This report was prepared in the Economy-Wide Statistic Division of the U.S. Census Bureau under the general direction of Kevin Deardorff, Chief; and Cynthia Hollingsworth, Assistant Division Chief for Cross Sector Statistics.

The overall planning, management, coordination and implementation were under the direction of Valerie C. Mastalski, Chief, Capital Expenditures Branch, assisted by Venita Holland, Demetrius Lambeth, and Sara Prebble, Section Chiefs, Capital Expenditures Branch. Primary staff assistance was provided by Ayub Abdallah, Kevin Ball, Bobby Brown, Linda Gaich, William Gainor, Shannon Hammerlund, Tanisha Hurd, Natasha Isaac, JungJin Kang, Spencer Knoll, Jim Lawrence, Dimitrios Leondaridis, Conrad Munger, Omar Nix, Mabel Ocasio, Renaldo Simpson, Alan Tominack, Ben Weiner, and Justin Wilson.

General direction for statistical methodology was provided by Carol Caldwell, Chief of the Economic Statistical Methods Division, Xijian Liu, Methodology Director for Retail, Wholesale and Services Programs, and James Hunt, Chief of the Financial and Business Owners Surveys Statistical Methods Branch. Jeffrey L Dalzell, Jared Martin and Beth Newman updated and implemented the sample design, estimation and adjustment methodologies.

The Economic Management Division, Christine Moseley, Data Processing Team Lead for Economic Programs, coordinated iCADE data capture and Centurion. Primary assistance was provided by Jennifer Deppe, Hector Aguirre and Leigh Ann Smith. Michelle Karlsson, Chief, Mailout and Data Capture Branch, coordinated survey mailout and data collection with Christopher Berbert, Section Chief. Primary assistance was provided by Loretta Brawner and Michael Zabelsky.

The staff of the National Processing Center, Aretha Wilkerson, Assistant Division Chief for Processing, performed mailout preparation and receipt operations, clerical and analytical review activities, and data entry.

The Economic Applications Division, Kenneth Keer, Chief, Current Manufacturing and Company Statistics Annuals Branch, developed and implemented computer processing systems. Nestor Baez Jr., Supervisory Computer Specialist Systems Analyst, supervised the preparation of computer programs. Stephen Potemkin was responsible for frame creation and sample selection. Kristy Harley and Megha Singal were assigned primary programming responsibilities.

Finally, a special acknowledgment is due to the many businesses whose cooperation was essential to the success of this report.

If you have any questions concerning the statistics in this report, call 301-763-3324.