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Total Full- and Part-time Employment by Major Industry
N/Data not available for this year.

L/Less than 10 jobs, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

D/Not shown to avoid disclosure of confidential information, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

E/The estimate shown here constitutes the major portion of the true estimate.

1/The estimates of employment for 1969-74 based on 1967 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). The estimates for 1975-87 are based on the 1972 SIC. The estimates for 1988-98 are based on the 1987 SIC.

2/Excludes limited partners.

3/"Other" consists of the number of jobs held by U.S. residents employed by international organizations and foreign embassies and consulates in the United States.

4/Cibola, NM was separated from Valencia in June 1981, but in these estimates Valencia includes Cibola through the end of 1981.

5/La Paz County, AZ was separated from Yuma County on January 1, 1983. The Yuma, AZ MSA contains the area that became La Paz County, AZ through 1982 and excludes it beginning with 1983.

6/Estimates for 1979 forward reflect Alaska Census Areas as defined in the 1980 Decennial Census; those for prior years reflect Alaska Census Divisions as defined in the 1970 Decennial Census. Estimates from 1988 forward separate Aleutian Islands Census Area into Aleutians East Borough and Aleutians West Census Area. Estimates for 1991 forward separate Denali Borough from Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and Lake and Peninsula Borough from Dillingham Census Area. Estimates from 1993 forward separate Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area into Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and Yakutat Borough.

7/Shawano, WI and Menominee, WI are combined as Shawano (incl. Menominee), WI for the years prior to 1989.

8/Halifax, VA contains South Boston for all years.

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Personal Income by major source and Earnings by Major Industry
L/Less than $50,000, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

D/Not shown to avoid disclosure of confidential information, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

E/The estimate shown here constitutes the major portion of the true estimate.

N/Data not available for this year.

1/The estimates of earnings for 1969-74 are based on the 1967 Standard Industrial classification (SIC). The estimates for 1975-87 are based on the 1972 SIC. the estimates for 1988-98 are based on the 1987 SIC.

2/Farm income consists of proprietors income; the cash wages, pay-in-kind, and other labor income of hired farm workers; and the salaries of officers of corporate farms.

3/Census Bureau midyear population estimates. Estimates for 1990-98 reflect county population estimates available as of March 2000 except for Prince Georges and Montgomery, MD. A portion of Takoma Park, MD was annexed from Prince Georges County, MD to Montgomery County, MD on March 1, 1997. The Census Bureau adjusted their population estimates to reflect this annexation back through 1990. The Prince Georges MD and Montgomery, MD population estimates for 1990-1996 have been adjusted by BEA to be consistent with BEA income estimates, which do not reflect the annexation.

4/Personal contributions for social insurance are included in earnings by type and industry but they are excluded from personal income.

5/The adjustment for residence is the net inflow of the earnings of interarea commuters. For the United States, it consists of adjustments for border workers: Wage and salary disbursements to U.S. residents commuting to Canada less wage and salary disbursements to Canadian and Mexican residents commuting into the United States.

6/Rental income of persons includes the capital consumption adjustment.

7/Proprietors income includes the inventory valuation adjustment and capital consumption adjustment.

8/"Other" consists of wage and salary disbursements to U.S. residents employed by international organizations and foreign embassies and consulates in the United States.

9/Under the 1972 SIC, ordnance was reclassified to four 2-digit industries: Fabricated metal products, electronic and other electric equipment, transportation equipment, and instruments and related products.

10/Under the 1987 SIC, combined real estate, insurance, etc., was reclassified to four 2-digit industries: Nondepository credit institutions; insurance agents, brokers, and services; real estate; and legal services.

11/"Social services" was first recognized under the 1972 SIC; so estimates for 1969-74 do not exist.

12/"Engineering and management services" was first recognized under the 1987 SIC, so estimates for 1969-87 do not exist.

13/Estimates for 1979 forward reflect Alaska Census Areas as defined in the 1980 Decennial Census; those for prior years reflect Alaska Census Divisions as defined in the 1970 Decennial Census. Estimates from 1988 forward separate Aleutian Islands Census Area into Aleutians East Borough and Aleutians West Census Area. Estimates for 1991 forward separate Denali Borough from Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and Lake and Peninsula Borough from Dillingham Census Area. Estimates from 1993 forward separate Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area into Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and Yakutat Borough.

14/Cibola, NM was separated from Valencia in June 1981, but in these estimates, Valencia includes Cibola through the end of 1981.

15/La Paz County, AZ was separated from Yuma County on January 1, 1983. The Yuma, AZ MSA contains the area that became La Paz County, AZ through 1982 and excludes it beginning with 1983.

16/Shawano, WI and Menominee, WI are combined as Shawano (incl. Menominee), WI for the years prior to 1989.

17/Halifax, VA contains South Boston for all years.

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Transfer Payments by type of Payment
L/Less than $50,000, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

N/Data not available for this year.

1/Consists largely of temporary disability payments and black lung payments.

2/Consists of medicaid and other medical vendor payments.

3/Consists of payments made under the TriCare Management Program (formerly called CHAMPUS) for the medical care of dependents of active duty military personnel and of retired military personnel and their dependents at nonmilitary medical facilities.

4/Through 1995, consists of emergency assistance and aid to families with dependent children. For 1998, consists of benefits-- generally known as temporary assistance for needy families-- provided under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. For 1996-97, consists of payments under all three of these programs.

5/Consists largely of general assistance, refugee assistance, foster home care and adoption assistance, earned income tax credits, and energy assistance.

6/Consists of trade readjustment allowance payments, Redwood Park benefit payments, public service employment benefit payments, and transitional benefit payments.

7/Consists largely of veterans readjustment benefit payments, educational assistance to spouses and children of disabled or deceased veterans, payments to paraplegics, and payments for autos and conveyances for disabled veterans.

8/Consists of State and local government payments to veterans.

9/Consists largely of federal fellowship payments (National Science Foundation fellowships and traineeships, subsistence payments to State maritime academy cadets, and other federal fellowships), interest subsidy on higher education loans, basic educational opportunity grants, and Job Corps payments.

10/Consists largely of Bureau of Indian Affairs payments, education exchange payments, Alaska Permanent Fund dividend payments, compensation of survivors of public safety officers, compensation of victims of crime, disaster relief payments, compensation for Japanese internment, and other special payments to individuals.

11/Consists of State and local government payments for foster home care supervised by private agencies, State and local government educational assistance payments to nonprofit institutions, and other State and local government payments to nonprofit institutions.

12/Consists largely of personal injury payments to individuals other than employees and other business transfer payments.

13/Cibola, NM was separated from Valencia in June 1981, but in these estimates, Valencia includes Cibola through the end of 1981.

14/La Paz County, AZ was separated from Yuma County on January 1, 1983. The Yuma, AZ MSA contains the area that became La Paz County, AZ through 1982 and excludes it beginning with 1983.

15/Estimates for 1979 forward reflect Alaska Census Areas as defined in the 1980 Decennial Census; those for prior years reflect Alaska Census Divisions as defined in the 1970 Decennial Census. Estimates from 1988 forward separate Aleutian Islands Census Area into Aleutians East Borough and Aleutians West Census Area. Estimates for 1991 forward separate Denali Borough from Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and Lake and Peninsula Borough from Dillingham Census Area. Estimates from 1993 forward separate Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area into Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and Yakutat Borough.

16/Shawano, WI and Menominee, WI are combined as Shawano (incl. Menominee), WI for the years prior to 1989.

17/Halifax, VA contains South Boston for all years.

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Farm Income and Expenses
N/Data not available for this year.

L/Less than $50,000, but the estimates for this item are included in the totals.

1/Consists of imputed income, such as gross rental value of dwellings and value of home consumption, and other farm related income components, such as machine hire and custom work income, rental income, and income from forest products (1978 to present).

2/Consists of hired workers cash pay and perquisites, employers contributions for social security and medicare, and payments for contract labor, machine hire, and custom work.

3/Consists of repair and operation of machinery; depreciation, interest, rent and taxes; and other miscellaneous expenses including agricultural chemicals (1969-77).

4/Cibola, NM was separated from Valencia in June 1981, but in these estimates, Valencia includes Cibola through the end of 1981.

5/La Paz County, AZ was separated from Yuma County on January 1, 1983. The Yuma, AZ MSA contains the area that became La Paz County, AZ through 1982 and excludes it beginning with 1983.

6/Estimates for 1979 forward reflect Alaska Census Areas as defined in the 1980 Decennial Census; those for prior years reflect Alaska Census Divisions as defined in the 1970 Decennial Census. Estimates from 1988 forward separate Aleutian Islands Census Area into Aleutians East Borough and Aleutians West Census Area. Estimates for 1991 forward separate Denali Borough from Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area and Lake and Peninsula Borough from Dillingham Census Area. Estimates from 1993 forward separate Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area into Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area and Yakutat Borough.

7/Shawano, WI and Menominee, WI are combined as Shawano (incl. Menominee), WI for the years prior to 1989.

8/Halifax, VA contains South Boston for all years.

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Footnotes for READ indicators taken from their source documentation
1Births - Total number of live births occurring to residents of an area during the period, as reported from the Census Bureaus Fed-State Coop Program for Population Estimates (NSCPE) and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Note that the components of change data is not calculated on a national level. Any numbers for the nation are estimations.

2Deaths - Total number of deaths occurring within the resident population of an area during the period, as reported to FSCPE and NCHS. Note that the components of change data is not calculated on a national level. Any numbers for the nation are estimations.

3Net international migration - The difference between migration to an area from outside the U.S. (immigration) and migration from the area to outside the U.S. (emigration) during the period.

4Net Federal movement - The difference between the movement of federal employees (both military and civilian) and their dependents into and out of the U.S. during the period.

5Net domestic migration - The difference between domestic in-migration to an area and domestic out-migration from it during a period; e.g., migration of people within the United States.

6Residual - The residual is not a demographic component of population change; rather, it is a statistical adjustment used in the procedures for estimating population change and its components.

7Households - A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit; or a house, apartment, mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied as separate living quarters. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons sharing living arrangements.

8Family households - A family consists of a householder (usually the person in whose name the home is owned or rented) and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption. A family household is a household occupied by a family.

9Nonfamily households - A household occupied by a householder who lives alone or with nonrelatives only.

10Median household money income - Money income differs from personal income in that it is measured before deduction of personal contributions for social insurance and does not include imputed income, lump sum payments, and income received by quasi-individuals. The median household money income is the income amount received by the household in an area, with half of the other households in the area having a higher income and half having a lower income.

11Median family money income - See footnote 10.

12Persons for whom poverty status has been determined - Determined for all persons except institutionalized persons, persons in the military, persons in college dormitories, and unrelated individuals under 15 years old.

13Persons below poverty level - Estimated based upon family income threshold levels set by the Federal Office of Management and Budget that account for family size and number of children. The poverty threshold for a family of four in 1989 was $12,674. For a family of three, the threshold was $9,885. The total number of persons in families with income below poverty threshold levels are total persons below poverty level.

14Families - A family consists of a householder (head of household) and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder in some way (by birth, marriage, or adoption).

15Families below poverty level - Estimated based upon family income threshold levels set by the Federal Office of Management and Budget that account for family size and number of children. The poverty threshold for a family of four in 1989 was $12,674. For a family of three, the threshold was $9,885.

16Families with female householder, no spouse present - Families, or households occupied by related more than one person and whose occupants are related, with the household headed by a female with no spouse present or living in the household.

17Number of serious crimes known to police (crime index) -Includes murder and manslaughter, forcible rap;e, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson (arson added in 1978).

18Number of violent crimes known to police - Crimes involving violence to another person, such as murder, rape, assault, and robbery.

19Modified crime index (crime index and arson) - Includes all serious crimes known to police, as well as arson, which was added in 1978.

20Total housing units - A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied (or vacant, but intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters.

21Vacant housing units - Housing units, that are intended to be occupied, that are vacant or unoccupied at the time of enumeration, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent.

22Owner-occupied housing units - Housing units that are being lived in at the time of enumeration and are owned by one or more of the occupants.

23New private housing units authorized by building permits - Statistics on new housing units authorized by building permit are based upon reports submitted by local building permit officials in response to a mail survey (Form C404, Report of Building or Zoning Permits Issued and Local Public Construction). When reports are not received, missing data are estimated from the Survey of Use of Permits (SUP) which is used to collect information on housing starts, or the missing data are imputed. The portion of residential construction measured by building permit records is inherently limited since such records dont reflect construction activity outside of areas that require building permits for such construction. Nationwide, less than 5 percent of all privately owned housing units are constructed in areas not requiring building permits. But, this proportion varies greatly from state to state and among counties.

24Civilian labor force - Includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population (16 and older who are not inmates of institutions or in the military) that are classified as either employed or unemployed.

25Civilian labor force unemployment - All persons in the civilian labor force who were unemployed during the reference week, and were available for work and had made specific efforts to find employment.

26Total labor force - Includes all persons who were classified as employed or unemployed during the reference week.

27Total full- and part-time employment - Estimates of total employment, including both full- and part-time employment, are made four times each year (quarterly). The annual estimate of total employment is an average for these four quarterly estimates. Those fully employed are counted as one just as those employed part-time are counted as one. And, if a worker is employed in two separate part-time jobs, this is counted as two employments.

28Wage and salary employment - Includes all employment other than proprietors or self-employed workers.

29Proprietors employment - Includes proprietors and those engaged in partnerships, or proprietorships involving associations of two or more persons. Corporate officers are not included.

30Farm proprietors employment - Proprietorships and partnerships involved in farm and ranch production, which excludes corporate farms. Officers of corporate farms are classified as farm wage and salary employment, along with workers hired by farm proprietors. Contract workers used in agriculture are classified as agricultural service workers.

31Nonfarm proprietors employment - This estimate includes nonfarm proprietors and partnerships, but excludes limited partners.

32Farm employment - Includes farm proprietors, partnerships, hired workers, and corporate officers of corporate farms.

33Private nonfarm employment - Includes all employment, other than farm proprietors and their hired workers and all government workers. Contract workers employed in agricultural production are included in agricultural services.

34Agricultural, forestry, and fishing services - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in agricultural production, forestry, commercial fishing, hunting and trapping, and related services. It does not include farm proprietors and their hired workers. Ag services include soil preparation services, crop services, landscape and horticultural services, veterinary and other animal services, and contract farm labor and management services. Forestry covers establishments primarily engaged in managing timber tracts, tree farms, or forest nurseries. Logging establishments are classified in manufacturing (lumber products).

35Mining - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in the exploration for and extraction of minerals, including coal mining, metals and nonmetals mining, and oil and gas extraction. It also includes quarrying activities.

36Construction - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in new construction, additions, alterations, and repairs. Each relatively fixed place of business from which construction work is performed is treated as a separate establishment if separate data on employment and earnings are maintained. Otherwise, the location from which a construction companys work is administered and managed is treated as the place where the construction activity occurs. Construction is broken down into general contracting, heavy construction, and special trade contractors.

37Manufacturing - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials into new products. Manufacturing production is usually carried on for the wholesale market, for inter-plant transfer, or for industrial uses, rather than for direct sale to retail users. It is subdivided into durables and nondurables manufacturing.

38Transportation and public utilities (TPU) - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in providing passenger and freight transportation, communications services, or electricity, gas, water or sanitary services. It does not include governmental or public entities providing these services, only private ones.

39Wholesale trade - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, and institutional business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying or selling merchandise to such users.

40Retail trade - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in selling merchandise or personal or household use and in rendering services incidental to the sale of retail goods.

41Finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in the fields of finance (banking, credit institutions, investment companies), insurance (agents, brokers), and real estate (owners, lessors, lessees, buyers, sellers, agents, and developers of real estate).

42Services - This industry division includes establishments primarily engaged in providing services to individuals, businesses and government, including lodging, personal, business, engineering, management, health, legal, and other professional services. Privately-provided educational services also are included.

43Government and government enterprises - This includes employees of governmental entities of federal, state, and local government and the military, as well as government enterprises, or government agencies whose operating costs are heavily covered by sales of goods or services.

44State and local government - Includes all agencies and departments of state and local government as well as public educational entitites; e.g., colleges, universities, and public K - 12 education. In the REIS system, ownership trumps function, which is why public education is included in state and local government, rather than the service sector category educational services.

45Personal income - Income of all forms paid to or received by private individuals. Personal income is reported by place of residence of recipients.

46Farm income - Farm income consists of farm proprietors income of all types; cash wages, pay-in-kind, and other labor income, including government payments to farmers, income of hired farm workers, and income paid to officers of farm corporations. Payments by farmers to contract agricultural workers are included in agricultural services, not farm income.

47Population - REIS uses the Census Bureaus mid-year population estimates.

48Per capita personal income - This is derived by dividing the total personal income of an area by its total population. It is the average amount of income per resident, including residents of all ages.

49Earnings by place of work (workplace) - These are labor earnings - wages and salaries, proprietors income, and other labor income - as reported by the place of work of workers, not by their place of residence. However, for most workers, their place of work and place of residence are usually in the same county.

50Personal contributions for social insurance - Include payments by employees, self-employed, and other individuals participating in federal old-age, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance; supplementary medical insurance; state unemployment insurance; temporary disability insurance; railroad retirement insurance; government retirement; and veterans life insurance. Although these contributions are included in the measure of earnings by type and industry, they are excluded from personal income.

51Adjustment for residence - Labor earnings such as wages and salaries are first reported by where they are paid, rather than where they are received, or according to the county of residence of workers. This adjustment reflects the total inflows of labor income of intercounty commuters minus the total outflows. A positive adjustment indicates that a county has many residents working outside their county of residence whose income from this work is greater than that received by non-county residents working in the county.

52Dividends, interest & rent or investment income - One of the three major components of personal income, consisting of income from dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received by persons.

53Transfer payments - One of the three major components of personal income, consisting of income payments to persons for which they dont render current services, including both payments by government and business to individuals and nonprofit institutions. The largest categories of transfer payments are retirement, disability and health insurance payments, such as Social Security payments and Medicare and Medicaid payments.

54Old-age survivors & disability insurance payments - Payments to individuals popularly referred to as social security. They are monthly benefits to insured retired and disabled workers and their dependents. This is the single largest transfer payments program.

55Workers compensation payments - Cash payments for job-related disability paid to employees or their survivors who are covered by government-administered workers compensation insurance.

56Other payments to individuals - Largely federal fellowship payments (National Science Foundation fellowships and traineeships, etc.) basic educational opportunity grants, and Job Corps payments.

57Payments to nonprofit institutions - Include payments by the federal government to private nonprofit hospitals for hospital construction and private educational institutions for education cost shares. They also include payments by state and local governments for foster home care and for training economically-disadvantaged persons that are supervised by private agencies. They also include payments by businesses as gifts to nonprofit institutions.

58Business payments to individuals - Consists largely of personal injury payments to individuals other than employees and other business transfer payments.

59Wage and salary disbursements - Monetary payments to employees (wages and salaries), including compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips, and bonuses; etc. They are measured before deductions such as social security contributions. They include wages and salaries of both private and public employees.

60Other labor income - Includes such payments as employer contributions to private pension funds and to private welfare funds such as group life insurance and health insurance plans.

61Proprietors income - The income of proprietorships and partnerships and of tax-exempt cooperatives or income sometimes referred to as self-employment income. Estimates of nonfarm proprietors income are primarily based on IRS data compiled from Schedule SE (Social Security Self-employment Tax), Schedule C (Business Profit and Loss), and Schedule E (Supplemental Income Schedule).

62Farm proprietors income - The net income of farm proprietors, with gross farm income including cash receipts from farm marketings, gross rental value of farm housing, the value of farm products consumed on the farm, other farm income, government payments, and the value of changes in farm inventories. Production expenses are based upon USDA state estimates.

63Farm earnings - Labor earnings of farm proprietors and farm wages and salaries or cash wages of hired farm laborers, the pay-in-kind of hired farm labor, and salaries of corporate farm officers.

64Stone, clay, and glass products - Industry group that includes establishments engaged in glass products, cement, clay products, concrete and gypsum products, cut stone, and other products from materials taken principally from the earth in the form of stone, clay, and sand, including some quarrying activities.

65Industrial machinery and equipment - Industry group that includes the manufacture of industrial and commercial machinery and equipment, including computers.

66Electronic and other electric equipment - Industry group that includes the manufacture of machinery and supplies for the generation, storage, transmission, and utilization of electricity, including communications equipment.

67Other transportation equipment - Includes the manufacture of transportation equipment other than motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts, such as air craft manufacturing, water craft manufacturing, etc.

68Instruments and related products - Includes the manufacture of instruments for measuring, testing, and controlling, including optical instruments and lenses; search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems and equipment; surgical, medical, and dental instruments and equipment; photographic equipment; watches and clocks, etc. Does not include computer equipment.

69Ordnance - Ordnance or ammunition is no longer used as a separate industry subgroup in REIS by BEA. Establishments once classified as ordnance are now classified as fabricated metal products, electronic and other electric equipment, transportation equipment, and instruments and related products.

70Other transportation - Includes establishments engaged in transportation services other than railroads, trucking and warehousing, and water transportation. This includes local passenger transit, air transportation services, petroleum pipelines, and other services incidental to transportation like forwarding and packing services.

71Transportation by air - Includes establishments engaged in furnishing transportation by air and also those operating airports and furnishing terminal services.

72Communications - This industry group includes establishments furnishing both aural and visual communication services, and radio and television broadcasting. This includes beeper services and other telephone transmission services.

73Electric, gas, and sanitary services - Includes private establishments, not governmental ones, providing utility services.

74Miscellaneous retail - Includes retail establishments not classified elsewhere, such as drug stores, liquor stores, used merchandise stores, book stores, jewelry stores, hobby shops, camera shops, gift and novelty stores, leather goods stores, sewing and needlework stores, catalog and mail-order houses, fuel dealers, newsstands, optical goods stores, pet shops, etc.

75Depository and non-depository institutions - Industry group including institutions that are engaged in deposit banking (banks, savings and loans, credit unions, etc.) or closely related functions (trust companies, electronic funds transfer networks, travelers check issuance, consumer finance companies, etc.).

76Other finance, insurance, and real estate - Includes security and commodity brokers and traders, investment advisors and managers, insurance carriers and agents, title insurance companies, and real estate operators, owners, buyers, sellers, developers, agents, and brokers.

77Combined real estate, insurance, etc. - An earlier industry group that was reclassified under the 1987 SIC into four categories: nondepository credit institutions, insurance agents and brokers, real estate, and legal services.

78Personal services - Includes establishments primarily engaged in providing services to individuals, such as laundries, drycleaners, photo studios, and beauty and barber shops.

79Private households - Services provided in private households, like babysitting, domestic services, gardening, home maintenance, etc.

80Business services - Includes establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to businesses on a contract or fee basis, such as advertising, credit reporting, computer programming, data processing, commercial art and graphic design, equipment rental, help supply services, etc.

81Miscellaneous repair services - Establishments primarily engaged in repair services such as radio and television repair, refrigeration and air-conditioning service, electrical and electronic repair,

82Amusement and recreation services - Establishments engaged in providing amusement or entertainment services, such as bowling centers, sports clubs and fitness facilities, golf courses, sport racing operations, bands and other entertainment groups, outdoor guide services, etc.

83Motion pictures - Establishments engaged in producing and distributing motion pictures, exhibiting motion pictures in commercially operated theaters, and furnishing services to the motion picture industry, including motion picture video rental stores.

84Health services - Establishments engaged in furnishing medical, surgical, and other health services to persons, including HMOs. Included are hospitals, doctor and dentist clinics and offices, nursing care facilities, medical labs, home health care providers, etc.

85Educational services - Private establishments providing educational services, including private elementary and secondary schools, colleges, professional schools, technical institutes and vocational schools, tutoring services, etc.

86Social services - Private establishments providing social and rehabilitation services to persons, such as family counseling, alcoholism counseling, adoption services, senior citizen and youth centers, services for the handicapped, job training and vocational rehabilitation, child day care services, residential care, etc.

87Museums, botanical, zoological gardens - Private establishments such as museums, art galleries, botanical gardens, etc.

88Membership organizations - Organizations operating on a membership basis such as trade associations, professional membership organizations, political and religious organizations, business associations like the Chamber of Commerce, labor organizations, and similar organizations.

89Engineering and management services - Includes establishments providing engineering, architectural, surveying, accounting, auditing, bookkeeping, research and development, management, public relations, and other similar services.

90Imputed and miscellaneous income received - Consists of imputed income, such as gross rental value of dwellings and value of home consumption, and other farm related income components such as machine hire and custom work income, rental income, and income from forest products.

91Hired farm labor expenses - Consists of hired workers cash pay, employers contributions for social security and medicare, and payments for contract labor and custom work.

92All other production expenses - Consists largely of repair and operation of machinery; depreciation; interest, rent, and taxes; and other miscellaneous expenses including ag chemicals.

93Total value of inventory change - Because the proprietors income component of personal income is defined as a measure of income arising from current production, total net farm income includes the value of the net change in inventories of livestock and crops held for sale.

94Total net income of corporate farms - Corporate farms are defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture

95Farm wages and perquisites - The sum of cash wages of hired farm labor and the pay-in-kind of hired farm labor.

96Farms - number - For Census purposes, the number of farm operators is the same as the number of farms. For farm partnerships, only one partner is counted as the operator. In order to be considered a farm, the farm operation must have produced or must be capable of producing at least $1,000 worth in agricultural products (92 Ag Census definition).

97Farm operators by principal occupation - Farm operators are the persons who operate farms, either doing the work or making day-to-day decisions about operation of the farm. The operator may be the owner, a member of the owners household, a hired manager, a tenant, a renter, or a sharecropper. If an operator spends 50 percent or more of his/her worktime in farming or ranching, their principal occupation is considered to be farming.

98Rural farm population - The rural population is all persons residing in places of less than 2,500 population or in outlying unincorporated areas. The rural farm population is rural residents who live in households on farms. A housing unit is classified as a farm residence if (1) the housing unit is on a property of 1 acre or more, and (2) at least $1,000 worth of ag products were sold from the property in 1989 (90 Population Census definition).

99Local government general revenue - All local government revenue except liquor store revenues, insurance trust revenue, and utility revenue. The basis for distinction is not the fund or administrative unit receiving particular amounts, but rather the nature of the revenue sources.

100Local government intergovernmental revenue - Amounts received from other governments as fiscal aid in the form of shared revenues and grants-in-aid, as reimbursements for performance of general government functions and specific services for a paying government, or in lieu of taxes. Excludes amounts received from other governments for sale of property, commodities, and utility services. All intergovernmental revenue is classified as general revenue.

101Local government general revenue; total taxes - All tax revenue is classified as general revenue. Local government tax revenue excludes any amounts from shares of State-imposed and collected taxes, which are classified as intergovernmental revenue.

102Local government general revenue; sales and gross receipits - Taxes, including licenses at more than nominal rates, based on volume or value of transfers of goods or services; upon gross receipts, or upon gross income; and related taxes based upon use, storage, production, importation, or consumption of goods (general sales taxes, selective sales taxes, taxes on alcoholic beverages, taxes on admission tickets, taxes imposed on public passenger and freight transport companies, utility companies, etc.).

103Local government direct general expenditures - Payments to employees, suppliers, contractors, beneficiaries, and other final recipients. All expenditures other than intergovernmental expenditures.

104Local government total debt outstanding - All debt obligations remaining unpaid at the date of enumeration.

105Local government employment - full-time equivalent (october) -

106Direct federal expenditures or obligations - Expenditures or obligations for payment by the federal government that are paid directly to individuals, organizations, and local agencies. This excludes federal aid channeled through state governments, which is considered as intergovernmental revenue from state government.

107Federal direct payments to individuals - Includes all payments by the federal government that go directly to private individuals, including retirement and disability payments.

108Direct federal procurement contract awards - Includes all military and non-military procuring or purchasing by the federal government.

109Direct federal grant awards - Includes all block grants, formula grants, project grants, and cooperative grants by the federal government.

110Direct federal expenditures for salaries and wages, total: Includes federal expenditures for compensating federal employees, both military and civilain, based upon where they reside or are living.

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Footnotes for READ data sources
a/The READ Database System is constructed from a variety of data sources that offer comprehensive, nationwide, county-level data and information on economic, population, and social conditions and trends. The data source used for each record or indicator above is indicated in the origin code in the left column.
    cmpch: Components of Population Change, Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. These estimates contain annual population estimates and estimates of population change by component, i.e., by natural change (births minus deaths) and by net migration (changing numbers of residents through migration to and from an area). The data are routinely updated each year, with update releases scheduled in March.
    usa__: USA Counties 1998, Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Data are from the Bureau of Census and other Federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Social Security Administration, and from the decennial population and economic censuses.
    rc_: Regional Economic Information System (REIS), Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. This data series contains detailed income and and employment information, including labor income estimates for detailed industry categories at the state and county levels. Estimates are derived from administrative records (State unemployment insurance program, Social Security Administration insurance program, Federal tax program, etc.), censuses, and surveys. New county-level estimates are released each June.

Source note
: Economic Censuses (EC) are conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce every five years, including censuses of agriculture, mining, manufacturing, construction, transportation, wholesale trade, retail trade, selected services, and finance, insurance and real estate. A comprehensive government census also is conducted. Much of the information contained in READ derived from these economic censuses is extracted from the USA Counties CD-Rom. However, information from the most recent economic census (1997) is taken directly from census releases.
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b/The READ Database System contains data in two basic forms: monetary data or information measured in dollars ($), and non-monetary data or information measured in units or amounts other than dollars (N). With only a few exceptions, all information presented in dollar terms is adjusted for inflation, that is, the dollar amounts are in 1996 inflation-adjusted dollars. The dollar figure given in a table for any year is adjusted to reflect the value of a dollar in 1996. Annual price deflators used in this adjustment are published by the WEFA Group, U.S. Economic Outlook (Gross Domestic Product price deflators, Table 1.2, Oct., 1996).
Note: The base year for the deflator, currently 1996, will be revised upward periodically.
YearInflatorYearInflatorYearInflatorYearInflatorYearInflator
1975:0.381980:0.5481985:0.711990:0.8531995:0.98
1976:0.4041981:0.6021986:0.7291991:0.8861996:1
1977:0.4311982:0.641987:0.7531992:0.9111997:1.023
1978:0.4621983:0.6651988:0.7821993:0.9341998:1.049
1979:0.5031984:0.691989:0.8171994:0.9551999:1.076
Dollar amounts for any given year are adjusted for inflation by dividing them by these annual indexes. The base year for these indexes will be changed from 1996 to a more recent year at a later date.
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c/Periodic updating of data: READ data are regularly updated over the course of the year as new data become available. Data from REIS by BEA provides county-level income and employment estimates through 1998, while simultaneously providing revisions of '97 and '96 estimates. The READ database will incorporate these data after they are made available, with this updating ordinarily occurring in July. New population data from the Components of Change data series (cmpch) are ordinarily available in March, with their incorporation into READ occurring in April. The USA Counties CD-Rom is updated periodically, but not according to a well-established schedule. Other data will be added to READ from the '97 Economic Censuses.  These data are added to subsequent USA Counties CD-Roms, but an effort will be made to include this data directly from EC data releases in the forthcoming months, including all of the '97 EC information.
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Notice:The data used in READ are obtainable from their federal government sources. Most population data are obtainable from the Bureau of Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce and most income and employment data are obtainable from the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Labor statistics can be obtained from the U.S. Department of Labor. READ users can learn more about how specific data are compiled by contacting these federal sources and others. Data errors can sometimes occur in the extensive manipulation of large data files, as is done in READ. If users believe that an error may exist in any of the information access through READ, they should notifiy the READ administrator.
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