Where can I find rankings showing the largest states in each industry or counties in each state?
• Industry Statistics Samplers list states in order of decreasing sales, receipts, or value of shipments, for any industry. • Counties are listed in order of decreasing retail sales in state-by-state links in the Writer’s Toolkit • American FactFinder allows you to sort output, and thus introduce ranking in any table. For an example, see the tutorial in the Guide to the Economic Census. • Because some area figures are suppressed to avoid disclosure of confidential information, you can’t always assume that the area with the highest published figure is in fact the largest. For example, in a ranking of NAICS 713210, Casinos (except casino hotels), many important states are listed at the bottom because their sales are “D”. Two of these (Connecticut and Mississippi) have more than 10,000 employees, more than the state at the top of the list (Illinois). In the Industry Statistics Samplers, it is always useful to examine the size of the “All other states” line, which is derived by subtracting
