Standard Statistical Establishment Listing (SSEL)/County Business Patterns Business Register (CBPBR)

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From 1972 to 2001, the Census Bureau maintained the SSEL continuously as its central, multipurpose, business register to provide a current and comprehensive database of U.S. business establishments and companies for statistical program use. The United States Code, Titles 13 and 26, and a 1968 designation by the Office of Management and Budget, authorized this program. Annually from 2002 to 2016, CES created longitudinally consistent SSEL-like files from final extracts of the redesigned Business Register (BR). The BR operates as a relational database for production use – integrated with collection of the Economic Census, Company Organization Survey and the Annual Survey of Manufactures. The BR combines data collected by Census with data from the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau Labor Statistics and the Social Security Administration.

An establishment is a single physical location where business transactions take place and for which payroll and employment records are kept. Groups of one or more establishments under common ownership or control are firms. A single-unit firm owns or operates only one establishment. A multiunit firm owns or operates two or more establishments. The treatment of establishments on the SSEL differs according to whether the establishment is part of a single-unit or multiunit firm. In particular, the structure of an establishment's primary identifier on the SSEL differs depending on whether it is owned by a single-unit firm or by a multiunit firm. The SSEL is maintained using information from several federal agencies including the Census Bureau, Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Social Security Administration. It includes data on business location, address, name, salaries, wages, and IRS receipts.

Request this dataset if you need to link other Census business datasets to external business data. CFNs are used before 2002, replaced by empunit_ID in 2002. ALPHA (Census firm ID). empunit_id_submaster. ID (Census establishment identifier: CFN before 2002, empunit_ID 2002 onward). EINUNIT_ID (Census establishment identifier for businesses that have EINs). city. Permanent Plant Number (PPN, Census establishment ID), 1981-2001 only

• Employer Identification Number (EIN)
• Establishment name
• Establishment address
• Latitude/Longitude
• Census file number (CFN)
• Census region
• County FIPS code
• State FIPS code
• Zip code
• Other (see Linkage Capabilities description)