This census covered retail and wholesale trade; service and construction industries; transportation, communications, and utilities; financial, insurance, and real estate; manufactures; and mineral industries. Also included special programs and surveys of enterprise statistics, women- and minority-owned business enterprises, and characteristics of business owners. Contents: preparing for the census; preparation for mailing questionnaires; collecting and processing the data; geographic area coding; collecting the census in the outlying areas; special programs; transportation surveys; publication program, and the public awareness program. Also includes a 17-page Census Bureau report, "Preview to the 1997 Economic Census."