EMBARGOED UNTIL: 10 A.M., JANUARY 23, 1997 (THURSDAY) Public Information Office CB97-12 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-4067 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Sheldon Ziman 301-763-7596 CENSUS BUREAU REPORTS ON ASSETS, EXPENSES, CAPITAL EXPENDITURES OF U.S. RETAIL, WHOLESALE, AND SERVICE FIRMS The Commerce Department's Census Bureau has released three reports on the nation's merchant wholesale, retail, and service businesses and organizations from the 1992 Economic Census. The three reports are: - "1992 Census of Wholesale Trade--Measures of Value Produced, Capital Expenditures, Depreciable Assets, and Operating Expenses" (WC92-S-2) - "1992 Census of Retail Trade--Measures of Value Produced, Capital Expenditures, Depreciable Assets, and Operating Expenses" (RC92-S-2) - "1992 Census of Service Industries--Capital Expenditures, Depreciable Assets, and Operating Expenses" (SC92-S-2) All three reports show operating expenses, depreciable assets, and capital expenditures for 1992 at the national level only, for detailed kinds of business and legal forms of organization. Each industry report contains the following: - Basic operating expenses such as annual payroll, employer costs for fringe benefits, depreciation charges, lease and rental payments, and costs of purchased utilities, office supplies, advertising, repair services, legal services, data processing services, and accounting services. - Change in depreciable assets, including capital expenditures, acquisition value of beginning- and end-of-year assets, and sold/retired assets. - Retail and wholesale reports also contain information on cost of goods sold, gross margins, value added, and net income produced. - Related operating statistics reproduced from other reports such as sales, purchases, and inventories. A summary table from each report is available on the Internet at: http://www.census.gov/pub/agfs/www/aes.html-X-The Census Bureau--preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. In over 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving from the first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information about America's people, businesses, industries, and institutions.
