Each year, the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) will collect a variety of business data including:
- Business characteristics: including operating status, organizational change, ownership information, and co-op status.
- Business classification: including business activity, type of operation, and tax status.
- Employment
- Revenue: including sales, shipments, receipts, and revenue; class of customer; taxes; contributions, gifts, and grants; products; and e-commerce activity.
- Operating expenses: including purchased services, payroll, benefits, rental payments, utilities, interest, resales, equipment, materials and supplies, research and development, and other detailed operating expenses.
- Assets: including capital expenditures, inventories, and depreciable assets.
- Robotic equipment
- Other trade or industry specific content.
A summary of content collected in the AIES is located: AIES Content Summary.