Other services
The share of jobs within commuting reach of a tract that are in the other services sector, and how that share has moved over five years.
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Of all the jobs within commuting reach of a tract, the share that fall in the sector the Census Bureau names "Other Services (except Public Administration)". This describes the mix of nearby work rather than its volume.
The Bureau defines the sector as comprising "establishments engaged in providing services not specifically provided for elsewhere in the classification system." Its establishments "are primarily engaged in activities such as equipment and machinery repairing, promoting or administering religious activities, grantmaking, advocacy, and providing drycleaning and laundry services, personal care services, death care services, pet care (except veterinary) services, photofinishing services, temporary parking services, and dating services." The Bureau adds that "private households that engage in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household are included in this sector" (2022 NAICS Manual).
This is a residual category by construction, so it should not be read as one industry. What its members have in common is a business model rather than a product: mostly small establishments, serving people who are already nearby, in trades that are hard to consolidate or perform at a distance. A repair shop, a barber, a place of worship, and a funeral home are all in it. Read a high share as a sign of a locally oriented service economy, and read the individual composition as unknown, because the sector does not resolve further at this level.
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Considerations#
Jobs are counted where the work is located, not where the worker lives.
The Census Bureau protects employer confidentiality before publication. The disclosure limitation applied to "the workplace component of LODES uses employer-level input noise infusion" (McKinney et al., CES-WP-20-30), so published small-area values are perturbed relative to the underlying counts.
Coverage is jobs subject to state unemployment insurance, plus federal workers from 2010 onward (OnTheMap Data Overview). Much of the work described in this sector's definition is performed by self-employed people or in arrangements without covered payroll, and that portion is not represented here. The reference period is the second quarter of each year.
Two gaps carry through from the published files: Alaska has no workplace data after 2016 and Michigan none after 2021. Tracts there carry no value rather than a zero.
The twenty sector shares sum to one, so movement here is always relative to the rest of the mix.
Birdseye derives these shares from the sector job counts the Census Bureau publishes; the shares themselves are not a published series.
References#
- 12022 NAICS Manualhttps://www.census.gov/naics/reference_files_tools/2022_NAICS_Manual.pdf
- 2McKinney et al., CES-WP-20-30https://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2020/CES-WP-20-30.pdf
- 3OnTheMap Data Overviewhttps://lehd.ces.census.gov/doc/help/onthemap/OnTheMapDataOverview.pdf