About:	Economic Census. U. S. Bureau of the Census
Contents:	The Economic Census covers nearly all of the U.S. economy in its basic collection of establishment statistics. There also are several related programs, including statistics on minority- and women-owned businesses. The 1987 and 1992 CDs use an MS-DOS program called Extract to retrieve, display and download the data. A detailed guide is included below.
CD-ROM:	1987: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Desk Ref) CD-ROM C 3.277:Ec 7/987/CD/ Non-Circulating 1992: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (CD-ROM Collection) CD-ROM C 3.277:CD-EC 92-1 J One Week Loan          TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Docs) CD-ROM C 3.277:CD-EC 92-2 B          TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Desk Ref) CD-ROM C 3.277:CD-EC 92-4 Non-Circulating
Output:	Printing, Saving, FTP and Compression
Help With:	EXTRACT Program Restricting Your Search to Particular State, Catalog and File Looking Up and Displaying Data      Limit how many columns appear.      Limit how many records appear.      Alter labels.      Format For Printing      Save ("extract") data

EXTRACT Program
Both the 1987 and 1992 Economic Census CD sets use the program EXTRACT to look up and display data.

Restricting Your Search to Particular State, Catalog and File

• Restrict your entire session to a single state if you wish by hitting "r" and entering the state abbreviation.
• Choose a file or "catalog" and hit enter.

• Read the information on the screen that next comes up.

• Finally, choose the appropriate sub-file.

Looking Up and Displaying Data

The next screen will show a menu of 10 options, with the selected file in the lower right. The most heavily used ones will be 1-3, 6 and 9.

• Option 1: Limit how many columns appear
• Option 2: Limit how many records appear
• Option 3: Choose/Alter labels
• Option 5: Format For Printing
• Option 8: Save ("extract") data

Limit how many columns appear.

Looking Up and Displaying Data

• Limit how many records appear.
  
• Choose/alter labels.
  
• Format for printing.
  
• Save ("extract") data.