| Table 6-8 |
| Leading types of employers among high-technology small businesses, by industry: 2006 |
| |
| Industry |
Employment
(thousands) |
Percent
distribution |
| |
| All industries |
5,275 |
100.0 |
| Service industries |
3,599 |
68.2 |
| Top six combined |
3,085 |
58.5 |
| Architectural, engineering, and related services |
923 |
17.5 |
| Computer systems design and related services |
667 |
12.6 |
| Management, scientific, and technical consulting services |
637 |
12.1 |
| Management of companies and enterprises |
352 |
6.7 |
| Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers |
311 |
5.9 |
| Scientific research and development services |
194 |
3.7 |
| All others |
514 |
9.7 |
| Manufacturing |
1,554 |
29.5 |
| Top six combined |
800 |
15.2 |
| Motor vehicle parts manufacturing |
163 |
3.1 |
| Metalworking machinery manufacturing |
139 |
2.6 |
| Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing |
136 |
2.6 |
| Other general purpose machinery manufacturing |
135 |
2.6 |
| Other fabricated metal product manufacturing |
127 |
2.4 |
| Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing |
100 |
1.9 |
| All others |
754 |
14.3 |
| Other |
122 |
2.3 |
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NOTES: Small businesses are firms with <500 employees. Firms include those reporting no employees on their payroll. Firm is an entity that is either a single location with no subsidiary or branches or is topmost parent of a group of subsidiaries or branches. High-technology industries defined by Bureau of Labor Statistics on basis of employment intensity of technology-oriented occupations. High-technology small business employment is lower bound estimate because employment not available for a few industries due to data supression. Other includes agriculture, mining, and utilities.
SOURCES: Census Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Businesses, http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb06.htm, accessed 1 June 2009; and Hecker DE. 2006. High-technology employment: A NAICS-based update. Monthly Labor Review 128(7):57–72, http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art6full.pdf, accessed 1 June 2009.
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