Excerpt from Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Census of the Business, 1939, Vol. 2: Wholesale Trade

The volume comprises summary statistics on whole sale trade for the country as a whole, for geographic divisions, States, counties, and for cities as well as such subject and special studies as employment by months and employment and pay roll for 1 week; business size; an analysis of operating expenses; cash-credit analysis of sales, receivables and inventories; sales by classes of customers; and commodity sales. The data, which were collected in 1940 in a complete field canvass conducted under the supervision of the regular field organization of the Bureau of the Census, cover operations of wholesale establishments throughout the United States during the year 1939. Information contained herein has beer'i issued, for the most part, in a series of State and subject reports.

Unlike most surveys or sample studies in the field of wholesaling, census data represent complete coverage, hence are much wider in scope. Quently are confined to a limited part of the universe studied, Whereas census data cover the entire field. Relatively few items are generally covered in surveys or sample studies, while in the census, data are presented on many phases of wholesaling such as number of establishments, sales, employment, pay roll, inven tories, operating expenses, cash-credit business, and the like. Statistics derived from the census are basic and fundamental and provide a dependable base or bench mark for evaluating and projecting current data of a more limited nature.

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