RUSA BRASS’s Industry Research using the Economic Census and Other Government
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Nonemployer Statistics: Down to country level◦ www.census.gov/econ/nonemployer
Franchise Report: US only, 5 digit NAICS◦ factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk
/table/1.0/en/ECN/2007_US/00CFRA1 Concentration=Establishment & Firm Size
◦ www.census.gov/econ/concentration.html Industry Portal
◦ www.census.gov/econ/isp/index.php◦ http://www.census.gov/econ/census/snapshots_center
Rail Industry Statistics◦ www.rita.dot.gov/bts/data_and_statistics/by_mode/rail.html
Questions from Part 1
How to read Product Line data
2007 NOT all in AFF Mining (Subject Series: General Summary:
Detailed Statistics) Construction (in AFF) Manufacturing (in AFF) Annual Wholesale Trade Report Annual Retail Trade Survey Historical D
ata Annual Services Report
Business Expense Survey
2012 Economic Census Schedule
Questions about Economic Census
Think of a product and list all the industries that “touch” that product. Take that list and find the NAICS code for that industry. Hint: use www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/index.html
Identify a town in which a relative lives and determine what Metropolitan/Micropolitian Area or County do they live in, and then find a map of that Area. Hint: use www.census.gov/econ/census07/www/geography/geography_changes.html
“Quiz” Questions 1&2
Use AFF’s Guided Search to find an Economic Census table for an industry from Question 1 and an area from Question 2. Hint: use factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
Find an industry sector that has changed between the 2002 and 2007 Census. Hint: use Bridge Report from www.census.gov/econ/census07/www/definitions.html
Question 3&4
Q5: Find the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (US Only), use the Modify Table option and filter “All owners of respondent firms” with “Less than high school graduate”. Advanced: Once you have your 63 rows, find the Industry Sector where women have the highest “Number of owners of respondent firms with or without paid employees.”
Q6: Using the 2007 EC table, find out how much money hotels made in the Albany Metropolitan Area. Download the data. Create a Bookmark to share. Advanced: Using a different table, which state has the more guestrooms: Texas or Florida?
Q7: Of the hotels in the US, which of the top five products/services returns the most money to a Hotel/Casino?
Q8: What is the most current data on how many hotels are in the Albany Metropolitan Area? Advanced: What do you believe is their current revenue? Explain why. Hint use: http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html or AFF
Q9: Using BLS data, find the inflation rate for the cost of operating hotels between December 2007 and December 2012. Since then, is Inflation going up for this industry?
PPI Results: Industry Inflation
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