Censuses of Wholesale Trade

"The census of wholesale trade was part of the original census of business taken in 1929. In the past, it was included with retail trade and selected services under the umbrella title 'census of business,' but as of 1972 it takes a separate place as one fo the seven economic censuses." [source: Guide to industrial statistics : industrial statistics program, locator guide to published data, types of data presented, publications of major censuses, other sources of statistics. 1978, p. 87.]