The U.S. Census Bureau has released preliminary data from the 2007 Economic Census. This advance report is the first in a series of industry and geographic area data, including information for more than 1,000 communities not available from previous censuses.
Among the report’s findings is that the healthcare and social assistance sector continued to have the most employees, with nearly 17 million in 2007, an increase of more than 12 percent from 2002.
The economic census is conducted every five years and is the most comprehensive and detailed profile of the U.S. economy, covering millions of businesses representing more than 1,000 industries. Data from the 2007 Economic Census will be released over a two-year period, through June 2011, and will be available in American FactFinder, the Census Bureau’s online data access tool. These data primarily cover the nation’s 7 million businesses with paid employees. Separate data on the 21 million businesses without paid employees will be released in mid-2009.
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