“This is a series of national-, state-, county-, place-, and metro area-level data files with statistics for all industries in the utilities sector down to the six-digit North American Industry Classification System level. These include statistics for electric power generation, transmission and distribution; natural gas distribution; and water, sewage, and other systems. The files provide statistics on the number of establishments, receipts or revenue, payroll, number of employees and other data items by industry. Today’s release is the first for the utilities sector and covers Colorado and geographic entities therein only. Statistics for the other states and geographic entities within them, for this sector, will be released on a flow basis over the coming months.The data from the 2012 Economic Census (as well as historical information from the 2007, 2002, and 1997 economic censuses) are available on census.gov. Reference information about the economic census, including a data release schedule, is available on the 2012 Economic Census home page.”