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County Business Patterns (CBP) is an annual series that
provides subnational economic data by industry. This series includes
the number of establishments, employment during the week of March
12, first quarter payroll, and annual payroll. This data is useful
for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic
changes over time; and as a benchmark for other statistical series,
surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Businesses use
the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness
of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing
budgets. Government agencies use the data for administration and
planning.
ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP) data is available shortly
after the release of County Business Patterns. It provides the number
of establishments by employment-size classes by detailed industry
in the U.S.
These two programs cover most of the country's economic activity based
on establishments, with a few noted exclusions. For more information on the coverage
and methodology of CBP, see How the Data are Collected.
For information on businesses without paid employees, see Nonemployer
Statistics.
Data for 2013 were released in April 2015. For help accessing the data via hypertext tables or American FactFinder,
please refer to the Data User
Guide [PDF].
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or click the FAQs tab at the top of the screen. Enter 'CBP' or 'County
Business Patterns' into the search box to narrow the results.
CBP and ZBP Data User Notice posted on January 8, 2016 and January 21, 2016, respectively: Census Bureau staff identified a processing error that affects selected data from the 2012 and 2013 CBP and ZBP. As a result, we suppressed 2012 and 2013 employment and payroll totals in the Educational Services sector (Sector 61) for the following geographies: Massachusetts; New Mexico; Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area; Albuquerque, NM metro area; Middlesex County, MA; Bernalillo County, NM; and ZIP codes: 02467 and 87106. This processing error did not affect other sectors or states. While suppressed values can be derived by subtraction, we do not recommend using the derived values in any analyses. The Census Bureau plans to release revised statistics as soon as possible.
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Data in other formats for manipulation and analysis
See the discussion of Historical
CBP Data for earlier years, including data for selected
years on CD-ROM.
For help accessing the data via hypertext
tables or American FactFinder, please refer to the Data
User Guide [PDF].
1 Employers without a fixed location within a state
(or of unknown county location) are included under a "Statewide"
classification at the end of the county tables. This incomplete
detail causes only a slight understatement of county employment.
For more information about geography classification, please refer
to How the Data are Collected.
2 Legal Form of Organization (LFO) breakout became available for the U.S. starting with 2008 and for
States starting in 2010.
3 Most ZIP Codes are derived from the physical location address
reported in Census Bureau programs. The Internal Revenue
Service provides supplemental address information.
Those employers without a fixed location or with an
unknown ZIP Code are included under an "Unclassified" category
indicated by ZIP Code 99999. Zip codes are updated at the discretion of the U.S. Postal Service.
4Metropolitan statistical areas have an urban core
with 50,000 or more inhabitants. Micropolitan statistical areas
have an urban core with 10,000 to 49,999 inhabitants. See definitions
or maps
for metropolitan and micropolitan areas as of November 2007. These definitions and maps are updated every five years to correspond with the schedule
of the Economic Census. An update occurred with the 2012 data release.
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Last Revised:
January 12, 2016