Measuring health-relevant businesses over 21 years: refining the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS), a dynamic longitudinal data set

Table 1 Total number of businesses in each of the 25 researcher-defined categories, 1990–2010, in NY–NJ–PA CBSA 23 counties

	n	%
Bar or other public drinking place	10,726	0.40
Liquor store	7872	0.29
Fish market	1487	0.06
Fruit and vegetable market	3089	0.11
Natural food market or nut store	3541	0.13
Meat market	2986	0.11
Large supermarket	2778	0.10
Convenience store or small grocery store	40,336	1.49
Fast food restaurant	5714	0.21
Pizza restaurant	7805	0.29
Other restaurant—not fast food, not pizza	54,344	2.01
Bakery or candy/confectionary store	12,022	0.45
Warehouse or discount department store selling food	79	0.00
Multi-use physical activity venue	7055	0.26
Light/moderate physical activity venue	6965	0.26
Vigorous physical activity venue	4589	0.17
Urgent care or hospital facility	2358	0.09
Office or clinic of health practitioner	98,793	3.66
Residential facility with health care	2725	0.10
Pharmacy	9593	0.36
Mental health care	10,392	0.38
Dental care	23,584	0.87
Bank	8056	0.30
Credit union	1019	0.04
Other potential destination	214,052	7.92
Categorized businesses	541,960	20.06
Not categorized	2,159,396	79.94
Total businesses	2,701,356

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