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Census of Wholesale Trade
Description & Updates |
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/ecocensus/wholesale.html
Definition: The Wholesale Trade sector (sector 42) comprises
establishments engaged in wholesaling merchandise, generally without
transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.
The wholesale sector includes: merchant wholesalers who buy and take title to
the goods they sell, manufacturers sales branches and offices who sell products
manufactured domestically by their own company, and agents and brokers who
collect a commission or fee for arranging the sale of merchandise owned by
others.
Comparability with SIC data: This sector includes most of what
was classified in Wholesale Trade under the SIC system. Excluded from this
sector, however, are establishments with retail selling characteristics; these
establishments are now clasified in the Retail Trade sector. Prominent examples
of these are auto parts, farm supplies, and building products dealers and
lumber yards.
In addition, this sector now includes prerecorded video tape wholesalers; this
industry was previously classified in Services Industries under the SIC system.
Geographic detail: The Economic Census publishes data for the
wholesale trade sector for the U.S., states, counties, places, and metropolitan
areas.
The Census of Wholesale Trade is updated by:
- Annual
Wholesale Trade Survey
- Manufacturing
and Trade Inventories and Sales
- Monthly
Wholesale Trade Survey
- Quarterly Financial
Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations
- County
Business Patterns
- County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides subnational
economic data by industry. The series is useful for studying the economic
activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a
benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic
censuses. This series has been published annually since 1964 and at irregular
intervals dating back to 1946. The comparability of data over time may be
affected by definitional changes in establishments, activity status, and
industrial classifications.
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