1. How many companies and organization with over 500 employees exist in the USA

2. A brake-down of #1:
 By their sectors; technology, medical, financial etc., 
 By region
 Public sector; federal and state gov. education 

3. Is there a general estimate of the number of "Information workers"
in the US, and a brake-down of the number.

* Sources have to be quoted

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 07 Dec 2003 14:33 PST

What sort of "break-down" of "information workers" did you have in
mind?  By region? By sector?

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Clarification of Question by daglakerda-ga on 07 Dec 2003 20:28 PST

Hi Juggler,

What I'm after particularly is figuring out the number of employees
using corporate networks; LAN WAN etc., especially at larger corporate
and organizations. the most useful breakdown would be by heir business
or gov sector.

If this is hard I'll be comfortable to gleam the numbers by making
assumptions based on list and breakdown of  #1 and #2.

Thanks

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Here are the breakdowns for numbers 1 and 2 that you were asking for.

1. How many companies and organization with over 500 employees exist in the USA?

In the latest survey of the US Census for 2001 the estimate is that
there are 58,710,411 businesses in the US with more than 500
employees.  A further breakdown of the figures is available at our
first link.

?U.S. - All industries by Employment Size of Enterprise? (US Census Website)
http://www.census.gov/epcd/susb/2001/us/US--.HTM#table0 


2. Breakdowns 

Industry or Sector
http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/us_tot_mi.pdf (Major Industries)
http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/us_01_n6.pdf (All Industries)

Region
http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/st.pdf (Breakdown by State)
http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/msa.pdf (Breakdown by Metropolitan Area)

Public Sector:
http://www.census.gov/govs/apes/02fedfun.txt  (Federal Employment
Breakdown By Function)
http://www.census.gov/govs/apes/02federalstate.txt (FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT BY STATE)


3. Based on the statistics for the private sector that was shown above
in the link for major industries, there is an estimated 2,816,412
information workers.  I have referenced a partial breakdown here. A
more detailed breakdown is available on our next link.

Information services & data processing services  - 369,251
Information services - 121,078
News syndicates  - 8,860
Libraries & archives - 10,287
Other information services - 101,931
On-line information services - 97,207
All other information services - 4,724

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/us_01_n6.pdf (please got to page 15)


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