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| Definition | Data from the Economic Census | Annual, quarterly data | ||||
| 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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518 | Internet service providers, web search portals, & data processing | 18,589 | 74,507,785 | 25,718,584 | 514,046 | |
| 5182 | Data processing, hosting, & related services | 13,769 | 53,089,145 | 21,267,178 | 434,276 | ||
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51821 | Data processing, hosting, & related services | 13,769 | 53,089,145 | 21,267,178 | 434,276 | |
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Revenue ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| 51 | Information | 370,376 | 899,396,034 | 232,698 | 62.8 | 7,550,078 | 0.8 | 137,678 | 891,845,956 | |
| 518 | Internet service providers, web search portals, & data processing | 52,657 | 75,422,743 | 34,068 | 64.7 | 914,958 | 1.2 | 18,589 | 74,507,785 | |
| 5182 | Data processing, hosting, & related services | 41,869 | 53,838,069 | 28,100 | 67.1 | 748,924 | 1.4 | 13,769 | 53,089,145 | |
| 51821 | Data processing, hosting, & related services | 41,869 | 53,838,069 | 28,100 | 67.1 | 748,924 | 1.4 | 13,769 | 53,089,145 | |
NAICS
5182, Data processing, hosting, and related services,
is comparable to 1997 NAICS 5142 Data processing services.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
In comparisons with data before 1997, 1997 NAICS 5142 is comparable to SIC 7374. 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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| 5142 | Data processing services | 2002 | 13,789 | 53,667,840 | 21,397,709 | 436,755 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 7,588 | 30,836,645 | 9,773,857 | 262,250 | ||||||||||
| % change | 81.7 | 74.0 | 118.9 | 66.5 | ||||||||||
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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 | 53,089,145 | 100.00 | |
| 35300 | Business process management services | 12,753,701 | 24.02 | |
| 35400 | Data management services | 6,256,009 | 11.78 | |
| 35250 | Application service provisioning | 5,564,922 | 10.48 | |
| 35450 | Info technology (IT) infrastructure (computer) & netwk mgt serv | 4,642,788 | 8.75 | |
| 35500 | Information technology (IT) technical support services | 4,388,283 | 8.27 | |
| 32660 | Collocation services | 3,487,566 | 6.57 | |
| 32690 | Information & document transformation services | 2,935,786 | 5.53 | |
| 35200 | Web site hosting services | 2,783,714 | 5.24 | |
| -Other | 10,276,376 | 19.36 |
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| Hypertext Tables | Title (with link to data) | Frequency | Contents | Geography |
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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