SELECTED DEFINITIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALL EMPLOYEES -- Comprise all full-time and part-time employees on the payrolls of construction establishments, who worked or received pay for any part of the pay period including the 12th of March, May, August, and November. Included are all persons on paid sick leave, paid holidays, and paid vacations during these pay periods. Officers of corporations are included, but proprietors and partners of unincorporated firms are not. Number of employees is the sum of all employees during the pay periods including the 12th of March, May, August, and November, divided by 4. BEGINNING-OF-YEAR GROSS BOOK VALUE OF DEPRECIABLE ASSETS ($1,000) -- Gross value of depreciable assets, usually original costs of the assets, at the beginning of the year. Depreciable assets are the fixed tangible property of the establishment for which depreciation accounts are ordinarily maintained. BEGINNING-OF-YEAR INVENTORIES OF MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES ($1,000) -- The inventories of materials and supplies owned at the beginning of the reporting year by establishments with payroll. Includes all of the materials and supplies that are owned regardless of where they are held. Excludes materials that are owned by others but held by the reporting establishment. Builders who built on their own account for sale were requested to exclude work in progress and finished units not sold from inventories. Inventories of multi-establishment companies were instructed to be reported by the establishment that is responsible for the inventories, even if these inventories were held at a separate location. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES, OTHER THAN LAND ($1,000) -- Capital expenditures are those that were or will be charged to the fixed assets accounts and for which depreciation accounts are ordinarily maintained. Includes the cost of capital improvements that were made during the year that increased the value of property or adapted it for another use. Capital expenditures for leasehold improvements made to property leased from others are also included. Land expenditures are not included as capital expenditures. If any building or equipment had been acquired under a capital leasing arrangement that meet the criteria set down by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), respondents were instructed to report the original cost or market value as a fixed asset and as a capital expenditure, if acquired in the reporting year. If the lease qualified as an operating lease, respondents were instructed not to include the value of the building and equipment as a fixed asset or capital expenditure. If capital expenditures were not recorded directly at the establishment level but handled centrally at a company or division level, respondents were requested to report appropriate estimates for the individual establishments. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS -- Includes all payroll workers up through the working supervisor level directly engaged in construction operations, such as painters, carpenters, plumbers, and electricians. Included are journeymen, mechanics, apprentices, laborers, truck drivers and helpers, equipment operators, and on-site record keepers and security guards. Supervisory employees above the working foreman level are excluded from this category and are included in the other employees category. COST OF ALL OTHER FUELS AND LUBRICANTS ($1,000) -- Costs for fuels and lubricants purchased during the year from other companies or received from other establishments f the company and not included as costs in any of these categories: natural gas; manufactured gas; gasoline; and diesel fuel. COST OF CONSTRUCTION WORK SUBCONTRACTED OUT TO OTHERS ($1,000) -- All costs for construction work subcontracted out to other construction contractors during the reporting year. Excluded from this item are costs to the reporting establishment for its purchases of materials, components, and supplies provided to a subcontractor for use, such costs are reported under costs for materials, components, and supplies. Also excluded are costs for the rental of machinery or equipment. COST OF ELECTRICITY ($1,000) -- Costs for electric energy purchased during the year from other companies or received from other establishments of the company. COST OF GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL ($1,000) -- Costs for gasoline and diesel fuel purchased during the year from other companies or received from other establishments of the company. COST OF OFF-HIGHWAY USE OF GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL ($1,000) -- Includes the costs for gasoline and diesel fuel purchased during the reporting year for off-highway use. Off-highway fuel use is the use of fuel for trade, business, or income producing activity. In most cases, off-highway fuel use does not include use in a highway vehicle registered or required to be registered for use on public highways. COST OF ON-HIGHWAY USE OF GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL ($1,000) -- Costs for gasoline and diesel fuel purchased during the year to fuel highway vehicles. A highway vehicle is any self-propelled vehicle designed to carry a load over public highways, whether or not also designed to perform other functions. Examples of vehicles designed to carry a load over public highways are passenger automobiles, trucks, and truck tractors. If a vehicle can be used for a combination of on-highway and off-highway uses and has one fuel tank, the fuel use is not considered off-highway. An example of this is a concrete-mixer truck where the truck engine operates both the engine and the mixing unit by a power take-off and is fueled by a single tank. None of the fuel used in this vehicle is off-highway because of the on-highway use. If the vehicle has separate fuel tanks and engines, the fuel in a tank used for non-highway use may be considered off-highway use. COSTS OF MATERIALS, COMPONENTS, AND SUPPLIES ($1,000) -- Includes the costs for materials, components, and supplies used by establishments in the construction or reconstruction of buildings, structures, or other facilities and costs for materials bought and resold to others. Also includes costs made for direct purchases of materials, components, and supplies even though the purchases were subsequently provided to subcontractors for their use. Supplies include expendable tools which are charged to current accounts. Freight and other direct charges representing only that amount paid after discounts, and the value of materials, components, and supplies obtained from other establishments of the respondent's company. Excluded from this item are the cost of fuels, lubricants, electric energy, industrial and other specialized machinery and equipment such as printing presses; computer systems, that are not an integral part of a structure; and materials furnished to contractors by the owners of projects. COST OF MATERIALS, COMPONENTS, SUPPLIES, AND FUELS ($1,000) -- Includes the costs for materials, components, supplies used by establishments in the construction or reconstruction of buildings, structures, or other facilities and costs for materials bought and resold to others. Also includes the costs for fuels that include gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricants, and electric energy purchased during the year from other companies for received from other establishments of the company and costs for natural and manufactured gas, fuel oil, coal and coke products. Excluded from this item are industrial and other specialized machinery and equipment, such as printing presses; computer systems, that are not an integral part of a structure; materials furnished to contractors by the owners of projects. COST OF NATURAL GAS AND MANUFACTURED GAS ($1,000) -- Costs for natural gas and manufactured gas purchased during the year from other companies or received from other establishments of the company. COST OF REPAIRS TO BUILDING AND OTHER STRUCTURES ($1,000) -- Includes the cost of all repairs made to structures by outside companies or from other establishments of the same company. It includes only the cost of repairs necessary to maintain property. It excludes the cost of improvements that increase the value of property or the cost of adapting it for another use. Such costs are included in capital expenditures. COST OF REPAIRS TO MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT ($1,000) -- Includes the cost of all repairs made to machinery and equipment by outside companies or from other establishments of the same company. It includes only the cost of repairs necessary to maintain the machinery. COST OF SELECTED POWER, FUELS, AND LUBRICANTS ($1,000) -- Included are costs for fuels including gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricants, and electric energy purchased during the year from other companies or received from other establishments of the company. Also included are costs for natural gas, manufactured gas, fuel oil, coal and coke products. DEPRECIATION CHARGES DURING YEAR ($1,000) -- The depreciation expenses of the establishment in the reporting year. These expenses are charged against depreciable assets which are the fixed tangible property of the establishment for which depreciation accounts are ordinarily maintained. DOLLAR VALUE SIZE CLASS -- Displays data for establishments with payroll that fall within each range of value of business done. END-OF-YEAR GROSS BOOK VALUE OF DEPRECIABLE ASSETS ($1,000) -- The gross value of depreciable assets, plus any capital expenditures for new and use depreciable assets in the reporting year, minus the gross value of depreciable assets sold, retired, scrapped, destroyed, etc. in the reporting year. END-OF-YEAR INVENTORIES OF MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES ($1,000) -- The inventories of materials and supplies owned at the end of the reporting year by establishments with payroll. Includes all of the materials and supplies that are owned regardless of where they are held. Excludes materials which are owned by others but held by the reporting establishment. Builders who build on their own account for sale were requested to exclude work in progress and finished units not sold from inventories. Inventories of multiestablishment companies were instructed to be reported by the establishment that is responsible for the inventories even if these inventories were held at a separate location. FIRST-QUARTER PAYROLL ($1,000) -- Includes the gross earnings paid in the first quarter of the reporting year to all employees on the payroll of construction establishments. The first-quarter payroll period is January through March. Includes all forms of compensation such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation and sick leave pay, prior to such deductions as employees' Social Security contributions, with-holding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. Includes salaries of officers of these establishments, if a corporation, but excludes payments to the proprietor or partners, if unincorporated. FRINGE BENEFITS ($1,000) -- Includes expenditures made by the employer for legally required and voluntary fringe benefit programs for employees. LEGALLY REQUIRED EXPENDITURES ($1,000) -- Includes expenditures made by the employer for Social Security contributions, unemployment compensation, workman's compensation, and state temporary disability payments. LOCATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORK -- Location of construction work refers to the state location where construction work is done. A construction establishment can be physically located in one state and perform construction activities in another state(s). Location of construction work identifies the state where construction work was done, not the actual physical location of the establishment. NET VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ($1,000) -- The value of construction work less the cost of construction work subcontracted out to others. NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS: QUARTERLY PAY PERIOD -- Refers to the number of construction workers employed during a quarterly pay period. January to March includes the reported number of construction workers employed during the pay period including March 12. April to June includes the reported number of construction workers employed during the pay period including May 12. July to September includes the reported number of construction workers employed during the pay period including August 12. October to December includes the reported number of construction workers employed during the pay period including November 12. NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS -- Includes all establishments that were in business at any time during the year. It covers all full-year and part-year operations. Construction establishments that were inactive or idle for the entire year were not included. NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS NOT REPORTING INVENTORIES -- Includes all establishments with payroll that did not report a dollar amount for inventories of materials and supplies during the reporting year. It covers all full-year and part-year operations. Construction establishments that were inactive or idle for the entire year were not included. NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS WITH INVENTORIES -- Includes all establishments with payroll that reported a dollar amount of inventory. Includes the number of establishments that were in business at any time during the year. It covers all full-year and part-year operations. Construction establishments that were inactive or idle for the entire year were not included. NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS WITH NO INVENTORIES -- Includes all establishments with payroll that reported having no inventories of materials and supplies during the reporting year. Includes establishments that were in business at any time during the year. It covers all full-year and part-year operations. Construction establishments that were inactive or idle for the entire year were not included. NUMBER OF OTHER EMPLOYEES: QUARTERLY PAY PERIOD -- Refers to the number of other employees employed during a quarterly pay period. January to March includes the reported number of other workers employed during the pay period including March 12. April to June includes the reported number of other workers employed during the pay period including May 12. July to September includes the reported number of other workers employed during the pay period including August 12. October to December includes the reported number of other workers employed during the pay period including November 12. NUMBER OF PROPRIETORS AND WORKING PARTNERS -- These data were not collected on the census report forms. The data shown are based on crediting each sole proprietorship establishment with one active proprietor and each partnership establishment with two working partners. OTHER BUSINESS RECEIPTS ($1,000) -- Includes business receipts not reported as value of construction work. This includes business receipts from retail and wholesale trade, rental of equipment without operator, manufacturing, transportation, legal services, insurance, finance, rental of property and other real estate operations, and other nonconstruction activities. Receipts for separately definable architectural and engineering work for others are also included here. Excluded are receipts from other business operations in foreign countries, and nonoperating income such as interest and dividends. OTHER EMPLOYEES -- Includes payroll employees in executive, purchasing, accounting, personnel, professional, technical activities, and routine office functions. Also included are supervisory employees above the working foreman level. PAYROLL ($1,000) -- Includes the gross earnings paid in the reporting year to all employees on the payroll of construction establishments. It includes all forms of compensation such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation and sick leave pay, prior to deductions such as employees' Social Security contributions, withholding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. The total includes salaries of officers of these establishments, if a corporation, but excludes payments to the proprietor or partners, if unincorporated. PAYROLL: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ($1,000) -- Includes the gross earnings paid in the reporting year to all construction workers on the payroll of construction establishments. It includes all forms of compensation such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation and sick leave pay, prior to deductions such as employees' Social security contributions, withholding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. PAYROLL: OTHER EMPLOYEES ($1,000) -- Includes the gross earnings paid in the reporting year to all other employees on the payroll of construction establishments. It includes all forms of compensation such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacations and sick leave pay, prior to deductions such as employees' Social Security contributions, withholding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. Payroll of other employees excludes salaries of the proprietor or partners, if unincorporated. PRIMARY AND OTHER KINDS OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES -- Displays dollar value of business done by primary construction business activity. Primary construction activity is construction activity that generates fifty-one percent or more of an establishment's dollar value of business done. Also displayed are other kinds of business activities. Other kinds of business activities include business receipts not reported as value of construction work. This item includes business receipts from retail and wholesale trade, rental of equipment without an operator, manufacturing, transportation, legal services, insurance, finance, rental of property and other real estate operations, and other nonconstruction activities. Receipts for separately definable architectural and engineering work for others are also included in other kinds of business activities. PURCHASED COMMUNICATION SERVICES ($1,000) -- Includes all costs for communication services purchased from other companies or from other establishments of the company. RENTAL COSTS FOR BUILDINGS ($1,000) -- Includes all costs for renting or leasing space and buildings. It excludes costs under agreements that are in effect conditional sales contracts such as capital leases. Such costs are included in capital expenditures. RENTAL COSTS FOR MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT ($1,000) -- Includes all costs for renting or leasing construction machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, production equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and scaffolding. It excludes costs for the rental of land. It also excludes costs under agreements that in effect are conditional sales contracts such as capital leases. Such costs are included in capital expenditures. RENTAL COSTS FOR MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, AND BUILDINGS ($1,000) -- Includes all costs for renting or leasing construction machinery and equipment, transportation equipment, production equipment, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, scaffolding, office space, and buildings. It excludes costs for the rental of land. It also excludes costs under agreements that in effect are conditional sales contracts such as capital leases. Such costs are included in capital expenditures. RETIREMENTS AND DISPOSITION OF DEPRECIABLE ASSETS ($1,000) -- Includes the gross value of depreciable assets sold, retired, scrapped, destroyed, abandoned, etc., during the year. The values shown are the acquisition costs of the retired assets. This item also includes the value of assets (at acquisition cost rather than current market value) transferred to other establishments of the same company. SELECTED COSTS ($1,000) -- Includes the costs for materials, components, and supplies; costs for construction work subcontracted out to others; and costs for selected power, fuels, and lubricants. Capital expenditures and rental costs for machinery, equipment, and structures are shown elsewhere. SELECTED PURCHASED SERVICES ($1,000) -- Includes all costs for communication and repair to buildings and other structure services purchased from other companies or from other establishments of the company. It also includes the cost of all repairs made to structures and equipment by outside companies or from other establishments of the same company. It includes only the cost of repairs necessary to maintain property and equipment. It excludes the cost of improvements that increase the value of property or the cost of adapting it for another use. Such costs are included in capital expenditures. TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION -- Provides data by the types of buildings, structures, or other facilities being constructed or worked on by construction establishments in the reporting year. Respondents were instructed that each building, structure, or other facility should be classified in terms of its function. For example, a restaurant building was to be classified in the restaurant category whether it was designed as a commercial restaurant building or an auxiliary unit of an educational institution. If respondents worked on more than one type of building or structure in a multibuilding complex, they were instructed to report separately for each building or type of structure. If they worked on a building that had more than one purpose; i.e., office and residential, or commercial, they were to classify the building by major purpose. In addition, all respondents were requested to report the percentage of the value of construction work done for new construction, additions, alterations, or reconstruction, and maintenance and repair work for each of these types. Building Construction -- • Single-family houses, detached. Includes all fully detached residential buildings constructed for one family use. • Single-family houses, attached, including townhouses and townhouse-type condominiums. Includes all residential buildings with two or more living quarters side by side, completely independent of one another, and separated by an unbroken party or lot line wall from ground to roof. • Apartment buildings, apartment type condominiums, and cooperatives. Includes apartment rentals, high-rise, low-rise, or any structures containing two or more housing units other than attached single-family houses. • All other residential buildings. Includes dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and other nonhousekeeping residential structures. • Manufacturing and light industrial buildings. Includes all manufacturing and light industrial buildings and plants that are used to house production and assembly activities. Note that industrial parks should be classified under its primary usage such as warehouses, office space, commercial or industrial type buildings. Heavy industrial facilities such as blast furnaces, petroleum refineries, and chemical complexes are not included in this category but are reported under non-building construction. • Manufacturing and light industrial warehouses. Includes all warehouses which are intended for industrial activities. • Hotels and motels. Includes hotels, motels, bed-and-breakfast inns, and tourist cabins intended for transient accommodations. Also included are hotel and motel conference centers. • Office buildings. Includes all buildings that are used primarily for office space or for government administrative offices. Also included are banks or financial buildings that are three stories or more. Medical office buildings are reported under hospitals and institutional buildings. • All other commercial buildings, nec (not else-where classified) such as stores, restaurants, and automobile service stations.Includes all buildings that are intended for use primarily in the retail and service trades. For example, shopping centers, department stores, drug stores, restaurants, public garages, auto service stations, and one or two story bank or financial institutions. • Commercial warehouses. Includes distribution buildings and mini-storage units intended for commercial use. Also included are storage warehouses. • Religious buildings. Includes all buildings that are intended for religious services or functions such as churches, synagogues, convents, monasteries, and seminaries. • Educational buildings. Includes all buildings that are used directly in administrative and instructional activities such as colleges, universities, elementary and secondary schools, correspondence, commercial, and trade schools. Libraries, museums, and art galleries, as well as laboratories that are not a part of a manufacturing or commercial establishment, are also included. • Health care and institutional buildings. Includes hospitals, medical office buildings and all other buildings that are intended to provide health and institutional care such as clinics, infirmaries, sanitariums, nursing homes, homes for the aged, and orphanages. • Public safety buildings. Included detention centers, prisons, fire stations, and rescue squad buildings. •B> Farm buildings, nonresidential. Includes nonresidential farm buildings such as barns, poultry houses, implement sheds, and farm silos. • Amusement, social, and recreational buildings. Includes building that are used primarily for entertainment, social, and recreational activities such as sports arenas, convention centers, theaters, music halls, golf and country club buildings, skating rinks, fitness centers, bowling alleys, and indoor swimming pools. • Other building construction. Includes all types of residential and nonresidential building construction not shown elsewhere. Nonbuilding Construction • Highways, streets, and related work such as installation of guardrails, highway signs, and lighting. Includes streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, culverts, right-of-way drainage, erosion control, and lighting. Also includes earthwork protective structures when used in connection with road improvements. • Airport runways and related work. Includes run-ways, taxiways, aprons, and related work. • Private driveways and parking areas. Includes all nonstructural parking areas and private driveways of all surface types. • Bridges and elevated highways. Includes viaducts and overpasses, roads, highways, railroads, and cause-ways built on structural supports. • Tunnels. Includes highway, pedestrian, railroad, and water distribution tunnels. • Sewers, sewer lines, septic tanks, and related facilities. Includes sanitary and storm sewers, pumping stations, septic systems, and related facilities. • Water mains and related facilities. Includes water supply systems, pumping stations, and related facilities. • Pipeline construction other than sewer or waterlines. Includes pipelines for the transmission of gas, petroleum products, and liquefied gases. • Power and communication transmission lines, towers, and related facilities. Includes electric power lines, telephone and telegraph lines, fiber optic cables, cable television lines, television and radio towers, and electric light and power facilities. • Power plants and cogeneration plants, except hydroelectric. Includes electric and steam generating plants, cogenerating plants, and nuclear plants. • Power plant, hydroelectric. Includes all types of hydroelectric power generating plants. • Blast furnaces, petroleum refineries, chemical complexes, etc. Includes coke ovens and mining appurtenances such as tipples and washeries. • Sewage treatment plants. Includes sewage treatment and waste disposal plants. • Water treatment plants. Includes water filtration and water softening plants. • Urban mass transit. Includes subways, street cars, and light rail systems. • Railroad construction. Includes the construction of railroad beds, tracks, freight yards, and signal towers for systems other than urban mass transit. • Conservation and development construction. Includes land reclamation, irrigation projects, drainage canals, levees, jetties, breakwaters, and flood control projects. • Dam and reservoir construction. Includes hydroelectric, water supply, and flood control dams and reservoirs. • Dry/Solid waste disposal. Includes all dry/solid waste disposal sites where non hazardous waste is buried. • Harbor and port facilities. Includes docks, piers, and wharves. • Marine construction. Includes dredging, underwater rock removal, breakwaters, navigational channels, and locks. • Outdoor swimming pools. Includes wading pools and reflecting pools. • Water storage facilities. Includes aqueducts, water towers, and water tanks. • Tank storage facilities other than water. Includes gasoline and oil storage tanks. • Fencing. Includes all types of fencing. • Recreational facilities. Includes athletic fields, golf courses, outdoor tennis courts, trails, and camps. • Billboards. Includes all type of billboards. • Heavy military construction. Includes all military nonbuilding such as missile sites and testing facilities, launch sites and underground command centers. • Ships. Includes special trade contractors working on ships and boats such as painters, carpenters, joiners, electricians, etc. • Oilfields. The majority of construction work occurring in oil fields is classified in Sector 21, Mining. For example, pipeline construction on oil and gas leases are classified in mining only up to the point where the distribution company takes over. At that point, pipeline construction activity is classified in Sector 23, Construction. Some secondary mining construction activities are classified in the construction sector. Examples of this include: road construction; land clearing contracting; land drainage contracting; and land leveling contracting. • Other nonbuilding construction, nec. Includes all types of nonbuilding construction not elsewhere classified. VALUE ADDED ($1,000) -- Value added is equal to value of business done, less costs for construction work subcontracted out to others and costs for materials, components, supplies, and fuels. VALUE OF BUSINESS DONE ($1,000)-- Value of business done is the sum of value of construction work and other business receipts. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ($1,000) -- Includes the value of construction work done by general contractors, heavy construction contractors, and special trades contractors. Included are new construction, additions, alterations or reconstruction, and maintenance and repair construction work. Also includes the value of any construction work done by the reporting establishments for themselves. Speculative builders were instructed to include the value of buildings and other structures built or being built for sale in the reporting year, but not sold. They were to include the costs of such construction plus normal profit. Also included is the cost of construction work done on buildings for rent or lease. Establishments engaged in the sale and installation of construction components such as plumbing, heating, and central air-conditioning supplies and equipment; lumber and building materials; paint, glass, and wallpaper; and electrical and wiring supplies, elevators or escalators were instructed to include both the value for the installation and the receipts covering the price of the items installed. Excluded are the cost of industrial and other special machinery and equipment that are not an integral part of a structure, and value of work done from business operations in foreign countries. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK: ADDITIONS, ALTERATIONS, OR RECONSTRUCTION ($1,000) -- Includes construction work which adds to the value or useful life of an existing building or structure or that adapts a building or structure to a new or different use. Included are major replacements of building systems, such as the installation of a new roof or heating system and the resurfacing of streets or highways. This contrasts to the repair of a hole in a roof or the routine patching of highways and streets that would be classified as maintenance and repair. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK DONE IN THIS STATE ($1,000) -- Includes the value of construction work done in a state by general contractors, heavy construction contractors, and special trades contractors. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR ESTABLISHMENTS WITH INVENTORIES ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for establishments with payroll that reported a dollar amount of inventory in the reporting year. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR ESTABLISHMENTS WITH NO INVENTORIES ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for establishments with payroll that reported having no dollar amount of inventory in the reporting year. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK: FOR SPECIALIZED TYPE ($1,000) -- Includes value of construction work for one of two specialized categories: types of construction; and kind-of business activity. A construction establishment specializes in a type of construction when fifty-one percent or more of the construction work done is in one construction industry. The construction establishment reports each type of construction it performs as a percent of value of construction work. Types of construction refers to the types of buildings, structures, or facilities constructed or worked on by construction establishments in the reporting year. Specialization in types of construction displays data for establishments with payroll that falls within each percent range of specialization. A construction establishment specializes in a kind-of-business activity when fifty-one per-cent or more of the construction work done by the establishment is performed in one type of business activity. The construction establishment reports each kind-of-business activity engaged in as a percent of value of construction work. Kind-of-business activity refers to the kinds of business activities construction establishments perform throughout the reporting year. The following are examples of kind-of-business activity: highway and street construction; electrical contracting; carpentry contracting; and concrete contracting. Specialization in kind-of-business-activity displays data for establishments with payroll that fall within each percent range of specialization. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK: MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR ($1,000) -- Includes incidental construction work that keeps a property in ordinary working condition. Excluded are trash and snow removal, lawn maintenance and landscaping, cleaning and janitorial services. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK: NEW CONSTRUCTION ($1,000) -- Includes the complete, original building of structures and essential service facilities and the initial installation of integral equipment such as elevators and plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning supplies and equipment. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ON FEDERALLY OWNED PROJECTS ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for projects owned by the Federal government. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ON GOVERNMENT OWNED PROJECTS ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for the sum total of all projects owned by Federal, state, and local governments. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ON PRIVATELY OWNED PROJECTS ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for construction projects other than government owned projects. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ON STATE AND LOCALLY OWNED PROJECTS ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for the sum total of all projects owned by state and local governments. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK SUBCONTRACTED IN FROM OTHERS ($1,000) -- Includes the value of construction work done by reporting establishments as subcontractors to other contractors or builders. Establishments were asked to report the approximate percent of total value of construction work accounted for by such work, and the percentages reported were applied to the reported value of construction work to develop a value for this item. VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR ESTABLISHMENTS NOT REPORTING INVENTORIES ($1,000) -- The value of construction work for establishments that did not report a dollar amount for inventories of materials and supplies, and the value of construction work for establishments that did not complete a census form. \VOLUNTARY EXPENDITURES ($1,000) -- Includes expenditures made by the employer for life insurance premiums, pension plans, insurance premiums on hospital and medical plans, welfare plans, and union negotiated benefits.
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