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2007 Economic Census Overview

2007 Economic Census Overview. Oregon State Data Center Meeting Portland State University April 14, 2009. Agenda. What’s New for 2007 Terminology Data Product Organization Economic Programs Data Release Formats and Products. New for 2007. Change in publication formats

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2007 Economic Census Overview

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  1. 2007 Economic Census Overview Oregon State Data Center Meeting Portland State University April 14, 2009

  2. Agenda • What’s New for 2007 • Terminology • Data Product Organization • Economic Programs • Data Release Formats and Products

  3. New for 2007 • Change in publication formats • Changes to small geographic area definitions • Nonemployers to be included with employer data • Revised industry classification system • New and changing industries • Product classification expands to all services sectors

  4. New for 2007 (continued) • New data on pension and other fringe benefits • Data on franchising for more industries • More data in Survey of Business Owners reports • Business expenses data moved to other series • Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas boundary changes 4

  5. Finding Data • Industry • Geographic area • Data items • Business unit • Employers, nonemployers, or both 5

  6. Terminology

  7. Census Bureau Data Types • Economic • data collected from businesses • Demographic • data collected from people & households

  8. Establishments vs. Companies • Establishment - A store, warehouse, factory, or other type of business at a single physical location • Company (or Firm) - One or more establishments under common ownership or control

  9. Employers vs Nonemployers • Employers • Businesses with 1 or more paid employees • Covered by the Economic Census • Nonemployers • Businesses with no paid employees • Make up almost 3/4 of all US businesses but less than 5% of business receipts/revenue • NOT covered by the Economic Census (primarily published in the Nonemployer Statistics reports)

  10. Data Product Organization

  11. NAICS Hierarchy

  12. NAICS Sectors 11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting 21 Mining 22 Utilities 23 Construction 31-33 Manufacturing 42 Wholesale Trade 44-45 Retail Trade 48-49 Transportation and Warehousing 51 Information 52 Finance and Insurance 53 Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 54 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services • Management of Companies and Enterprises 56 Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 61 Educational Services 62 Health Care and Social Assistance • Arts, Entertainment and Recreation • Accommodation and Food Services • Other Services (except Public Administration) 92 Public Administration Not covered by Econ Census;Partial coverage in Econ Census

  13. Product Classifications • NAICS Product Codes • Cover the Mining and Manufacturing sectors only • Ex: “Dry and semi moist dog food, shipped in packages 25 lb/more” • Product Line Codes • Cover all sectors except Mining, Manufacturing, and Construction • Ex: “Bakery products baked on premises”, sold by Grocery stores • Kinds of Business & Types of Construction Codes • Cover the Construction sector only • Ex: “Single-family houses, detached” built by New single-family general contractors

  14. Levels of Geography • United States • Regions and Divisions • States (and equivalents) • Metropolitan Areas • Counties (and equivalents) • Places • ZIP Codes

  15. Geographic Coverage Table

  16. Geographic Coverage forOther Economic Programs

  17. Other Cross-Tabulation Categories • Employment / sales size of establishments / firms • Legal form of organization • Tax status and type of organization • Class of customer • Concentration ratios • Sex, race / ethnicity (Survey of Business Owners) • Other “specialty” cross-tabulations

  18. Data Disclosure and Suppressions • U.S. Code, Title 13 and Title 26 • Can’t release data that would disclose the identity of individual companies • Data suppressed with “(D)” in tables/files via complex program • Other Suppressions • High sampling/non-sampling errors • Poor (or questionable) responses from companies • Data suppressed with “(S)” or “(s)” in tables/files • Data not available or not comparable (data suppressed with “(N)” or “(X)” in tables files

  19. Economic Programs

  20. Economic Programs • Economic Census • Every 5 years(years ending in 2 & 7) • Expansive industry and product detail • Detailed geography • Constitutionally mandated • Economic Surveys • Monthly, quarterly and annual • Limited detail • Primarily national • Most voluntary or from administrative data

  21. Economic Census Publication Series • Industry Series - Selected national-level industry and product data published by sector and industry • Geographic Area Series - Selected national-, state-, and other geographic-level data published by sector and geography • Subjects/Summary Series - Selected summary data published by sector (including Products, Size, and Miscellaneous Subjects reports) • ZIP Codes – Establishment counts by sales size for selected sectors • Core Business Statistics Series - Economy-wide Advance, Comparative, Bridge, and Franchise statistics • Economy-Wide Key Statistics (EWKS) file – Aggregated key data from publication series listed above (and others)

  22. Economic Census-Related Programs • Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) - Selected national- and finer-level data on the movement of products across the U.S. by mode of transportation (plus other breakouts) • Economic Census of Island Areas – Selected industry, product, and other data for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands • Survey of Business Owners (SBO) – Selected national- and finer-level industry data for women- and minority-owned businesses and the characteristics of these businesses and their owners • (New for 2007: Corresponding data for veteran-owned business • and veteran business owners)

  23. Current Economic Surveys Or . . . what we do the other four years

  24. Current Economic Surveys • Economic Indicators • 12 surveys for selected key sectors • Collected by Census but released by Commerce • Other current economic surveys • Current Industrial Reports – Covers products of selected manufacturing industries • Retail e-Commerce Sales – Covers electronic sales of merchandise in the U.S.

  25. Current Economic Surveys (continued) • Other annual economic surveys • Annual Survey of Manufactures • County Business Patterns • Nonemployer Statistics (Businesses with no paid employees) • Other related economic programs • Statistics of U.S. Businesses – Firms, establishments, employment, and payroll for the U.S. and states by industry and “enterprise” employment size • Census of Governments – Federal, state, and local • Foreign Trade – Imports/Exports

  26. Annual Economic Surveys • Annual Survey of Manufactures • Detailed statistics by industry and product • National and state levels data • Employer businesses only • County Business Patterns • Numbers of establishments, employment, and payroll data by industry • National, state, metro area, county, and ZIP Code levels data • Employer businesses only • Nonemployer Statistics • Numbers of establishments and sales data by industry • National, state, metro area, and county levels data • Businesses without paid employees.

  27. Data Release

  28. Economic Data Formats • Conventional • Printed Reports (very limited) • Portable Document Format files (PDFs) • HTML Tables • On Economic Internet pages • Databases • For download (xls, etc.) off econ Internet pages • American FactFinder

  29. 2007 Economic Census Home Page

  30. Sample Industry Quick Report

  31. 2007 Economic Census

  32. Changes for 2007 Economic Census • Discontinue release of PDFs and pre-printed reports • Discontinue Econ02 DVD-ROM product • Limited HTML tables • American FactFinder the only release mechanism • Decrease the time it takes to distribute data on American FactFinder after analysts approve it

  33. American FactFinder (AFF) Home Page

  34. AFF Economic Release Formats • Fact Sheets • Selected data for all sectors presented in a table • Quick Reports • Selected data for an industry, geography, or product presented in a table • Thematic Maps • Selected data (including ratios) presented in a map • Detailed Datasets

  35. Sample Economic Fact Sheet

  36. Sample Thematic Map

  37. Data Set: 2007 Economic Census Page

  38. Sample Detailed Dataset View

  39. Economic AFF Features • Search for and filter datasets (by geography, industry, or other dimensions, or by data item) • List datasets (by program, survey, or sector) • Filter within a dataset • Modify display (show/hide/create/move columns) • Sort data in table • Print and Download data (plus FTP site) • Access to textual metadata • Reference maps

  40. business.census.gov

  41. Industry Snapshot

  42. Summary • When comparing data across economic programs, censuses, surveys, sectors or years • Industry or Geographic vintages and comparability • Business classification and other survey methodologies • Survey coverage • Consistency of data items and their definitions • Source of raw, tabulated statistics • Report release timing • When using economic data (especially sorting) • Effect of disclosures and other suppressions • Publication thresholds • “Small” data cells vs. “large” ones

  43. Questions? Linda Clark Information Services Specialist U.S. Census Bureau, Seattle Region linda.clark@census.gov 425-908-3062

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