FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2003



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 Computer Services Revenues Total $184 Billion in 2001; Legal,
 Management, Engineering and Accounting Services Show Increases
                                
  Computer systems design and related services reported revenues totaling
$184 billion in 2001, virtually unchanged from the previous year, the
Commerce Department's Census Bureau said today.

  Revenues of management, scientific and technical consulting services
rose by $10 billion. Legal, accounting, architectural and engineering
services all experienced increases in revenue, too.

  Tables from 2001 Service Annual Survey - Professional, Scientific and
Technical Services showed revenues for computer firms as follows:

 

  
 
    
 
    
Revenues 
      in 2001
      (billions of dollars) 
    
Revenues 
      in 2002 (billions of dollars) 
  
  
 
    
Computer systems design-related services 
    
$184.2 
    
$185.2
  
  
 
    
Computer systems design services 
    
85.9
    
87.6
  
  
 
    
Custom computer-programming services 
    
67.0
    
69.3
  
  
 
    
Computer facilities management services 
    
19.1
    
16.4
  
  
 
    
Other computer-related services 
    
12.2
    
12.0
  


                                
  Other service industries showed increases in revenues from 2000 to 2001:


  
 
    
 
    
Revenues 
      in 2001 (billions of dollars) 
    
Revenues 
      in 2002 (billions of dollars) 
  
  
 
    
Legal services (except notaries) 
    
$175.4
    
$164.2
  
  
 
    
Architectural, engineering and related services (except 
      landscape services) 
    
175.0
    
166.7
  
  
 
    
Management, scientific and technical

      consulting services 
    
116.2 
    
105.7
  
  
 
    
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping

      and payroll services 
    
85.1
    
80.1
  



  Previously released data on other service industry sectors showed
increases in revenues for amusement, gambling and recreation (6 percent);
performing arts and spectator sports (4.1 percent); repair and maintenance
(4.4 percent); and personal and laundry services (2.7 percent).

  The data are subject to sampling variability 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 selected tables of the product.