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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Receipts
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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51 | Information | 137,678 | 891,845,956 | 194,670,163 | 3,736,061 | |
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511 | Publishing industries (except Internet) | 32,287 | 242,216,369 | 65,680,724 | 1,089,585 | |
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5111 | Newspaper, periodical, book, & directory publishers | 22,334 | 138,710,521 | 30,745,775 | 732,877 | |
| 51112 | Periodical publishers | 7,298 | 40,180,864 | 8,377,685 | 152,227 | ||
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511120 | Periodical publishers | 7,298 | 40,180,864 | 8,377,685 | 152,227 | |
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Revenue ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 51 | Information | 370,376 | 899,396,034 | 232,698 | 62.8 | 7,550,078 | 0.8 | 137,678 | 891,845,956 | |
| 511 | Publishing industries (except Internet) | 101,683 | 244,196,180 | 69,396 | 68.2 | 1,979,811 | 0.8 | 32,287 | 242,216,369 | |
| 5111 | Newspaper, periodical, book, & directory publishers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 22,334 | 138,710,521 | |
| 51112 | Periodical publishers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 7,298 | 40,180,864 | |
This industry comprises establishments known either as magazine publishers or periodical publishers. These establishments carry out the operations necessary for producing and distributing magazines and other periodicals, such as gathering, writing, and editing articles, and selling and preparing advertisements. These establishments may publish magazines and other periodicals in print or electronic form.
Cross-References.
NAICS
51112, Periodical publishers,
is close, but not quite comparable between 2002 and 1997.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
In comparisons with data before 1997, 1997 NAICS 51112 is comparable to SIC 2721. See the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Receipts ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 51112 | Periodical publishers | 2002 | 7,076 | 39,786,471 | 8,287,031 | 146,358 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 6,298 | 29,884,807 | 5,993,142 | 137,550 | ||||||||||
| % change | 12.4 | 33.1 | 38.3 | 6.4 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Information sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 30000 | Industry total | 40,180,864 | 100.00 | |
| 31600 | Periodicals - Print - Sale of ad space: Gen interest periodicals | 14,741,162 | 36.69 | |
| 31510 | Periodicals - Print - Subs & sales: Gen interest periodicals | 10,775,126 | 26.82 | |
| 31520 | Periodicals-Print-Subs & sales:Bus (incl farming)/prof/acad pdcls | 3,555,614 | 8.85 | |
| 31610 | Periodicals-Print-Sale of ad space:Bus (incl farm)/prof/acad pdcl | 2,860,084 | 7.12 | |
| 31580 | Periodicals-Oth media-Sub & sales:Bus (incl farm)/prof/acad pdcls | 2,033,630 | 5.06 | |
| -Other | 6,215,248 | 15.47 |
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| County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
| Quarterly Services Survey: Information Sector Services | Quarterly | Estimated revenue for employer firms | US | |
| Service Annual Survey: Information Sector Services | Annual | Estimated revenue for employer and nonemployer firms | US | |
| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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