Tool Name

1997 Economic Census. U. S. Bureau of the Census

Contents:

The 1997 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. Results from the census are available as shown in the table below:

	CD Guide	PDF Guide	American FactFinder Guide	Drilldown tables Guide	Explanation of Partial coverage
Geographic Area Series	1F	X	X	P	Excludes places; excludes several tables in Mfg, Mining, Construction reports; excludes 1st qtr payroll
Industry Series	1F	X	X
Subject Series	1F	X	X
Nonemployer Statistics	2D	P		X	PDF excludes substate data
Comparative Statistics	2D	P		X	PDF excludes state data
Bridge Between NAICS and SIC	2D	X		X
ZIP Code Statistics	3Z - P			P	Drilldown Tables: exclude counts of establishments by employment size by NAICS by ZIP. CD: does not include ranges for the aggregate employment, sales and payroll by sector by ZIP.
Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises	2D	X		P	Excludes national tables by firm size, legal form of organization
Business Expenses	2D	X
Outlying Areas	2D	X
Comparative Statistics: percent change 1992 to 1997				X
NAICS Search				X

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Guides

American FactFinder

American FactFinder (AFF) is an interactive database from which users may find, view and download files. A guide to the Quick Reports follows below. For a guide to customized queries through the "data sets" option see the Census Bureau tutorial. Quick Reports
From the Data Sets > Economic Census page choose Quick Reports.

Select either
Industry Quick Reports, with statistics for one industry by state


or Geography Quick Reports, with statistics for one area by industry

• Each profile includes the 1997 population estimate for each geographic area shown.
• Quick Reports support printing and downloading, but not data manipulation or reformatting.

The resulting tables look generally like this:

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Census Bureau Web Site

The Economic Census Web Site presents information in two ways: as drill-down tables or *.pdf files. A consolidated list of *.pdf files from 1997 can be found at 1997 Economic Census - Availability of Reports.

Drill-down tables from the 1997 Economic Census are static html pages accessible from the Census web site. They are denoted with the down arrow icon: . There is a very good FAQ on the Census site about the content and mechanics of the files that are accessible there.

Navigating the Drilldown Tables

1. To navigate to a particular geographic area, use the drop-down menus in the upper right corner of each page.
   • After you select an option, you must click the GO button next to it. (The use of GO buttons facilitates accessibility of the data to screen readers for the blind.)
     
     
2. Down arrows take you to more detailed data, most often to finer breakdowns of the industry category shown.
   
   
3. Underlined industry descriptions (and column headings) take you to definitions, not additional detail.
   
   
4. A NAICS search is in the upper right corner of US pages only (since it takes you to US level data.)
   • You can enter a word or code. If you don't get entries, consider shortening your search term. SIC xxxx also works.
     
     
5. Downloading Data from Drilldown Tables or *.pdf files

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CD-ROMs

1997 economic census. ECON97 report series, disc 1F.
TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Desk Ref) C 3.277:C 1-E 97-NA 1 F-17-US 1 Non-Circulating

1997 economic census. ECON97S report series, disc 2D.
TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Desk Ref) C 3.277:C 1-E 97-NA 2 D-17-US 1/2 D Non-Circulating

1997 economic census. ECON97Z report series, disc 3Z.
TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (US Desk Ref) CD-ROM C 3.277:C 1-E 97-NA 3 Z-17-US 1 Non-Circulating

User Guide

This is the opening screen of the software used on all 1997 Economic Census disks. Next


This is the default file selection screen. You can limit the number of files shown by filtering by geography, data item or industry. Next


These are the selection screens for each of the filters: geography, industry code and data item. Next


This is the modified file selection screen. It also what happens if you want to look at data possibly not yet released. Next


This is the default table view. Next


By using the Row Filters on the left, you can reduce the data shown. You can also reduce or increase the number of columns shown, as indicated here and in the next image. Next


From this dialog box you may adjust the columns shown, reorder them and more.