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( n = 159). Rounding out the top three was the Construction industry with 9% of responses ( n = 64). The remaining roughly one-quarter of responses spanned more than a dozen industries with no single industry accounting for more than 5% of total responses.
TABLE 6. RESPONSES BY INDUSTRY Industry
Number
Percent
Manufacturing
281
41%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
159
23%
Construction
64
9%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
34
5%
Educational Services
26
4%
Other Services (except Public Administration)
25
4%
Information
24
4%
Transportation and Warehousing
15
2%
Accommodation and Food Services
14
2%
Health Care and Social Assistance
9
1%
Wholesale Trade
7
1%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
7
1%
Utilities
4
1%
Retail Trade
4
1%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
2
0%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
1
0%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
1
0%
Public Administration
1
0%
Not Classified
1
0%
Finance and Insurance
0
0%
Management of Companies and Enterprises
0
0%
Total
679
100%
Table 7 displays how the survey sample compares across five firm-level characteristics (size, location, organization type, commodity type, and industry) to three key DIB groups: small contractors ( n = 95,834), contractors presumed to have exited ( n = 83,175), and contractors remaining in the DIB ( n = 48,476). An expected amount of variation exists between each group, but overall, the survey sample is generally similar to the other three groups. The sample is arguably most similar to the DIB group of small contractors, albeit the degree to which this is the case versus how it compares to the DIB presumed exits is minimal. Some of the more obvious differences between the survey sample and all DIB groups
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