Need to know the size of the following types of businesses in terms of
the number of organzations in each type relative to the total number
of organizations for all types of businesses:

Education   
Government   
Healthcare   
Financial   
Manufacturing   
Pharma   
Retail   
Carrier   
General Enterprise   
Other

I am looking for percentages relative to all businesses worldwide. 
The final list might look like this:

Education 2%
Government 4%
Healthcare 5%
Financial 8%
Manufacturing 9%
Pharma 1%
Retail 6%
Carrier 2%
General Enterprise 12%
Other 51%

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Request for Question Clarification by lisarea-ga on 27 Aug 2002 11:02 PDT

A couple of questions to clarify exactly what you're looking for:

1. When you say "number of organizations," are you looking for
individual 'shops' or for the number of corporations within the
industry? That is, do you want the number of H&R Block offices counted
individually, or as a single organization? How about governmental
entities? At what level of granularity do you want this?

2. What about crossover? For example, would a public school be an
educational or government organization, or both?

3. By Carrier, do you mean telecommunications carrier?

4. How do you define General Enterprise?

Thanks,
Lisa.

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Clarification of Question by ejanszen-ga on 27 Aug 2002 14:33 PDT

Lisa,

I am looking for the number of organizations, e.g., within the
automotive segment of Manufacturing, General Motors and Ford, not each
Ford or GM plant.  As for governmental entities, GAO, DoD, etc.  To
narrow things down, pls give me only those corporations and gov't
entities with more than 1,000 employees.
         
A public school is an educational organization.
         
By Carrier, I mean telecommunications carrier.
         
General Enterprise relates to any corporation not in one of the other
categories listed.

Thanks.

Eric

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Request for Question Clarification by claudietta-ga on 30 Aug 2002 12:42 PDT

Dear ejanszen,

I can help you out with this question substantially, however, I only
have information strictly for businesses.  The governement and schools
(unless private) are not businesses.

If this information will satisfy your request, let me know.

Claudietta

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Clarification of Question by ejanszen-ga on 30 Aug 2002 13:03 PDT

Information in businesses only is fine, so long as it's not Cahners
Instat... have that already.  Thanks.

Dear Eric,

I apologize for the long delay.  

Here is the information you were looking for, worldwide.

Sector	       Entities	%	Entities, >1000	%
Education(a)	 3,795 	1%	 306 	0.8%
Government(b)	 146 	0.04%	 45 	0.1%
Healthcare	 27,328 7%	 2,647 	7%
Fianancial	 36,256 9%	 4,242 	11%
Manufacturing(c) 24,860 7%	 2,325 	6%
Pharma	         4,786 	1%	 644 	2%
Retail	         15,509 4%	 2,191 	6%
Carrier	           251 	0.1%	 58 	0.1%
Other	       269,423 	70%	 26,635 68%
Total	       382,354 	100%	 39,093 100%


Notes: The source of this information is Onesource.  I have found this
database to be very accurate for information nationally and
internationally, especially those entities that are have sales figures
greater than $500,000.  Although many entities with less than those
are included, it becomes less reliable.
a) I couldn't trust the accuracy of this number because the database
is predominantly a business related information.  Scanning the
information, I saw the inclusion private elementary schools, public
universities.  I did not see public elementary or middle schools, for
example.
b) This sector is called Public Services and Government.  Scanning the
listings, I see national research laboratories, UK postal service,
etc.  However, I wouldn't consider this all inclusive for similar
reasons to (a).
c) These entities tend to be primary pure manufacturers of fabricated
goods (appliance, construction, machinery, capital goods, office
equipment, etc), chemical manufacturers, and auto/truck manufacturers.

Please let me know if I can be of more help or to clarify something.

Thank you for using Google!
Claudietta