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IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1996 Facts for Media from the Census Bureau CB96-FS.01 Contacts: Public Information Office (phone: 301-457-3030 or e-mail: pio@census.gov) Thomas Zabelsky (301-457-2766) Doctors, Lawyers, and the Movies Highlights from the 1994 Service Annual Survey Revenue for the nation's health services industries totaled $717 billion in 1994, up 5 percent from 1993. Nearly every type of health service industry posted an increase; kidney dialysis centers, with a 17 percent gain, led the way. Hospitals accounted for nearly half of all health services industry revenue in 1994--$339 billion. Taxable legal services firms earned $114 billion in 1994. Alternatively, tax-exempt legal services firms, such as legal aid societies, generated $1.0 billion. The following estimates exclude tax-exempt firms: Personnel supply services firms (employer firms only) generated receipts of $38 billion in 1994 from supplying temporary help. A declining share of these receipts is coming from supplying office support personnel, such as secretaries and clerks (28 percent in 1994, down from 40 percent in 1990) and an increasing share is coming from supplying laborers (24 percent in 1994, up from 16 percent in 1990). Another large share of receipts (26 percent) came from supplying technical and professional personnel, such as engineers, programmers, and sales and marketing staff. In 1994, receipts were about the same for video tape rental establishments and motion picture theaters ($6.7 billion and $6.5 billion, respectively). Just three years earlier, motion picture theaters had considerably higher receipts than video tape rental businesses ($6.2 billion compared to $5.0 billion). Public golf courses showed rapid growth: their receipts stood at $3.2 billion in 1994, an 11 percent increase from 1993. Source: The 1994 Service Annual Survey provides financial data for receipts, revenue and expenses, and detailed financial data for selected service industries, such as travel and lodging, automotive repair, computer programming, and management and public relations. Selected tables from the 1994 Service Annual Survey are available on our Web site http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/sas.html
