1992 CENSUS OF CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES
                                    SUBJECT SERIES

                        Abstract for the Subject Report Series

=>CITATION
      Census of Construction Industries on CD-ROM, 1992:  Subject
      Series [machine-readable data file] / prepared by the Bureau
      of the Census.  Washington:  The Bureau [producer and
      distributor], 1994.

=>TYPE OF FILE
      Summary statistics

=>UNIVERSE DESCRIPTION
      The universe of most of the file is construction
      establishments with and without payroll.  The census covers
      establishments primarily engaged in contract construction or
      construction on their own account for sale.

=>SUBJECT-MATTER DESCRIPTION
      This series of one file provides the total number of
      establishments (with and without payroll), number of
      employees, payroll, value of construction work done, value
      of business done, and other statistics for establishments
      primarily engaged in the construction industries, classified
      in various tables according to SIC, legal form of operation,
      and to a lesser extent, type of construction.  The file
      shows 1992 data.

      The survey included all medium size and large employers and
      a sample of smaller ones.  Selected key statistics are
      published together with their relative standard error,
      expressed as a percentage.  See the discussion of
      "Reliability of employer statistics" in Methodology, file
      CC92.MTH.

      The statistics for nonemployers companies (those without
      payroll) were gathered from business income tax returns
      which did not match the census employer file.  See the
      discussion of "Nonemployer Companies" in Methodology, file
      CC92.MTH.

      These data are exactly the same as shown in the printed
      Legal Form of Organization Subject Series report.  The
      record layout indicates which printed tables correspond to
      that file.

      Related Legal Form of Organization Printed Report

      Table 1.  CONSTRUCTION TABLES sequenced by table number

                       LEGAL FORM OF ORGANIZATION SUBJECT SERIES
      File             Indiv     Descr
      CC92LFO.dbf         1      Summary Statistics for Establishments
                                 with and without payroll
                          2      Selected Statistics for Establishments
                                 with payroll by Industry

=>GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
      The data files present data for the U.S.

=>SOFTWARE ACCESS
      EXTRACT
      This software system, included on the CD-ROM, provides
      access to every data item discussed in the Technical
      Description section of this abstract.

=>REFERENCE MATERIALS
      Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1987.  Prepared by
      the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management
      and Budget and available from Superintendent of Documents,
      U.S.  Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. 
      Price is $24.

=>RELATED PRINTED REPORTS
      1992 Census of Construction Industries, Legal Form of
      Organization Subject Series, presents statistics on
      establishments primarily engaged in construction.  The
      report provides data for the United State total, and also 2-
      , 3- and 4-digit industries.

=>FILE CHARACTERISTICS
=>  CC92LFO:  Summnary/Selected statistics
      1.   File Sequence:       U.S. by SICKEY by Legal Form of
                                Organization (SIZEKEY)

      2.   Available indexes:
           a.  CC92LFK.ndx      By SICKEY by Legal Form of Organization
                                (SIZEKEY)
           b.  CC92LFZ.ndx      By Legal Form of Organization (SIZEKEY)
                                by SICKEY

      3.   Linkable label files:
           a.  CC92SIC (SIC titles)
           b.  CC92MISC (labels for data items)