ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS______________________________________ENTERPRISE STATISTICS Many persons participated in conducting the 1992 Enterprise Statistics program. Primary direction was performed by Frederick T. Knickerbocker, Associate Director for Economic Programs; and Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Assistant Director for Economic Programs. This report was prepared in the Agriculture and Financial Statistics Division under the general direction of Dr. Ewen Wilson, Chief; and Ruth A. Runyan, Assistant Division Chief for Financial Statistics. The overall project development and planning of this report were under the direction of Eddie J. Salyers, Chief, Company Statistics Branch. Staff assistance was provided by Ahmad Bakhshi, Barbara Boney, Elaine Emanuel, Barbara Esworthy, Donna Hambric, Durwin Knutson, Sungsoo Oh, Patricia Patriarca, John Seabold, and Phil Thompson. Computer programs were developed in the Economic Statistical Methods and Programming Division under the general supervision of Charles P. Pautler, Jr., Chief; and Martin S. Harahush, Assistant Division Chief for Quinquennial Programs; with assistance from Steven G. McCraith, Chief, Quinquennial Surveys Branch; and Gary A. Sweetland, Chief, Mailout and Data Collection Branch. Daniel A. Vacca was assigned primary programming responsibility with assistance from Scott Ankers, Edward Carr, Janet Contee, Frank Fredrick, Sheryl Garrett, Stephen D. Jarvis, Ai-Linh Nguyen, James R. Parker, Jr., Robert Penrod, Jerry Richards, and Judy Wang. General purpose programs for editing and interactive processing in the Statistical Research Division were adapted for the Enterprise program by Dave Paletz under the direction of Tom Petkunas and William Winkler. Imputation modules for editing were developed by Dave Paletz. Mailout preparation and receipt operations, clerical activities, and data keying were performed by the staff of the Data Preparation Division, Judith N. Petty, Chief. Geographic coding procedures and associated computer programs were developed by staff of the Geography Division, Joel L. Morrison, Chief. Computer processing was performed in the Computer Services Division, Debra D. Williams, Chief. The staff of the Administrative and Publications Services Division, Walter C. Odom, Chief, performed publication planning, design, composition, editorial review, and procurement for publications. Bernadette J. Gayle provided publication coordination and editing. Special acknowledgment is also due to the many businesses whose cooperation has contributed to the publication of these data. If you have any questions concerning the statistics in this report, call 301-763-7234. ###