- ASM
- Annual Survey of Manufacturers.
- CFN
- (Census File Number) A 10-digit number unique to a manufacturing plant or establishment.
- company
- A company is an economic unit comprising one or more establishments under common ownership or control.
- COS
- (Company Organization Survey) Solicits information annually from large companies in the economic censuses concerning changes in their organization.
(Economic Planning and Coordination Division)
- CSAQ
- Computerized Self-Administered Questionaire.
- EC
- (Economic Census) Sometimes used to refer to the economic census, a collective term covering the Censuses of Construction, Minerals, Manufacturing,
Minority and Women-Owned Businesses, Retail Trade, Service Industries, Transportation, and Wholesale Trade conducted by the Census Bureau every five years, in years ending in "2" and "7".
- EIN
- (Employer Identification Number) A unique number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service to every employer in the United States for the purposes of identification. Similar in purpose to the Social Security Number assigned to individuals.
- EPCD
- Designation for the (Economic Planning and Coordination Division), Bureau of the Census.
- ESMPD
- Designation for the (Economic Statistical Methods and Programming Division), Bureau of the Census.
- Establishment
- An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. (For example: a factory, mill store, hotel, movie theater, mine, farm, administrative office.) If distinctly separate activities are performed at the same location, and if there is significant employment in each acitivity, then each activity should be treated as a separate establishment, except Agricultural Production (see definition in glossary).
- SIC
- (Standard Industrial Classification) A numerical code scheme previsously used for classifying industries and products. In January 1997 the SIC was replaced by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
- SQA
- (Software Quality Assurance) A quality assurance program designed to test the accuracy of software programs being developed for specific programs or projects.
- SSEL
- Standard Statistical Establishment. A database that maintains information on companies operating in the United States.
- SSN
- Designation for (Social Security Number).
- SU
- (Single-unit Company) Companies in the economic censuses in which the establishment and the company are one and the same. See also MU (Multi-unit).
- subsidiary
- A subsidiary is a company which is owned or controlled by another firm or company. Subsidiaries include firms in which your company owns more than 50 percent of the outstanding voting stock, as well as firms in which your company has the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies.