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Acknowledgments
Paul Hanczaryk, Chief, Register Analysis Branch, Economic Planning and Coordi-
nation Division, directed the preparation of this report and was assisted by Dennis
Wagner, Thomas Bell, and Gerald Feuer. Yolanda Funderburk, Mary Green,
Marilyn Italiano, Alan Pines, and Jon Youngman contributed in resolving establish-
ment processing problems and in data analysis. Mitchell L. Trager, Assistant Division
Chief, Systems, Technology, and Methodology, assisted by Ken Sausman and John
Sullivan, provided general direction of the quality control operations for data collection
and computer processing. John Studds implemented these operations and provided
additional technical support. Edward D. Walker, Assistant Division Chief for Register
Operations, provided general staff guidance.
Steven McCraith, Chief, Quinquennial Surveys Branch, Economic Statistical Meth-
ods and Programming Division, assisted by Dan Vacca, supervised computer support
operations. Ed Carr was assigned primary responsibility for programming this report.
Emory Fuller provided additional support for computer operations.
The staff of the Administrative and Customer Services Division, Walter C. Odom,
Chief, performed publication planning, design, composition, editorial review, and
printing planning and procurement. Barbara Abbott provided publication coordination
and editing.
County
Business
Patterns
1996
Issued November 1998
U.S. Department of Commerce
William M. Daley, Secretary
Robert L. Mallett, Deputy Secretary
Economics and Statistics Administration
Robert J. Shapiro, Under Secretary
for Economic Affairs
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
Kenneth Prewitt, Director
ECONOMIC PLANNING AND COORDINATION
DIVISION
John P. Govoni, Chief
SUGGESTED CITATION
U.S. Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns 1996
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998
For sale by Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Prin