I need a count of enterprises (businesses) broken down as follows:

# of businesses inside the US with employees in the following categories:
- Over 50,000 employees
- 10k-50k employees
- 5k-10k employees
- 1k-5k employees
- Less than 1k employees

# of businesses outside the US with employees in the following categories:
- Over 50,000 employees
- 10k-50k employees
- 5k-10k employees
- 1k-5k employees
- Less than 1k employees

---

Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 02 Dec 2002 17:30 PST

Peterch --

You may want to split this question in two.  The first part is pretty
easy to answer but I doubt that anyone has a rollup of businesses by
size worldwide.  Researchers tend not to answer questions when they
can only provide part of what's requested.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

---

Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 02 Dec 2002 17:34 PST

Hi! The data on the US side is possible but for those outside the US
will be tough. The reason for this is that the possibility of
different census dates in other countries which will make for a pretty
murky data. Furthermore, in some countries, such data may not be
published over the Internet. Would US figures do just fine? You may
adjust the price to reflect the changes. Just let me know. :)

---

Clarification of Question by peterch-ga on 02 Dec 2002 18:05 PST

US businesses would be fine for 1/2 off the total price.

---

Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 03 Dec 2002 01:45 PST

Hi! The most reliable dat I could find only has numbers up to those
companies with 10000+ employees. Would this qualify as a legitimate
answer? :)

---

Clarification of Question by peterch-ga on 03 Dec 2002 06:46 PST

Yes 10,000+ as the upper bound is a valid answer.

Hi! Thanks for the question and for accepting my answer.

I found the following data from the US Census. The latest data
published by the government was for 1999.

					Total Firms

10,000 or more employees	           936
5,000-9,999 employees	                   871
1,000-4,999 employees	                 6,698
Less than 1000 employees             5,599,238


The data is in Microsoft Excel format. I will post a link here so that
you could verify my numbers.

“Number of Firms, Number of Establishments, Employment, and Annual
Payroll by Employment” (US Census: 1999)
http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/uslrg99.xls 

If you want to view data in a number of ways according to size of
enterprise, the following page would be of help.

Tabulations by Enterprise Size
http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb2.htm#go99 

Search terms used: 
US Census business statistics 

I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.

Thanks for visiting us. 

Regards, 
Easterangel-ga

---

Clarification of Answer by easterangel-ga on 03 Dec 2002 07:41 PST

Sorry I tried to arrange the numbers buy they still got mixed up in
HTML. I will try to fix them up.

Size of Enterprise              Number of firms

10,000 or more employees      =       936 firms 
5,000-9,999 employees         =       871 firms
1,000-4,999 employees         =     6,698 firms
Less than 1000 employees      = 5,599,238 firms

Thanks.

My question for US businesses was answered.  I was hoping for more
recent data but I can't blame the researcher for that!