Industry Statistics Sampler NAICS 517 Telecommunications

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Employers: 2002
Table includes only establishments of firms with payroll. Nonemployers are shown below. Introductory text includes scope, methodology, non-sampling error, and confidentiality protection. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.

Indus- try Detail	NAICS code	Description		Estab- lish- ments	Receipts ($1,000)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees
	51	Information		137,678	891,845,956	194,670,163	3,736,061
	517	Telecommunications		49,275	411,644,543	72,181,547	1,440,141
	5171	Wired telecommunications carriers		27,955	237,697,299	47,496,436	842,426
	5172	Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite)		11,155	99,192,758	13,206,715	281,415
	5173	Telecommunications resellers		2,525	9,716,887	1,396,793	34,452
	5174	Satellite telecommunications		646	5,748,139	914,593	14,418
	5175	Cable & other program distribution		6,288	57,708,708	8,553,052	256,015
	5179	Other telecommunications		706	1,580,752	613,958	11,415

Industries in the Telecommunications subsector include establishments providing telecommunications and the services related to that activity. The Telecommunications subsector is primarily engaged in operating, maintaining, and/or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video. A transmission facility may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies. Establishments primarily engaged as independent contractors in the maintenance and installation of broadcasting and telecommunications systems are classified in Sector 23, Construction.

  NAICS 517, Telecommunications, is not comparable to 1997 NAICS 5133 . See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.

For comparisons with data before 1997, see the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.

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Geographic Distribution -- Telecommunications: 2002

Data for the Information sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.

Table includes only establishments of firms with payroll. Nonemployers are shown above. Introductory text includes scope, methodology, non-sampling error, and confidentiality protection. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.

Other Indus- tries	Description		Estab- lish- ments	Receipts ($1,000)	Receipts % of U.S.	Receipts per capita ($)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees
	United States		49,275	411,644,543	100.00	1,429	72,181,547	1,440,141
	California		4,983	N			8,224,287	151,149
	Texas		4,216	N			7,771,975	128,078
	New York		2,927	N			4,568,911	90,372
	Florida		2,982	N			4,099,504	90,142
	New Jersey		1,526	N			3,769,449	57,288
	Georgia		1,643	N			3,392,889	68,759
	Virginia		1,450	N			3,196,212	56,667
	Illinois		2,195	N			3,186,301	59,313
	Colorado		1,148	N			2,751,338	55,901
	Pennsylvania		1,937	N			2,347,304	57,933
	Ohio		1,676	N			2,196,896	43,768
	Missouri		1,098	N			1,864,734	35,135
	Washington		1,052	N			1,850,170	35,275
	Massachusetts		1,316	N			1,813,150	39,761
	Kansas		706	N			1,733,246	31,044
	Michigan		1,572	N			1,626,024	30,953
	North Carolina		1,248	N			1,510,852	33,883
	Maryland		922	N			1,331,020	29,501
	Connecticut		585	N			1,065,418	17,526
	Indiana		980	N			967,897	20,056
	Arizona		785	N			956,159	22,355
	Oklahoma		672	N			901,035	20,097
	Minnesota		925	N			875,810	19,590
	Wisconsin		749	N			825,641	15,787
	Tennessee		840	N			825,195	20,685
	Alabama		796	N			730,923	18,247
	Arkansas		387	N			691,120	14,472
	Louisiana		694	N			684,129	17,236
	South Carolina		512	N			629,227	15,511
	Iowa		666	N			581,396	17,292
	Oregon		644	N			577,998	14,081
	Utah		428	N			447,288	10,683
	Mississippi		508	N			444,347	11,665
	Kentucky		690	N			423,005	12,573
	Nevada		330	N			382,378	9,479
	District of Columbia		208	N			373,710	6,086
	Nebraska		319	N			343,931	7,863
	Hawaii		214	N			336,354	4,849
	New Mexico		324	N			252,066	8,133
	Alaska		207	N			229,922	4,010
	West Virginia		371	N			219,195	6,354
	New Hampshire		244	N			187,961	4,539
	Idaho		273	N			167,993	4,615
	Maine		253	N			156,501	4,017
	Rhode Island		118	N			122,512	2,822
	South Dakota		175	N			122,495	3,052
	Delaware		156	N			108,619	2,618
	Montana		215	N			96,182	2,797
	North Dakota		124	N			77,562	2,095
	Vermont		131	N			74,835	2,278
	Wyoming		155	N			68,481	1,756

 

Products Lines for Telecommunications

Product code	Product description	Sales of this line ($000)	Percent of industry sales (%)	Graph
30000	Industry total	411,644,54	100.00
32540	Mobile local access & use	63,365,037	15.39
32420	Carrier serv, incl netwk access serv to oth telecomm carriers	59,420,695	14.43
32380	Multichannel programming distribution services (analog & digital)	44,925,512	10.91
32430	Basic fixed local telephony - Residential	37,601,274	9.13
32440	Basic fixed local telephony - Business	27,737,460	6.74
32470	Basic fixed long distance telephony - Outbound - Residential	26,865,984	6.53
	-Other	151,728,58	36.86

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Products, Size, and Other Data from the Economic Census -- Telecommunications

Link to pdf	Series number	Title	Link to AFF or Drill-down tables	Contents	Geography
	EC02-00C-BDG	Bridge Between NAICS 2002 and NAICS 1997		Relationships between NAICS 1997 and NAICS 2002 for those industries redefined	US
	EC02-00C-COMP	Comparative Statistics		2002 and 1997 data side by side on a comparable NAICS 1997 basis	US, states
	EC02-51SL-LS	Product Lines		Product Lines by Kind of Business	US, states
	EC02-51SS-SZ	Establishment and Firm Size		Receipts Size of Establishments	US
	Employment Size of Establishments	US
	Single Unit & Multiunit Firms	US
	Receipts Size of Firms	US
	Employment Size of Firms	US
	Concentration by Largest Firms	US
	Legal Form of Organization	US
	EC02-51SX-SB	Miscellaneous Subjects		Exported Services by Selected Kind of Business	US, states
	Receipts by Class of Customer	US
	Construction Activity by Selected Kind of Business	US
	EC02-51I-11	Industry Series		Preliminary data now superseded	US
	EC02-51A	Geographic Area Series		Summary Statistics	US, states, counties, metros
	SB02-00A	Survey of Business Owners		Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race	US

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Data from the Other Census Bureau Programs -- NAICS 517

Hypertext Tables	Title (with link to data)	Frequency	Contents	Geography
	Annual Capital Expenditures Survey	Annual	Capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with paid employees	US
	County Business Patterns	Annual	Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment	US, states, metro areas, counties
	E-Commerce Statistics	Annual	Total sales and e-commerce sales, receipts or value of shipments	US
	Nonemployer Statistics	Annual	Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees	US, states, metro areas, counties
	Quarterly Services Survey: Information Sector Services	Quarterly	Estimated revenue for employer 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

For more data sets, check a broader NAICS category, such as NAICS 51

 

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