Census of Wholesale Trade

1987 Summary Statistics for Wholesale Trade 1/,
New Mexico

                                                                              Paid        Annual
SIC                                           Establish-      Sales 2/   Employees,      Payroll
Code  Description                              ments 1/       ($000s)  Mid-March 3/      ($000s)

      Total                                       2,398    $5,102,353       22,137      $421,783

50      Durable goods                             1,550    $2,445,403       12,680      $262,870
501       Motor vehicles & parts & supplies         243       309,016        1,887        32,787
502       Furniture & homefurnishings                51        54,478          424         7,640
503       Lumber & other construction materials     115       288,381        1,172        23,693 
504       Professional & commercial equipment
            & supplies                              247       511,723        2,840        70,615
505       Metals & minerals, ex. petroleum           36        79,228          339         6,485
506       Electrical goods                          181       408,218        1,258        30,216
507       Hardware & plumbing & heating
            equipment & supplies                    110       152,586          800        16,648
508       Machinery, equipment & supplies           408       474,172        2,841        58,867
509       Miscellaneous durable goods               159       167,601        1,119        15,919

51      Nondurable goods                            848    $2,656,950        9,457      $158,913
511       Paper & paper products                     73       108,773          896        15,604
512       Drugs, drug proprietaries & druggists'
            sundries                                 23        74,093          226         4,015
513       Apparel, piece goods & notions             18        13,148          141         1,668
514       Groceries & related products              209       787,752        2,528        51,113
515       Farm-product raw materials                 36       194,782          469         3,785
516       Chemicals & allied products                70        89,728          364         8,461
517       Petroleum & petroleum products            164       952,809        2,470        35,892
518       Beer, wine & distilled alcoholic bev.      47       276,804        1,107        23,127
519       Miscellaneous nondurable goods            208       159,061        1,256        15,248


1/  Includes only establishments with a payroll.  Excludes governmental organizations.

2/  Includes wholesale and retail sales of establishments primarily engaged in wholesale
    trade.

3/  Paid employees for the pay period including March 12.

Source:  U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1992 Economic Censuses CD-ROM,
Report Series: Disc 1H and Geographic Area Series: New Mexico, "1992 Census of Wholesale 
Trade", WC92-A-32 and "1987 Census of Wholesale Trade", WC87-A-32.

Table Prepared by: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico.