Start Page: 161
End Page:174
Volume:8
Issue Number: 02
Year: 2000
Publication: Journal of Real Estate Literature

Abstract: The Census of Construction Industries (CCI) is conducted every five years as part of the quinquennial Economic Census. The CCI covers all establishments with payroll that are engaged primarily in contract construction or construction on their own account for sale as defined in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual. The CCI is a partial census including all multi-establishments and all establishments with payroll above $480,000, one out of every five establishments with payroll between $480,000 and $120,000 and one out of eight remaining establishments. The resulting database contains for each year approximately 200,000 establishments in the building construction, heavy construction and special trade construction industrial classifications. This article compares the content, survey procedures and sample
response of the 1982, 1987 and 1992 Censuses of Construction. In addition, it describes the Census Bureau’s Economic Census Program, which includes the Census of Construction Industries.