1992 CENSUS OR RETAIL TRADE


Acknowledgements
 
  
Many persons participated in the various activities of the 1992  
Census of Retail Trade. 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  
retail trade. Planning and implementation were under the direction of  
Anne S. Russell, Chief, Retail Census Branch, with primary  
staff assistance by Fay Dorsett, Charles F. Brady, Pamela J.  
Palmer, Thomas G. Dassel, Jennifer E. Lins, Cheryl E. Merkle, Barbara  
T. Parlett, Maria P. Ray, Barbara A. Collier, Venita L. Holland,  
and Judith O. Belt.   
  
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,  
Acting Chief.   
  
Geographic coding procedures and associated computer programs were  
developed by the staff of the Geography Division.   
  
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 Censuses, was responsible for design and  
implementation of the computer systems. The computer programs were  
prepared under the supervision of William C. Wester,  
Chief, Services Branch, assisted by Kevin Edward  
Donnalley, Mark T. Lachendro, William D. McClain, Josephine S.  
McLaughlin, John Jeffrey Milner, Duc-Mong Nguyen, Jeffrey S. Rosen,  
and David Wang. 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 Publications Services  
Division, Walter C. Odom, Chief, performed planning, design,  
composition, editorial review, and printing planning and procurement  
for publications and report forms. Bernadette J. Gayle  
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 301-457-2687.