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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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44-45 | Retail trade | 1,114,637 | 3,056,421,997 | 302,113,581 | 14,647,675 | |
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454 | Nonstore retailers | 54,921 | 172,864,966 | 17,094,498 | 571,438 | |
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4541 | Electronic shopping & mail-order houses | 15,910 | 120,728,725 | 8,929,933 | 269,252 | |
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45411 | Electronic shopping & mail-order houses | 15,910 | 120,728,725 | 8,929,933 | 269,252 | |
| 454111 | Electronic shopping | 5,498 | 24,057,284 | 1,672,540 | 51,049 | ||
| 4541111 | Electronic shopping, general merchandise | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4541112 | Electronic shopping, specialized merchandise | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Sales ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 44-45 | Retail trade | 2,953,629 | 3,134,317,733 | 1,838,992 | 62.3 | 77,895,736 | 2.5 | 1,114,637 | 3,056,421,997 | |
| 454 | Nonstore retailers | 897,741 | 189,534,784 | 842,820 | 93.9 | 16,669,818 | 8.8 | 54,921 | 172,864,966 | |
| 4541 | Electronic shopping & mail-order houses | 64,405 | 122,312,749 | 48,495 | 75.3 | 1,584,024 | 1.3 | 15,910 | 120,728,725 | |
| 45411 | Electronic shopping & mail-order houses | 64,405 | 122,312,749 | 48,495 | 75.3 | 1,584,024 | 1.3 | 15,910 | 120,728,725 | |
| 454111 | Electronic shopping | N | N | N | N | N | N | 5,498 | 24,057,284 | |
This U.S. Industry comprises establishments engaged in retailing all types of merchandise using the Internet.
Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--
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2002 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS code |
Pt. | Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
Link to SIC (1997 data) |
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| ($1,000) | (Pct) | ||||||||
| 454111 | ![]() |
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Electronic shopping | 5,498 | 24,057,284 | 100.0 | 1,672,540 | 51,049 | |
| 20% of | 454110 |
| Electronic shopping & mail-order houses (pt) | 5,498 | 24,057,284 | 100.0 | 1,672,540 | 51,049 |
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| 454110 | pt | General merchandise | 415 | 3,726,625 | 159,247 | 3,433 | |||
| 454110 | pt | Computer hardware and software | 628 | 3,744,506 | 260,920 | 6,424 | |||
| 454110 | pt | Pharmacy | 78 | 633,161 | 70,887 | 1,902 | |||
| 454110 | pt | Other specialized merchandise | 4,377 | 15,952,992 | 1,181,486 | 39,290 | |||
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Sales ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 454110 | Electronic shopping & mail-order houses | 2002 | 15,815 | 119,824,824 | 8,461,044 | 266,353 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 10,013 | r 69,031,813 | 5,743,431 | 218,406 | ||||||||||
| % change | 57.9 | 73.6 | 47.3 | 22.0 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Retail trade sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, places, and ZIP Codes.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 20000 | Industry total | 24,057,284 | 100.00 | |
| 20370 | Computer hardware, software, & supplies | 3,815,925 | 15.86 | |
| 20420 | Books | 1,753,697 | 7.29 | |
| 20160 | Drugs, health aids, beauty aids, including cosmetics | 1,584,512 | 6.59 | |
| 20320 | TVs, video recorders, video cameras, video tapes, DVDs, etc | 1,517,194 | 6.31 | |
| 20400 | Jewelry, incl watches, watch attach, novelty jewelry, etc | 1,217,588 | 5.06 | |
| -Other | 14,168,368 | 58.89 |
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