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Receipts for Computer-Services Businesses
Up 17 Percent, Census Bureau Reports
Receipts for computer-services firms,including computer programming,
data processing and related services, increased 17 percent to total $216
billion in 1997, up from $184 billion in 1996, according to data released
on the Internet today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.
Other changes in services industries between 1996 and 1997 included:
- Receipts for taxable and tax-exempt firms providing health services
totaled $836 billion, up 5 percent.
- Firms providing engineering, accounting, research and management
services reported receipts of $322 billion, an increase of 10 percent.
- Receipts for automotive repair, automotive services and parking
businesses increased 5 percent, to $112 billion.
- Receipts for hotels, motels, rooming houses and other lodging places
increased 6 percent, to $94 billion.
The Census Bureau's tables cover a variety of services, including
personal, business, automotive, amusement and recreation, social, health
and other professional services. They also show operating receipts for
taxable firms and total revenue and expenses for firms and organizations
exempt from federal income taxes.
The estimates from the 1997 Service Annual Survey are subject to
sampling and nonsampling error. Sources of nonsampling error include
errors of response, nonreporting and coverage. Measures of sampling
variability, presented as relative standard errors, are shown in the
tables.
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The U.S. Census Bureau, pre-eminent collector and disseminator of timely,
relevant and quality data about the people and the economy of the United
States, conducts a population and housing census every 10 years, an
economic census every five years and more than 100 demographic and
economic surveys every year, all of them evolving from the first census in
1790.
