,000)
Firms:
1990 to 1991 541.141 515.87 540.889 0.252 546.518 516.964 546.149 0.369
1991 to 1992 544.596 519.014 544.278 0.318 521.606 492.746 521.176 0.43
1992 to 1993 564.504 539.601 564.093 0.411 492.651 466.55 492.266 0.385
1993 to 1994 570.587 546.437 570.337 0.25 503.563 476.667 503.125 0.438
1994 to 1995 594.369 568.896 594.119 0.25 497.246 472.441 496.874 0.372
1995 to 1996 597.792 572.442 597.503 0.289 512.402 485.509 512.024 0.378
1996 to 1997 590.644 564.197 590.335 0.309 530.003 500.014 529.481 0.522
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<http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/data.html>;
accessed 6 April 2007.

Tablenum

0738

Year

2008

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