1992 CENSUS OF FINANCIAL, INSURANCE, AND REAL ESTATE INDUSTRIES

Acknowledgments

Many persons participated in the various activities of the 1992
Census of Financial, Insurance, and Real Estate Industries.  The
overall planning and review of the census operations were
performed by the Economic Census staff of the Economic Planning
and Coordination Division.

This report was prepared in the Services Division.  Bobby E.
Russell, Assistant Chief for Census Programs, was responsible for
the overall planning, management, and coordination of the census
of financial, insurance, and real estate industries.  Planning
and implementation were under the direction of Sidney O. Marcus,
Chief, Financial Census Branch (until September 1994), with
primary staff assistance by Laurie Torene, Andrew Pekala, Robert
S. Benedik, James M. Poyer, Faye A. Jacobs, Steven M. Roman,
Clement Yelverton, Cynthia R. Boyd, Deanie Pounds, Edward A
Cottrill, James Jamski, Camille Kepley, Jennifer Ackerman, and
Andrew Stukenborg.

Systems and procedures for mailout, receipt, correspondence, data
input, industry classification, other clerical processing,
administrative record processing, quality control, and the
associated electronic computer programs were developed in the
Economic Planning and Coordination Division.

Mailout preparation and receipt operations, clerical and
analytical review activities, data keying, and geocoding review
were performed by the staff of the Data Preparation Division,
Judith N. Petty, Chief.

Geographic coding procedures and associated computer programs
were developed by the staff of the Geography Division, Joel L.
Morrison, Chief.  

The computer processing systems were developed and coordinated in
the Economic Statistical Methods and Programming Division,
Charles P. Pautler, Jr., Chief.  Martin S Harahush,  Assistant
Chief for Quinquennial Programs, was responsible for design and
implementation of the computer systems.  The computer programs
were prepared under the supervision of William C. Wester, Chief,
Business Census Branch, assisted by  Jacqueline Rv Sellers, David
L. Sipes, Donell D. Barnes, and Sarah J. Presley; and until
November 1994, Steven G. McCraith, Chief, Utilities and Financial
Census Branch, assisted by Barbara L. Lambert and M. Stephenie
Syer.  Additional programming assistance was provided by Robert
S. Jewett.

Computer processing was performed in the Computer Services
Division, Marvin D. Raines, Chief.

The staff of the Administrative and Publication Services
Division, Walter C. Odom, Jr., Chief, performed planning, design,
composition, editorial review, and printing planning and
procurement for publications and report forms.  Margaret A. Smith
provided publication coordination and editing.

Special acknowledgment is also due 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 301-457-2824.