Legal Services among Top Professional Businesses in Revenues Reports Census Bureau 1/22/2004
From: Patricia Buscher of the Census Bureau Public Information Office, 301-763-3030/456-3670 (fax) or 301-457-1037 (TDD), pio@census.gov WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 -- Legal services' revenues surpassed $184 billion in 2002, up 5 percent from the previous year, making it one of the strongest performers in the professional, scientific and technical services industry, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Tables from the report, 2002 Service Annual Survey: Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, also show management scientific and technical consulting services with revenues of $122 billion, up 6 percent. Additionally, scientific research and development services increased 10 percent to $63 billion. While still a large revenue generator in the industry, computer system design and related services saw its 2002 revenues drop 7 percent to $172 billion from $184 billion in 2001. Revenues for custom computer programming services decreased 8 percent to $62 billion in 2002 from $67 billion in 2001. Revenue figures for the computer systems design and related services industry are shown below: Industry...............Revenues in 2002.....Revenues in 2001 (billions of dollars) (billions of dollars) Custom Computer Programming Services......$62.0.........$67.1 Computer Systems Design Services..........$80.8.........$86.0 Computer Facilities Management Services...$16.6 ........$18.9 Other Computer Related Services...........$12.8.........$12.2 Estimates contain sampling and nonsampling errors. To keep the identity of individual firms confidential, some estimates may be suppressed. Users who make their own estimates, based on this survey's estimates, should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original estimates only. See http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html for measures of sampling variability and other survey information. Editor's Note: The report can be accessed at http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html. |