Passenger Transportation Arrangement statistics



Source of receipts	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	Operating expenses	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997


Receipts, total ¹	7,291	8,470	9,822	10,921	10,152	10,573	11,032	11,710	12,754	13,725	14,812	Expenses, total ¹	6,375	7,633	8,799	9,912	9,469	9,705	10,051	10,706	11,258	12,238	13,166

Air carriers	4,087	4,731	5,401	5,837	5,527	5,881	6,211	6,544	7,174	7,689	8,332	Payroll, annual	2,602	3,063	3,468	3,891	3,740	3,924	4,013	4,489	4,745	5,114	5,460
Water carriers	325	335	394	474	520	523	529	584	679	653	649	Employer contributions ²	319	382	464	519	516	526	573	664	718	791	802
Hotels and motels	463	569	693	771	676	744	773	846	951	1,045	1,151	Lease and rental payments	608	730	825	919	874	873	838	767	786	850	898
Motor coaches	275	304	343	403	385	379	363	348	342	421	466	Advertising and promotion	370	487	588	722	636	653	670	652	607	697	691
Railroads	57	79	106	127	130	110	122	116	122	147	156	Taxes and licenses	114	127	148	158	134	135	140	153	160	152	181
Rental cars	130	140	157	175	171	187	216	264	335	363	402	Utilities	132	244	295	352	341	371	417	448	505	544	553
Package tours	1,450	1,729	1,978	2,250	1,931	1,989	2,143	2,397	2,539	2,706	2,875	Depreciation	358	354	371	409	379	326	339	365	393	412	506
Other	504	583	750	884	812	760	671	609	612	701	781	Office Supplies	196	260	306	321	295	300	288	313	324	337	370
												Repair Services	83	110	124	156	139	124	129	142	151	161	195
												Other	1593	1876	2210	2,465	2,415	2,473	2,644	2,713	2,869	3,180	3,510

1 Receipts for firms primarily engaged in arranging passenger transportation. These estimates exclude receipts of transportation companies (airlines, railroads, etc.).
2 Includes contributions to social security and other supplemental benefits.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Business Reports, Service Annual Survey, Series BS. http://www.census.gov/pub/svsd/www/sas.html SERVICE ANNUAL SURVEY

PURPOSE

To provide estimates of revenue and other measures for most traditional service industries. The United States Code, Title 13, authorizes this survey and provides for mandatory responses.

COVERAGE

Companies that primarily provide services to individuals, businesses, and governments (NAICS 51, 5231, 52392, 52393, 532, 54, 56,62, 71, 81). This survey also covers the Transportation and Warehousing sector (NAICS 484, 492, and 493). Industry coverage and detail have been expanded since 1982, and include most personal, business, automotive, amusement and recreation, social, health, and other professional services. In 1991, use of expanded 1987 SIC classifications began. Covered industries accounted for about 20% of the Nation's 1994 Gross Domestic Product. The new North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is being used for the first time with the 1999 survey to collect data for the Service Annual Survey (SAS). The scope of the Service Annual Survey has been broadened to encompass the old Annual Survey of Communication Services and the old Transportation Annual Survey. With the implementation of NAICS, approximately 150 additional service industries are being covered.

CONTENT

Collected data include tax and organizational status; operating revenue for both taxable and tax-exempt firms and organizations; sources of revenue and expenses by type for selected industries; operating expenses for tax-exempt firms; and selected industry-specific items. In addition, starting with the 1999 survey, e-commerce data will be collected for all industries, and export and inventory data will be collected for selected industries.

FREQUENCY

Annually since 1982; reported data are for activities which take place during the calendar year. Prior to 1982, the survey was conducted monthly. Data collection begins in January following the survey year and continues for about 14 weeks. A new sample is introduced about every 5 years, most recently for the 1999 survey.

METHODS

A mail-out/mail-back survey of approximately 45,000 selected service businesses with paid employees; supplemented by administrative records data or imputed values to account for nonemployer and certain other businesses. To be eligible for the list sample, service businesses must be in the Standard Statistical Establishment List which contains all Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) for listed businesses and all locations of multi-establishment companies. EINs may represent one or more establishments and firms may have one or more EINs.

In the initial sampling, companies are stratified by major and minor kind of business, and by estimated receipts or revenue. All companies with total receipts above applicable size cutoffs are included in the survey and report for all their service industry locations. In a second stage, EINs of unselected companies are stratified by major kind of business and receipts or revenue. Within each stratum a simple random sample of EINs is selected.

The initial sample is updated quarterly to reflect "births" and "deaths"; adding new employer businesses identified in the business and professional classification survey and dropping firms and EINs that are no longer active. During interim periods, service nonemployer and other businesses are represented by administrative records data or imputed values.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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