The Accommodation and Foodservices sector (sector 72) comprises establishments providing customers with lodging and/or preparing meals, snacks, and beverages for immediate consumption.

Excluded from this sector are governmental organizations classified in the covered industries and recreation or entertainment facilities providing food and beverage services. The basic tabulations in this report do not include data for establishments which are auxiliary (primary function is providing a service, such as warehouses) to accommodation and foodservices establishments within the same organization.

There is a separate report for each state, the District of Columbia, and the United States.

Each state report presents general statistics for establishments with payroll including number of establishments, sales, payroll, and employment by kind of business for the state, metropolitan areas (MAs), counties, and places with 2,500 inhabitants or more. Greater kind-of-business detail is shown for larger areas.

The United States report presents data for the United States as a whole for establishments with payroll for detailed kind-of-business classifications.