Why are there discrepencies between County Business Patterns establishment total figures and Dun & Bradstreet totals?
County Business Patterns obtains data fron the Standard Statistical Establishment List (SSEL), a file of all businesses in the U.S. with paid employees. The SSEL obtains timely information from the business-related tax filings of the IRS, and from annual reports from our own Company Organization Survey. Census receives quarterly employment and payroll data from employer businesses almost immediately after the business files its payroll return. This employment and payroll file from IRS accurately identifies the business universe. Our Company Organization Survey is mailed to multi-location companies for information on separate business locations. These two sources produce a timely and accurate business universe. We have conducted regular studies that compare our published data to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The studies show comparable universes. Both Census and BLS vary considerably from the Dun & Bradstreet files. The D&B file contains many businesses that are no longer ac
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