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Economic Census

Note: industry codes are NAICS ; prior censuses had data in SIC codes. There have been several editions of both codes. 

Per the Census Bureau website, "Scanned images in PDF and other formats are available for publications from the 1967 to 1987 economic censuses via the search at archive.org, using terms like "1987 census of retail trade Virginia".

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

New name: Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES).

The ASM was conducted in years NOT ending in 2 and 7.

Early years may be available for free (as a pdf) as part of HathiTrust's U.S. Federal Documents Collection.

County Business Patterns

Issued annually since 1964 (ZIP code level since 1994).  Some years titled "Business Patterns"; or CBP.