| Table 6-9 | ||
| Number of firms and employment of U.S. HT microbusinesses, by selected industries: 2010 | ||
| Industry | Number of firms | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| All industries | 316,636 | 437,604 |
| All manufacturing industries | 11,512 | 20,683 |
| Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments | 1,645 | 3,025 |
| Other general-purpose machinery | 1,589 | 3,036 |
| Industrial machinery | 1,128 | 2,129 |
| Semiconductors and other electronic components | 1,121 | 1,954 |
| All others | 6,029 | 10,539 |
| All services industries | 300,259 | 408,968 |
| Management, scientific, and technical consulting | 117,678 | 140,953 |
| Computer systems design and related | 80,767 | 107,719 |
| Architectural, engineering, and related | 61,046 | 95,055 |
| All others | 40,768 | 65,241 |
| All other industries | 4,865 | 7,953 |
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HT = high technology. NOTES: Firms with less than 5 employees include those reporting no employees on their payroll. A firm is an entity that is either a single location with no subsidiary or branches or the topmost parent of a group of subsidiaries or branches. HT industries are defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the basis of employment intensity of the technology-oriented occupations based on BLS’s 2011 Occupation Employment Survey. HT small business employment is a lower-bound estimate because employment data are not available for a few industries due to data suppression. SOURCES: U.S. Census Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Businesses, http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/, accessed 15 May 2013; 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 15 March 2013. See appendix table 6-55. Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 |
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