Business Enterprise

This section relates to the place and behavior of the business firm and to business initiative in the American economy. It includes data on the number, type, and size of businesses; financial data of domestic and multinational U.S. corporations; business investments, expenditures, and profits; and sales and inventories.

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Economic Indicators

786 - Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions--Months of Duration [Excel 35k] | [PDF 59k]

787- The Conference Board Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Economic Indexes [Excel 43k] | [PDF 63k]

788 - Manufacturing and Trade--Sales and Inventories [Excel 33k] | [PDF 63k]

789 - Industrial Production Indexes by Industry [Excel 70k] | [PDF 65k]

790 - Index of Industrial Capacity [Excel 35k] | [PDF 65k]

Establishments, Employees, Payroll

756 - Economic Census summary (2002 NAICS Basis) [Excel 171k] | [PDF 62k]

757 - Nonemployer Establishments and Receipts by Industry [Excel 35k] | [PDF 60k]

758 - Establishments, Employees and Payroll by Employment-Size Class [Excel 35k] | [PDF 57k]

759 - Establishments, Employees, and Payroll by Employment-Size Class and Industry [Excel 53k] | [PDF 69k]

760 - Employer Firms, Employment, and Annual Payroll by Employment Size and Industry [Excel 48k] | [PDF 63k]

761 - Employer Firms, Employment, and Payroll by Employment Size of Firm and State [Excel 109k] | [PDF 62k]

762 - Employer Firms, Establishments, Employment, and Annual Payroll by Firm Size [Excel 41k] | [PDF 55k]

763 - Number of Active Establishments by Firm Age and Size of Employer: 2009 [Excel 24k] | [PDF 59k]

764 - Establishment Births, Deaths, and Employment by Sector and Firm Type--Startups, Young, and Mature Firms: 2009 [Excel 44k] | [PDF 54k]

765 - Firm Births and Deaths by Employment Size of Enterprise [Excel 33k] | [PDF 61k]

766 - Establishments and Employment Changes from Births, Deaths, Expansions, and Contractions by Employment Size of Enterprise: 2006 to 2007 [Excel 31k] | [PDF 61k]

776 - Bankruptcy Petitions Filed and Pending by Type and Chapter [Excel 36k] | [PDF 65k]

777 - Bankruptcy Cases Filed by State [Excel 33k] | [PDF 65k]

Investment, Capital Expenditures

781 - Net Stock of Private Fixed Assets by Industry [Excel 34k] | [PDF 63k]

782 - Private Domestic Investment in Current and Chained (2005) Dollars [Excel 58k] | [PDF 63k]

783 - Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Equipment and Computer Software Expenditures [Excel 36k] | [PDF 63k]

784 - Capital Expenditures [Excel 30k] | [PDF 59k]

785 - Capital Expenditures by Industry [Excel 29k] | [PDF 59k]

Multinational Companies

795 - Value Added, Employment, and Capital Expenditures of Nonbank U.S. Multinational Companies [Excel 47k] | [PDF 64k]

796 - U. S. Multinational Companies--Selected Characteristics: 2008 [Excel 44k] | [PDF 65k]

797 - U. S. Multinational Companies--Value Added [Excel 75k] | [PDF 65k]

798 - United States Majority-Owned Foreign Affiliates--Value Added by Industry of Affiliate and Country: 2008 [Excel 59k] | [PDF 65k]

Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights

778 - Patents and Trademarks [Excel 29k] | [PDF 70k]

779 - Patents by State and Island Areas [Excel 33k] | [PDF 62k]

780 - Copyright Registration by Subject Matter [Excel 29k] | [PDF 70k]

Profits

791 - Corporate Profits, Taxes, and Dividends [Excel 43k] | [PDF 64k]

792 - Corporate Profits With Inventory Valuation and Capital Consumption Adjustments--Financial and Nonfinancial Industries [Excel 30k] | [PDF 64k]

793 - Corporate Profits Before Taxes by Industry [Excel 47k] | [PDF 64k]

794 - Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations--Profits and Stockholders' Equity by Industry [Excel 42k] | [PDF 64k]

Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, Corporations

744 - Number of Tax Returns, Receipts, and Net Income by Type of Business [Excel 37k] | [PDF 64k]

745 - Number of Tax Returns and Business Receipts by Size of Receipts [Excel 37k] | [PDF 64k]

746 - Number of Tax Returns, Receipts, and Net Income by Type of Business and Industry: 2008 [Excel 44k] | [PDF 56k]

747 - Nonfarm Sole Proprietorships--Selected Income and Deduction Items [Excel 58k] | [PDF 64k]

748 - Partnerships--Selected Income and Balance Sheet Items [Excel 55k] | [PDF 64k]

749 - Partnerships--Selected Items by Industry: 2008 [Excel 55k] | [PDF 69k]

750 - Nonfarm Noncorporate Business-Sector Balance Sheet [Excel 67k] | [PDF 69k]

751 - Nonfinancial Corporate Business-Sector Balance Sheet [Excel 79k] | [PDF 74k]

752 - Corporate Funds--Sources and Uses [Excel 85k] | [PDF 67k]

753 - Corporations--Selected Financial Items [Excel 47k] | [PDF 58k]

754 - Corporations by Receipt-Size Class and Industry: 2008 [Excel 42k] | [PDF 55k]

755 - Corporations by Asset-Size Class and Industry: 2008 [Excel 248k] | [PDF 50k]

Women and Minority-Owned Businesses

767 - Small Business Administration Loans to Minority-Owned Small Businesses [Excel 49k] | [PDF 61k]

768 - U. S. Firms--Ownership by Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Veteran Status: 2007 [Excel 32k] | [PDF 59k]

769 - Women-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 42k] | [PDF 59k]

770 - Minority-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 42k] | [PDF 64k]

771 - Hispanic-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 33k] | [PDF 64k]

772 - Black-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 33k] | [PDF 64k]

773 - Asian-Owned Firms by Kind of Buisness: 2007 [Excel 32k] | [PDF 64k]

774 - Native Hawaiian- and Other Pacific Islander-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 36k] | [PDF 64k]

775 - American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2007 [Excel 33k] | [PDF 64k]

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