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All dollar values presented in the SBO reports are expressed in current dollars, i.e., 2012 data are expressed in 2012 dollars and 2002 data in 2002 dollars. Consequently, when making comparisons to prior years, data users should take into consideration the inflation that has occurred.
Represents the employment size categories of firms:
A method of disclosure avoidance in which values are perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a randomnoise multiplier to the magnitude data, such as the sales and receipts for all firms. Disclosure protection is accomplished in a manner that causes the vast majority of cellvalues to be perturbed by, at most, a few percentage points. For sample-based tabulations, such as SBO, the estimated relative standard error for a published cell includesboth the estimated sampling error and the amount of perturbation in the estimated cell value due to noise.
Represents the sales/receipts/revenue size categories of firms:
Publicly held and other firms not classifiable by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status companies include:
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